How to Use Albion Codex

Open it daily to see where the numbers moved.

1. Sign in with Discord or Google, or set a character as active locally.
2. Use the Change button in the Active Player bar (or the sidebar character cards) to flip between alts.
3. Click any card (PvP, Economy, top spec) to deep-link straight into that tool with your character pre-selected.

• The "+ Add Character" button works from any page in the site, not just here.
• If you sign in, characters and builds sync across browsers and devices automatically.

Set this up first. Crafting, IP Calculator, Build Workbench, and Heart Runs all read from these numbers.

1. Easiest path: install the Codex Client from /download (Windows, alpha), pair it at /account/link, and your full board imports automatically the next time you log in or change zones in-game. If you use it, you can skip the manual steps below.
2. Click "+ Add Character" if your character isn't already there. Pick the right server.
3. Pick a pillar: Combat, Crafting, Refining, Farming (Gathering is coming soon).
4. Open a mastery group inside that pillar (e.g. Crafting > Plate Armor > Knight Helmet).
5. Drag each spec slider to match exactly what your in-game Destiny Board shows. 100 for maxed.
6. Repeat only for the specs you care about, you do not need to fill the entire board.

• The pillar % at the top shows how much of that whole pillar you've maxed.
• Green = spec maxed. Yellow = in progress. Grey = untracked (treated as zero by calculators).

• The Codex Client keeps the board current for you - every login or zone change re-imports your latest masteries and specs, so manual sliders become a fallback, not a chore.
• Use the Max buttons next to combat sliders to instantly set to 100 (or 120 for combat specs that scale higher).
• Open multiple mastery groups in the same session, the spec sliders save as you go.

You know you want to craft but haven't picked a discipline.

1. Click the discipline that matches your spec.
2. All four calculators are one tool with a shared tab strip (Gear / Food / Potions / Refining / Black Market / Session Planner) - your conditions follow you between tabs.

You have crafting specs and want to know exactly what to make today.

1. The page opens in Simple mode: the condition "stamps" along the top (Server, Craft, Buy → Sell, Pricing) are directly editable - click any of them.
2. Set Tier and Enchant in Advanced mode ("Adjust conditions →"). Use "All" enchants to compare .0-.4 rows for each recipe side by side.
3. Leave "Auto-source cheapest mats" and "Auto bonus city (+return)" on unless you craft from a fixed stock - they price each row at its best case.
4. Sync your Destiny Board (or use the Manual entry sliders in the "Your Destiny Board" panel) so focus costs and margins use your real specs.
5. In Advanced, open "More +" for journals, Premium tax, station fee, and the Profitable only / Has prices / Show estimates filters.
6. Pick a Crafting Food in the Destiny Board panel for higher quality output.
7. Sort by S / Focus for focus efficiency or by Profit for absolute silver (click the column headers in Advanced).

• COST = ingredient cost + station fee + journal cost.
• SELL = the 7-day traded average in your sell city - or the cross-city average on Auto.
• 7D VOL = how many actually sold this week. Low volume = your listing will sit for days.
• PROFIT = SELL x (1 - tax) - COST x (1 - return rate).
• S/FOCUS = profit per focus point. Best metric if focus is your bottleneck.
• MARGIN = profit as a % of cost. Useful for comparing across tiers.

• Click a row (Advanced) to expand the full breakdown: materials, return rate applied, tax, journal profit, and quality chances.
• Click the item art on any row to open the economy modal - per-city buy/sell with best cities highlighted, plus a 14-day price chart.
• The Qty box + QUEUE button on each row sends that recipe to the Crafting Session Planner; the toast shows your running session total.
• The Black Market tab is its own tool: sell equipment straight into the Caerleon dealer’s buy orders, tax-free.

You have cooking spec and want to fund the rest of your focus day, or you're cooking for personal supply.

1. With "Auto bonus city" on, every meal is scored as cooked in Caerleon - the cooking bonus city.
2. Set tier and enchant. Use "All" enchants to expand each meal into 4 rows.
3. Sort by S / Focus to see what gives you the best return per focus point.
4. Click QUEUE on winners to send them to the Crafting Session Planner.

• Some meal types only make profit at certain tiers, sort by Profit and check which tiers stay positive.
• Sandwiches and Stews are usually the highest absolute profit; Salads and Soups are highest silver-per-focus.

You have Alchemy spec and a market window, usually during ZvZ prep or pre-content windows when demand spikes.

1. With "Auto bonus city" on, every potion is scored as brewed in Brecilien - the alchemy bonus city.
2. Pick a tier that matches your spec (don't bother with tiers above your spec, return rate craters).
3. Use the search box to narrow to a potion family ("heal", "gigantify").
4. Sort by Margin (best % return) or S / Focus (best focus efficiency).

• Click the item art on a row for the economy modal - per-city prices and the 14-day chart.
• Healing potions move fastest in the market; ZvZ-specific potions like Gigantify spike during content windows.

Daily focus rotation. Refining is usually the highest silver-per-focus play of the day if your spec is levelled.

1. Pick the Resource in Advanced conditions (Hide → Leather, Ore → Metal Bar, Wood → Planks, Fiber → Cloth, Rock → Stone Block).
2. Sync your Destiny Board (or set the manual sliders) so the focus costs use your real refining spec.
3. Set Buy city (raw materials) and Sell city (refined output) if you want to override the auto-picked bonus city.
4. The table shows tier-by-tier profitability - faction-warfare recipes (raw −1 + 1 biome heart) appear as their own rows when available.

• COST = raw + lower-tier refined ingredient cost.
• PROFIT = SELL - COST x (1 - return rate). Return rate compounds for higher tiers since you also recover lower-tier refined.
• Refining in its bonus city with focus returns over half your inputs (the +40% refining specialty beats crafting’s +15%), and a levelled spec slashes the focus cost - which is why refining beats almost everything for silver-per-focus.

You're heading to Caerleon anyway, or want instant-sell profit without waiting on sell orders.

1. Pick tier, enchant and quality - the dealer pays per quality.
2. Compare the Craft and Flip columns; the Play badge calls the better one.
3. Refresh before you ride - the dealer’s orders move with NPC demand.

You've picked your crafts in the calculators and are about to load up and head out.

1. Add items to the queue from any craft calculator (QUEUE button on each row), or use "+ Quick add" here.
2. Open the Shopping List tab to see exactly what materials to buy, grouped by city - quantities are recycle-safe (bring this much, craft in a few passes, collect the returns).
3. Open the Route tab to see the city pickup order (the planner optimises the route, with per-stop spend).
4. Open the Opportunities tab for trip-aware buying deals along your route (the Decision Maker).
5. Watch Weight in the summary bar - that's your real haul load.

• The "Share queue" button copies a link you can send to an alt or open on mobile.
• Clear all wipes the queue if you want to start fresh.
• Cash to Bring is your up-front outlay; Net Cost is what it truly costs after the materials you keep back; Est. Profit estimates what the queue sells for.

You need a price check before crafting, flipping, or listing an item, or you're tracking volatility.

1. Search by item name ("T6.2 cloth", "great axe") and narrow with the kind pills (Equipment / Refined / Raw / Food / Potion) and tier/enchant/city selectors.
2. Each row shows the sell and buy prices with a price-age stamp (amber when older than a day, red past three).
3. Click a row to open the item modal: per-city prices with the best cities highlighted, plus the price-history chart.
4. Switch to Trends mode for the 7-day gainers, losers, and volume leaders.

• Know your price sources: gold numbers are observed AODP prices; a teal "Codex" badge means a player running our Codex Client captured that price more recently than AODP has it (still a real observed price); a violet "Est." pill is a model estimate with a High/Medium/Low reliability tag - shown only when the "Show estimates" toggle is on.

• Star any row to pin it to your Watch List.
• Pick Black Market in the city selector to see BM buy orders for equipment - if a city sell-to-BM spread is high, that's a flip for the Black Market tool.

You're seeing weird crafting profits or empty rows and want to confirm whether it's bad data vs no demand. Also useful before you trust a calculation in a city you don't usually craft in.

1. Pick your Server: Americas (West), Europe, or Asia (East).
2. Pick a Score threshold: "Fresh (<12h)" for trustworthy data, "Any Data" to see total coverage.
3. Filter by Category (Gear / Materials / Food / Potions / Overall) and Tier to narrow in.
4. Read the per-city coverage percentages. Low coverage = sparse AODP data for that city, expect missing rows in calculators.

• Coverage % = how many of the items in that category/tier have AODP data fresh enough to pass your selected Score threshold.
• A city at 90%+ on Fresh = reliable for that category. Under 60% = treat profits as estimates.

You have silver to deploy, a transport mount, and time to haul.

1. Pick your Server: Americas (West), Europe, or Asia (East).
2. Set Market Tax to match your account: No Tax (none), 4% (Premium setup), 6.5% (Premium + sell order setup), 8% (normal listing).
3. Set a Min Profit threshold to filter noise (start at 1,000 silver/item).
4. Pick Item Category, or paste comma-separated IDs for a custom watchlist.
5. Sort by ROI for best percentage return or by Profit for biggest absolute wins.

• Buy City = where to source. Sell City = where to flip to.
• Profit is after tax, already discounted.
• ROI = return on capital, useful when comparing flips of different sizes.

You're setting up an island layout, deciding between farms vs pastures, or considering premium for farms.

1. Set your island tier (more tier = more plots).
2. Drop crops or animals into each plot.
3. Set RNG Buffer (most users leave at 10% for realistic estimates).
4. Toggle premium per worker to compare yields with and without it.
5. Review Worker Profitability to see net daily/weekly/monthly silver per worker.

• Inputs Required = what you need to plant (with RNG buffer applied).
• Expected Outputs = harvest yield in 7 days, including returned seeds.
• Premium gives crops 2x yield only (growth cycle stays 22h). Animals get halved growth cycle AND 2x yield, bigger gain for animals.

You're buying mats for a craft session or selling refined output and want the best city at a glance.

1. Pick the material type (Leather, Cloth, Metal Bar, Planks, Stone Block).
2. Pick a display mode: Sell / Buy Orders, one side only, or the Spread.
3. Green highlight = cheapest sell order (buy here). Blue = highest buy order (instant-sell here). The bonus city column is marked in gold.
4. Click a tier row for the 14-day price history panel.

You're moving between cities anyway and have spare cart weight.

1. Pick From and To cities, then your Max Weight (the Ox / Beetle / Mammoth buttons are presets).
2. Set Market Tax to your situation and pick a sell strategy: Place Sell Order or Instant Sell.
3. The Optimal Load box fills your weight greedily by silver-per-kg; the table below shows every candidate.

• Buy @ = what it costs in the source city. Dest Sell = the competing sell price. Dest Buy = what instant-sell pays.
• Silver/kg is the ranking metric - weight is the real constraint on a haul, not capital.

You're comparing two weapons (or two qualities of the same weapon) and want a true IP number to compare against.

1. Pick your Character from the dropdown. Only characters you've added to Destiny Board appear here.
2. Type the weapon name in Item Search (Main Hand weapons only, armor and off-hands aren't in this calculator).
3. Pick the exact Weapon from the filtered dropdown.
4. Pick Quality: Normal / Good / Outstanding / Excellent / Masterpiece. Higher quality = more IP.
5. Pick Content Type: Open World (standard ZvZ, ganking, faction warfare), Instanced (HCE, arena), or Corrupted (corrupted dungeon ruleset).
6. Click Calculate IP.

• The big number is your true Item Power including all bonuses.
• The breakdown shows where that number comes from: base item power (from tier + enchant + quality) + mastery bonus + specialization bonus.
• Compare two weapons by running the calc twice and noting both numbers. The higher IP usually outdamages in PvP, but check the damage breakdown in Build Workbench for nuance.

• If your character isn't in the dropdown, click the "Go to Destiny Board" link and add it there first.
• Run the same weapon at Outstanding vs Excellent quality to see exactly how much IP a quality tier buys you (usually 10-15 IP).
• A T8.0 Masterpiece often outpowers a T8.1 Outstanding, useful before you reroll.

Reviewing your own performance, scouting an enemy before content, or watching a guild member's progress.

1. Set your Active Player with the Change button in the dashboard bar - the Track Player dialog searches any name on any server.
2. Browse the tabs: Overview (stat cards + recent kills/deaths), Analytics (matchups and frequent opponents), Weapon Matrix (which weapons beat which).
3. Use the range pills (1H to 30D) and type filters to slice the feed.

• Cross-reference with Weapon Heatmap to see if you're using a meta weapon or fighting against one.
• The kill feed shows the killer's gear loadout, useful for build inspiration.

You want a low-risk silver activity that doesn't need any spec or capital beyond a transport mount.

1. Pick mount type at the top (or "No mount" for foot routes). Mount weight determines max package size.
2. Pick package size: Small / Medium / Large.
3. Filter by risk tolerance: Low / Med / High (high routes pass through Caerleon).
4. Sort by Profit (per run), Silver/hr (focus-time efficiency), or Safety (avoid PvP).
5. Pick the highlighted "BEST ROUTE" recommendation, or pick manually from the top routes list.

• PROFIT is per run, after sell taxes.
• SILVER/HR factors in travel + load time across many runs.
• Risk: Low = no portal/red zone crossings. Med = Lymhurst-Fort Sterling axis (low gank chance). High = anything via Caerleon or red zones.

You're picking a build and want to know what's actually winning fights right now, not what was meta last patch.

1. Pick a Region (Americas, Europe, Asia) and a Window (last 1,000 / 5,000 / 10,000 fights).
2. Read the Weapon Rankings (Top 25/50/100) for winrate and fight counts, and the Rising / Falling trends for momentum.
3. Toggle the matchup heatmap on to see weapon-vs-weapon winrates; switch between Winrate and Delta views.

You want a known-good build instead of theorycrafting from scratch.

1. Filter by weapon type and the category chips, or search by name.
2. Sort by Newest, Highest/Lowest IP, or Name.
3. Open a build (View) to see slot details, abilities, and damage profile.
4. Click Import to copy it into My Builds so you can tweak it in the Workbench.

You're theorycrafting a new build or tuning a known one before taking it into content.

1. Slot weapon, off-hand, helm, armor, boots, cape, mount, food, potion.
2. Each slot pulls real IP using your Destiny Board specs.
3. Open the Damage Lab tab to see burst, sustained, and combo output for your abilities.
4. Save the build with a name. Use the share icon for a public link.

• The Damage Lab shows damage against a virtual target with adjustable resistances, useful for plate vs cloth comparisons.
• Spell rotation order matters for burst calculations. Drag spells to reorder.

Managing what you've already saved or imported.

1. Browse the list.
2. Click "Edit in Workbench" to open a build for changes.
3. Use Make Public + Copy Link for a shareable link (anyone with the link can view).
4. Delete removes a build you no longer use.

You want depth on a topic instead of a calculator.

1. Browse the index.
2. Click any guide that matches what you're working on.
3. Most guides link out to the relevant calculator at the bottom.

You're wondering whether a feature exists yet, or about to request one.

1. Scan the Live section first, if it's there, it's available now.
2. Check In Progress and Next Up for incoming work.
3. Have an idea? Drop it in the Discord linked on the homepage.