Modding: Making a custom enemy
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A guide to the basics of Noita enemy creation. (WIP)
Common Components and Tags
| Component | Purpose |
|---|---|
| AnimalAIComponent | Determines enemy behaviour and attacks. |
| DamageModelComponent | Allows the enemy to be hurt, determines their damage multipliers and material weaknesses. |
| PathFindingComponent | Allows the enemy to path-find through terrain and to other entities. |
| PathFindingGridMarkerComponent | Affects path-finding grid in some way, limited documentation. (To be researched.) |
| faction, food-chain rank and more. | |
| CharacterPlatformingComponent | Determines the enemy's movement capabilities. |
| CharacterDataComponent | Affects enemy collision, physics and more. |
| HitboxComponent | Determines enemy's hitbox for incoming attacks, etc. |
| CameraBoundComponent | Controls the distance from the camera where the enemy should be unloaded. |
| SpriteComponent | The enemy's sprite graphics. |
| SpriteAnimatorComponent | Updates the enemy's current sprite animation when doing certain actions, i.e. idling, walking, attacking. |
| AudioComponent | Determines the audio to be played upon certain events. |
| Tag | Purpose |
|---|---|
| mortal | Multi-purpose tag for living creatures and entities that can be destroyed. (To be researched.) |
| hittable | Enemy can be hit. |
| enemy | Enemy is an enemy. |
| flying | Enemy is a flying enemy. |
| boss | Enemy is a boss. |
| miniboss | Enemy is a mini-boss. |
| human | (To be researched.) |
| prey | Enemy may be targeted by predators. |
| homing_target | Enemy can be tracked by homing projectiles. |
| destruction_target | Enemy will be targeted the Destruction spell. |
| teleportable_NOT | Enemy cannot be teleported. |
| polymorphable_NOT | Enemy cannot be polymorphed. |
| necrobot_NOT | Enemy cannot be revived by enemies like Necrobot. |
| glue_NOT | Enemy cannot be glued. |
| curse_NOT | Enemy is immune to venomous curse? Grants no immunity to curse damage. |
| touchmagic_immunity | Enemy has immunity to Touch of spells. |
AnimalAIComponent.ai_state Enum Values
The AnimalAIComponent::ai_state has values 1-21, which correspond to the following states:
local states = {
"RandomMove",
"Wandering",
"Eating",
"RaisingHead",
"PreparingJump",
"MoveNearTarget",
"Peeing",
"Defecating",
"Alert",
"Landing",
"TakingFireDamage",
"EscapingPrey",
"AttackingMelee",
"AttackingMeleeDash",
"AttackingRanged",
"AttackingRangedMulti",
"Escaping",
"JobDefault",
"JobGoto",
"JobHelpOtherEntity",
"GoNearHome",
}
These can be printed out like so:
local animal = GetUpdatedEntityID()
local state = ComponentGetValue2(
EntityGetFirstComponentIncludingDisabled(animal, "AnimalAIComponent"), "ai_state"
)
print(states[state])