Talan is a crafting bot designed for max level crafters. Rather than trying to be a crafting solver like FFXIV Crafting Optimizer, It reads in FFXIV macros directly, but executes them using its own engine that has none of the limitations of the in-game macro system.
Special thanks to Clorifex of GarlandTools and Miu of FFXIV Teamcraft for various bits of help along the way.
Talan is still in alpha but already has a fairly solid set of features
- It can craft any number of a given item as long as the materials are NQ.
- It crafts faster than FFXIV's own macro interface because it can optimize for the GCD timing and the amount of time its own processing takes.
- It needs no action keybinds, it operates entirely through the text interface.
- It can parse any variation of FFXIV macros (quoted, unquoted, with wait, without wait)
- It can change gearsets to allow chaining of commands and crafts.
- It can craft collectable items.
- It will use both NQ and HQ materials, prioritizing NQ.
- It verifies item names via Garlandtools.
Talan is still under active development with the following roadmap in mind:
- Verifying all abilities in macros are valid.
- Setting appropriate role actions if a macro requires them.
- Determine crafting prerequisites and adding them to the task queue.
- Allowing default macros to be assigned to difficulty tiers / progress requirements.
- Building a web interface for using the tool.
Right now Talan is driven via a command line interface and is not distributed as a binary.
To use it you will first need to install Rust via the installation instructions. If given the option, you need the beta/2018 channel. Building Talan is a standard rust affair of:
chris@macbook ~/src/talan (master) $ cargo build
Finished dev [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.24s
chris@macbook ~/src/talan (master) $ ./target/debug/talan -h
Talan 0.5.0
Christopher Anderson <chris@nullcode.org>
USAGE:
talan [FLAGS] [OPTIONS] <macro file> <item name>
FLAGS:
--collectable Item(s) will be crafted as collectable
-h, --help Prints help information
-d Increase delay between actions and UI navigation. Recommended with higher latency or input lag.
[UNIMPLEMENTED]
-V, --version Prints version information
OPTIONS:
-c <count> Number of items to craft [default: 1]
-g <gearset> Gearset to use for this crafting task. [default: 0]
-i <recipe_index> For recipes which have multiple search results this offset is used to determine the
specific recipe to use. Offsets start at 0 for the first recipe in search results and
increment by one for each recipe down. [default: 0]
ARGS:
<macro file> Path to the file containing the XIV macros to use
<item name> Name of the item to craft