User:Towelcat

Trowelcat
Languages spoken
Country of origin	United States
Started RuneScape	October 2005
Joined the wiki	December 2016
Favourite Activity	mentioning wiki errors on the discord and not actually fixing them

<insert name here> is an animal!

i'm cat (towelcat on here and on reddit)
my bot can be found here
glad you guys moved off that accursed website

VE HATER TIL THE DAY I DIE

File: is the enemy. Plinkt is my best friend.

"what was 2020 spineweilder thinking"

riblet does nothing but complain

Shop prices[edit | edit source]

let's ride

The formula for the buy/sell values of an item is ${\frac {{\text{item value}}*({\text{∆stock}}*A+B)}{1000}}$

Where $A$ is always the same for a store, but $B$ changes based on whether you're buying or selling. Each store has its own $A$ and $B$ values, and there are some cases where diary/favor/quest status can change the $B$ value.

When selling, the price is bound between 10% item value (this can be 0) and ${\frac {{\text{item value}}*(1000+B)}{1000}}$

When buying, the price is normally bound between ${\frac {{\text{item value}}*(B-1000)}{1000}}$ and ${\frac {{\text{item value}}*(5000+B)}{1000}}$ . Prices below 10% item value are set to 10% item value, and prices below 1 are set to 1.

tables used on this page[edit | edit source]

User:Towelcat/Ensouled head table
User:Towelcat/Smithing table

projects[edit | edit source]

Free-to-play money making guides
Collection of various skilling tables I've made/reworked
Pages with ugly tables:
--- Farming patches
--- Special attacks
RocksLine table showcase
Shop names
CostLine table showcase
testing plink template variant for tables (should just make a standalone variant template instead)
SmithingTable showcase
Infotable Bonuses table rework
Currency template showcase
the april fools (accounts created as a result of the 2020 april fools joke)

sandboxes[edit | edit source]

User:Towelcat/scrap paper
--- User:Towelcat/scrap paper/shreds
User:Towelcat/Sandbox1 testing header transclusion (source)
User:Towelcat/Sandbox2 testing header transclusion (destination)
User:Towelcat/Sandbox3 storeline test
User:Towelcat/Sandbox/Recipe template
User:Towelcat/Sandbox/Mmgtable template
User:Towelcat/Sandbox/Infobox Monster template

templates[edit | edit source]

modules[edit | edit source]

Module:Sandbox/User:Towelcat/StoreTableHead
Module:Sandbox/User:Towelcat/StoreLine
Module:Sandbox/User:Towelcat/Currency
Module:Sandbox/User:Towelcat/200mxp
--- Module:Sandbox/User:Towelcat/200mxp/data
Module:Sandbox/User:Towelcat/Recipe
Module:Sandbox/User:Towelcat/Mmgtable
Module:Sandbox/User:Towelcat/Infobox Monster

strings to search for cleanup[edit | edit source]

remember to ignore casing

pretty much always bad
  \{\{Coins\|\{\{(format|#expr)
  \{\{Coins\|Amount
  \{\{Skill clickpic\|(2|Skill)
  \n +#expr
  \d\d? \{\{skill clickpic\|\w+\}\}
  \t
niche valid uses
  formatnum
  GEPrice
  formatexpr
found in tables that should probably be converted to the CostLine template
  Exchange price
  GE Price
  Sell Price
  [[GE]] Price
  Total Cost
other table junk, look for excessive use
  \[\[File:
  align=
  style="text-align
check these every now and then to see if people are doing silly shit
  #vardefine:
neutral "they" (and related variants) should be used instead
  (?<!\[)\b(((?:he|him|his)(?:self)?)( *(?:\/|or|and) *)((?:she|hers?))|(?4)(?3)(?2))\b
remnant class from ye olde wiki that we no longer have
  article-table
visedit is a bastard (there's probably more relevant html stuff but these ones show up quite a bit when VE goes nuts)
  href=|<td>|<li>|<p>|<ul>
  \n\|-[a-zA-Z0-9{[]
links with pluralized overrides are bad
  \[\[(.*?)\|\1(e?s?|\'s|ing)\]\]
bad table stuff (remnants from old text editors i think)
  border="1"|cellpadding="1"|cellspacing="1"
  scope="col"|colspan="1"|rowspan="1"

some awb regexes[edit | edit source]

find	replace	regex	case-sens	comment
\t	N/A	Yes	No	cleanup tab characters
(?<!=) +\n	\n	Yes	No	spaces before newlines except for after an equals sign
\n\\|- +\n	\n\|-\n	Yes	No	unnecessary spaces after new table row declaration
==( +([^=]?))?(([^=]?) +)?==	==$2$4==	Yes	No	remove unnecessary spaces from headers can be simplified with `== ([^=]?) *==` but gives false positives on the ones that are already fine
{{coins	{{Coins	No	No	capitalize the coins template because lowercase coins bothers me lol
‎	N/A	No	No	remove unicode left-to-right mark (check page source for this one lol)
	N/A	No	No	`U+00A0 : NO-BREAK SPACE [NBSP]`. should either be converted to regular spaces or ` `
\{\{GEP\\|([a-z])	{{GEP\|{{subst:uc:$1}}	Yes	Yes	uppercase first char in GEP item name (if lowercase)
(?<!\n)(?<! ) {2,}	<single space>	Yes	No	replace 2+ spaces with 1 unless after newline (not always ideal)
\{\{GEP\\|([^\|}]*?)(\}\|\\|)	{{GEP\|{{subst:ucfirst:{{subst:lc:$1}}}}$2	Yes	No	proper capitalization of items in GEP template Warning: subst doesn't work inside of tabbers (and possibly elsewhere) note: this would be much easier if awb's regex supported \L\E and \U\E

good example of include tag usage[edit | edit source]

courtesy of our boy jake

<onlyinclude>
    Hello I want to show up on all pages.
    <includeonly>
        I only want to show up on the child pages that are transcluding the parent page.
    </includeonly>
    <noinclude>
        I only want to show up on the main page and not the children pages.
    </noinclude>
</onlyinclude>
I will only show up on the parent page.

weird subst thing for use in the GEP template[edit | edit source]

{{subst:ucfirst:{{subst:lc:mind RUNE}}}}

Mind rune