Simulator

The complete guide about simulator and rotations

Introduction

What is the simulator?

The crafting simulator is a feature inside Teamcraft that you can reach from different places, it allows you to simulate a crafting rotation, meaning that you'll be able to craft an item out of FFXIV, in order to prepare your rotations. Its core logic is a standalone repository on GitHub, available under Open Source MIT license here: https://github.com/ffxiv-teamcraft/simulator.

How can I open the simulator?

There is different ways to open the simulator:

• Search for your recipe inside the search page, then click the gavel icon, it'll open the rotation picker, allowing you to either create a new rotation or pick an existing one, both will open the simulator.

• Inside any list, click the crafting job icon of a given recipe to open the rotation picker, allowing you to either create a new rotation or pick an existing one, both will open the simulator.

• Inside any database item page that has a recipe, you can find a "Craft in simulator" button, opening the rotation picker, example: https://ffxivteamcraft.com/db/en/item/23796/Rakshasa-Gantai-of-Striking.

The custom mode

One last way to open the simulator is by using the custom mode, which is a mode where you can input every variables related to the recipe, its recipe level, durability, progress and quality. However, keep in mind that custom mode isn't recommended outside of pure pre-patch theorycrafting, because it is not tied to a recipe, making it harder for other users to use the rotation. You can access the custom mode here: https://ffxivteamcraft.com/simulator/custom.

Rotations

Introduction

Rotations are a simple way to store a given set of skills for the simulator. They can be exported to ingame macros, shared with everyone, and even registered as community rotation in order to help a lot of players at once. Rotations are not tied to a recipe, they have a "default" recipe that they'll open with if you just open the rotation from the rotations page, but they can be opened with any recipe.

Sharing rotations

In order to share a rotation, you can simply save it using the save button inside the left toolbar and then copy share link by clicking the share button ( ), any user using this link will be able to see your rotation and use it inside the simulator. However, shared rotations are read-only, meaning that if anyone edits your rotation and presses the save button, it'll create a new rotation for them, only the original author of a rotation can edit it without creating a new rotation.

Community rotations

Rotations can be shared as community rotations, in order to share a rotation with the community, press the community rotations button ( ) to open the community rotations dialog box.

Community rotations dialog box

Inside this configuration dialog box, you'll see pre-filled values, these are pre-filled from the rotation itself, including the minimum stats, which are filled from the minimum stats finder feature. You can edit everything here in order to add tags if they are misleading, or in order to correct anything inside the configuration.

Simulator features

Configuration

Simulator's configuration panel

Inside the configuration panel, you can set your stats (which are, by default, pulled from your profile), initial HQ ingredients (with, under each name, the amount of quality they add) and the consumables + eventual FC buffs. Consumables and FC buffs are saved to the rotation in order to be able to share it properly, with all the buffs it needs.

Sidebar buttons

When using the simulator, you have a set of buttons on the left, each one of these buttons add a feature, which will be described here, following the order of the buttons from top to bottom.

The simulator's sidebar, with all the features that will be described

1. Clone the rotation, meaning that it'll create a clone of the rotation and open it directly inside the simulator, with the same configuration.

2. Save the changed you've made to the rotation. If you're not the author of the rotation, it'll save a copy of the rotation and add it to your rotations.

3. This button empties the rotation's action list, use with caution.

4. Import a rotation from FFXIV Crafting Optimizer, aka lokyst or ermad's simulator.

5. Export the rotation following the FFXIV Crafting Optimizer format.

6. Import a rotation from an ingame macro (supports multiple steps, just copy all the macros one after another inside the input box).

7. Create an ingame macro from this rotation.

8. Find minimum stats for this rotation on this recipe. This basically runs the simulation again and again while it lowers the stats, until it breaks, in order to find the breakpoint of the rotation.

9. Check the step-by-step report, showing you details of each step, with its impact on all the metrics.

10. Copy share link for this rotation.

11. Check rotation tips for this rotation. These are auto-generated tips based on recommendations from various crafters, allowing you to optimize your rotation easily, without having to ask multiple players for it.

12. Mark this rotation as favorite, in order to be able to have it inside the rotation picker, even if it's not your rotation, and use it as it's updated.

13. Share this rotation with the community.

Other features

Mark a step as good, excellent, poor or failed

You can mark a step as good, excellent, poor or failed by right clicking on the step in order to set the state you want, showing you how the rotation would behave with this change on this step.

Safe mode

You can enable/disable safe mode next to the rotation's name. Safe mode is a mode where anything that doesn't have 100% success rate is considered as failed, allowing you to create non-RNG rotations with a logic behind you to check that each step has no chances to fail at all.