Miscellaneous: 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/20010614.../EQweapons.zip

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

https://web.archive.org/web/20010614...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/200006210...2.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 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Nirgon]

God tier

[Sunderfury]

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God tier

I swelled up as well.

[Balimon]

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