I'd nominate Blue Fuse (or Blue Fuze). The basic function is useful in all phases of the game, maybe right up to the very end. It's also a classic Foldit story, where Foldit players figured something out on their own, and it turned out to be a close match for the Fast Relax algorithm the scientists were developing.
Blue Fuse is also simple, and the basic idea is covered in the "Control Over Clashing" intro.
Simple means small, so you might even get most of it on one screen.
Recipes like DRemixW/EDRW, Fracture, and GAB are great, but tend to be on the large and complicated side. There are also lots of branches on those trees, so picking the best one will not be easy.
It's long past time to replace the four GUI recipes in the default cookbook. The "By Strides" option still isn't working, so examples 2 through 4 won't run correctly. (Not a good start.)
While we're at it, I'd suggest starting the recipe editor with a blank Lua (V2) recipe.
I'm not sure that turning a recipe into an action is necessary. Just clicking on something in the cookbook is easy enough. Being able to customize the cookbook is a big plus in my mind. For example, you want to fuse, you can select the fuse recipe of your choice, even your own custom version. Having a "Fuse" action, even with a keyboard shortcut, doesn't seem that much easier, and it also takes away the flexibility.
Next step, I'm going hunting for a Blue Fuse….
I slightly vandalized the original, so we now have Blue Fuse 2020.
It's actually almost exactly the same as the 2010 version, except for a few print statements and a switch to the V2 Lua interface. I actually dropped the superfluous "select_all".
At least on my laptop, the recipe mostly fits in the recipe editor window, missing just a few comments at the end. The print statements should just fill one recipe output window.
Susume's comment from a 2017 discussion
I think that the best recipes are generally the latest ones because they are adapted to the latest developments of the game AND they build on a lot of primary good ideas.
But if you want to keep it simple, I would list the most used functions within recipes in general (then it's possible to track the original idea ever):
-Blue Fuze (used in almost all modern meta recipes)
-DRW (deep rebuild worst): strategy used in most modern DRW recipes
-GAB (generic band algorythm): used in most modern GAB recipes
-Quaking rebuild: it's a combination of DR and GAB
-many modern recipes combine DRW and GAB: Fracture, constructor, ebola …
-Total LWS: the base of many LWS recipes (multiwalk, JET, last parts of fracture and constructor)
-SaveBest() is a very powerfull function in modern recipes, in order to manage best results from time to time
-recursive wiggles is a very powerfull way to wiggle or shake or mutate and stop when the gain is too small
There is a difference between "blind" and "informed" recipes. Blind recipes walk or act randomly:
-"random" strategies like in GAB or Banded worm pairs
-walking recipes like walking rebuild
Informed recipes first retrieve formation from the puzzle then act in function of this information:
-focused strategies (focusing on worst residues) like Quickfix or DRW, or on voids, like void crusher. Ebola is may be too sofisticated to be efficient but it continuously adapt it's behaviour and default dialog depending on the context. As does tvdl_enhanced DRW.
Then you have more recent ideas in recent recipes with new tools, like taking track separately of the bonus and the score: e.g. bridge wiggle for overweight of the disulfide bonds.
Or specific mutate recipes: mutate_all, mutate no wiggle …
That was a simple and elegant.
Why should this recipe be chosen as one of the best recipes of all time? You need to provide this in order to have a proper nomination for your recipe to be in one of the Best Recipes of All Time.
May you please provide the link to each of the recipes' recipe page? You need to provide this in order to have a proper nomination for your recipe to be one of the Best Recipes of All Time.
Also joshmiller said to have one comment per recipe so I think you should have four comments for each of your four recipes.
May you please add a link to each of the recipes' recipe page? You need to have this in order to have a proper nomination for your recipe to be one of the Best Recipes of All Time.
Also joshmiller said to have one comment per recipe, so I think you should divide that comment into multiple comments with one for each recipe.
