Talk:Recipes

Perhaps a way to Sort columns by their type? For example, clicking 'Ingredient 1' will sort the rows alphabetically based on their first required ingredient. This will be useful in working out how many Jungle Roses you need to make all the Underground Jungle items, or how many Hellstone Bars you require to make a full set of armor etc. (-cardinal ps. can't remember how to link my name in a wiki)

it would help to know what station (table, anvil, etc) you need to make each of these. --65.31.192.132 09:56, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Feel free to add it as you figure it out :D This is the information that the developers were kind enough to provide for us. -- Wynthyst [[Image:User Wynthyst sig icon.png ]] talk  10:01, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

Recipe Layout
Just kinda toying with recipe layouts, how does this one look? Its a tad cluttered (trying to change the outlines and spacing a bit, but taking some heavy tweaking), I'm new to most of table design on wikis, so any advice would be a great help. - Shadowclaimer 19:00, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
 * If you are going to add icons give them their own column. -- Wynthyst [[Image:User Wynthyst sig icon.png ]] talk  19:08, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Toyed with icons in columns, the original icons line up properly if put in a column but as for the separate ingredients, even though its cluttered they look nice next to the text directly as opposed to in columns. I still think with darker borders (if I could figure out how to make dark borders) would help lessen the clutter. - Shadowclaimer 19:13, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

I like that design but one question, is it possible to merge the top cells? So that the Ingred Icon/qty/name is without lines down the middle of it, and so is the result? Just to make it easier to tell what's under what header. -Shadowclaimer 19:48, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I really hate the x's would prefer to keep the header, and on the page this kind of layout is going to bloat the coding to the point where people with slower machines are potentially going to have trouble with it. -- Wynthyst [[Image:User Wynthyst sig icon.png ]] talk  19:53, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I can understand the hatred of the x's lol I just thought they helped direct what goes where, but yea I can see the issue with it taking too much on the page for older machines. What if we divided the recipes by toolbench in pages to help alleviate that? So the Alchemy Station gets one, Forge gets one, etc. Also couldn't we do away with the quantity columns? Having the quantities next to the names doesn't seem that bad (Either "2 Lesser Healing Potions" or such) would also lower how many columns the page needs. -Shadowclaimer 19:55, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I personally think the icons make it too busy... I was really liking the clean look, but it's not just up to me. I am not so into getting rid of the quantity column. I think it makes it easier for people to understand. -- Wynthyst [[Image:User Wynthyst sig icon.png ]] talk  20:02, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm a sucker for pictures, they just make it look so much nicer, dammit where's a third opinion when you need one.. -Shadowclaimer 20:03, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
 * In most instances where I have high quality images available, I agree. I think these however just make it look cluttered. -- Wynthyst [[Image:User Wynthyst sig icon.png ]] talk  20:05, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Well I completely disregard your opinion and am preparing a revolutionary army to overthrow your leadership of this wiki solely so I can have icons on the recipe page. Slow computers be damned. <3 -Shadowclaimer 20:16, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Just want to add that I love the pictures, but too hate the xs.. however, without them, it's a lot less obvious what the random floating 2s mean. Hmm :/ --FungusTrooper 15:56, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Hence the dilemma, how about (2) instead of x2? -Shadowclaimer 15:59, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I think that looks pretty good, much better than using x. --FungusTrooper 16:09, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Thought the same thing, can I get the go-ahead to start implementing this layout on the recipe page? -Shadowclaimer 16:10, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: Removed second table (as it made navigating to edit the first table annoying after awhile). I'm also intending to take a shorter screenshot for the alchemy station icon for this page instead of the current one (Which is very tall and skews the table and looks bad) for now just leaving the table one as a placeholder. -Shadowclaimer 16:14, 19 May 2011 (UTC)