Feldon Last month, we introduced a Known Recipes and Recipe Books feature, however it was lacking the some optimization and was affecting the overall performance of the site, so we temporarily took the feature offline.
I’m thrilled to announce that not only have we completed the optimization and restored these features, but we have also added full support for Recipes throughout EQ2U, including Recipe Search and Recipe Details!
If you have not read it, please read our past article:
Crack the Books with Recipes on EQ2U
after the jump, our EQ2U Recipes FAQ…
EQ2U Recipes Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Can I do partial word matching on recipes like “xegon bles ax”?
A: Yes! The game supports it, so we support it!
Q: One of the recipe Categories is wrong. How can I report it?
A: I hand-entered the Categories (with help from Lera and Whilhelmina), so if you see any mistakes, they’re likely mine. Please post a Comment below, or e-mail me at morgan (at) eq2wire.com and I’ll get it fixed pronto!
Q: How come I can’t open some recipe books?
A: Certain recipe are “auto-consumed” and go straight into your recipe knowledge book without a physical book or scroll. This applies to most of the Tradeskill Apprentices, as well as a number of one-off quest-given recipe scrolls. Because there is no physical item, these recipes have not technically been “discovered”.
Q: I’m able to use a different component in-game than the one you have listed, can you add it?
A: Recipe components in EQ2 are actually rather complex, as most recipes do not call for a specific ingredient, but instead accept items with specific classifications. This is how a recipe that calls for “liquid” will accept “canine saliva” or any of the other 160 ingredients classified as a “liquid”. To simplify the user experience, we have chosen a single representative ingredient for each component and, where the Component differs significantly from our chosen item, we display it in parentheses below.
Q: Your recipes don’t show Byproducts!
A: That’s not a question, but yes, the Recipe data we get from Census does not currently include Byproducts. Soon[tm].
Q: My character knows a recipe that’s not on EQ2U. How can I report it?
A: Our Recipe database is stored locally, so we need to run an update script whenever new recipes are added. Please let us know by posting a Comment or e-mailing me at morgan (at) eq2wire.com and I’ll run the updater.
I’d like to thank Lera of EQ2Furniture, Zjeven, Whilhelmina of EQ2Artisans (en francais), Dethdlr, Ellebeth, and Thorcer. I’d also like to thank Platform and the EQ2 Team for getting us this Recipe data! Next stop? Quests!
You guys are the best..gotta run too dusty in here *sniff*
Great, how can we turn it off? Can we turn off only that function, or do i need to hide my toons in entirety?
There is not currently a way to opt out Recipes. You’d have to opt out all your characters from EQ2Share and then you wouldn’t be able to use EQ2U or Dragon’s Armory.
SOE has never provided a way to opt out certain parts of your character, or authenticate so you can view your characters privately.
I wonder if it’s worth adding a way for players to opt out certain parts of their character like Achievements, AAs, Spells, or Recipes. We would do it with a small piece of text you add to your character’s Biography. How many people would use it?
Don’t get me wrong the additional features are nice, just thinking of versatility overall. Having the ability to toggle different aspects of what we want to share would be nice.
My personal reasoning in the here and now is the limited use raid Adorning books. Anyone can now look up and pester someone with requests because they can see the adorning book in their recipe arsenal.
what reason would you have for hiding just this part of your character?
Again .. amazeballs work by the team!!!!
Personally I would not use such a feature.
Nope would not use.
Love that feature, makes it easy to look stuff up on another screen while you’re doing something else!
Greeat Work!
Excellent work and time-consuming too. Recipes have always been crazy complex. Niami tried to organize recipes for us years ago and, I think, was a few pulled hairs shy of becoming a bald tradeskiller )) Database management has changed over the years and you, thankfully, seem to feed off databases.
Along with the shouts out to your great assistants I’d like to add a GIANT shout out to Niami for giving us tradeskilling freaks a thirst for recipes!
Grats 🙂
And thanks for the thanks, but I didn’t do anything worthy of being mentioned, just found a couple of bugs/feedback and helped sorting 75 books out of the 3000+ that are around ^^
I’ll add a special page for this feature on EQ2Artisans providing translation basics and pointing to your amazing work.
Your great use of the datafeeds really helped me maintain EQ2Artisans after my departure of the game, I’ll never thank you enough.