How do I make mobs smarter and mobs drop items

Hey all!

I need some help getting mobs to go around objects (solid objects) that are blocking its path to the player. I have looked around and I cannot seem to find a video or guide to help me. I also seem to have a problem with enemies stacking on each other. I made them solid objects, but I feel like I'm doing it wrong? This is for a top down game and not for a platform.

This also brought up how I can have items that drop from enemies not overlap each other and drop/pop out near the monsters defeated. I was wondering if there is a simple and easy way to do this? I did figured out how to make the items spawn on their position of x and y, but not near it.

Moving around solid objects in a top down game is pretty much what the Pathfinding behaviour is for, try that! I guess if you are working in a grid system then you could allocate empty spaces for dropped loot and make sure it's not occupied, pick the nearest unoccupied space to an enemy when they are killed.

Thanks! I wasn't sure if making the enemy a solid object was the best idea or not because it was too easy. I figured it was done in a way that had them distance themselves when they touched - I tend to make things seem more complicated then they really are lol.

Hmm, not sure where to start when using a grid system. Will need to look around a bit. Still learning expressions, arrays etc. They seem to be very difficult for me to understand.

You don't necessarily need to add Solid behavior to objects for Pathfinding to work. Pathfinding behavior allows to add custom obstacles.

Also, check out this addon:

Thank you Dop2000! This is very interesting! :0