[1.0] Wolf Family

[David]

Summary:
A family of Wolves with a watchful mother wolf.

Description:
No big baddies here, this is a Mother Wolf and her babies for a touch of rp in the woods. Just spawn a MotherWolf, everything else is automatic. Within a minute or so she will spawn 2 to 5 Wolf Pups. The mother can be allowed to wander as much as you wish, the pups will stay close to her but not like they were told to "follow." They will appear to play under the watchful eye of Mom. If any of the pups are attacked, Mom will attack the attacker. She is somewhere between a Grey Wolf and a Dire Wolf in stats. There is no loot other than what you would expect on a wolf. Pups are between a Dog and a Grey Wolf.

Pups are tamable at a moderate skill, Mom is not. Every 20 minutes any missing Pups are respawned. Finally if the Mother is killed or deleted, the same happens to any of her existing untamed pups.

1.0 Notes:
This script works fine under RunUO 1.0. Moved from Archives to Submissions on 05/05/06.

Installation:
Just one file, place it is your Scripts\Custom folder and restart the server. Set up any spawner to place a MotherWolf.

[David]

I've been busy with some pretty big private projects, this was a fun diversion inspired in part by awakenlands vampire scripts. I am really pleased with how the kids playing around Mom worked out. I hope you enjoy it.

[mr_wuss]

this is a really well thought out and well based script, when people are trying to take over the world with thier work..you bring out the kinder part of UO.

Awesome script David...You have always brought good things to RunUO

[Ravenal]

David you just made my day , I never get words like that really =/

[koluch]

Again, great work David
Your scripts are varried and always terriffic and your replies on posts ALWAYS helpful!
What more can I say

Shazzy

[Marcus247]

David, I LOVE U

[sidsid]

we all do

[dragonlady]

awsome work i love it ty

[Dracarys]

As always, David, awesome work.

Thank you very much.

[David]

Thanks folks, for such a simple thing I am kind of proud of this one. I'm glad it was well received.

[David]

Originally Posted by dragonlady

awsome work i love it ty

hey, dragonlady's first post is saying thanks for my script... if that don't deserve a click of karma I don't know what does...

Welcome to RunUO!

(ps, and yes awakenlands, you did good work on the vampire scripts. I reused a good bit of your code. Thanks again.)

[Grimbone]

I love the idea, great work man!

- Grim

[Captain The First]

Excellent as always hehe

Any particular risk to the beloved resources if I use this concept to spawn large parts of the world?

Going to put a little variation in it with your permission:
Gobling King with goblins kind of thing

[David]

The interaction between the Mom and Pups is well managed so no resource issues there. It does use one single timer per MotherWolf that runs constantly. I try to avoid timers but sometimes it is the best way to do the task at hand. And the timer is set to the lowest possible priority, so I guess my answer would depend on what "large portions" means. Several dozen would not be noticeable.

[Knightshade]

Having had the opportunity of trying this script out on the Britannia shard before its release here, I must say, as always, your scripts have proven to be the best of the best, and this is no exception.

I can't really say anything more than what has already been said, ditto to it all. We are lucky to have you on our team, David. You've done some amazing work for us, and it's great to see things like this so well received by the community.

Your wonderful imagination and committment to quality are truely a great boon to us all. Thanks yet again!

[Tsarina9]

Excellent script, David There should be more around like this. I loved it. Finally a more realistic script.

[Captain The First]

Hmmm I guess I'll be careful as usual and use them in a couple of select settings.

I'd say about a 100 or so in total.

Tnx for the info

[Friday]

I recently added this to my scripts, but I have found that (using RunUO v1.0) consistently whenever I spawn even just one of these motherwolves my server crashes shortly after. Could the addition of this creature be causing the crashes or is this simply coincidence?

[David]

The script is running on several shards with no crashes reported. It is of course possible that this script is causing the crashes but I am inclined to think it is something else, unless the script has been modified. Do you have a crashlog in your RunUO folder?

[stormwolff]

Running fine here, Just installed it last weekend. Great work as always david.

[Knightshade]

Originally Posted by Friday

I recently added this to my scripts, but I have found that (using RunUO v1.0) consistently whenever I spawn even just one of these motherwolves my server crashes shortly after. Could the addition of this creature be causing the crashes or is this simply coincidence?

We've been using this script since before it was released to the community, and have had no crashes since its installation. While I certainly couldn't claim that the script has nothing to do with your crashes, I can tell you that it is definitely stable and has been working well on our shard for quite some time now.

We have the mother wolves spawned all over our world, and I have found no problems with them yet.

[Da Boss]

Originally Posted by David

Summary:
A family of Wolves with a watchful mother wolf.

Description:
No big baddies here, this is a Mother Wolf and her babies for a touch of rp in the woods. Just spawn a MotherWolf, everything else is automatic. Within a minute or so she will spawn 2 to 5 Wolf Pups. The mother can be allowed to wander as much as you wish, the pups will stay close to her but not like they were told to "follow." They will appear to play under the watchful eye of Mom. If any of the pups are attacked, Mom will attack the attacker. She is somewhere between a Grey Wolf and a Dire Wolf in stats. There is no loot other than what you would expect on a wolf. Pups are between a Dog and a Grey Wolf.

Pups are tamable at a moderate skill, Mom is not. Every 20 minutes any missing Pups are respawned. Finally if the Mother is killed or deleted, the same happens to any of her existing untamed pups.

Installation:
Just one file, place it is your Scripts\Custom folder and restart the server. Set up any spawner to place a MotherWolf.

great job thanks man keep it up.....

[Krystofer]

This is awesome. Finally something with some CHARACTER to it. Makes me want to get down and script a bunch of NPC's for the taverns and such...

[Tylius]

I'm not sure how much you follow the threads and stuff, but *before* someone jumps in and says "way to bump a 5 month old post", or people start flaming you, in general people get b****ed out for commenting on old posts, whether or not it was a nice comment on it or anything. I personally couldn't care less, but I'm just letting you know, and hopefully noone posts after me, to flame you

At least it it was a nice comment! (And quite true, I was happy with this script as well), and who knows, maybe it'll rekindle some interest in this script, or new people that haven't search the submissions will find it.

No harm done in my opinion!

(Eeh gad, I need to go to sleep...That was supposed to be short)