FFXIV Teamcraft - Collaborative crafting made easy

[M1uu]

Hello there,

I just released a tool made to help crafters and free company: FFXIV Teamcraft

The purpose of this tool is to create a crafting list and "flatten" the required items, meaning that every required item will be listed, even if it's required by a required item, etc.

It's inspired from ffxivcrafting.com and I added features that I was missing on this website, such as proper i18n support (the website autodetects your language but you can correct it, list links are language-independa,t if you share it to a player who is not speaking your language, it will be displayed in his own language).

UPDATE:

Here is the list of current features as of 2.3.2:

• Search any recipe of the game.
• Handle Free Company crafts (airships, houses, etc).
• Realtime recipe progress management.
• A lot of details on how to get items, including hours of spawn for timed nodes.
• Map marker for npc/gathering node positions.
• Profit computing, know how much a recipe costs you or makes you earn.
• Node timers for timed ones.
• Handle large amount of crafts with exact precision.
• Filter a list for items that you can obtain by yourself, based on your lodestone profile (requires an account).
• Create a full list from a single search (eg. full i320 set for NIN).
• Copy a list, so you can use lists like "full 60-70 leves for WVR" by simply copying them to have your own progression on it.
• Everything except airship sectors is translated in the 4 ingame languages.

The full website code is available on Github, feel free to report issues, feature requests or to contribute (it's made with angular, but far from optimized as I created the base version in a week).

To follow the latest features, please refer to the Changelog.

You can talk with me about new features, bug reports etc on discord: https://discord.gg/r6qxt6P

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ffxivteamcraft

One time donation: https://donorbox.org/ffxiv-teamcraft-funding

[Xehmnus]

Reserved for future content, 1k chars is not that much

You can just edit your first post to avoid the character limit. :-)

[Caimie_Tsukino]

I just search for "Grimoire of the True Griffin", and it led me to http://xivdb.com/recipe/32349.
I can't see the "flat out" requirements...

[Elamys]

I'm gonna be honest, this just feels like Crafting As A Service, but reskinned. It does the exact same thing, with the exact same layout as that website on the material page. The only thing that is unique are the Lists; if you can make an account and save them, that would be useful. It's also nice that it shows more sources, such as actually displaying that something is purchasable with GC seals.

A bit of feedback:

The icons for mining/botany are just confusing, having them as a plant and then another plant isn't very intuitive, even more confusing when the icons are the same as an item.

It's a bit of a pain to navigate. When I make a list of items, I normally put a whole bunch of things on. I have to first make a List, search for the item, add it to the list by clicking that icon and then clicking on the list I want to put it in, search for the next one, etc. (Also, making a list from the addition window doesn't seem to work) Then, once I have all the items added, I need to click on the menu button in the corner, click on list, change quantities if I need to make more than one, and then finally generate my list. That's an awful lot of clicking.

There's also no way to see the recipe from within your website. I have to navigate to an outside one, which is somewhat frustrating. The layout just overall feels very unintuitive in the name of being very clean. Was it perhaps designed with mobile in mind? I particularly feel that the eye icon you click on to generate the list of materials doesn't really jump out at me as being what I need to click to get the list.

[M1uu]

You can just edit your first post to avoid the character limit. :-)

Oh my god didn't thought of that, that's such a strange thing xD Like "oh you can't add 1k+ chars messages because of... things. But if you edit it and paste the whole bible in it, it's okay.

I just search for "Grimoire of the True Griffin", and it led me to http://xivdb.com/recipe/32349.
I can't see the "flat out" requirements...

That's because you need to add it to a list before seeing the requirements, here is an example list with your item in it: https://ffxivteamcraft.com/list/oTdq...MwzdI9zZyqn4q8

To add an item to a list, search for the item and click the "add" icon on the right side of the element row, then choose the list you want to add the item in or simply create a new one.

I'm gonna be honest, this just feels like Crafting As A Service, but reskinned. It does the exact same thing, with the exact same layout as that website on the material page. The only thing that is unique are the Lists; if you can make an account and save them, that would be useful. It's also nice that it shows more sources, such as actually displaying that something is purchasable with GC seals.

As I said, the base inspiration is from Crafting As A Service, but I added missing features to me such as saved progression in realtime (if another player is on the same list as you, he'll see your progression and he'll be able to check items if he is giving you some). I also added FC workshop crafts support, meaning that you can plan your airship/house crafts before you even start them, to have everything needed before you start the craft, example list for that: https://ffxivteamcraft.com/list/oTdq..._sqHUUUHu9uiG_

The ability to create an account is actually on the way, it'll be the next feature for Beta 7

The icons for mining/botany are just confusing, having them as a plant and then another plant isn't very intuitive, even more confusing when the icons are the same as an item.

I don't get what you're talking about, I used the MIN/BTN icons from the game to make it intuitive, but I don't get the "and then another plant" part. I'll update the website soon to add a trade icon button, which will display trade details when you click on it. This will avoid icons that are the same as an item.

It's a bit of a pain to navigate. When I make a list of items, I normally put a whole bunch of things on. I have to first make a List, search for the item, add it to the list by clicking that icon and then clicking on the list I want to put it in, search for the next one, etc. (Also, making a list from the addition window doesn't seem to work) Then, once I have all the items added, I need to click on the menu button in the corner, click on list, change quantities if I need to make more than one, and then finally generate my list. That's an awful lot of clicking.

I'll update UX soon following your feedback, what I'm planning on doing is to add a number input field just before the "add to list" button to be able to add a certain amount in the list, then i'll add a "sow list" button to the bottom notification that spawns when an item is added to a list, and I'll also change this eye icon to make it more intuitive (like a "SHOW" button in the pane title).

There's also no way to see the recipe from within your website. I have to navigate to an outside one, which is somewhat frustrating. The layout just overall feels very unintuitive in the name of being very clean. Was it perhaps designed with mobile in mind? I particularly feel that the eye icon you click on to generate the list of materials doesn't really jump out at me as being what I need to click to get the list.

Adding a recipe details popup instead of a simple xivdb link is definetly in the roadmap (I should create a roadmap on github ^^), because as you said, it's unintuitive to open an external website while everything is already here. I'm in need of UX feedback like this, even if it's not designed for mobile at the moment, I'm using a material library to ahndle design for me, because css is definetly not my best skill

I'm open to any suggestions regarding the overall design of the website, the User eXperience and everything in general, that's also why I create such topics, to gather user feedback

[Caimie_Tsukino]

Ok, I get it now! A bit more complex than I thought, but it works. This can be useful when a non-crafter asks us to craft things, and wants to know what mats are needed. Thanks!

[M1uu]

As said using the announcement system, I'm currently applying a little UX and design patch, following Elamys's feedback because I find his recommendations really useful.

Don't hesitate to give more feedback on it, using either this topic, /r/ffxivteamcraft or github.com/supamiu/ffxiv-teamcraft

[Elamys]

I don't get what you're talking about, I used the MIN/BTN icons from the game to make it intuitive, but I don't get the "and then another plant" part. I'll update the website soon to add a trade icon button, which will display trade details when you click on it. This will avoid icons that are the same as an item.

I wonder if it was a glitch then. Last night, the icon on the Lists page was a picture of Rosemary's icon, and the one for Mining was a picture of Mandrake. But today, it's the normal icons. Weird.

Anyways, now that I kind of get what you're going for (collaborative crafting) this will be really useful for my FC.

[Firinne]

I don't know what I'm doing wrong but when I search a recipe and add it to a list, going to the list it'll show 0 items... am I doing something incorrect? Is there an extra step?

[M1uu]

There is no extra step but I've found a bug regarding this recently, it should be fixed now but if it's not, please tell me

Beta.7 just started, adding user authentication and personal filters (show only what you can craft/gather uppon one button click).