An Ashita v4 addon for FFXI that tells you, at a glance, when each mob you killed is about to repop and where to run back to catch it.
⚠️ Respawn windows and entity behavior differ between servers — YMMV. Tune the defaults for your environment.
Current version: 0.4.2
Floating "Rebirth" crystals mark each mob's spawn point, colored by time-to-pop — the default in-world marker as of v0.3.39.
- Tracks mob deaths via HPP-scan — no packet hooks, no chat scrape. It watches the entity table for HP
0with a previous non-zero, on mob entities only. - Only your kills — by default, only mobs claimed by you or your party/alliance at time of death are tracked. Random mobs killed by passers-by don't get added to the list. Toggle in the config tab or with
/dc mine. - Predicts respawn using a configurable default window (349s — based on observed claim-mob respawns; tune for your server) and per-name overrides. Quick preset buttons (349s / 960s) and
/dc presetlet you switch in two keystrokes. - Color-tiered ETA bars — fully configurable. By default: 6 bands from "Fresh Kill" red through orange / yellow / green / cyan / white at pop.
- NMs tab — auto-detects Notorious Monster kills from the death chat (FFXI omits the "The " article for NMs) and keeps a persistent kill counter with ToD per mob. NMs now also appear in the kills tab with their own respawn timer so you can track the window.
- PH auto-queue — when an NM kill is recorded (via chat), the addon automatically adds a respawn entry for its known Placeholder so you never have to manually start the PH timer.
- Sound alert — plays a sound when a tracked PH kill has 30 seconds left on its respawn timer. Only fires for confirmed PH kills, not every tracked mob.
- Kill persistence — respawn timers are saved to disk on every change and restored on load/reload/crash. A 5-minute PH timer survives a crash; so does an 8-hour NM window tracked before bed.
- Placeholder learning — records the server-side spawn slot (server_id) of every kill, so once the addon has seen the same slot host both an NM and a non-NM, it knows that non-NM is the NM's placeholder. PH kills then get a
[PH]tag on the kills tab, a chat callout ([PH for Spiny Spipi]), and tooltip naming the NM. Use/dc targetto inspect a live target's slot history before you swing. - In-world spawn markers point from your character to each mob's claim spot — the position it was at the frame you claimed it, snapshotted as a respawn proxy (mobs rarely wander far before being claimed, but can be kited hundreds of yalms before they die, so this beats the corpse location for run-backs). Colored by the same palette so a glance tells you what's about to pop. Crystals are the default flavor as of v0.3.39 — a floating FF-style "Rebirth" gem that bobs over the spot and pulses faster as the pop nears (
/dc crystal). Prefer something else? Switch to classic 3D return-arcs (/dc lines/default), an animated tracer (/dc fx), or a vertical light pillar (/dc beacon). Arc machinery vendored fromtargetlines. - Floating mob labels that ride the apex of each return-arc so you can identify which marker goes to which mob — even when you've kited halfway across the zone.
- "Keep pop visible" window — kills stay in the list for N seconds after they pop so you have time to actually look at them.
- Session-only ignore set — mute noise mobs (
/dc ignore Svana Rarab) without persisting the choice across reloads.
Default respawn, tracking + arc toggles, per-mob overrides, and a fully editable color/threshold table.
Live mob list with ETA bars, direction + yalms to corpse, single-click clear.
Auto-populated kill counter for Notorious Monsters with ToD timestamp. Right-click a row to reset the counter or un-flag the mob.
Same kills tab, but now slot 0x01074130 has been observed hosting Spiny Spipi — so the third Crawler row (the one at that slot) is tagged [PH]. Hover for the NM name; identical-name mobs at other slots stay untagged.
- Drop the
deathclock/folder intoAshita\addons\. - In game:
/addon load deathclock. /dcto toggle the window./dc helpis not a thing — see commands below.
deathclock is fully standalone. Its 3D-line machinery (drawArc, world-to-screen projection) is vendored under vendor/targetlines/ — see vendor/targetlines/NOTICE.md for attribution.
/dc toggle window
/dc show | hide
/dc list print pending kills + ETAs to chat
/dc tell [Name] share pending timers to party chat (/p)
optional Name filters to one mob (substring, case-insensitive)
/dc clear [Name] clear all, or just this mob
/dc add "Mob Name" <secs> per-mob respawn override
/dc default <secs> change global default respawn
/dc preset 349 | 960 quick-switch global default to claim (349s) or outdoor (960s) preset
/dc ignore [Name] mute this mob for the session
/dc unignore [Name] unmute (or clear all)
/dc lines toggle 3D return-arcs
/dc fx marker flavor: animated tracer arc to the spawn
/dc beacon marker flavor: vertical light pillar at the spawn
/dc crystal marker flavor: floating FF "Rebirth" gem (DEFAULT)
/dc mine toggle "only my kills" filter
/dc all toggle "always show arcs" (bypass elapsed-pct threshold)
/dc nm list print tracked NMs + counts to chat
/dc nm add <Name> manually flag a mob as NM (sweeps it from kills tab)
/dc nm reset <Name|all> reset kill counter for one NM, or all
/dc nm forget <Name> un-flag a mob as NM (so it goes back to the respawn list)
/dc lottery [Name] show measured PH-kills-per-pop + estimated pop odds for lottery NMs
/dc lottery reset [Name|all] clear collected lottery stats
/dc target inspect current target: name, server_id, slot history (NM/PH evidence)
/dc slots summary of slots with PH evidence (slot has hosted both an NM and a non-NM)
/dc slots verbose full dump of every slot observed + per-name kill counts
/dc slots tag <id> <Name> manually seed a slot/NM pair (accepts decimal or 0xHEX server_id)
/dc slots clear wipe slot_map (start placeholder learning over)
/dc mobdb toggle mobdb integration (auto-detect Notorious via its data files)
/dc test drop a TestMob entry to verify rendering
/dc diag dump last label-render error (if any)
/rt <subcmd> short alias for /dc <subcmd>
Everything below is editable from the config tab — no need to hand-edit XML:
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
tracking |
Master on/off for kill tracking |
only my kills |
When on, skip mobs claimed by others. Uses GetClaimStatus low 16 bits vs. party/alliance server IDs at the frame before death |
return arcs |
Master on/off for 3D arcs |
arc: X% elapsed |
Don't draw arcs until X% of the respawn window has elapsed. 0 + "always on" = always draw |
keep pop visible (s) |
How long popped (Ready) mobs stay in the list before auto-clearing |
default respawn (s) |
Global default if no per-mob override exists |
use mobdb |
When mobdb is installed, read its zone data files to detect Notorious mobs and auto-route them to the NMs tab on first kill. Respawn timers stay HorizonXI-tuned (349s default), since mobdb data is retail/AirSkyBoat-era |
bg opacity |
Window background transparency (0.0 = fully transparent, 1.0 = opaque) |
per-mob overrides |
Named exceptions to the default |
colors & thresholds |
Number of color bands + the percent-elapsed boundary + display color for each |
- NM detection fixed — the auto-detector now requires a real mob entity (spawn flags 16) before adding an NM. Previously it recorded any
"<name> falls to the ground."line, which also fires for KO'd players (your own character) and pets — that's why the NM tab filled with PC names. Also now reads the"<Killer> defeats <Mob>."kill-credit line as a more reliable signal. - NM tab auto-cleanup — on first load after updating, legacy non-mob entries (players/pets) are stripped automatically. Manual re-run via
/dc nm clean. "Mob evidence" = currently a mob entity, or previously logged in the spawn-slot map.
- Lottery odds tracker (
/dc lottery) — empirically measures how many placeholders you kill per NM pop on your server. Each PH kill is counted toward every NM it's a placeholder for; each NM kill banks that count as a sample and resets the counter. The readout shows pops, total PH kills, average PH-per-pop, estimated per-respawn pop chance, and the min/max/last run. Requires a known PH→NM link (kill the NM once at the slot, or declare it with/dc ph). Reset with/dc lottery reset [Name|all]. [PH]tag on in-world labels — floating spawn labels now prefix known placeholders with[PH], matching the kills tab.
- Kill persistence — respawn timers survive crashes,
/lua reload, and game restarts. Timers are saved to disk on every change and restored on load. - NMs in kills tab — NM kills now appear in the kills tab with a respawn timer in addition to the NMs tab kill counter.
- PH auto-queue — after an NM kill is recorded via chat, the addon automatically queues a respawn entry for the known Placeholder.
- Sound alert — 30-second warning sound fires when a tracked PH kill is about to respawn. Only PH kills trigger this, not every tracked mob.
- Respawn presets — 349s and 960s preset buttons in the config tab;
/dc preset 349|960command. - Outdoor preset corrected — measured at 439s on HorizonXI (was 960s retail default).
- Crystal markers as default in-world flavor.
- Initial public release.
vendor/targetlines/(thedrawArcmachinery andworldToScreenhelper) is vendored from thetargetlinesaddon — seevendor/targetlines/NOTICE.mdfor full attribution.
GPL-3.0-or-later. See LICENSE.