Monster creation in dungeons

[Jarulf]

Not much detailed memories here but basically the game first pick the types. Then when placing individual monsters it will pick one of the types at random. It will then try to place the monster. I think it pick at random a location and then see if it is free space, if not it loops arround (I don]t think it repick type yet though). WHen found, I think it places a patch of monsters, pretty much in the same way it places barrels (although I can remember wrong). That means it will not be possible to calculate exactly accurate since that requires in part to have a generated dungeon since the patch will place random monsters arround the last one until it won]t find a free space (in x attempts which might be 1 or more, don]t remember, for a possible estimate, check number of barrels in a patch and see if it match, if way of, it was done in a different manner). I think one would still be ablte to calculate a decent ammount of accuracy the number of monsters.

Next comes the "ending" of monster placement which is where the limit of arround 185 comes in. Remember that first it places special monsters, bosses and their packs, then it loops for monsters until it gets to arround 185 (don´t remmeber the exact way, and level 1 and 2 are smaller and thus have a smaller value I think). I can possible get arround to check it some time but unfortunately not at the moment.

Anyway, I think the way it pick monsters, I would say it is more or less the same ammount of each type of monsters on a level (disregarding the ones for bosses and specially placed and such).