Modding Monsters

Main page: Modding

This page contains technical information regarding monsters added by this mod.

Effects

Monsters created in this mod can have permanent status effects on them. This is due to a custom monster builder.

The builder is located here: /monsters/ct_ioterash_monster.lua

Example: Scout Drone

Abilities

You may notice that most monsters have fields like primaryAbility and passiveAbility in their files. This is mainly for use by Monster Spawners for display in tooltips, and for display on the wiki.

Example: Scout Drone

Behavior

Currently there is a WIP alarm behavior in place. It is not used as of right now.

Ship Pets

Species pets in this mod can make sounds (often) and sing (rarely).

Scripts implementing that:

• /monsters/pets/ct_alta_pet_drone/petBehavior.lua
• /monsters/pets/ct_alta_pet_drone/singState.lua
• /monsters/pets/ct_alta_pet_drone/soundState.lua

Pet example: Personal Drone