Ways to manage loot table

What would be the easiest and less time consuming ways to make loot tables for specific npcs (basically add flavor to them)?

Currently I'm just using prefab which is not super documented and doesn't allow customization, I see people mention AlphaLoot etc but they all seems to have big downsides/drawbacks... I see we can have a own loot table but that's very time consuming as well...

Any recommendations?

  On 1/4/2025 at 1:27 AM, DImentio said:

What would be the easiest and less time consuming ways to make loot tables for specific npcs (basically add flavor to them)?

Currently I'm just using prefab which is not super documented and doesn't allow customization, I see people mention AlphaLoot etc but they all seems to have big downsides/drawbacks... I see we can have a own loot table but that's very time consuming as well...

Any recommendations?

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So it really depends on a few things, most of the options are going to require some time there is no way around it. But one thing that can save time is that if you want to have a custom loot table but are okay using it for all of the NPCs, there are multiple ways even including using the own loot table and copy pasting.

Sometimes another plugin can be helpful I personally am not a fan of AlphaLoot though I do think they finally made custom profiles a possibility, which does not help yet as not all of the plugins have been updated to follow this just yet. I think BetterLoot is fine and one way you could do this easily if you are fine using the same loot table for multiple enemies you could use one of the loot tables that are not actually commonly found in the game and then just change the path on all of the presets to use this path. I want to say it's the prefabs with DM in their name if I remember correctly I can look them up to be sure if you don't find what I am talking about. This would require some kind of plugin like BetterLoot so that you can customize the config for that plugin, and then BetterNpc will use it. Another reason I use BetterLoot is other plugins recognize it the same as default loot tables.

For me the own loot table option definitely can be tricky it would be a LOT of documentation to cover but basically understanding the way Rust by default does loot tables and probabilities, which the information is out there in the interwebs, it's complicated to make yourself.

Thanks for the reply, might consider using the dm prefabs as custom loot in the future then!

  On 1/11/2025 at 11:06 PM, DImentio said:

Thanks for the reply, might consider using the dm prefabs as custom loot in the future then!

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It is a nice alternative because they don't appear in any maps that I know of outside a few creators that will sometimes place them on a custom map. Pretty rare though and the only thing I can think to look for. Otherwise you can definitely customize those loot tables in a loot plugin that plays well with other plugins like BetterLoot and then reference the NPCs accordingly to those dm crate paths.