InventorySlotId

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Inventory slots refer to a unique equipment or bag slot.

• For equipment, slot names are resolved to a slot id constant with GetInventorySlotInfo(). This gives Blizzard more flexibility to possibly change slot ids.
• InventorySlotName also doubles as a GlobalString

Equipment

Graphical Explanation (Classic)

Example: prints the InventorySlotId for an InventorySlotName, and the related globalstring and constant.

/dump GetInventorySlotInfo("SHOULDERSLOT") -- 3
/dump SHOULDERSLOT -- "Shoulders" (slot name doubles as a globalstring)
/dump INVSLOT_SHOULDER -- 3 (the related constant)

InvSlotName GlobalString (enUS)		InvSlotId	Constant
AMMOSLOT	Ammo	0	INVSLOT_AMMO
HEADSLOT	Head	1	INVSLOT_HEAD
NECKSLOT	Neck	2	INVSLOT_NECK
SHOULDERSLOT	Shoulders	3	INVSLOT_SHOULDER
SHIRTSLOT	Shirt	4	INVSLOT_BODY
CHESTSLOT	Chest	5	INVSLOT_CHEST
WAISTSLOT	Waist	6	INVSLOT_WAIST
LEGSSLOT	Legs	7	INVSLOT_LEGS
FEETSLOT	Feet	8	INVSLOT_FEET
WRISTSLOT	Wrist	9	INVSLOT_WRIST
HANDSSLOT	Hands	10	INVSLOT_HAND
FINGER0SLOT	Finger	11	INVSLOT_FINGER1
FINGER1SLOT	Finger	12	INVSLOT_FINGER2
TRINKET0SLOT	Trinket	13	INVSLOT_TRINKET1
TRINKET1SLOT	Trinket	14	INVSLOT_TRINKET2
BACKSLOT	Back	15	INVSLOT_BACK
MAINHANDSLOT	Main Hand	16	INVSLOT_MAINHAND
SECONDARYHANDSLOT	Off Hand	17	INVSLOT_OFFHAND
RANGEDSLOT	Ranged	18	INVSLOT_RANGED
TABARDSLOT	Tabard	19	INVSLOT_TABARD

Bags

There are also InvSlotNames for each bag.

/dump GetInventorySlotInfo("BAG0SLOT") -- 20

InvSlotName	InvSlotId
BAG0SLOT	20
BAG1SLOT	21
BAG2SLOT	22
BAG3SLOT	23

Slot ids for bags and containers are returned from ContainerIDToInventoryID()

-- Constants
NUM_BAG_SLOTS = 4;
NUM_BANKBAGSLOTS = 7; -- 6 in vanilla

-- Example (retail)
ContainerIDToInventoryID(1)                                -- 20 (1st character bag, the rightmost one)
ContainerIDToInventoryID(NUM_BAG_SLOTS)                    -- 23 (4th character bag, the leftmost one) 
ContainerIDToInventoryID(NUM_BAG_SLOTS + 1)                -- 80 (1st bank bag)
ContainerIDToInventoryID(NUM_BAG_SLOTS + NUM_BANKBAGSLOTS) -- 86 (7th bank bag)

ID	Vanilla 1.13.7	Vanilla 1.14.0	BCC 2.5.2	Retail	Description
1	20	20	20	20	1st character bag
2	21	21	21	21	2nd character bag
3	22	22	22	22	3rd character bag
4	23	23	23	23	4th character bag
	48-71	48-71	48-75	52-79	bank slots (classic: 24, bcc/retail: 28)
5	72	76	76	80	1st bank bag
6	73	77	77	81	2nd bank bag
7	74	78	78	82	3rd bank bag
8	75	79	79	83	4th bank bag
9	76	80	80	84	5th bank bag
10	77	81	81	85	6th bank bag
11			82	86	7th bank bag

Generic bank containers

Slot ids for the stock containers in the bank are returned from BankButtonIDToInvSlotID()

-- Constants
NUM_BANKGENERIC_SLOTS = 28; -- 24 in classic

-- Example (retail)
BankButtonIDToInvSlotID(1) -- 52                     -- first bank container slot
BankButtonIDToInvSlotID(NUM_BANKGENERIC_SLOTS) -- 79 -- last bank container slot

Patch changes

• Patch 8.3.0 (2020-01-14): Slot ids for bank bags start from 80 instead of 76.
  

See also

• Enum.InventoryType