Cactus Drafter - Random Character Playthrough Drafting Utility

[fearedbliss]

Hello all, I'm pleased to announce a new utility to help you spice things up, Cactus Drafter. Alongside this, I've released a small cosmetic bug release for Cactus as 5.6.1. You can continue to download Cactus from the usual locations.

Cactus 5.6.1 + Cactus Drafter​

New Features
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- Cactus Drafter - Random Character Playthrough Drafting Utility

The Cactus Drafter is a small command line utility that will randomly
generate a suggested character playthrough configuration for you.
For example, if you are having trouble deciding what Worldstone or Character
Class to play, or can't decide if you should do a Character-based SSF or
Player-based SSF (Twinked/Untwinked) playthrough with or without an Extended
Stash (via Mules), you can run the ***Cactus Drafter*** to help you answer
these questions. The Cactus Drafter is partly inspired by DotA 1's All
Random and Random Draft modes.

Bug Fixes
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- Fixed a small cosmetic bug in Cactus where ending slashes in the Backup
Path were not being trimmed.

The below shows two example final playthrough configurations:

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Cactus Drafter 1.0.0
Jonathan Vasquez <jon@xyinn.org>
Simplified BSD License
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Game Mode: Softcore
Game Type: Classic
Class: Amazon
SSF Mode: Character-based
- This character _cannot_ share items with other characters and must be played fully untwinked.
Stash Mode: Not Extended
- This character _cannot_ use mules for extra storage. They can only use their personal stash.
Code: SCCL_CSSF_NoExS
- Place this code in your Shard's Notes section in Cactus.
- You'll most likely want to keep characters with identical codes and Worldstones together.

and

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Cactus Drafter 1.0.0
Jonathan Vasquez <jon@xyinn.org>
Simplified BSD License
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Worldstone: Succulent
Game Mode: Hardcore
Game Type: Classic
Class: Amazon
SSF Mode: Player-based
- This character _can_ share items with other characters via mules, therefore twinking is allowed.
- In Player-based SSF, the Stash Mode will always be Extended since you need TCP/IP muling
(or an external mechanism) to transfer gear between characters.
Stash Mode: Extended
- This character _can_ use mules for extra storage.
Code: HCCL_PSSF_ExS
- Place this code in your Shard's Notes section in Cactus.
- You'll most likely want to keep characters with identical codes and Worldstones together.

 

[fearedbliss]

Posting an update. I used my local LLM to make a web version of the Zig version. Let me know what y'all think. This works in both desktop and mobile mode. It may contain bugs but seems to work fine so far. Depending on how it goes, I may remove the zig version.

Another thing to note is that I made this to be a single "index.html" file that can work offline. So if you do want to download it, you can save the page to your desktop. In the future if I replace the Zig version I will bundle the drafter in the Cactus Bundle so you can just run it in your own local web browser.

You can visit the Cactus Drafter Web Version here.