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Enemies Data

This section contains data about the enemies in Super Metroid.

Folder Structure

This folder contains the main.json file, which contains data about all normal enemies, and bosses/main.json, which contains data about bosses.

Another file, bosses/scenarios.json, contains detailed data about boss fight scenarios. Those are intended to be used to create boss energy requirements based on item loadout. They are described in detail at the boss scenarios page.

Contents of an Enemies File

Enemies files follow the schema defined at /schema/m3-enemies.schema.json.

Each enemy file is an array of Enemies, and includes data about its weaknesses, immunities, damage and health, drop table, and more.

amountOfDrops

Indicates the number of individual drops (from the enemy's drops table) that are generated by killing this enemy.

areas

This property is intended to just be informative. It indicates what regions of the game have instances of this enemy.

attacks

This is an array of attack objects, each of which describes an attack of the enemy. An attack can have the following properties:

  • name: The name of the attack
  • baseDamage: The base damage done to Samus by this attack when she is wearing only the power suit
  • affectedByVaria: Indicates whether Varia suit applies its normal damage reduction to this attack. Should be considered true if missing.
  • affectedByGravity: Indicates whether Gravity suit applies its normal damage reduction to this attack. Should be considered true if missing.

drops

This is the enemy's drop table. See the wiki for an explanation of drop tables.

In an enemies file, this takes the form of an object with the following properties (with the value being a drop rate out of 102):

  • noDrop
  • smallEnergy
  • bigEnergy
  • missile
  • super
  • powerBomb

dims

An object describing the dimensions of the enemy. Contains the following properties:

  • h: "The height of the enemy in pixels.
  • w: "The width of the enemy in pixels.

farmableDrops

This is the drop table of farmable particles spawned by the enemy. It will not be present if the enemy doesn't spawn farmable particles. See the wiki for an explanation of drop tables

In an enemies file, this takes the same form as drops.

grapplable

Indicates whether Samus can use this enemy like a grapple block.

damageMultipliers

An array of objects, each of which describes a resistance or vulnerability of the enemy. This takes the form of a damage multiplier. Has the following properties:

  • weapon: The name of a weapon or weapon category
  • value: The damage multiplier that applies to the weapon or category. This is a vulnerability if more than 1, and a resistance if less than 1.

Look up weapons files for more information about weapons and weapon categories.

invul

This array contains weapons and weapon categories this enemy is invulnerable to. Look up weapons files for more information about weapons and weapon categories.