Creating Enemies Categories

Introduction

An enemy category or list is a list of enemy ids that's used in map points to make enemies spawn. Enemies categories are found in the lists.yaml file. So, an enemy category definition has only 2 attributes: an id and a list of strings that are the enemies ids. Here's an hint: you can add more of an enemy type than another, so you can choose the enemy type percentage rate.

Explanation

An example of an enemy category definition:

desert raids:
  South Pillagers:
    name: "You find a group of South Pillagers on your way!"
    chance: .65
    enemies rate:
      easy: {"min": 1, "max": 2}
      normal: {"min": 1, "max": 4}
      hard: {"min": 2, "max": 4}
    enemies spawns:
      South Pillager: 1
  Mumakil:
    name: "You find a Mumakil on your way!"
    chance: .15
    enemies rate:
      easy: {"min": 2, "max": 2}
      normal: {"min": 2, "max": 2}
      hard: {"min": 2, "max": 4}
    enemies spawns:
      Mumakil: 1
      South Pillager: 1
  Desert Troll:
    name: "You find a Desert Troll on your way!"
    chance: .2
    enemies rate:
      easy: {"min": 1, "max": 1}
      normal: {"min": 1, "max": 1}
      hard: {"min": 1, "max": 2}
    enemies spawns:
      Desert Troll: 1

And the syntax:

<enemy list id>:
  <entry id>:
    name: <text shown(str)>
    chance: <percentage(float)>
    enemies rate:
      easy: {"min": <min spawn number(int)>, "max": <max spawn number(int)>}
      normal: {"min": <min spawn number(int)>, "max": <max spawn number(int)>}
      hard: {"min": <min spawn number(int)>, "max": <max spawn number(int)>}
    enemies spawns:
      <enemy id>: <spawning chance(float)>

In every enemy list, you find different entries, which're pools, that afterwards randomly pick enemies from himself. The game engine will go through every pools one by one, and run a random percentage calculation, until one of the pools get chosen. Once a pool's chosen, the game engine randomly determine how many enemies there'll be, following on the enemies rate dictionary. After that, it'll look through the enemies spawns dictionary and run a random percentage calculate, to determine if the current enemy should be picked up, until there're enough enemies.

• <enemy list id> // this is the id of your list.
  • <entry id> // this is the id of one of your entry. Also called pools, you can have as many as you want.
    • name // this is the text message that'll be shown when summoning this enemy.
    • chance // the percentage of chance this pool has to be chosen.
    • enemies rate
      • easy
        • min // the minimum number of enemies to spawn on easy difficulty mode.
        • max // the maximum number of enemies to spawn on easy difficulty mode.
      • normal
        • min // the minimum number of enemies to spawn on normal difficulty mode.
        • max // the maximum number of enemies to spawn on normal difficulty mode.
      • hard
        • min // the minimum number of enemies to spawn on hard difficulty mode.
        • max // the maximum number of enemies to spawn on hard difficulty mode.
    • enemies spawns
      • <enemy id> // the id of this key should be the id of the enemy. The value of this key should be the percentage chance of spawn of this pool entry.