Downloads: Smarter Pets & Minions

This mod does two things:

1. Makes all pets, minions, and summoned spells behave more intelligently. All pets will now spot and react to enemies within the default screen but should not pursue them beyond the screen's edge. They will also come to your aid much more often, as the default distance to react to you taking damage was rather short in most cases.

2. Skeleton Warriors, Blood Skeletons, Skeleton Archers and Zombies now have an unlimited duration. They can die. Resummoning them when an arbitrary counter winds down doesn't add anything to the game in my opinion. After implementing this change, I found out that pets can sometimes resummon Charm spells when the cooldown runs out without desummoning the originals, creating armies of skeletons. While funny, this was obviously unbalanced so I fixed it.

If you don't like the summon spell duration changes, simply delete the Affixes and Skills folders and keep the Units folder in place.

This mod only addresses the default pets (including pet variations based on fishing), minions and summon spells. If you have any mods that add pets this will not affect them, and if you have any mods that alter the original pet skills this will likely conflict with them.

Install:

Windows XP
Extract the SmarterPets&Minions folder to %appdata%\Runic Games\Torchlight\mods\

Windows 7 & Vista
Extract the SmarterPets&Minions folder to C:\Users\YourName\AppData\Roaming\runic games\torchlight\mods\