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Just a few tips for you other holo chef

I followed the following steps from the incredible good FAQ

Mixology I: Deuterium Pyro: 15 rice, 15 reactive gas, 15 metal, 100 xp (105 in practice mode)
Mixology II: Ithorian Mist: 20 water, 20 corn, 40 wheat, 170 xp (178 in practice mode)

As i haven't seen any good macros for chef i'm gonna let you know what i use

Hope it will be of some help to someone.

First off, u need 3 macros and i find that using 9 food/chem crafting stations works best for me, as i live in europe and the lag may sometimes mess up things a little.

Macro no.1 (placed in F1 in toolbar)

/ui action toolbarSlot03;
/selectDraftSchematic 33;
/pause 5;
/nextcraftingstage;
/nextcraftingstage;
/createprototype practice no item;
/createprototype practice no item;
/pause 1;
/ui action toolbarSlot04;
/selectDraftSchematic 33;
/pause 5;
/nextcraftingstage;
/nextcraftingstage;
/createprototype practice no item;
/createprototype practice no item;
/pause 1;
/ui action toolbarSlot05;
/selectDraftSchematic 33;
/pause 5;
/nextcraftingstage;
/nextcraftingstage;
/createprototype practice no item;
/createprototype practice no item;
/pause 1;
/ui action toolbarSlot06;
/selectDraftSchematic 33;
/pause 5;
/nextcraftingstage;
/nextcraftingstage;
/createprototype practice no item;
/createprototype practice no item;
/pause 1;
/ui action toolbarSlot01;

Macro no.2 (placed in F2 in toolbar)

/ui action toolbarSlot07;
/selectDraftSchematic 33;
/pause 5;
/nextcraftingstage;
/nextcraftingstage;
/createprototype practice no item;
/createprototype practice no item;
/pause 1;
/ui action toolbarSlot08;
/selectDraftSchematic 33;
/pause 5;
/nextcraftingstage;
/nextcraftingstage;
/createprototype practice no item;
/createprototype practice no item;
/pause 1;
/ui action toolbarSlot09;
/selectDraftSchematic 33;
/pause 5;
/nextcraftingstage;
/nextcraftingstage;
/createprototype practice no item;
/createprototype practice no item;
/pause 1;
/ui action toolbarSlot10;
/selectDraftSchematic 33;
/pause 5;
/nextcraftingstage;
/nextcraftingstage;
/createprototype practice no item;
/createprototype practice no item;
/pause 1;
/ui action toolbarSlot11;
/selectDraftSchematic 33;
/pause 5;
/nextcraftingstage;
/nextcraftingstage;
/createprototype practice no item;
/createprototype practice no item;
/pause 1;
/ui action toolbarSlot00;

Macro no.3 (placed in F3 in toolbar)

/dump

this last one to stop macro.

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So,macros in F1,F2 and F3 and crafting tools in the remaining toolbar slots (F4 to F12)

I stole the entire macro from the weaponsmith forum (thanks Logix ) but changed some addons he had to make it work.

I made 27.5k of xp in like half an hour,so it's way faster then crafting manually.

It should work just fine if you do just as i said above.

Good luck crafters

Thank you, do you know what types of things to grind to get the most xp? And what skilltree to go up first?

go to the following website for everything you nee to know about the profession: http://home.comcast.net/~sciguyco/swg/ChefFAQ2.htm

Get to miwology 2 first like it says on that site and then craft Ithorian Mist all the way up to master. Thats all i know anyway as i'm not that far up on the skilltree myself, just started with the macro.

sorry for the typeo's..

it should say MIXOLOGY 2

You know, that's a pretty nice looking macro. Mind if I add it to the FAQ? I'm not sure if the one I point to (it's from the Armorsmith's stickied FAQ) is still correct, and your layout is easier on the eyes.

Just out of curiousity, do you know why there's two macros for crafting?Why not just put the whole thing into one (or did it hit the character limit that way)?

sure this is for everyone to use if they want

i'm not really sure why there is two macros. maybe they're too long? i dunno...

But I KNOW i forgot something..lol...but i just can't remember what it is as it's 06.27 am here now and i got 4 hours of sleep.

i will post it later on when i remember what it was, hehe

oh yeah, here is what i was forgetting.

most peolpe might know this, but where it says:

/selectDraftSchematic 33;

this might differ for every player. depends on how many schematics you have in your datapad. just change the view so they are all lined up in one long vertical list and count your way down to the one you wanna use.

/pause 5;

this is the amount of time you have to 2xclick on your resources. i think 5 is just perfect for me as there might be some lag at some point messing up things a little..

i found that the easiest thing to do, to get the macron ingame,is to copy/paste it from the forum and save it in notepad where it is WAY easier to edit it.

you just have to bind the keys you want for /copy/paste ingame. (ctrl+o, then the keys it think, the keys you need are located under the chat keys)

and again, i "stole" this macro from the weaponsmith forum

there,that should be it

Ok, I figured I'd test these out on my TC character. Now, I thought I had been pretty fast before. I had double click mapped to the scroll wheel and Enter to a thumb button to go to the next step in the crafting session. I needed 5 tools for the first one to clear out.

With the macro I had 8 or 9 going at once, and burned through 6k of cereal in about 15minutes. I feel....vaguely dirty.

Very nice. Just make sure you're not in a crafting station's radius, that really screws it up.

The reason there's 2 macros rather than just one for most crafting is because macros can only be a certain length before they cut the end off, it'll work the first you use it but then when you restart you'll find the end is missing. Though for chef you only really need 5 crafting tools as the time it takes to make the foodstuffs used to grind is under 40 seconds so by the time you've finished the 5th thing you're making the first 2 should already be finished and the tools free to use again. The multiple macros are really just for use for weaponsmiths and others whos station takes a while longer to produce the prototype so they use more tools as this require more commands.

yes, i know that you really need just 5 crafting tools, but sometines the lag mess things up (for me living in europe it does anyway) and one tool is skipped as you get the message "you are allready crafting"

so thats why i prefer to use 9

Here's why 2 macros - looping.

Single pass macro you must restart after it runs through all your crafting tools once.

Looped macro "automagically" starts the next cycle through your tools, no extra clicks needed.

HOWEVER: depending on the time it takes a tool to finish making a particular item, you may need to vary the pause between loops.