FFXIV Crafting Optimizer Dev Blog

We’re on a roll! Here’s another update to add translations for recipe names and Japanese support for skill tooltips. Japanese support for skill names in macros will be coming as soon as possible.

Thanks to the help of CKing on GitHub, we have added German and French translations of skill names in macros and tooltips. Just select the language from the dropdown in the navbar at the top of the screen.

We’ve updated the recipe database for changes in patch 2.55, mainly culinarian changes.

We’ve published a small update today to include recipes from Patch 2.5 into the database. You may have to force reload the site (Shift-click the Refresh button in your browser) to see the updated recipes.

Please note that this will not change the recipe settings in your saved synths, so you will need to update those yourself.

Another site update to add recipes for FFXIV 2.4 and to fix a few bugs reported to us by our lovely users:

• Using Comfort Zone when the buff is already in effect should not return the 8 CP.
• Piece by Piece actually provides 33% of the remaining progress, not 33.333% recurring (i.e. 1/3 as the tooltip describes).

While we’ve included the new 2.4 recipes, we have not been able to verify that the simulation works correctly for these. We would appreciate it greatly if you could provide YouTube videos of synthesis sessions so that we can update the model.

I also apparently forgot to mention site update #11 back in April (shame on me!), which was a minor update to fix a few bugs in reporting solver and simulator status.

A small update today to improve the way the simulator results are reported. Quality, progress, durability and CP are now reported in the status line as if all actions had a 100% chance to succeed, but we also report the chance that the synth will complete successfully. You can still see the average result in the simulation log under the Probablistic Result section.

The latest update includes the following changes:

• A fix for how Innovation affects Control.
• Improvements in the accuracy of progress and quality gains for high level recipes.
• Inner Quiet stacks are now capped at 10, to match in-game behavior.
• Tooltips are now hidden on touch devices since it was not easy to dismiss them on these devices.
• A fix for the user-specified seed option. This should really work now. Promise.

Another round of updates today:

• The Stat Bonuses button should now work again.
• The simulator is disabled when the level difference between crafter and recipe is too great.
• An option has been added to control whether the simulator/solver will try to model conditions (bad, good, excellent). It was previously hard-coded to always use conditions.
• The option to set the RNG seed is now actually implemented.
• A debug option has been added to show more detail in the simulation and solver log.
• Adjustments have been made to how Ingenuity II is modeled for recipes under level 50.

We’ve made quite a few changes in the last two updates:

• Updated the recipe database to include the new recipes in patch 2.2.
• Improved the display of the simulator and solver status.
• Improved accuracy of quality and progress gains for 3-star recipes.
• Improved accuracy of quality and control gains in the Montecarlo simulation.
• The solver will now stop processing actions in a sequence when CP drops below 0.
• Improved the solver’s fitness calculation for infeasible sequences where CP and/or durability have been exceeded.
• Improved simulation of Ingenuity I and II for changes in patch 2.2.

We would really appreciate more data for quality gains while doing 3-star recipes.

Yesterday I had a breakthrough in my attempts to model the new 2* recipes when I came across a post by EvilParadox on the the FFXIV forums with a link to a video showing a 2* master recipe being crafted.

I realize tracking step by step details and outcomes while crafting is quite tedious. So why not make a video of yourself crafting showing your crafter stats and the chat log with the results of the actions — and I’ll do all the boring tracking.

I still require a video of one of the new 3* recipes being crafted, and one of the old 1* and 2* recipes being crafted with the new Ingenuity I/II actions. I should be able to cover tracking the changes to Ingenuity for characters below level 50.

The more data the merrier so even if you see someone has already posted one of the above videos, don’t hesitate to post your own.