List of Enemy Types?

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I’m having trouble targeting enemies by type in the level i’m working on, because i don’t know the names of the enemy types, and the specific type i’m trying to kill I can’t target to learn its type with self:say(enemy.type).

Specifically i’m working on clash of clones and would like to target the archers.
i’ve tried “archer”, “ranger”, and “thrower”, and none of them work.

However, is there a handy reference where one can look up what each type of enemy is? If not, can someone provide a list of enemies and their types?

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You could click on an enemy to see it’s type (basically you click on a unit, then at the bottom it shows that unit’s portrait, name, and type like this):

Just make sure to lowercase the name when you check with unit.type or findByType(type).

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I figured it would be something simple like this. thank you

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On the level Clash of Clones the enemy has the same type of units as you, so you would first need to find your enemies, and then identify the different types:

enemyArchers = self.findByType("archer", self.findEnemies())

If you don’t have the findByType() method, you can do it this way:

enemies = self.findEnemies()
enemyArchers = []
for enemy in enemies:
    if enemy.type == "archer":
        # append it to the list
        enemyArchers.append(enemy)

Or with list comprehension (warning! advanced trickery! :smile:)

enemyArchers = [enemy for enemy in self.findEnemies() if enemy.type == "archer"]
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this is helpful, thank you, but what if you do not know the enemy unit type? Like for example a yak, which type would that be?

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it would be a yak. that’s the enemy type. The name is the enemy type itself.

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If you don’t know the enemy type, just click on it, as explained about 3 comments above

it would be a yak. that’s the enemy type. The name is the enemy type itself.
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Wrong. The enemy type for yaks is “sand-yak”.

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Yeah that’s what I meant, thanks for clearing that up! :+1:

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hi, for enemy.type it says there is an eror. could someone help please here. i have put dashes on the incorrect sentece

while True:
    enemy = hero.findNearestEnemy()
    # With AND, the type is only checked if enemy exists.
    ///if enemy.type == "munchkin":///
        hero.attack(enemy)
    # Find the nearest item.
    item = hero.findNearestItem()
    # Collect item if it exists and its type is "coin".
    if item.type == "coin":
        hero.moveXY(item.pos.x, item.pos.y)
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You haven’t checked if the enemy exists.