Goodie: Minecraft crafting recipes.

[engvik]

What does your Instant Answer do?
Return the crafting recipe for something that can be crafted in Minecraft.

What problem does your Instant Answer solve (Why is it better than organic links)?
A faster and cleaner answer.

What is the data source for your Instant Answer? (Provide a link if possible)
A static file.

Why did you choose this data source?
It contains most of the recipes.

Are there any other alternative (better) data sources?
No, not that I know of.

What are some example queries that trigger this Instant Answer?
ladder in minecraft
minecraft craft tnt

Which communities will this Instant Answer be especially useful for? (gamers, book lovers, etc)
Minecraft players.

Is this Instant Answer connected to a DuckDuckHack Instant Answer idea?
Yes, this.

Which existing Instant Answers will this one supercede/overlap with?
None.

Are you having any problems? Do you need our help with anything?

• We might need to change the triggers, but I tried to avoid using regex. Open for suggestions.
• I'm not sure if you allow header tags in the HTML. I use h3 for the headline.

Where did you hear about DuckDuckHack? (For first time contributors)
Not my first contribution.

What does the Instant Answer look like? (Provide a screenshot for new or updated Instant Answers)

Checklist

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[X] Added metadata and attribution information (https://duck.co/duckduckhack/metadata)
[X] Wrote test file and added to t/ directory (https://duck.co/duckduckhack/goodie_tests)
[X] Verified that instant answer adheres to design guidelines (https://duck.co/duckduckhack/design_styleguide)
[X] Verified that instant answer adheres to code styleguide (https://duck.co/duckduckhack/code_styleguide)
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IA Page: https://duck.co/ia/view/minecraft

[mwmiller]

@larseng Thanks for another solid answer for a forum idea! Could you please cite the source of the JSON in the source metadata attribute?

@jagtalon @bsstoner Are we allowed to load third party images like this? Is there a way to proxy arbitrary image requests?

[engvik]

@mwmiller The source is this file. It looks like it's based on the informartion from Mincraft XL. Yes, I forgot to ask about the hotlinking of the images. Keep me updated 😃

[mwmiller]

@larseng I saw that you had the source listed on your forum post. It would be nice to have in the code itself so:

• the author/maintainer gets proper attribution on the nascent IA information page, and
• later IA maintainers can check the source for updates, if needed.

I have some working, but as yet unmerged, code which will allow goodies to serve images out of their share directories, if there's a problem with the hot-linking. This would, of course, involve downloading and copying them there. The sheer volume of images might make it interesting. Considering your previous experience with FIGlet fonts, I don't imagine working through this is outside your comfort zone. 😁

[engvik]

@mwmiller Absolutely, but I'm not sure if I understand where you want me to put the attribution? In the attribution-part in Minecraft.pm?

Cool! Just let me know, shouldn't be a problem.

[mwmiller]

In the attribution-part in Minecraft.pm?

Yep, see the CallingCodes goodie for an example. Most goodies don't not have "non-code sources", so I'm not surprised you were unaware of this attribute.

Cool! Just let me know, shouldn't be a problem.

Well, it's a bit different use-case than my current example. I don't think we'd want to preemptively cache all of the possible minecraft images in the perl process, so it may actually lead me to pursue a slightly different architecture. May we live in interesting times. 😁

[engvik]

Actually, what about simply trigger on Minecraft? I think many would search for "minecraft tnt" to get the recipe, which is also the first answer.

[mwmiller]

I admittedly suck at knowing the answers to these kind of questions:

Would this be safer (for our ability to be sure we get the attribution correct) with use utf8;?

[engvik]

Honestly, I have no idea either 😄 Haven't been mentioned in my earlier contributions as far as I know.

[mwmiller]

FYI, I now believe this is actually a problem, based on the trouble @jarmokivekas noted with the attribution on his contributions.

@russellholt @MariagraziaAlastra @jagtalon Do we know if use utf8 in these sources will help with the attribution on the IA pages?

[russellholt]

@mwmiller I am having utf8 issues with these, so maybe so. it's worth trying, I hadn't considered this.

[engvik]

@mwmiller How does this look? I'm no regex-master, but it works 😄

It can now trigger on:

• cake minecraft
• minecraft craft cake
• how to craft a cake minecraft
• how do i make a cake in minecraft
• crafting activator rail in minecraft
• etc.

[mintsoft]

@mwmiller for proxying images I believe you should use URLS like this (stolen from Currency in the Spice Repo):
https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.xe.com%2Ffavicon.ico&f=1

Is that right @jagtalon @moollaza ?

[mwmiller]

@mintsoft I'm not sure if that is available and recommended for general-purpose images.

[engvik]

@mwmiller Ah, man, you're right. That might be a solution. I'll look further into it.

[mintsoft]

I'm not sure if that is available and recommended for general-purpose images.

Neither am I!

[moollaza]

@larseng @mwmiller @mintsoft regarding the image proxying, @mintsoft was correct please route them through https://duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=foo.com

It's just a general proxy for images that prevents the client from making a direct request to the host. We have other proxies as well for other types of content (audio for example). They should always be used whenever content needs to be requested by the client :)

[engvik]

I'm kinda swamped these days, but I will get back to this PR as soon as I can. Sorry for the inconvenience.

[moollaza]

No problem @larseng , I'll label the PR as "On Hold" for now.

[engvik]

So, I tried @mwmiller suggestion with using a list of good and bad words.

It worked okay, but the problem is that we have recipes called Carrot on a Stick and Crafting Table. This means if someone tries to make the a query like how do i craft a book, it won't trigger as it would try to look up a recipe called a book, since both a and book are in the list of good words. And it won't trigger if someone searches for ladder crafting in minecraft, since we would try to look up ladder crafting in the recipe hash.

I've looked through the recipes and I think these two are the only ones that would cause any trouble. and and of are also in the good words list, but I don't think it would be natural for someone use those words unintended in this IA.

What I ended up doing was to strip "okay words" (a and crafting at this point) from the recipe lookup if we don't find a recipe. If we still don't find a recipe after this, we probably don't have one.

[jagtalon]

Hi, @larseng! It looks like the description here was cut off?

[engvik]

Hey, @jagtalon! You're right. The source also have this cut off and the same over at MinecraftXL. I think I've found the complete text, so I'll drop the creator of the json-file an e-mail and update this.

[engvik]

Right again, @jagtalon. Didn't find the missing descriptions as easy as the first one. I'll look furhter into it.

[jagtalon]

@larseng Thanks!

[engvik]

Tried contacting MinecraftXL, but haven't heard from them yet, @jagtalon. Or from the author of the JSON-file either. Finding a suitable description wouldn't be hard, but the source would differ from the file we use (well, it already does because of the Firework Rocket update).

[abeyang]

Hi, can we update the design to match this:

Is it also possible to link the ingredients to do another ingredient lookup?

[mintsoft]

Thanks @abeyang how does that look @larseng ?

[engvik]

@abeyang Sure 😄 I'll look into the recipe linking and see what I can do.

Still havent't heard from any of the sources, so I'll just update them myself.

[abeyang]

@larseng awesome! Let me or @jagtalon know if you need any assistance!

[MrChrisW]

Happy New Year @larseng Any update on this? 😄

[engvik]

Hi and happy new year! Sorry, been busy during the holidays, but I'll get to it this weekend. Actually got an reply from MinecraftXL as well, but still no updates.

[MrChrisW]

@larseng No problem! Great to hear you received a reply from MinecraftXL. I'm really looking forward to seeing this Goodie live 😄

[engvik]

Still no updates on their website, so I updated the broken descriptions with descriptions from somewhere else.

How does it look @abeyang @mintsoft @MrChrisW @jagtalon ?

[jagtalon]

@larseng Thanks! Putting it up on a server for final review!

[jagtalon]

@larseng It looks really good. Just one more thing--the image is too close to the text. Is it possible to add a little spacing?

Thank you!

[engvik]

@jagtalon Done 😄 I also aligned the image with the recipe text as in @abeyang's image.

[jagtalon]

👍

[engvik]

Nice 😄

[abeyang]

@larseng it's looking better! However, can we make the following changes so it'll more look like this:

Changes:

• align image to the right rail, so that it matches with the SERP content
• align image to the top, so it matches to the title text
• move Ingredients into the subtitle (right below title)
• mockup's gutter is too wide -- we'll need to tighten that

Finally, we should be using the standard template classes, like the title should be zci__header and the description should be zci__content. Maybe @jagtalon can help you with that?

Thanks! Almost there!

[jagtalon]

@larseng I can make a PR for these changes and get it out as soon as I can!

[engvik]

@jagtalon Thanks, that would be great as I can't get to this until sunday at earliest.

[moollaza]

Hey guys, I'm moving the design updates to an issue. Hopefully someone from the community can tackle this!

[moollaza]

@larseng congrats! It's live: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=how+do+i+craft+a+cake+in+minecraft&ia=minecraft

Thanks again for taking the time to contribute! We really appreciate it. Feel free to stick around and comment/help on other PR's & Issues or even submit more Instant Answers!

[moollaza]

Apologies for the long delay, we used this IA as a candidate for the new Goodie templates. It was the first live Goodie to use the new templates!