malurth / auto-2-day-hccs

KoLmafia script to automate 2-day Hardcore Community Service

Automatic 2-day HCCS

What this?

This is a KoLmafia script to automatically complete the Community Service challenge path in Hardcore within two days. Or attempt to, anyway. It largely follows yojimbos_law's 2-day HCCS guide, located here: http://forums.kingdomofloathing.com/vb/showpost.php?p=4769933&postcount=345

I'd reccomend giving it a once-over since it details how to best prepare yourself overall, and describes how the run goes.

How use?

Install it by running this command in KoLmafia's graphical CLI:

svn checkout https://github.com/Malurth/Auto-2-day-HCCS/branches/Release/

Then, given you have met the prerequisites, run it (AutoHCCS.ash) from the scripts menu right after you've ascended into HCCS, and again as the first thing you do on the next day. Also, cross your fingers.

What prerequisites?

This script is quite targeted; if you don't have the right stuff/class it will immediately abort, and it will probably fail to hit 2-day if you don't have a bunch of other stuff anyway. That being said, the most basic prerequisites are:

• Ascend as a Sauceror
• Ascend with the Wallaby moon sign (well any Knoll-unlocking sign will do, but pick that one)
• Have the skills Summon Smithsness, Ode To Booze and Advanced Saucecrafting available
• Have Chateau Mantegna access, Clan V.I.P. lounge access (with speakeasy/hotdogs), and the Deck of Every Card.

It also expects that you, before ascending:

• Have your chateau prepared with a ceiling fan, foreign language tapes, a continental juice bar, and a painting of a dairy goat or sk8r gnome
• Chose astral pilsners for your consumables

If that's all you have it almost certainly will fail to hit 2-day, but that's the basic stuff needed to run it. To greatly increase your chances of completing 2-day, I highly recommend also having the Winter Garden, DNA lab, and every airplane charter other than Spring Break Beach. Some IotMs such as the Fist Turkey, Crimbo Shrub, Galloping Grill, GameInform correspondence, and a standard-compliant spleen familiar will help as well, but much less significantly. Others, like Puck-man and the Mayo clinic, while potentially helpful, are currently entirely unsupported in the script.

Anything else I should know?

Yes: run at your own risk. The script pretty stable now, and has been netting me as well as others consistent 2-dayers now, but it is still liable to bug out/malfunction or just fail to hit 2-day (for instance, by getting beaten up by the dairy goat if you don't have a few handy skills for combat). By running this script, you are accepting that risk yourself.

Speaking of getting beaten up, I suppose I should clarify combat stuff; you'll find yourself getting beaten up a lot if you don't have the right skills to keep you alive. The main combat skills are Saucegeyser/Curse of Weaksauce/Itchy Curse Finger, and if you want to survive you'll definitely want Reptilian Fortitude, Cannelloni Cocoon, +initiative% buffs (Springy Fusilli, Overdeveloped Sense of Self-Preservation, and a few others to be safe), and probably Tao of the Terrapin. Also, if you have the 70s Volcano or Dinsey, you'll want Astral Shell and Elemental Saucesphere (which save turns on the hot test anyway, so yeah). Thick-Skinned/Slimy Shoulders/Slimy Sinews also help a lot, but they're hard to get. Song of Sauce helps a lot for the surviving 70s Volcano's caldera too, since it allows Saucegeyser to do its usual damage and one-shot the monsters (they're hot-aligned so it otherwise does half damage), preventing a round of damage from the monster and the lava, but that skill is also kind of a pain to get. Finally, also tack on whatever +HP% passives you can, since they both help you survive and help a lot for the HP test.

Alternatives

If you'd like to automate a softcore run instead, you now can thanks to the efforts of RESPRiT. If you'd like to use that, toggle that functionality on from the new relay browser settings menu RESPRiT added, and list what items you'd like to pull for what tests. The menu includes a recommended pull list, so you don't have to stress about that.

auto-2-day-hccs's Issues

Hangs on visiting the Shore

I've tried twice now, and both times the script attempted to vacation at the shore when I had fewer than 3 adventures remaining. When this happens, the script endlessly hits the shore choice.

No detection of existing buffs or buff items when trying to recover from a fault

I attempted to run the script today and ran into an unrelated bug with the maximizer (trying to free pull actual reality goggles to max spell damage when they're too old for the path), but when I tried to run it again, it crafted an additional 3 cordials of concentration as opposed to using one of the other two I had from the first time, and buffed me again despite still having the buff from the first time.

Hangs on revisit to the Meatsmith

For some reason the script tried to revisit the meatsmith, and hung because it didn't know how to exit except by accepting the quest. I added the line:

visit_url("choice.php?pwd&whichchoice=1059&option=3&choiceform1=Not+yet.+I%27ll+keep+looking."

and it got past that point. I'd try to set up a merge request or whatever it's called, but I don't know what I'm doing, and don't want to mess it up.

Use a stun on government scientist before olfacting

Hi,

The script is working pretty well now, but every run, when olfacting the government scientist to get the g-9 serum, I get beaten up. Easy enough to recover from, but maybe try to stun the scientist (love gnats or something else) before olfacting to keep the train rolling?

No detection of which services have been performed

Having failed to complete day 1 by rollover, when I ran the script again later that evening, it started buffing and feeding for day 2's plan despite none of day 1's services being completed.

powerlevel() in Video Game level 1 will clear it before 15 turns are up.

Just ran into this (though not sure why my charters were not recognized), but yeah. It will clear the area before the 15 turns are up and stop the script.

change_mcd(11); fails

This fails with The dial only goes from 0 to 10.

in powerlevel(), shouldn't Galloping Grill be checked for and used before Hovering Sombrero?

Is there a reason to not use the Grill over the Sombrero if you have one?

lack of xi

If you don't have the xiblaxian stuff, the script fails on day 2 when you try to do this line:

cli_execute("eudora xi"); // switch back to Xi

When it failed there, I had to go in and comment out a bunch of stuff just to get it to finish the run. Luckily I still managed to get a 2-day run. :)