[Tool] Grim Dawn Item Assistant

[slipperypete]

you could work around it and only loot an item if you do not already have the same item with the same seed stored

I did, hence all the recent posts of IA not looting their items anymore

[Jackdaw]

Thanks slipperypete. Just installed it and all is well… ah spring cleaning. And to everyone else, yeah you were right!

[Purple]

Grim Dawn Assistant stopped working for me. It just wont launch. I tried running as administrator and still nothing. I don’t even see it in my processes.

I even uninstalled, downloaded it again and reinstalled and still wont launch. I get a loading circle for a second then nothing…

[Jackdaw]

Just a heads up, since 1.0.5.0 the data base is running a full parse on each startup. Thanks.

[cbeeler]

Since the latest patch the items do not display the updated stats in GDIA. I notice in settings under grim dawn database it shows the latest grim dawn database updated as 05/01/18 (Jan 1 18) and it is in red. Do I need to update this somehow?

edit: Duh its the next tab database/mods sorry. Love this tool btw it is awesome thank you!

[Ryksa]

I love this tool, but a lot of items have incorrect stat numbers on them, and not due to 1.0.5.0.

My screenshot: https://imgur.com/wJNDNcm

[aamatniekss]

Hey!
So i’ve got a couple questions about the Item assistant. I’ve been using mules for a while now, have about 10 of them, with different category loot in each. But it’s becoming annoying to go through all these. So I kind of want to take the plunge to an external stash mod finally.
However I am worried about losing my items, since I play on 2 computers and steam cloud works perfectly for that.
How would I do it with IA if I have to disable steam cloud? Do I get some stash file I can copy+paste between pcs?
Also what happens when the game updates? Can I access the items somehow or I have to wait until the mod is updated?

[slipperypete]

Hey!
So i’ve got a couple questions about the Item assistant. I’ve been using mules for a while now, have about 10 of them, with different category loot in each. But it’s becoming annoying to go through all these. So I kind of want to take the plunge to an external stash mod finally.
However I am worried about losing my items, since I play on 2 computers and steam cloud works perfectly for that.
How would I do it with IA if I have to disable steam cloud? Do I get some stash file I can copy+paste between pcs?
Also what happens when the game updates? Can I access the items somehow or I have to wait until the mod is updated?

Game update should generally not affect IA.
Worst case scenario, you can just export the items to a stash file, or GD Stash.

[aamatniekss]

Game update should generally not affect IA.
Worst case scenario, you can just export the items to a stash file, or GD Stash.

Oh ok thanks. Well I took the plunge and started using it, we’ll see how it goes

[Pajuta]

Hi!

I’m new to this mod and transfering items back and forth between stash and the mod works fine but I’m wondering if vanilla mode is the only available at the upper right corner where there are 3 scrolldown boxes for chosing rarity, item sort and mode?

In the Database/Mods section it says Vanilla & Expansion which is what I own.

[slipperypete]

Hi!

I’m new to this mod and transfering items back and forth between stash and the mod works fine but I’m wondering if vanilla mode is the only available at the upper right corner where there are 3 scrolldown boxes for chosing rarity, item sort and mode?

In the Database/Mods section it says Vanilla & Expansion which is what I own.

Vanilla and Vanilla HC are the most common ones.
But if you start playing with mods, they’ll start showing up there as well.

[Unda]

Dev Report - Grim Dawn Item Assistant

Conversation
I contacted Marius without any backthoughts regarding his tool since its always nice to have people with similiar intrest and programming knowledge in your contacts and you might even meet great people too, ofcourse i cant proof good intentions (how could i). When i contacted him i offered the website template that i created some years ago for all kinds of tools and programm i create. (Visible here : http://gdsm.420weedwizard.bplaced.net/) The template consists of free non commercial parts of html/css/js plugins and frameworks. Biggest part of it is ofcourse Bootstrap, html/css framework. I offered to send him all the original files for usage for his own distribution website of his tool (item assistant). Since he also uses the same VB2010 visual plugins as my tool GDSM i thought he might be intrested.

I have the complete chatlog that can be publishd if necessary.
As i already stated when i contacted him i didnt have anything bad in mind or had a bad impression of his tool.
I then corresponded with a friend of mine and developer. He is known in this community aswell and can decide for himself if he wants to be a part of this.
When i realised that it might be a good idear to get these 2 people together so they are in contact too in case one of them has questions about each other projects or just in general to increase the knowledge and connectivity in the dev community of GD. He then proceeded to tell me that he, i quote : “Would rahter burn in hell than have something like his tool published on my website or even use it.”. I was surprised since i did ofcourse not read through the whole thread that has 28 pages right now. He then told me about the fact that the programm logs and sends certain computer informations to a web interface. I thought i should check that out and ensure that there is indeed nothing shady going on - more about this in the Technical aspects.

Technical - Logged Informations
(Code comments added by myself)

Error Report Functions

Function used for identifing users.

The final string gets hashed and then halfed to be sended as a user id to be able to differanciate between logs recieved. The Information that gets hashed here is the UUID ( more here ) and the Machine Name.

Hash Function

Usage Report Functions

This function sends the information gathered in a declared interval (every few minutes/seconds) to the following .php file : “http://ribbs.dreamcrash.org/iagd/stats.php” (More about the final conclusion below)

A function that allows the deactivation of sending reports.
(Reasonable for development, no reason to not include it for everyone as a toggle feature.)
And yes those are his UUIDs.

Conclusion - Logged Informations
The following information get gathered to be concluded to a unique end user id. Computer Name + Windows UUID hashed and halfed. Operation System, Operation System Version, Tool Version Information. In addition since these informations can be logged by a .php website file : IP Adress + All Informations regarding it (Internet Provider, Country,…).All this results in a system that allows tracking of peoples habits in terms of when they use the tool and partially even how they use it (crash reports). It is arguable that these informations are not important. In my personal opinion and also from a developer view there is NO excuse to gathering these informations in the first place except anonym error reports. The programm also contains a Automatic Update part what allows the developer of this tool to publish updates to the public and all of its users. These updates are having a huge potential in terms of virus infections that get implemtented by the developer himself. To remind you : He logs every programm start and how long its running. This results in the fact that he is able to monitor the amount of users his tool has right now. Alot of programms do include a option to auto update its own, your choice if you trust someone that already saves alot of usage information without even telling you - he only admitted to saving informations upon people calling him out about it. The fact that it does contain a auto update function is a additional risk if using a programm from someone with those amounts of ambitions towards user information. The auto update function is switchable between : stable and beta versions but not able to be turned off. This means he even knows what users use what kind of version of his tool. Ofcourse his intentions are as unsure and unproofable as mine. In addition to this gathering of informations without a clear disclaimer being illegal in all states of america and also in the majority of europe including russia,germany,denmark, sweden, finland - his website is hosed in finland so i guess he is finnish.

All i request is a disclaimer above the download telling people about the information that gets gathered and maybe even a way to turn that off.
In the mean time due to his personal refuse to comply i have written this text to explain everything related.
I think this is reasonable and anyone that thinks i am wrong can happily continue to use his programm with all of its bad sides and ofcourse all good sides. Eventhough with all this spy stuff going on i cant recommend this tool at all. I would like to see changes in the future and would go as far to say if youre still using GDSM (my tool) switch to this one since this is far superior in comparision when these issues have been resolved.

I would also like to say :

The informations that get gathered ARE NOT ANONYM by definition. They are backtraceable with Hardware ID and IP Adress.

Want to turn his bullshit off ? Check here.

Thank you Max.

Didnt saw that “feature” on Kirmizi Perfect or thread front page and site, is this still a thing?

[AntiGrav1ty]

Been using the assistant for a while now. Recently disabled Ashes of malmouth expansion to play with some friends. Now, whenever I transfer items from the assistant to my stash it says succesfully transferred but nothing appears in my stash. It also doesn’t register items that I put into the stash. They just stay there. Is the assistant just not backwards compatible?

[mamba]

Been using the assistant for a while now. Recently disabled Ashes of malmouth expansion to play with some friends. Now, whenever I transfer items from the assistant to my stash it says succesfully transferred but nothing appears in my stash. It also doesn’t register items that I put into the stash. They just stay there. Is the assistant just not backwards compatible?

I assume (never tried this) that in your scenario the transfer.bst file is used, not .gst. That would probably explain this behavior.

Try verifying that by e.g moving transfer.gst to some other dir and checking if the stash in game still contains your items (it should if this were true)

[AntiGrav1ty]

I removed reansfer.gst from my save folder and stash was gone, tabs had to be repurchased. Still couldn’t transfer items from GDIA. Don’t know what that is supposed to tell me though. Copied transfer.gst back and items and stash are back now but the problem is still remains. It keeps saying succesfully transferred and it gets removed from GDIA but nothing shows in stash.

[slipperypete]

Thank you Max.

Didnt saw that “feature” on Kirmizi Perfect or thread front page and site, is this still a thing?

It never was.

IA once upon used a irreversible hash of the motherboard ID to uniquely identify users.
(Non-reversible, and lets suppose in some imaginary “max universe” it was, it is still impossible to find out who owns motherboard 12328910381290)

These days IA generates its own random string when you first run IA to uniquely identify you as a user.
If you check the IA log file you can find a link (first ~4 lines) which shows exactly which information is gathered.
IA has never, not ever, collected personally identifiable information about its users. (even stacktraces runs filters to parse out usernames)

“Max” is just some emo child who got riled up.

[Stark3]

Hello. I actually registered in the forums to be able to post this…

Anyway, I encountered an issue with Item Assistant, and badly need some help. Here’s what I encountered: I had IA transfer back to stash my Mythical Silver Sentinel chest piece, and it gave confirmation that it worked OK. After that operation tho, my Mythical Silver Sentinel head gear was no longer showing in IA. I checked, and it was not part of what was transferred to stash.

What I did next was to extract the last daily backup generated by IA, and import from the IAS file in there. The problem now tho is that IA no longer shows ANY of my items… actually, now I have problems having IA to even start up!

Please help… Was there anything in the steps I did there wrong? Can I assume that everything can be safely regenerated from the backups?

[F1sch]

Hello everyone. I was wondering is there is a way to delete duplicates from GDIA? I was trying to import my GDStash and I messed up somewhere along the line and now I have duplicates of all my items.

[slipperypete]

Hello everyone. I was wondering is there is a way to delete duplicates from GDIA? I was trying to import my GDStash and I messed up somewhere along the line and now I have duplicates of all my items.

If you don’t use IA to store potions and components, this should be easy.

1. Download http://sqlitebrowser.org/
2. Run it
3. Open database
4. Paste/type %appdata%…\local\evilsoft\iagd\data\userdata.db
5. Click “open”
6. Execute SQL
7. UPDATE PlayerItem SET StackCount = 1;
8. Hit Play (or F5)
9. File -> Write Changes

That most likely fixes the issue, as IA most likely stacked your duplicates.
(Only “true” duplicates in game are potions, components, etc…)

[F1sch]

If you don’t use IA to store potions and components, this should be easy.

1. Download http://sqlitebrowser.org/
2. Run it
3. Open database
4. Paste/type %appdata%…\local\evilsoft\iagd\data\userdata.db
5. Click “open”
6. Execute SQL
7. UPDATE PlayerItem SET StackCount = 1;
8. Hit Play (or F5)
9. File -> Write Changes

That most likely fixes the issue, as IA most likely stacked your duplicates.
(Only “true” duplicates in game are potions, components, etc…)

This worked right away! I still have a small amount of duplicates but it has been massively reduced to a point that it doesn’t bother me at all. Thank you very much for the quick solution and the wonderful GDIA.