[GatherUp] A mining/botany profile generator

This is nice. Gonna give it a go to get some stuff.

 

before i waste my time anyone know if this still works?

 

Haven't tried it personally, so can't confirm that it works.

 

It still works and flawlessly might I add..

 

New version is up.

Code:

1.3.0
* Added blackspot support.
* Added "Activate" button. Temporarily saves the current profile to disk and loads it into reborn buddy. 
* list items (hotspot, items, gatherskills) can now be rearranged using the up and down arrow keys.
* Now displays a warning instead of closing the plugin if a botbase isnt running. It seems to work fine anyway. Can be disabled in settings.xml.

 

Does this support ExBuddy tags or just default gathering?

ExGather should have enough backwards compatibility to be able to replace just the outer xml. There are obviously a lot more options you would be able to add say if you used a radio button to select which tag you wanted and change some panels if you are trying to get more advanced features.

 

Yea, at the moment its only using the default ones. Mainly to keep it fully compatible/easy to use and because its what ive been using myself.
Now that the plugin is more or less feature complete for what i originally intended this is something I'll be looking into. Like i said, i havent used it myself but its been requested and I'll be trying it out to see how it differs and improves on the standard tag.

 

new version 1.3.1

Code:

1.3.1
*Accidentally removed the code which handles item deletion from the blackspot list, fixed.

 

nice job can you try for build fish profil too please

 

Thank you

Sorry, I dont have a fisher myself and it would take quite a lot of work to add it. I dont see myself doing it but who knows, if I ever level a fisher i might feel differently.

 

New version. Some plugins may not be compatible with ExGather.

Code:

1.4.0
* Added partial support for ExGatherTag, requires Exbuddy.
* Added Discover unknown item support, requires ExGather
* Added cordial support, requires ExGather
* Activate button now also starts order bot.

Note: The exgather tag does not support blackspots.

 

Can someone quickly explain blackspots?

 

Basically areas you want the bot to avoid, but if this now uses ExGather, I might remember wrong, but I don't think ExGather supports blackspots.
You could use <StealthApproachGatherSpot> or <IndirectApproachGatherSpot> instead.

 

What tishat said but to add what i would imagine is the most common usage scenario. Youve got a hotspot covering several nodes but the bot has problems navigating to one of them. Add a blackspot on that node and the bot will ignore it. Its not something you will usually need to do though.

 

Yea, not supporting blackspots was mainly due to the fact i couldn't even find a profile that used them when i was building my gather tag. And i had made plenty of profiles that never needed a single blackspot so i guess i just figured it was more legacy and not really needed. I could eventually add support for this, but I would need some convincing that it would be used.

 

Blackspots are useful for ephemeral farming, where you only need to hit 1 node per group to respawn the ephemeral and time is at a premium. You can black out hard to reach nodes with blackspots.

 

Well, as far as this plugin goes, i dont think its a big problem. My need for blackspots is rare, i think out of the 20ish profiles i use only a couple use them and for those the native tag does the job well enough.
I don't really make profiles much more complex than what this plugin generates so my experience is limited but from what ive seen I prefer to use blackspots instead of smaller hotspots because:

1. Adjusting a hotspot so it covers many but not the offending node requires tinkering.
2. using many small hotspots which just covers one node requires you to mine the area for awhile so you can find all the nodes which takes time. It also (iirc) results in the bot traveling to each hotspot even if no node exists which i dont quite like.

 

You can see all the nodes using the RB API or even the radar built into RB even if they aren't visible. But i guess there is always the possibility that a blackspot would be more convenient.

 

can you please add a stealth feature if you have time , always got kill when farming

 

Hi,

Sorry, I looked into this before and didnt like the results from doing stealth within the profile. If it was a small edit to add I would do it anyway but as it is it would require too much work for something which I dont think would work satisfactory enough. Ive found i havent really needed stealth since i reached lvl 60 but if you do I would recommend you grab the Sneaky plugin and use it with the native gather tag (it doesnt play well with exgather).