I use MakeIt for bundled arrowheads all the time. Works great and is easy to figure out.


Thanks Gouru

My response to anyone that was messaging me, stating that another plugin was more superior... "Then use it and stop PM'n me!"

 

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Plus Robochef used house chests

 

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First of all, I just have to say thank you Gouru, for yet again making me laugh, lol. I just love your sense of humor.


Second, while I have never really had any need for convoluted crafting macro plugins, I have used MakeIt! since it came out, and have never once found it to be confusing or hard to use, and in fact, I found it quite simple, and it did every single thing I've ever wanted to make. The maiin things I've used it for are Beer, the simple chorizite potions, and the advanced dispell potions. Occasionally I'll whip up a few wrapped arrowheads, but that is rare.


Robochef could never make the advanced dispell potions, because it lacked the ability to combine oil with oil. While you could edit the xml to add the recipes (they weren't in there by default), you still had to do the one step manually. (At least when I used it they were not there).


MakeIt! has those in the fullrecipelist.xml, and does them without a single hitch. Not once have I had it give me errors, and it can quickly make as many things as you have the components for. I've done 1000 chorizite potions in less than 30 minutes.


Now, granted, I don't do things that require you buff every hour, I don't do anything that requires you regain health or stamina or anything like that, so I have absolutely no reference for the abilities of MakeIt to do those things, and honestly I can't think of any reason why anyone would need something like this. Trade Health Elixirs are pretty obsolete on the server I play on, so *shrug*.


For me, MakeIt is awesome, simple, easy and fast, and I recommend it to anyone who asks what to use.

 

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Yes the fullrecipelist.xml works well, now delete those and start entering item manually.


THAT IMHO is where all the difficulty and confusion LIES. Trying to add new receipes.


H*ll i gave up trying to add receipes via the add method and go straight to XML editor and add it as I found that to be the eaiser process (even though that too didn't have any documentation).

 

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There is now documentation on how to add recipes manually.


I agree it's not the easiest to use, however when it is used I don't get email from people asking me why their manually entered recipe doesn't work to which I respond that 'egg' is spelled with 2 'g's.

I used RoboChef when it was available, I liked it a lot. Since I often offer my trademule's services to others in the allegiance for making wrapped bundles of arrowheads, the built in feature of the trademule being able to ask for buffs when needed was VERY helpful. Being able to use chests was also nice, especially when making a LOT of arrowheads.


Before ToD released, I spent hours stocking up on arrowheads for my personal archers, and encouraged the allegiance to do the same. RoboChef worked tirelessly for me making up these arrowheads. The day came when we all ran out ... and there was no RoboChef to make arrowheads for us! With my wrists being what they are, I began to search for a program that could make them for us ... enter Make It!


My first issue was making plain old everyday run of the mill wrapped bundles of deadly heads (yep, the plain ones you turn into barbed heads). I posted here for help, and someone was kind enough to offer the needed entry into the xml for them. For a short while, it did not stack ... Gouru fixed it. I've used Make It! for HOURS at a time to make arrowheads for myself and allegiance mates. My only "complaint" is that I have to keep an eye on my trademule and manually enter the request for buffs at the appropriate time (a small complaint to be sure in the overall scheme of things).


As far as comparing the two? Well, the old RoboChef saved me the problem of having to ask for buffs, which was nice. BOTH programs can make as many arrowheads as I have the comps to do - which is nice. I don't have to sit here pressing keys over and over again to create oils and such ... which is VERY nice. When Yew releases the new and improved Robo, will I take a look at it? Sure, why not? Will I stop using Make It! in favour of RoboChef? Don't know. I may very well use them both. Once I got the recipe list to load properly in Make It! I had no further problems.


My end "take" on the subject? I'm grateful to have a program at ALL that can make arrowheads for me. If it is not quite as easy to use as a program that has been gone for over a year now, that's ok. I read, and figured it out. I appreciate the work Gouru has done to make this plugin work for us all. I appreciate the work Yew is doing to try to get RoboChef back up and running for us all. To all those who are complaining??? Go back to making them manually, without benefit of any plugin to help you. Nobody is forcing you to use the program

 

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Nice Humor


To throw my two cents in...

Make It does everything i need. It works and is not really hard to understand.

Think there was a good job done.

Thx G., keep up the good work!

 

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