Template talk:Infobox Monster

'Always drops' and 'Other Drops' needs to go (replace with 'notable' drops?), we also need a column that lists 'Slayer XP' --Eucarya 23:36, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Could the 'Examine desc.' just say 'Examine info'? Lol, sorry about being picky, but it just doesn't look nice to me with 'desc.'. Why does the drops have to be removed? Can't just one go away and then add slayer xp? --Richard1990 00:05, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

We could take out both drops and just list them in the articles. I don't think we should add slayer xp to this template, since most monsters are not slayer monsters. We could make another 2 templates for slayer monsters if you really want that. --X1011 17:33, 7 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Srry thought I had switched to french wiki, won't do that again :P. --Whiplash 19:42, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

I got rid of the "Max hit". Imo, I just think it would be to hard to update every monster. 22:32, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I would have been willing to update most of the monsters, but ah, what the heck. It's easier to state the max hit in the article anyway. 13:57, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

Everybody's using this on their userpages
Well not everybody, but a lot of people. Also popular for userpages is Template:Infobox Item. You can tell by looking at userpages that "need image". What's up with this? -- 18:33, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Wow, seems like users are just having fun with this to describe themselves. Some of them are very interesting. Thanks for posting this....hmmm...now what can i do? Chrislee33 05:10, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
 * You don't have to do anything, it's just... seems kind of silly to me. -- 18:36, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Max Hit
I didn't see that monsters' max hits have already been discussed. I already added it to the template, but if anyone feels it doesn't belong there, feel free to revert it. 00:27, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Handling missing values
I just changed the syntax for the image, because I noticed that with the old syntax, if you had "image=" in the template call, the infobox would display nothing instead of displaying "Please add an image!". Former syntax was : My new syntax is : This fixes the problem, but it's the same with all fields : any empty value results in an empty string being displayed instead of the normal "Unknown", ie, only the values not set at all are handled properly. I noticed that this was introduced in the revision as of 00:36, 1 January 2008 should I revert all fields to the old syntax ?

NB : the problem also occurs with Template:Infobox Item, which I didn't fix yet, so you can see on Desert clothing, for instance, how the picture emplacement is empty.

NB2 : I put both templates in my sandbox, feel free to experiment with them there 21:31, 23 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Also, what do you think of adding an edit link after missing values (like I did for the max hit field)? I think it's a good call for completing the informations when you read the article. 18:27, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

HP and XP = redundant?
I really don't think we need to have an XP and an HP field, since the XP for killing the monster is 4*HP in non-hitpoint skills, and around 1.33*HP (not sure about this one) in hitpoint. This creates a redundant information, and looks quite a mess when you find out that for some monsters, XP != 4*HP.
 * So, suggestion #1 : remove XP field

In the same area, as far as I know the slayer XP = monster HP. So, what about the slayer field ? I think it should be the required slayer lvl to kill the monster, so valid values could be : No (should be automatically replaced by Not assigned in the template) or any number between 1 and 99. NB: I noticed that for a few monsters (I don't remember which ones), the slayer field has actually been set to the required slayer lvl. 20:15, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
 * So, suggestion #2 : replace slayer XP with required slayer lvl
 * Hm... if nobody reacts about this, I'm going to start implementing this and wait if some reactions come :D 19:49, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I actually thought that "Slayer" was the level rather than the XP.. and experiance just seems like extra info to add anyway, useless.. I'd say go for it. 20:11, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Ok, so I removed the XP field, replaced the "slay" field with "slaylvl", which is the required slayer lvl to kill the monster. I also edited the poisonous field so that you can enter a number (the poison starting hit) in the field for poisonous monsters. I also wrote a quite extensive documentation so that editors will know precisely what to put in every field. I hope you guys like it :) 15:06, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

I have been trying to update some slayer lvl info but when I click on edit I see a page with the number already there. So why isn't it being displayed? Sorry Im not signed in, this is Degenret01.
 * To avoid displaying a lot of erroneous information (the new slayer field doesn't have the same meaning as the old one), the slayer field name was changed : it's now "slaylvl" instead of "slay", as mentioned in the doc. 12:13, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Yea, I got the part about this being changed. What i do NOT get is why when I click the edit button I do not see Slay level, so that I may insert the info. Thats the part Im confused on. If it's too long and tedious to explain, thats ok. I'm real new to editing stuff on the internet. Degenret01 04:45, 29 Jan 2008 (ETC)
 * Oh. Well, you need to add the "slaylvl=" manually. For instance, if you have :

|HP = 40 replace it with : |HP = 40 (remove XP and slay field, and create the slaylvl field). Is it what you wanted to know? 12:12, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
 * exp = 200
 * slay = 40
 * slaylvl = 1