Crafting compass

Thursday, October 30, 2025

Started my journey on developing 7 more characters for chocobo digging
Doing some simple math
200k a day from digging logs and npcing them
8 characters so 2m a day
1 month, 30 days, 60,000,000 60 million per month npcing logs
really good projected profit from crunching numbers
I'll definitely need to rank up digging first which is the longest part
need to get rank 7 or 8 at least which is a few months of daily digging to fatigue

so far:
all lvl 50
all have sky blue silk
all have chocobo rope(need lvl 85 to equip which is the biggest obstacle right now)
all have warp ring
all have 80/80 inv space(Gobbiebag completely done)
all have choco license
all have kazam access

I'll need to start doing limit breaks and getting them to 85 now but I just don't feel like putting the work in lol
Maat is going to be the hardest part considering the mules have 0 combat skill and i'll need to skill up before I try Maat

so far I have put 2m on each char and they are all down to about 500k
and I have put about 5m in farming all the silks
meaning so far I've invested around 15,000,000

not going to have high enough rank to really make gil until around rank 7
that's about 5 months or 150 days of daily digging to fatigue, March 2026

the last several years I've had all the time in the world to play ff11 but all I do is stand in town and chat with ls waiting for a cp/ep pt to start
and sometimes it could be days before I actually got in a pt
this digging plan is actually allowing me to play the game for about an hour a day something I have missed for so long
where Upbeat stands he basically has everything done besides endgame that requires a static and I can never find statics period much less one that would work with me.

even if I do invest around 20m before I make it to rank 7 on all of them
1 month pulling 60m would pay it all back easy


Monday, October 27, 2025

That feeling when
You’ve been using other people’s code and programs for 20 years
And you’ve been self teach yourself to code for 20 years
And you are finally at the point where you can successfully write lua and build python gui
Being able to script navigation and cleanly script menu automation 
Being able to write hacks you’ve never seen anyone else ever offer to anyone even talk about
Remembering those tools you tested out 18 years ago with almost zero knowledge in how they worked
And today being able to literally write the exact same program

My all in one tool is becoming so advanced I’m so happy with the progress I’ve made
And to think just a year ago I didn’t even know how to write a program that could interact with the ffxi window
All starting with my crafting compass
And now I have a fully working program I use every single day

Running codes to test if it worked a million times getting no where
Then one day a light bulb just went off
What I had been tinkering with for months finally made sense 
I don’t know how other programmers do it, most seem like they just know and I find that amazing, it’s like they’ve read all the books and field tested all the different variations of every code
Like they can actually learn the languages and be 100% fluent
Well I’m not like that at all
I feel like I have an idea and I can accomplish most things but by no way do I know the entire language 
Some of the luas for 11 are so complex I have no idea where they even start it looks like they came straight out of a super computer almost like time itself wrote them

Still planning on rereleasing my program
Every single day it seems like I find something new I want to add and I do and if usually works
Many new things since the last version I had up
I had it up for about a month and didn’t get one single download 
I don’t know what the deal about that was 
If it was up for that long I almost doubt adding new features is going to bring more people in to download and use or test
But I’m having a blast writing it and using it while I play

The main features I use are:
Digging hack
Menu navigation 

Some new features 
Navigation window now has inputs for the ocr position on the screen
An entity window that can scan the zone for dead or alive entities. This window also have a few other options like /follow target or use an ability on target. It would make a very good claim bot. I tried to write a farming tool but it turned out to be a little more work than I had anticipated so that’s on the back burner for now. Maybe a future update.
The scripting function uses .txt up down targetid and wait all work. Originally wrote for ferry auto board but with a tiny adjustment it’s great for menu automation 
Obviously you can write and use your own .txt for any situation 
And navigation also works in the .txt

I’m having so much fun writing and testing this
Even if I did release it again and got 0 downloads again I’m just happy to be involved in this scene
I wish I could build up enough confidence to share my work in the elitemmonetwork discord but there’s some serious programmers in there and I don’t want any conflict 

Pics soon ! Maybe later today !

-upbeat

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Took my program down a few weeks ago
Made some upgrades to it and plan on releasing again to see if it does any better
I’m running out of ideas to add
And the things I have I can think of upgrades but I can’t find any ways to accomplish them
Still want to put a few more days work in before this next release 

Posted on nothing to see here
Just an update to my supervision story
15 months to go
About 2 more months of saving money
After 2 months I can start buying the fun stuff I’ve been wanting

Friday, October 17, 2025

 Last night I played around with some lua addons I got Gemini to write
Mostly to try to read menu options
Nothing I tried worked
And Gemini ended up telling me my windower install was corrupted which it is not

So I modified my pathing function
To navigate through the menus
It has a loop options that runs pretty flawlessly 

I’ll do more testing on reading menus to make a more smart way of doing this

Added a Chocobo race feature to crafter
It’ll trade a item and go through all the menu to do a race
Worked flawlessly 
Ran it for about an hour last night

May or may not have noticed I removed the crafter download
I had it up for about 3 weeks and not one person downloaded it and used a key

Right now it’s just for my private use
But I do plan on periodically releasing what I consider solid good versions

Every few weeks I think of new things to add to it

I need to make an updated post of all the features but I doubt that’ll make it any more popular with people downloading and actually using
Still 3 weeks and not one single use is pretty strange in my opinion