I got tired of searching for 10 different companies, and paging through jobs in the ETS2 UI, looking for jobs that meet the conditions of various achievements.
This tool examines your save file (read-only - it doesn't change the file!) and outputs a list of all the relevant jobs as a web page.
First step: Your profile must be local, not Steam Cloud!
Open the Edit Profile screen and disable Steam Cloud. Sorry, it's unavoidable. With Steam Cloud enabled the save files aren't actually stored on your computer at all.
Then to actually use this tool:
- Get a JAR from the Releases page.
- Have Java 13 or later installed.
- Run the JAR (in any folder) by either:
- Double-clicking it, or
- The command
java -jar ets_achievements.jar
- Visit
http://localhost:8483in a browser.- From another device like a phone, you can use your computer's internal IP
address, generally
192.168.*.*.
- From another device like a phone, you can use your computer's internal IP
address, generally
This shows a list of profiles by name. Choose your desired profile to get the list of jobs.
The tool reads your most recent save based on the file timestamps. You can do a manual save or quicksave to ensure you have the latest. Note that the game autosaves when you finish a job, so usually when you're looking for a new one you'll have fresh data.
As a sanity check, the current in-game time is displayed at the top.
This works on the latest versions of ETS2 as of January 2022. It works with all map expansion DLCs, and should work with most mods (eg. ProMods) though some things might be a bit off.
(Eg. company sites that belong to a different city in ProMods will be listed under their "stock" location. Likewise it uses the stock names for companies and cargoes, even if a mod has changed them. IKA, not IKEA, etc.)
This is focused on the "Deliver to all the marinas in Scandinavia" type of job, not on economic ones (hiring AI drivers, making profit as a company) or those that don't require particular jobs (use all ferries, discover all cities, view all landmarks).
"Orient Express" lists all jobs that can apply for it, but since they have to be done in order, only one of the city pairs is open at a time. You'll have to keep track of that.
"Grand Tour" is not implemented because it would list way too many jobs to be useful. That one isn't hard to search for by hand.
There are four main lines of future work:
- ATS support.
- Stretching: ordering jobs by proximity to the player, or by some kind of
distance / expiration time"plausibility" metric. This lists many jobs that are not practical because you're far away, or you're close but there's hardly any time left.
To extract SCS bundles on Mac, use the Run with Options in Crossover to run the
scs_packer, which I configured to have its working directory be ~/clojure/etsjobs/scs.
So run it with extract ../core/dlc_foo.scs -root foo to output to that directory.