No loot on new server

[Cyrus01]

(deleted previous post that was erroneously posted into General Server Discusison)

Just recreated a new EQEMU private local server using the instructions here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn711Rt4I20

Managed to get it up and running and logging in using ROF2 client.

However, I noticed that mobs were only dropping coin and no loot.

Even using the #npcloot command on multiple mobs only shows coin and nothing else.

In HeidiSQL, the 4 tables - loottable / loottable_entries / lootdrop / lootdorp_entries all have data.

Anyone can shed some light on this? Many thanks!

[Cyrus01]

Update 1:
Made the following changes to somehow activate loot again:
1. lootdrop_entries > chance: increased this to 5 instead of 0.xx
2. loottable_entries > droplimit: changed this to 0
3. loottable_entries > mindrop: changed this to 1

For some weird reasons, this fixed the issue. Weird thing is though, I can't replicate it - I backuped this 'working' peq and created a new peq, did the same fixes, but items still did not drop. I loaded back the 'working' peq and items dropped again.

It's a mystery.

[Cyrus01]

Update 2:
I managed to get loot working again, this time without the need to edit any of the loottable or lootdrop tables.

It seems the tools to create the PEQ tables found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn711Rt4I20 are missing some connections.

When I used the latest PEQ db found here: https://db.eqemu.dev/ it worked without needing to edit the loottable/lootdrop tables.

Just putting this here in case anyone else faces a similar issue but this has been resolved for now.