Is there a way to permanently spawn/place a monster?

Okay so, I can spawn in monsters all willy-nilly. But... is there any way to make them STAY spawned?

I'm talking the handful of unique monsters you can't capture as pets. I wanna have a Bone Bird in a little enclosure, and I can spawn him in no problem, but it vanishes once the game "unloads" the chunk of the world it's in. Is there a way to assign a permanent spawn point, like how enemies always appear in the same places in dungeons/minidungeons?

(Honestly if this can be done, I'm-a use this rather than pets for the project I'm working on just cuz I'm not wild about the pet tether thing, visually, for what I wanna do.)

 

You simply have to specify that you intend the monster to be persistent. Here's a wired spawner that you can wire to a button and it will spawn a permanent nautileech every time:

/spawnitem invisiblemonsterspawner 5 '{"shortdescription":"Nautileech Spawner", "description":"Spawns Nautileech in 5 secs", "spawner":{"monsterTypes":["nautileech"],"monsterLevel":[6,6],"monsterParams":{"aggressive":true, "persistent" : true, "capturable":"true"},"position":[0,0],"positionVariance":[0,0],"frequency":[5.0,5.0],"stock":-1,"trigger":"wire","outOfSight":false}}'


You can just change the monster, level, frequency, stock, and the monster parameters to suit your needs. Good luck!

 

Hey, that seems to work just nicely... managed to rig it to spawn a single monster in an enclosed space, eliminated the spawner, and the beast stayed in place even after a little planet-hopping. Thanks, this will REALLY make my plans a lot easier!