Help requested: how to spawn a human npc via api?

samlander · Jun 17th 2019

I understand that its world.spawnnpc() but what is the short ID for human? Is there a list? I would have expected it to take the NPCTypes enum, but to no avail.

Can anyone help me on how to spawn a human npc?

Thanks!

yahwho · Jun 17th 2019

hi @samlander

Yes download a copy of DB Browser for SQLite and you can open up the database and look for the id's

A dummy NPC is id 100 and a bandit it id 60

samlander · Jun 17th 2019

@yahwho, thanks for that, and thanks for suggesting peeking in the database, I had not considered that and it will most definitely come in handy later.

AllieCat · Jun 25th 2019

Hi samlander!
I just ran into the same problem.
I wrote a quick debug plugin and dumped all of the NPC definitions to a log, and I thought I'd share it with you:

GameInfo: NPC: 1 : pig
GameInfo: NPC: 2 : cow
GameInfo: NPC: 3 : goat
GameInfo: NPC: 4 : sheep
GameInfo: NPC: 5 : moose
GameInfo: NPC: 6 : fox
GameInfo: NPC: 7 : bear
GameInfo: NPC: 8 : rabbit
GameInfo: NPC: 9 : sheepshorn
GameInfo: NPC: 10 : chicken
GameInfo: NPC: 11 : elephant
GameInfo: NPC: 13 : giraffe
GameInfo: NPC: 14 : jaguar
GameInfo: NPC: 16 : rhinoceros
GameInfo: NPC: 17 : tiger
GameInfo: NPC: 18 : penguin
GameInfo: NPC: 19 : minipig
GameInfo: NPC: 20 : polarbear
GameInfo: NPC: 21 : boar
GameInfo: NPC: 22 : deer
GameInfo: NPC: 23 : rat
GameInfo: NPC: 24 : snake
GameInfo: NPC: 25 : spider
GameInfo: NPC: 26 : spiderling
GameInfo: NPC: 27 : bearblack
GameInfo: NPC: 28 : goatwhite
GameInfo: NPC: 29 : cowbrown
GameInfo: NPC: 30 : earthworm
GameInfo: NPC: 31 : horse
GameInfo: NPC: 33 : camel
GameInfo: NPC: 35 : donkey
GameInfo: NPC: 100 : dummy
GameInfo: NPC: 50 : skeleton
GameInfo: NPC: 60 : bandit

Hope this helps!

Minotorious · Jun 25th 2019

Simply open the definitions.db database from the commons.jar archive. It has all the info you might ever need on all assets in the game.

red51 · Jun 26th 2019

Alternatively you can check out this guide on Steam, it's up-to-date and contains all item, object, clothes and npc names (as well as their corresponding id): https://steamcommunity.com/sha…iledetails/?id=1711772125

Or you could retrieve the NpcDefinition (which contains the npc id) via API, but you have to know the internal name of the npc for that. Just call the static Definitions.getNpcDefinition() function, e.g:

Java

Definitions.NpcDefinition def = Definitions.getNpcDefinition("dummy");
short id = def.getID();  //<- get the npc id

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