Free FFXIV Craft Bot - Craft While Minimized! (Limited Time)

[fgm1988]

Hmmm, the preserve function seems to have corrected itself. I tried using it, and it didn't work. I then placed tender touch in the number two slot, and it seems to work now. I'm not sure why, but I figure the information might help.

Also, regarding the requested items hiccup... It's never happened to me if i have ff14 running and maximized. It only occurs when I'm minimized, which would probably support your conclusion that it's more of a loss of FPS or such.

Awesome work though, it's nice to see a developer who is so eager to release updates! It's almost like you want us to complain so you have something new to add/fix lol. I usually don't like to talk about the issues i have when using software because I'm always worried the creator will think you're bullying them or talking down about their program, haha.

[lucid]

Originally Posted by fgm1988

Hmmm, the preserve function seems to have corrected itself. I tried using it, and it didn't work. I then placed tender touch in the number two slot, and it seems to work now.

If you remove tender touch, does it break again?

Originally Posted by fgm1988

Also, regarding the requested items hiccup... It's never happened to me if i have ff14 running and maximized. It only occurs when I'm minimized, which would probably support your conclusion that it's more of a loss of FPS or such.

Is the bot pressing buttons when you minimize or maximize it? This problem seems pretty surprising to me since this bot explicitly watches memory for that synthesis widget to reappear and then waits even longer. Even though keys are sent in the background, minimizing and maximizing can mess things up if you do it while the bot is pressing keys. Unfortunately I don't think this particular issue can be resolved, it may have something to do with the switch between the minimized and maximized states for the window within the operating system itself. From a perspective of pure theory, it just doesn't make sense to me that it could get hung up there.

Originally Posted by fgm1988

Awesome work though, it's nice to see a developer who is so eager to release updates! It's almost like you want us to complain so you have something new to add/fix lol. I usually don't like to talk about the issues i have when using software because I'm always worried the creator will think you're bullying them or talking down about their program, haha.

Thanks, all the information and encouragement I get here is helpful. I really enjoy this project, just wish there were a few more hours in the day so I could make faster progress

Having a high-level view of all of the future updates helps me keep the code clean and expandable, and I can write the code with future enhancements in mind. For example, I'm working on the logout feature but some of this code (and accompanying values from memory) will also assist me with class changes and a few other features.

[Aethenoth]

I havent trolled through the other members post but wanted to drop a line here as it seems this is the forum you'll be looking at most. I got a PM from you advertising this, and since crazy crafter (excellent free program) is broken for invariably months according to the developer. So your program is just in time.

Seems simple and user friendly.

I know you're just in production and for me its worked great for what I've tried. Just simple standarized synths, no wait or preserve and main hand. Havent had a reason to do the others as I'm just making bulk items right now. You can run it minimized as long as you get FFXIV where it needs to be then minimize then hit start. I use crabby as well so I can see that the synths are working fine while I do other work.

The pause and stop button dont seem to function as they should, and I've been closing and reopening it to get things going again.

This program has great potential, and I'd like to help test out bugs as I'm on a crafting binge and definitely need a bot to keep my sanity.

I do dual box so if you would require some of my input for trying to get it working simultaneously let me know.

Keep up the good work!

Edit: I also would like to bring up an "Always on Top" option, as most other bots have this and its always nice to be able to choose this to keep tabs on whats going on

[lucid]

Sounds good. So far I'm working on:

• Occasional bug with Firefox window/tabs starting with "Final Fantasy XIV" - it seems I'm the only one who has this problem lol...
• Pause/Stop button issues?
• Shutdown/Logout
• Preserve - Two people reported that it doesn't work under some circumstances - Seeking more info on this issue
• Requested Items failsafe

Update:
I think the problem with the Pause/Stop button was that people were clicking Pause *and then* Stop, is that right? They were intended to be used independently of one another-- I changed the behavior of them so you cannot use Pause and then Stop anymore.

[tonynot01]

Originally Posted by lucid

Sounds good. So far I'm working on:

• Occasional bug with Firefox window/tabs starting with "Final Fantasy XIV" - it seems I'm the only one who has this problem lol...
• Pause/Stop button issues?
• Shutdown/Logout
• Preserve - Two people reported that it doesn't work under some circumstances - Seeking more info on this issue
• Requested Items failsafe

Update:
I think the problem with the Pause/Stop button was that people were clicking Pause *and then* Stop, is that right? They were intended to be used independently of one another-- I changed the behavior of them so you cannot use Pause and then Stop anymore.

That explains it! Good job.

[Syllenus]

program looks good, only thing i would add would be a "currently doing" line of text and an xp/sp counter to keep track of how things went.

[lucid]

v1.3.1.1

Fixed:

• Bug with other windows/tabs starting with "Final Fantasy XIV"
• Pause/Stop button issues
• Logout/Close/Shutdown options
• Requested Items failsafe

Shutdown/Logout options:

• Do Nothing (displays statistics)
• Log Out (displays statistics)
• Log Out & Close Game (displays statistics)
• Log Out & Shutdown (forces shutdown - all programs will close without saving, be careful!)

Notes: There is a fairly long delay before it will do anything at the character select screen so it will work with slower computers - it flies blind after it logs out, but it won't press enter to log out unless it is sure the logout dialogue is open.


I think the issue with preserve is offset-related, not sure yet. It only seems to affect an extremely small number of people.

[Aethenoth]

Just for giggles I tried to dual box with this. Noticed the program just has a conniption and doesnt respond.

Excellent turn around on the updates btw. New version works well. Just no Dual Box support, which I can understand.

The windower I'm using is

[tonynot01]

Nice updates.. any idea on eta on auto-log in again after lost connection?

[lucid]

Originally Posted by tonynot01

Nice updates.. any idea on eta on auto-log in again after lost connection?

It isn't a top priority, but is fairly simple so I might fit it in with other updates. Namely, testing it will be a pain since I'll have to fake D/C repeatedly lol

After further examination v1.3.1.1 wasn't quite what I wanted. I went to a heavily congested area and was able to reproduce the requested items problem 2x in the same loop, so the bot did get stuck. There are still plans to prevent this from happening at all, but I want to do other things first.

v1.3.1.2 Planned Changes:

• Close "Requested Items" menu as many times as necessary
• Preserve will now only trigger after progress is 20% or higher
• Only use wait 3x in a row (down from 4x)
• Stop button will cancel shutdown action

Still no dice on the elusive issue with Preserve not working for some people - I've never seen it myself and most others have not, but if it does happen it seems that equipping/removing craft abilities or restarting the game will fix the problem.

Tomorrow after maintenance I will test it and release v1.3.1.2 if there aren't any bugs, maintenance caused tonight's testing to be short-lived.

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[tonynot01]

Close "Requested Items" menu as many times as necessary

Thank ***! Bot should be working after maint right?

[lucid]

1.2.0.0+ will work, 1.3.1.2 1.3.1.3 will be available within a few hours of servers coming up.

Edit: if you want to help test, you can get 1.3.1.2 here:

[fgm1988]

Once the servers are back online I'll help you test it. Is there anything in particular you want me to put it though to help hunt for bugs? (e.g. heavily congested areas, only having preserve set, having preserve and other abilities set, or crafting with the game minimized?)

[lucid]

Always report any bugs you find, but with regards to 1.3.1.2 it has code modifications which I've never run... it could possibly even crash when you start the synthesis.

I did test everything except not shutting down when "Stop" is used, and the change in the number of waits (lol) but if there was any kind of syntax error or something I missed, it may not work.

While writing that, I realized I set up the environment to support not shutting down but I didn't add the condition to skip it if that's the case... so 1.3.1.2 will shut down even if you did click stop.

Anyhow, you can test 1.3.1.2 in general... I held up-arrow and let it enter the requested items menu like half a dozen times so I'm pretty sure that works

1.3.1.2 will not be released as "stable" because of that bug. Instead, 1.3.1.3 will be released tomorrow once all known bugs are worked out. You can still test 1.3.1.2 since it has most of the fixes in place and may contain unknown bugs.

[fgm1988]

Ok, I'll just do what I always do and see if it comes up with any unexpected problems. There is one issue that I found today before servers went down while using 1.3.0.0, but you may have already corrected what was causing it. Sometimes the bot would just become completely unresponsive when FFXIV wasn't touched at all. It only did it in close proximity of the time I started it up, though. Once it blew through 2 or 3 synths, i knew it'd work as long as I'd let it. As far as the actual problem goes, it would start the first synth, press standard a couple times, sometimes even use preserve (but not always, so i dont think the bug was tied to the skill at all) then it would just halt everything. It would not work if i paused it, finished the synth manually, and then hit resume or anything. Only way to get it going again was to close and reopen. Like I said though, I've never had this happen on any synth other than the very first one. And, reporting this now may be completely irrelevant since you've updated it once officially, and a second time with a test release. I'll just try firing it up and having it start synthing, then shut it down again and repeat the mess a couple dozen times to find out if i can duplicate the problem in 1.3.1.2~

Also, do you plan at any point to add a chat input function so that you can respond to people chatting with you in the game? Probably not a high priority function or anything, but it is really handy to have in case someone comes up and starts messing with you, or if a friend talks to you in tells or a shell. 9/10 times I'm always at my PC when I'm botting to make sure I don't get busted too badly, and I quite often see chat i want to reply to in the linkshell but i'm much to lazy to stop the bot to do it. lol