Yet Another Mercenary failed to spawn! error.

[Taleason]

Originally Posted by trevius

All you should need to do in order to enable mercs is this:

1. Set the AllowMercs rule to true.
2. Create a Merc Merchant NPC that is class 71.
3. Add the NPC ID of the Merc Merchant to the merc_merchant_entries table. (an example is merc_merchant_entry_id = 1, merc_merchant_template_id = 1, and merchant_id = 123456, where 123456 is the NPC ID of the Merc Merchant)
4. Restart your server.

That should be it. If that is not working, then there may be something else wrong with your merc tables (such as a missing update). If you ran the mercs.sql file, then you overwrote some of the updates since that file was created and your queries will fail. Make sure you also applied all merc related sql from after that change as well (which I think are the ones in the git/required folder). The only one I know of for sure offhand is the specialabilities field updates for mercs.

I used this to get mercs working for me... ymmv

UPDATE `rule_values` SET `rule_value` = 'true' WHERE `rule_name` = 'Mercs:AllowMercs';
UPDATE `npc_types` SET `class` = 71 WHERE `lastname` LIKE '%Mercenary Liaison%';