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

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

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/20010614.../EQweapons.zip

https://web.archive.org/web/20010614...ions.V1.01.zip

https://web.archive.org/web/20010614...List-Level.zip

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

No locs though.

Code:

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.

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

http://web.archive.org/web/200006210...2.org/main.htm

Quote:

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)

Dolalin for staff member 2020

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.

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?

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

Love those Verant inside jokes :D

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nirgon (Post 3075402)

God tier

I swelled up as well.

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