favorcraft — development journal
2026-10-28 — Audit #35: protecting a shared creative origin
FavorCraft's history begins with an important collaborative distinction. The README explicitly credits Danoozy with the idea, and Babuni.dev with the work of building and polishing it. The original Redridge Recipe Planner grew beyond a single Alliance-side setting into a cross-faction Merchant's Favor companion. In that expansion, preserving old plans and old slash commands mattered because a planner becomes valuable only when its records survive subsequent revisions.
The source shows how the problem was translated into structures: a shared vendor catalog, separate schematics and reagents, profession-specific item comparisons, and a modular shopping and planning interface. The October 16 v0.5.0-beta changelog describes refinements that favor readability and trust: resolved names, every reagent, sensible item comparisons and filters. The 309/314 count discrepancy also becomes understandable when the five profession certifications are separated from recipes.
Human direction: Danoozy's concept and Babuni.dev's implementation/refinement are distinct, documented contributions. AI contribution in this audit: Read source, preserve attribution and produce portfolio-ready guides, without inventing unrecorded approvals. Implementation: Markdown only. Verification: The TOC, catalog, core migration source, publishing guide and changelog were inspected; no game or packaging test was performed.
Retrospective source reconstruction — 2026-10-26
A cross-faction Merchant's Favor profession and recipe planner evolved from Redridge Recipe Planner, combining recipe budgeting with materials and profession scanning. The README attributes the initial idea to Danoozy, with Babuni.dev building and refining the project. That co-authorship must remain visible. FavorcraftDB is intentionally retained for saved-plan compatibility with the earlier tool; /rrp and /redridge aliases remain. The implementation separates concerns as follows: Core.lua, Catalog.lua, Comparisons.lua and profession-specific comparison modules organize recipe data and cost logic; FavorCraft and Camelot TOCs support interface variants; README and PUBLISHING.md describe current distribution.
The documentation pass is an AI-assisted reconstruction based on committed material, not a claim about who wrote each line or when a proposal was accepted. Babuni.dev's project authorship is preserved, as are explicit human collaborator credits. No in-game tests were executed here. Verify migration semantics, profession-window scans, cross-faction recipe filters, 309-vs-314 catalog explanations and comparison math in-game.
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Author: Babuni.dev