VERSION 2.1.0 MODULAR REBUILD  •  TBC CLASSIC  •  GUILD SYNCHRONIZATION

Shared crafters  •  Recipe finder  •  Required reagents  •  Live bag counts  •  Guild visual editions

Turn the Guild Roster into a Living Workshop

MaxGuildCraftingNetwork transforms the profession knowledge of individual characters into a practical crafting resource for the whole guild. Instead of repeatedly asking in guild chat who can craft an item, enchantment, potion, piece of equipment or profession component, members can search a shared in-game database and immediately identify the right artisan.

Every participating character contributes a profile containing their name, realm, guild, class, level, professions, profession skill values, scanned recipes and last update. Main characters and alternate characters become part of the same network, allowing useful crafts and rare recipes to remain visible even when the owner is playing another character.

Required Materials and Live Bag Check

The recipe tooltip no longer shows only the name of the craft. When material data is available, it displays every required reagent, its item name and the exact comparison between what the viewing character owns and what the recipe needs.

Sufficient quantities are shown in green; missing quantities are shown in red. The tooltip also reports whether all required materials are ready or how many total reagent units are still missing.

Important: this is a live check of the current character’s bags only. Bank storage, mail, guild bank and items owned by other characters are intentionally not included. If bag contents change while the tooltip is being viewed, the comparison is refreshed from the character’s current inventory.

Search One Crafter or the Entire Guild

The left side of the interface contains the stored guild profiles, character search and profile selection. The search can match character names, realms, guild names, classes, professions and known recipe names.

Selecting a character opens that player’s detailed crafting collection. This is useful when you already know the artisan and want to inspect their profession coverage or recipes.

All Crafters searches every stored profile at the same time. Enter a complete or partial recipe name and the addon displays every matching craft together with its profession and owner. This makes it easy to locate rare recipes, enchants, raid consumables, bags, resistance equipment, weapons, armor, profession components and leveling items without checking characters one by one.

Profession and Recipe Scanning

The addon detects the character’s professions and current skill values. It can scan both standard TradeSkill windows and the classic Craft interface used by supported spell-based crafts and enchants.

Because the TBC client exposes only the profession window currently open, each profession must be scanned separately:

Repeat this procedure after learning important new recipes. Previously scanned profession data is preserved between sessions through SavedVariables.

Guild Synchronization without External Services

MaxGuildCraftingNetwork uses World of Warcraft’s internal addon communication system. No website, external account, cloud database or companion application is required.

Only players with the addon installed can send, receive and interpret the synchronized information. Offline members cannot answer a live request, but previously received profiles remain stored locally until updated.

Version 2.x applies incoming recipe transfers only after they are complete, reducing partial lists during synchronization. It also protects the current character’s local profile from being replaced by an older synchronized copy.

Built for Real Guild Activity

MaxGuildCraftingNetwork is useful for social, leveling, raiding, PvP and progression guilds. Officers can review profession coverage. Raiders can find the characters capable of preparing consumables, enchants and resistance gear. New members can locate the right crafter without already knowing every main and alternate character. Recipe collectors can make valuable rare crafts visible to the whole community.

The addon does not automate crafting, transfer materials or create orders on behalf of the player. Its purpose is to provide accurate information so members can contact the correct artisan and organize the craft directly.

Clear Interface and In-Game Procedure

The two-panel interface keeps the guild roster and recipe collection visible at the same time. Recipe and profession filters help manage large databases, while contextual instructions explain what to do when no profile is selected, no recipes are stored or a search returns no result.

A dedicated Procedure tab explains scanning, synchronization, All Crafters search and material checking directly inside the game, so guild members do not need to leave World of Warcraft or read an external manual before contributing their data.

Minimap Controls

The addon includes a movable minimap button using the Osteria Arcana emblem. Left-click opens or closes the main interface. Right-click performs a quick Update & Share. Drag moves the icon around the minimap. Its position and visibility are saved between sessions, and the button can be hidden or restored through the addon controls.

Osteria Arcana Edition and Guild Variants

The current package is the Osteria Arcana Guild Edition. It uses a black and antique-gold fantasy theme, a custom guild emblem, themed headings, an internal watermark and matching artwork for the minimap button and AddOn-list icon.

The interface automatically displays the active character’s real guild name. Osteria Arcana remains the fallback visual identity when no guild name is available.

Version 2.1.0 separates interface, media, database and synchronization code into independent modules. This allows additional visual guild variants to use their own emblem, colors and identity while preserving the same crafting database, recipe search, reagent tracking and synchronization functions. Visual variants are themed editions of the same guild-focused addon rather than separate or incompatible systems.

A Genuine Modular Rebuild

Version 2.1.0 is not a cosmetic update to the old single-file addon. The former Lua monolith has been removed and the project has been rebuilt with dedicated modules for core utilities, events, commands, SavedVariables, profession discovery, recipe normalization, scanning, serialization, guild synchronization, profile lists, recipe lists, tooltips, the main window, minimap controls and media assets.

This structure makes future improvements and guild-specific editions safer to maintain without rewriting unrelated systems. The existing MaxGuildCraftingNetworkTBCDB database is preserved, and protocol compatibility with version 2.0.0 clients remains available.

Slash Commands

/mgcn — Open or close the main interface.
/mgcn show — Open or close the main interface.
/mgcn update — Update and share the current character profile.
/mgcn scan — Scan the currently open profession or craft window.
/mgcn recipes — Scan the currently open profession or craft window.
/mgcn share — Share the locally stored database.
/mgcn request — Request updated data from online guild users.
/mgcn minimap — Show or hide the minimap button.
/maxcraft and /mgcraft — Alternative command aliases.

Compatibility, Privacy and Scope

Designed for The Burning Crusade Classic 2.5.5 / 2.5.6 using Interface 20505 and Lua 5.1-compatible code.

All collected information comes from normal in-game character and profession data. It is stored locally and exchanged only through World of Warcraft’s internal guild addon channel. No external server, registration, analytics service or personal-data upload is used.