Announcing the Workbench system: a collection of zMUD scripts for crafting and utility. Modules can be purchased separately, and many of them will automatically connect to each other to expand their functionality. All modules come with support and upgrades. All modules can be configured with your choice of colors.
Currently available:
Workbench Comms
Price: 5cr
Provides functions to automate handling Lusternia's standard "commodity string" format (e.g., "wood 5 rope 2"). You can set prices for commodities (or capture them at your local comm shop, or if you have Workbench Ledger, update them from that); then evaluate the price of a complete commodity string. Then you can outrift all of them and do a command in a single step. Also included is a database of common things made from commodities, like tints, sigils, refills, shovels, energy cubes, etc. Integrates with Workbench Ledger to provide links to pricing and availability for commodities. Integrates with Workbench Rift to compare needed comms to what you have in your rift.
Workbench Rift
Price: 10cr, discounted to 5cr if bought with Workbench Craft or Workbench Ledger
Tracks your rift's contents and allows you to quickly view it sorted into categories (gems, tints, herbs, etc.). Allows you to set stock levels, then generate a report showing what to restock. Can warn you when your rift gets dangerously low at something. When combined with Workbench Comms, commodities pricing shows what you have and how much you'd need to get to make the specified things (as shown above), and can calculate the value of your rift.
Workbench Craft
Price: 50cr, includes Workbench Comms
A complete crafting system for craft tradeskills. Maintains a database of your available designs. Make a list by any combination of criteria: find all thrones, or all recipes that use poultry, or all patterns that refer to wyverns, or all public-design cloaks, or all the swords that use leather and refer to trees, or all the designs you tagged to be used to stock your shop. Sort the list by cost. Automatically calculate customer costs with a set of flexible rules. Exclude private designs from it, then send it in tells or says to a customer, and easily provide more detail on the ones the customer is interested in.
Once you've decided what to make, get a price list that shows you what commodities you still need to make it, and how much to charge the customer. With a single click, get all the required commodities out of your rift and make the item, with optional commands done before and after (to fire up the forge, get things out of the oven, etc.). Make one or several at once, or one of everything on a list. All this is done using buttons that appear right in your MUD window.
You can also queue up items into one or many orders, which you can save for re-use or clear as you make the items. Look at the price of all of the commodities for the entire combined order (and with Workbench Rift, verify if you have them in stock), then make the orders one at a time, or all at once. You can even attach notes to orders.
If you're a trademaster, Workbench Craft will monitor your submitted designs and inform you when they've been approved or rejected. Easily capture new designs, yours and others, with a single command.
Craft can handle people who have multiple tradeskills through Skillflex. You can also dump your designs into a book or scroll if desired, in any way you like.
Workbench Craft isn't smart enough to handle all the steps for forging properly including all the repeated forge steps, smelting and reforging for target values, etc.; so for forgers it's primarily useful only for the cataloging.
Workbench Calendar
Price: 10cr
See below for full details and screenshots.
Workbench Aethers
Price: 5cr
See below for full details.
Workbench Ledger
Price: varies
See below for full details and screenshots.
Workbench LogCapture
Price: free to any user of any other Workbench module
A tiny module whose job is to let you easily store any number of weaves of a particular log into a project file. details
Currently available:
Workbench Comms
Price: 5cr
Provides functions to automate handling Lusternia's standard "commodity string" format (e.g., "wood 5 rope 2"). You can set prices for commodities (or capture them at your local comm shop, or if you have Workbench Ledger, update them from that); then evaluate the price of a complete commodity string. Then you can outrift all of them and do a command in a single step. Also included is a database of common things made from commodities, like tints, sigils, refills, shovels, energy cubes, etc. Integrates with Workbench Ledger to provide links to pricing and availability for commodities. Integrates with Workbench Rift to compare needed comms to what you have in your rift.
Workbench Rift
Price: 10cr, discounted to 5cr if bought with Workbench Craft or Workbench Ledger
Tracks your rift's contents and allows you to quickly view it sorted into categories (gems, tints, herbs, etc.). Allows you to set stock levels, then generate a report showing what to restock. Can warn you when your rift gets dangerously low at something. When combined with Workbench Comms, commodities pricing shows what you have and how much you'd need to get to make the specified things (as shown above), and can calculate the value of your rift.
Workbench Craft
Price: 50cr, includes Workbench Comms
A complete crafting system for craft tradeskills. Maintains a database of your available designs. Make a list by any combination of criteria: find all thrones, or all recipes that use poultry, or all patterns that refer to wyverns, or all public-design cloaks, or all the swords that use leather and refer to trees, or all the designs you tagged to be used to stock your shop. Sort the list by cost. Automatically calculate customer costs with a set of flexible rules. Exclude private designs from it, then send it in tells or says to a customer, and easily provide more detail on the ones the customer is interested in.
Once you've decided what to make, get a price list that shows you what commodities you still need to make it, and how much to charge the customer. With a single click, get all the required commodities out of your rift and make the item, with optional commands done before and after (to fire up the forge, get things out of the oven, etc.). Make one or several at once, or one of everything on a list. All this is done using buttons that appear right in your MUD window.
You can also queue up items into one or many orders, which you can save for re-use or clear as you make the items. Look at the price of all of the commodities for the entire combined order (and with Workbench Rift, verify if you have them in stock), then make the orders one at a time, or all at once. You can even attach notes to orders.
If you're a trademaster, Workbench Craft will monitor your submitted designs and inform you when they've been approved or rejected. Easily capture new designs, yours and others, with a single command.
Craft can handle people who have multiple tradeskills through Skillflex. You can also dump your designs into a book or scroll if desired, in any way you like.
Workbench Craft isn't smart enough to handle all the steps for forging properly including all the repeated forge steps, smelting and reforging for target values, etc.; so for forgers it's primarily useful only for the cataloging.
Workbench Calendar
Price: 10cr
See below for full details and screenshots.
Workbench Aethers
Price: 5cr
See below for full details.
Workbench Ledger
Price: varies
See below for full details and screenshots.
Workbench LogCapture
Price: free to any user of any other Workbench module
A tiny module whose job is to let you easily store any number of weaves of a particular log into a project file. details
Drat. I should have posted a few replies up at the top I could later edit in the new modules, because the forum won't let me add another module to the top post due to the number of pictures. (Wouldn't need pictures if I could put colors in a code block...)
Workbench Calendar
Price: 10cr
Keeps track of Lusternian date and time, moon phase, and sun signs. Stores holidays and one-time events, then tells you when they've happened, or when they're coming. Can be set to execute commands at certain times of day, on certain dates, or recurring at certain intervals. Displays upcoming moon calendar, and can tell the RL date of upcoming moon phases. Calculates sun-based astrological buffs available. Can estimate the time of day if you're underground.
Workbench Calendar
Price: 10cr
Keeps track of Lusternian date and time, moon phase, and sun signs. Stores holidays and one-time events, then tells you when they've happened, or when they're coming. Can be set to execute commands at certain times of day, on certain dates, or recurring at certain intervals. Displays upcoming moon calendar, and can tell the RL date of upcoming moon phases. Calculates sun-based astrological buffs available. Can estimate the time of day if you're underground.
