[How to] Make a custom quest

[devoured]

Over the last couple of days I have read many guides, and I thank EVERY person who has posted one!

what I would like to do is show people how to make a custom quest.

this guide will assume that you know how to create your own custom NPCs (if you want to use custom ones) I will be using default NPCs so that anyone can work along with me.

What kind of Quest?
I am doing a go kill xx mobs and return quest

what do we kill?
I will be using a cow

how many?
lets say 5


Ok, lets get things going

-First we need to make the quest, so open your database and move to the "quests" table.

-Add a new entry (my custom quests start at 90000)

set the fields as follows
entry - 90000
zoneID - 5
flags - 8
minLevel - 1 (or what ever level you want the quest to be available)
questlevel - 5 (or what ever level the quest should be done at)
Type - 0 (zero is normal)
everything else up to Title should be 0
Title - Where's the beef? (this is what is shown in the quest log)
Details - Hey, we want to have a cook out but we have no beef!(back story, small talk, etc..)
Objectives - Slay 5 cows (this is the objective text shown in the quest log)
completiontext - Nice, now we can get some meat for the cook out!(text shown by npc after the quest is complete)
Incompletetext - Whats wrong, dont you like beef? (the text shown by npc befor you finish the quest)
endtext - thats enough, lets eat! (text that shows in quest tracker after quest is complete)
objectivetext1 - cows slain (shows in log, and tracker)
leave 2,3,and 4 blank.. we only have 1 objective
ReqitemID1,2,3,4 - 0
reqitemcount1,2,3,4, - 0
ReqKillMobOrGOId1 - 2442 (thats the cow)
leave 2,3 and 4 - 0
ReqKillMobOrGOCount1 - 5 (how many cows we need to kill)
every thing else 0 untill we get to RewMoney
RewMoney - 1000 (how much copper will be rewarded)
RewXP - 495 (how muxh XP will be rewarded)
everything else 0

now thats a ton of stuff and how do you know what to go where?? well I could copy and paste, but i dont want this post to be huge.. so its on the wiki!
every field, and what its for!!


Ok, now we have a quest that asks for you to go kill 5 cows, you can either add some cows around or force the players to hunt the world for 5 cows.. if you want a cow level use .npc spawn 2442 1 to create a cow that will be there even when you restart the server! I make my players hunt for the cows.


now who is going to hand out the quest??
find any NPC in game that you would like to start the quest.. select the NPC and type

.quest addstart 90000 (the entry of our quest)
.quest addfinish 90000 (the entry of our quest)

now i have had a few issues with the addstart crashing the server, it does add the correct fields in the data base.. but i need to restart the server.

and there it is, my first guide.. and well i'm still new so go easy

[Saridormi]

*mutters to self*...well written guide...didn't ask for rep...joined this month and contributing....

+3 rep from me. well done ^^

[Mango Jerry]

Great Guide ^^
Great job!

I get a problem when i try to add quest to a NPC: "Unit is not a valid quest giver", how do i fix it?

[devoured]

Great Guide ^^
Great job!

I get a problem when i try to add quest to a NPC: "Unit is not a valid quest giver", how do i fix it?

well thanks for the compliment, and as far as the "not a valid quest giver" error, I forgot to mention that you will need to set the npc flags to a 2 if you only want them to be a quest giver.


in game select the npc then type .npc flags 2 it will tell you you may need to rejoin, or clear the cache, relog then try to add the quest if not... delete that cache folder and try again.. sorry i left that part out.

If the NPC has other quests you shouldn't have to do that but, if your are adding the quest to a vendor or some thing you may want to check the flag setting on the wiki Creature Proto table

[Presto12]

Thanks my server is better now ^.^

[Power of Illuminati]

Nice guide, +Rep for you

About "now i have had a few issues with the addstart crashing the server, it does add the correct fields in the data base.. but i need to restart the server."
part, Not 100% sure, but it should work with a reload of the quest table and then a delete of your Cache, or something And it should work

[Juan]

In the boxes it just says (MEMO) and i can't write anything what should i do?

[Niicoboi]

nice i wil try it!

[Herleybob]

nice nice. Juan, press the memo button at the top in navicat. this will make a box pop up at the bottom.

And Nice guide!

[reddragon69g]

good guide!

[Jackie Moon]

Crashes are normal if you add seperately

a nice way of doing is .quest addboth (ID)

[Darksid]

great guide

[Tropem]

i follow the guide.. but i cant do this........ still saying No Quest Avaible when i do .quest load then i do .quest lookup 90000 says "No quest for that id" or something like it.. and i got it in Quests and i restarted server and i deleted cache.. i did .npc flag 2 ..

Im useing Sector sevens Blizz pack..

[Shichiroi]

I ask, how does these matter??

zoneID - 5
flags - 8

Since if you put em wrong, the quest won't work, am I right?? So how do I know which flags and ZoneIDs I should but to the quests?

[edded]

flags-8 means 1 time only quest
flags-4 means chain quest
idk what zoneid means