Resources
Useful links
- A Quick and Dirty Guide to Custom Difficulty for Deep Rock Galactic, a CD1 guide explaining most of the fields inside CD2's
DifficultySettings. - Vanilla descriptors and default values for Hazard 5.
- Materials Guide by @TheBrain on how to test new enemy materials in Sandbox Utilities.
- Vanilla projectiles compilation by @Carrot, categorizing the vanilla projectiles by category, type and damage.
- On Pubbing With CD2 a guide by @Spy detailing which parts of CD2 are safe to be used when designing difficulties made for pubbing (so clients are not expected to have CD2).
- DRG Hazard Scaling file, for the values of the fields in
DifficultySettingfor the vanilla Hazards and some others. - Grouped cooldowns tutorial by @theBrain.
- On Deep Rock Galactic Spawn Mechanics, a guide that goes into more detail about the pool system and how the spawn points system works.
Enemy Descriptors
Original list here, updated here for S5.
| Descriptor | In-game name |
|---|---|
| ED_Barrage_Infector | Barrage Infector |
| ED_Bomber_Explosive | Mactera Fire Bomber |
| ED_Bomber_Ice | Mactera Frost Bomber |
| ED_Bomber_Rockpox_Plague | Rockpox infected Mactera Goo Bomber |
| ED_Bomber | Mactera Goo Bomber |
| ED_Butterfly | Hexawing Gniffer |
| ED_CaveLeech | Cave Leech |
| ED_Crawler | Crawler |
| ED_EggSpider | Glyphid Swarmer from breakable eggs |
| ED_FacilityTurret_Barrier | Repulsion Turret |
| ED_FacilityTurret_Burst | Burst Turret |
| ED_FacilityTurret_Sniper | Sniper Turret |
| ED_Flea | Fester Flea |
| ED_FlyingSmartRock | Flying Rocks from phase 2/3 of the Ommoran Heartstone (do not attack the player and will remain stationary if not on an escort mission) |
| ED_Grabber | Mactera Grabber |
| ED_GreatEggHunt_SpringBunny | Spring Bunny |
| ED_HydraWeed | Korlok Tyrant Weed |
| ED_InfectedMule | BET-C (Cannot be activated or trigger a fight) |
| ED_InfestationLarva | Parasite |
| ED_InsectSwarm_Spawner | Broken |
| ED_JellyBreeder_RockpoxPlague | Rockpox infected Naedocyte Breeder |
| ED_JellyBreeder | Naedocyte Breeder |
| ED_Jelly_Spawn | Naedocyte swarmer from Breeder |
| ED_Jelly_Swarmer | Naedocyte swarmer |
| ED_Mactera_Shooter_Amber | Kursite Mactera Spawn |
| ED_Mactera_Shooter_HeavyVeteran | Mactera Brundle |
| ED_Mactera_Shooter_Normal | Mactera Spawn |
| ED_Mactera_TripleShooter | Mactera Tri-Jaw |
| ED_Nisse | Yuletide Elf |
| ED_PatrolBot_Caretaker | Patrol bots spawned by Caretaker (cannot be hacked) |
| ED_PatrolBot | Patrol Bot |
| ED_PlagueLarva | Rockpox Larva |
| ED_Prospector | Prospector |
| ED_PumpkinLootBug | Lootbug |
| ED_Shark | Nyaka Trawler |
| ED_ShootingPlant | Spitball Infector |
| ED_Shredder | Rival Shredder |
| ED_SpiderSpawner | Brood Nexus |
| ED_Spider_Alarm | Unused enemy that spawns a swarm if it is not killed before burrowing |
| ED_Spider_Amber_Shooter | Kursite Acid Spitter |
| ED_Spider_Boss_Heavy | Dreadnaught Hiveguard |
| ED_Spider_Boss_TwinA | Dreadnaught Arbelist |
| ED_Spider_Boss_TwinB | Dreadnaught Hiveguard |
| ED_Spider_Buffer | Glyphid Warden |
| ED_Spider_Charger | Melee only Glyphid Praetorian |
| ED_Spider_ExploderTankGhost | Ghost from haunted cave warning |
| ED_Spider_ExploderTank_King | Crassus Detonator |
| ED_Spider_ExploderTank | Bulk Detonator |
| ED_Spider_Exploder_Rockpox_Plague | Rockpox infected Glyphid Exploder |
| ED_Spider_Exploder_Warning | Glyphid Exploder |
| ED_Spider_Exploder | Glyphid Exploder |
| ED_Spider_GruntTutorial | Tutorial Difficulty Grunt |
| ED_Spider_Grunt_Attacker | Grunt Slasher |
| ED_Spider_Grunt_Guard | Grunt Guard |
| ED_Spider_Grunt_Ice | Glacial Grunt variant |
| ED_Spider_Grunt_Mutated | Radioactive Exclusion Zone override for the Glyphid Grunt |
| ED_Spider_Grunt_RockpoxPlague | Rockpox infected grunt |
| ED_Spider_Grunt_Rock | Ebonite Glyphid Grunt |
| ED_Spider_Grunt | Base grunt (including veteran grunts) |
| ED_Spider_Hoarder | Huuli Hoarder |
| ED_Spider_Lobber | Glyphid Septic Spreader |
| ED_Spider_RapidShooter | Menace |
| ED_Spider_ShieldTank | Oppressor |
| ED_Spider_ShooterQueen | Acid Spitter Queen (will more than likely crash your game) |
| ED_Spider_Shooter_Ground | Unused Acid Spitter that shoots acid in an arc |
| ED_Spider_Shooter_Rockpox_Plague | Rockpox infected Acid Spitter |
| ED_Spider_Shooter | Acid Spitter |
| ED_Spider_Spawn | Glyphid Spawns (from Brood Nexus) |
| ED_Spider_Spitter | Web Spitter |
| ED_Spider_Stalker | Stalker |
| ED_Spider_Stinger | Glyphid Stingtail |
| ED_Spider_Swarmer_Ice | Ice Glyphid Swarmer |
| ED_Spider_Swarmer_Mutated | Radioactive Exclusion Zone override for the Glyphid Swarmer |
| ED_Spider_Swarmer_Pheromone_NOFX | Glyphid Dreadnaught Pheromone Swarmer |
| ED_Spider_Swarmer | Glyphid Swarmer |
| ED_Spider_Tank_Amber | Kursite Glyphid Praetorian |
| ED_Spider_Tank_Boss | Glyphid Dreadnaught |
| ED_Spider_Tank_HeavySpawn | Hiveguard Sentinel |
| ED_Spider_Tank_Ice | Glacial Praetorian |
| ED_Spider_Tank_Mutated | Radioactive Exclusion Zone override for the Glyphid Praetorian |
| ED_Spider_Tank_RockpoxPlague | Rockpox infected Glyphid Praetorian |
| ED_Spider_Tank_Rock | Ebonite Glyphid Praetorian |
| ED_Spider_Tank | Praetorian |
| ED_TentaclePlant | Vartok Scalebramble |
| ED_Terminator | Rival Nemesis |
| ED_TunnelSwarmer | Swarmers spawned by triggering a Glyphid Tunnel |
| ED_WalkingPlagueheart | Rockpox Corruptor |
| ED_Woodlouse_Youngling | Q'ronar Youngling |
| ED_Woodlouse | Q'ronar Shellback |