Spawn, weapon, and NPC merchant dumps from mid-1999 and Jan 2000

[Dolalin]

Thought you'd find these of use Telin.

They are from http://k2.org which in late 99 seems to have been hosting ShowEQ. K2.org didn't preserve them but this other site called www.eqic.com did.

Opening the .xls I can see their created and modified dates are legit (check the Info tab). Spawn list is from Jan 15th 2000, weapons list is from Jan 6th 2000, and the necro merchant items list is from April 1999 - August 1999.

They have the inventories of the necro merchants in the Toxx forest hut which I think might be of particular interest.

https://web.archive.org/web/20010614080649/http://www.eqic.net:80/downloads/EQweapons.zip

https://web.archive.org/web/20010614080515/http://www.eqic.net:80/downloads/NEC.Spell.Locations.V1.01.zip

https://web.archive.org/web/20010614090653/http://www.eqic.net:80/downloads/Zone-NPC-List-Level.zip

[Dolalin]

Just noticed that the spawn list contains a spawn dump for the pre-revamp Splitpaw. <3

No locs though.



Zone NPC Name Count LowHP HighHP Low Lvl High Lvl

paw a_bat 3 16 16 1 1
paw gnoll_prisoner 1 28 68 2 4
paw Ghanex_Drah00_pet 0 70 70 4 4
paw a_gnoll 10 80 210 4 9
paw a_large_snake 0 80 120 4 6
paw a_Splitpaw_gnoll 47 80 180 4 8
paw a_skeleton 1 100 100 5 5
paw a_Splitpaw_guard 16 140 249 6 10
paw a_zombie 1 150 150 6 6
paw a_giant_snake 11 170 210 7 9
paw a_gnoll_shaman 0 141 162 8 9
paw a_Splitpaw_shaman 11 141 183 8 10
paw a_Splitpaw_noble 14 250 309 10 12
paw Gelatinous_Cube 0 310 350 12 14
paw a_Splitpaw_commander 2 330 350 12 13
paw Brother_Gruff 0 280 300 14 15
paw Shaman_Lenrel 0 280 280 14 14
paw Ghanex_Drah 0 225 245 15 16
paw a_Splitpaw_captain 0 430 448 15 16
paw Shaman_Ren`Rex 0 455 490 15 17
paw Ghanex_Drah_pet 0 420 420 16 16
paw High_Shaman_Grisok 0 490 490 17 17
paw Brother_Hayle 0 884 884 24 24

The 'Count' field was not labelled in the sheet, but seems to be the highest index of the mob names, ie 00, 01, 02, etc. So 00 means there was only one mob in zone, and 11 means there were 12 mobs in zone. So I named it Count.

[Dolalin]

The provenance of the spawn list is indeed here, posted January 15th 2000:

http://web.archive.org/web/20000621024120/http://www.k2.org/main.htm


1/15/2000

Ok folks here it is the Ultimate Spoiler.

The EQ NPC Database :

Sorted by Name (TXT/XLS)

Sorted by Zone (TXT/XLS)

Sorted by Level (TXT/XLS)

[BurtMacklinFBI]

Dolalin for staff member 2020

[Dolalin]

Telin: I just realized that that Count field is super useful for figuring out expected newbie zone mob population. I know there were some questions around how many newb mobs should be up in e.g. Everfrost and Toxxulia... this gives us a snapshot of that and you can tune the spawn tables accordingly.

[Glasken]

Just as interesting as the pre-vamp paw, is the hill giant population. I think this settles the question of the static spawns being insufficient.

rathemtn a_hill_giant 11 2472 2552 33 37

Awesome find Dolalin, as usual!


...Ping Fuzzlecutter is level 69?

[Dolalin]

I did not notice Ping. Was he always level 69?

Love those Verant inside jokes :D

[Nirgon]

God tier

[Sunderfury]

God tier

I swelled up as well.

[Balimon]

Great find! I love that splitpaw list, maybe we could get a pre revamp paw now?