Talk:Crawler

Enemy Stats

Was curious to know what I'm missing here regarding stats. I'm on my third playthrough of the game and got motivated to help edit the wiki as I come across things I feel could use an update. Comparing the stats I see in-game compared to the current ones listed here, it's clear there's a huge difference. However there are also stats I haven't seen so I'm wondering where the 'behind the scenes' stat blocks are so I can make a correct edit. Hopefully someone can help me help others help themselves!

Hello RookCY and welcome to the wiki. We've had a new patch recently and I haven't updated enemy stats yet, so the stats you see on the wiki are from Forgotten Lore, version 0.8.0.27. The short answer to 'behind the scenes' is that I datamined the stats from the game files. You can find the current values on the Enemy data page, they are displayed using Template:Enemy. Since I'm the only one using these templates atm, their documentation isn't exactly up to date either.

The long answer:

• I open up the game files (data.win)
• I use Undertale Mod tool to extract enemy data and enemy descriptions (.gml file). Think text files but up to Megabytes big.
• I manually edit the text files in Notepad+, removing some unwanted characters, then use the Replace function to separate them into lines, creating a .csv file.
• I open that .csv file in a table processor (Excel or OpenOffice Calc), copy the whole table, paste it into my Google Sheet.
• My Google Sheet contains functions that query the gamefile names, ingame names, descriptions and all the stats.
• My Google Sheet then combines all of this together back into a csv-like format but with parser function wikitext added on the side. When it does its magic, the output is a list of enemies and their values.
• I copypaste this list into Enemy data and all enemies are then updated, because the Template:Enemy is written in such a way that it automatically shows the new values on every single Enemy page.

Working with UMT is as simple as finding the correct file in a list. The Google Sheet parser requires understanding of Excel/Sheet functions and sometimes needs updating. Finally the templates use mediawiki's parser functions extension and various forms of wikitext. As you can see, it's not as simple as uploading a screenshot in this case :) If you feel overwhelmed by all this information, don't worry - there's plenty of easier editing you can help with.

Psojed (talk) 12:19, 26 May 2023 (MSK)