Missing Monsters...?

[Frozulot]

After browsing the available NPC's I see there are probably up to 50 monsters from Ultima Online missing...while using 'tweak and entering numbers into the body type I have found the missing monsters but they do not have a 0x???? number ID for them, so if I wanted to enable these monsters by adding to the current available creatures.dfn's how would I do that? For example the weird little goblin creatures from UO. It would be really nice to enable the missing monsters. How do I do it?

[Xuri]

What creatures.dfn does is just add combat sounds and some special properties (such as defining whether or not they can walk on water or fly) to the body-ids listed in there. Adding anything to it won't give you any new monsters ingame. But to add any missing creature-ids to it is fairly straight-forward. First, take your decimal body-id (if the id has no 0x infront), and convert it to hex-id using Windows Calculator run in Scientific Mode (Click View -> Scientific, enter decimal number, click hex-button), then just copy & paste an existing section and change the body-value, base-sound, icon graphic and other flags.

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The NPCs currently available in UOX3 are defined in the various .dfn files in the DFNDATA\NPC\ folder. If you want to add a new NPC, you can either create a new .dfn file (using notepad, for instance) in the NPC folder, or add to one of the existing files. Note that any custom additions you do to the existing files will be overwritten if you download any updates of UOX3! So having custom NPCs in seperate .dfn files will save you a lot of work. UOX3 will automatically read in any .dfn files it finds, so you don't have to do anything but create the file and fill it up with NPC definitions

To add a new NPC, copy the entire section of another NPC and paste it into notepad. Give the section header of the NPC (the header which is enclosed in square brackets, for instance [orc]) a unique name, like [billgates], then edit the various properties of the NPC to fit what you want, including the ID= tag, which will tell UOX3 which body-ID to use for the NPC. It accepts both hex-decimal IDs and decimal IDs, so if you have a body-id with no 0x infront of it, you can use it here. Or you can convert it to hex-id using Windows Calculator (start it by pressing START -> RUN -> calc.exe) in scientific mode.

Once you're done editing the new NPC to your liking, save the file as for instance customnpcs.dfn in UOX3\DFNDATA\NPC\. You can even create a subfolder for your custom NPC files if you want, and place them in there. Now either reload the DFN files through the UOX3 console (press * then ? for menu) or restart UOX3.

To add your new NPC ingame, use 'ADD NPC billgates (replace billgates with whatever section-header you used for your NPC.)

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I would appreciate if you could let me know which monsters are missing so I can add them to the next release of UOX3, by the way.

The ones I've added already (for next release) are:

ophidian zealot, ophidian justicar, whipping vine, quagmire, bog thing, bogling, silver wolf,shadow wisp, evil mage, evil mage lord, giant black widow, energy vortex, shadow fiend, giant fire beetle, hiryu, chimera, cu sidhe, mondain's steed + all Champions

[Frozulot]

I can't be sure what these creatures were called in UO and some of these may be wrong (i.e. they may already exist in uox3 but I havent noticed) but here is the list of creatures I have found that don't seem to be in the UOX3 'add NPC menus. I will put the body type number in front of each named creature.

46 Tiamat Dragon
124 Witch?
148 Revenant?
172 unknown dragon
174 Erinyes?
176 Big Pixie
187 DemoGorgon?
189 Ogre Titan?
193 Gorgon?
194 Basilisk?
196 Floater?
199 unknown
240 weirdo
241 Ogrillon?
242 Ankheg insectoid
243 Quatil
244 Scarab Demon
245 weirdo
246 hellrat
247 hag
248 catoblepas
249 minotaur snake
250 Fury
251 Bulette
252 Hag Wench
253 weirdo
254 giant pecking bird
255 weirdo
300 wyrm?
301 tree golem
302 rust monster?
303 Hook Horror
304 Fomorian
305 confused
306 poker beast?
307 Troglodyte
308 bonedemon
309 chaos
310 witch crone
311 devil man
312 squid monster (not a kraken)
313 Nefilim
314 Bug Man
315 Arkanid
316 squidron
317 giant vampire bat
318 demonid
319 blob beast
447 headless woman =)
469 headless monk =)
573 vortex
574 blade vortex
752 iron golem
749 chaos lich
746 ape demon
753 winged demon
755 giant gargoyl
756 scarab big
757 pincer beast
763 pincer robot
764 berserker
765 berserkerette
766 samurai (possible SE monster)
768 robot monster
770 vampiress
771 grue
772 vampire
773 rotten
774 gaurdian
775 blob demon
776 fish man?
777 stick man demon
778 Beholder
779 boggart
780 swallower
781 draknid
782 draknid major
783 beetle queen
784 Djinn?
785 gorillon
787 weird giant bug beast
788 sphinx
789 juggernaut
791 giant beetle monster
795 hobgoblin?
796 bugbear?
809 crawler
970 ghost
Thats all could find, maybe 12 of these are SE monsters I dunnoo.