Spawner 123

In front of the player are two buttons on a wall. The first button spawns a hoard of creatures that start running towards them. The player eliminates all the creatures and goes back to the wall and presses the second button, a new wave of different creatures comes running towards them.

The Spawn 123 gameplay example teaches you different ways to configure the Creature Spawner device to create waves of enemies in your experience with the use of three Creature Spawners, a Creature Placer device, Button devices, a Timed Objective device, and the Team Settings & Inventory device.

Devices Used

To learn more about placing devices, props, and using the grid, see the Video Tutorials.

• 3 x Creature Spawner devices
• 1 x Creature Placer device
• 2 x Button devices
• 1 x Player Spawn Pad
• 1 x Timed Objective device

Traps Used

• 1 x Team Settings & Inventory device

Gallery Pieces Used

In this example the Pueblo gallery pieces were used to create a wall to place the button devices on. You can use whichever gallery wall pieces you want on your island.

• 1 x Pueblo wall

• 2 x Pueblo archways

  

Placing Gallery Pieces

1. Press Tab to enter the Creative Inventory.
2. Click Gallery > Pueblo, click Open, then select the wall piece and click Equip.
3. Repeat the process to add the Pueblo archways to the Quick Bar.
4. Click Place Now to return to Create mode and place the wall pieces.

Placing Trap Devices

1. Press Tab to go into the Creative Inventory.

2. Click Devices > Team Settings & Inventory > Equip to add the Team Settings & Inventory device to your Quick Bar.

3. Press Y to place the Team Settings & Inventory device beside the Pueblo wall.

   

4. Add weapons to the Team Settings & Inventory device by standing on the device and pressing Tab > Weapons tab to go back into the Creative Inventory.

5. Select the weapons you want the player to have and click Equip after every weapon selection to add them to the the Quick Bar.

6. Left-click and drag each weapon from the Quick Bar until the backpack icon appears, then release.

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7. Modify the Team Settings & Inventory device options to the following:

   

   Options	Value	Explanation
   Grant Items On Respawn	Yes	When the player respawns onto the island they are granted the same items.
   Equip Granted Items	First Item	Automatically equips the first weapon.
   Infinite Ammo	On	Provides infinite ammo to the player.

Instructions

Each of the devices you need for this gameplay example is described below.

Placing Creature Spawner Devices

1. Press Tab to go into the Creative Inventory.

2. Click Devices > Creature Placer device to add the Player Spawn Pad to your Quick Bar. Continue to add the following devices from the device menu:
   1. Creature Placer device
   2. Button device
   3. Timed Objective device

3. Creature Spawner device

4. Click Place Now to place the first Creature Spawner device.

   

   Each wave of monsters behaves differently due to the option settings in the Creature Spawner

5. Press E > Settings Icon when close to the creature spawner to rename the Creature Spawner, “ Summon Cube Creatures”.

6. Modify the Creature Spawner options to the following:

   

   Options	Value	Explanation
   Total Spawn Limit	10	Spawns a total of 10 creatures.
   Enabled At Game Start	Disbaled	The device does not spawn creatures automatically at the start of the game.
   Enable When Receiving From	Channel 1	When the device receives a signal from the first Button device on Channel 1 it begins spawning creatures.
   Disable When Receiving From	Channel 2	When the device receives a signal from the second Button device on Channel 2 it disables the device and causes the device to destroy itself.

   The first Creature Spawner sends the first wave of cube creatures, once all creatures are destroyed the spawner destroys itself. The player can also damage and destroy the spawner.

7. Place two more Creature Spawners and rename them so you can tell them apart: Summon Ice Creatures and Summon Poison Creatures.

8. Modify the Summon Ice Creatures options to the following:

   

   Options	Value	Explanation
   Spawner Type	Ice Spawner	Spawner turns into an ice structure.
   Creature Type	Ice Random	Spawns random ice creatures.
   Number of Creatures	6	Spawns 6 random ice creatures.
   Total Spawn Limit	10	Spawns 10 creatures, starting with 6. If you want there to be a lot more creatures, set it higher or set it to infinite.
   Invincible Spawner	On	The spawner cannot be destroyed by the player.
   Damage Spawner After Spawn	Off	Spawner does not damage itself per spawn after spawning creatures.
   Enabled at Game Start	Disabled	The second Creature Spawner does not spawn at the start of the game.
   Enable When Receiving From	Channel 2	The second Creature Spawner begins to spawn creatures when it receives a signal from the second Button device on Channel 2.
   Disable When receiving From	Channel 1	Disables the second Creature Spawner when it receives a signal from the first Button device on Channel 1 if the player hits the button again while the spawner is enabled.
   Eliminate Creatures When Receiving From	Channel 3	Eliminates all creatures when receiving a signal from the Creature Placer device.
   Destroy Spawner When Receiving From	Channel 3	Destroys the spawner when receiving a signal from the Creature Placer on Channel 3.

   The second wave releases ice creatures, and continues to do so until you eliminate the boss creature, which destroys the spawner and any remaining creatures.

9. Modify the following options for the third Creature Spawner:

   

   Options	Value	explanation
   Creature Type	Poison Fiend	Spawns the Poison Fiend creature.
   Number of Creatures	10	Spawns 10 Poison Fiend creatures.
   Activation Range	10 Tiles	Creatures spawn when the player is within 10 tiles of the Creature Spawner.
   Despawn Range	10 Tiles	Creatures despawn when they are beyond 10 tiles from the spawner.
   Invincible Spawner	On	The player cannot damage and destroy the Creature Spawner.
   Enabled At Game Start	Disabled	The spawner won't spawn creatures at the start of the game.
   Enable When Receiving From	Channel 3	Spawns Poison Fiend creatures when receiving a signal from the Creature Placer on Channel 3.
   Eliminate Creatures When Receiving From	Channel 4	Eliminates all creatures when receiving a signal from the Timed Objective device on Channel 4.
   Destroy Spawner When Receiving From	Channel 4	Spawner destroys itself when receiving a signal from the Timed Objective device on Channel 4.

   The third spawner is invisible and eliminates itself and all poison creatures spawned when the timer expires and the player has survived the round.

Placing the Creature Placer Device

1. Select the Creature Placer device from the Quick Bar and place inside the second Creature Spawner’s border.

   

2. Modify the Creature Placer device options to the following:

   

   Options	Value	Explanation
   Creature Type	Red Brute	Use a Brute type creature as a boss for the player to fight.
   Activate on Game Phase	Never	The placer does not spawn a creature until it receives a signal.
   Spawn When Receiving From	Channel 2	When the second Button device sends a signal to the Creature Placer, the boss creature spawns.
   When Eliminated Transmit On	Channel 3	When the boss is eliminated a signal is sent on Channel 3 from the Creature Placer device to the Timed Objective device.

Placing Timed Objective Devices

1. Place the Timed Objective device beside the Team Settings & Inventory device.

   

2. Modify the Timed Objective device options to the following:

   

   Options	Value	Explanation
   Time	15 Seconds	Give the Poison Fiend Creatures 15 seconds to expire when the timer finishes, the boss creature enables the third spawner to create the wave of Poison Fiends and last 15 seconds.
   Countdown Visible on HUD	No	The timer countdown is not visible on the HUD device.
   Urgency Mode	Disabled	The device does not initiate Urgency mode.
   Timer Sound	Off	The device does not make a noise when counting down the time.
   Start When Receiving From	Channel 3	When the Timed Objective device receives a signal from the Creature Placer on Channel 3 it starts the timer.
   When Completed Transmit On	Channel 4	Transmits a signal to the third Creature Spawner device on Channel 4 which results in destroying the third creature spawner.

Placing Button Devices

1. Select the Button device from the Quick Bar and place one button on the Pueblo wall over top of the Team Settings & Inventory device.

   

2. Modify the Button device options to the following:

   

   Options	Value	Explanation
   Interaction Text	Button 1	When the player gets close to the Button, it displays “Button 1”.
   When Interacted With Transmit On	Channel1	When the player presses E, the Button device sends a signal to the first Creature Spawner to start spawning creatures.

   The messages telling players to press the button uses the Billaboard device, this is optional, you do not need to leave a message for players.

3. Copy the button and paste on the wall next to the first one.
4. Change the Interaction Text option to Button 2.
5. Change the When Interacted With Transmit On option to Channel 2.

Placing the Player Spawn Pad Device

1. Select the Player Spawn Pad from the Quick Bar and placed into the center of the Team Settings & Inventory device.

   

2. Modify the Player Spawn Pad option Visible During Games to No.

   

Playing Your Game

After learning the different settings on the Creature Spawner device you can create waves of creatures for your island experience. Combine the Creature Spawner and Creature Placer devices with the Random Number Generator device to randomly spawn creatures, or with the Trigger device to spawn creatures when the Player sets off the trigger during a chain of events.