How to make a Merlinus type unit?

[Alice]

How can I replicate Merlinus’ functionality in FE8? The not gaining EXP, leveling up once automatically per chapter, and never truly dying, but just retreating.

I know I once saw a tutorial, but I can no longer find it.

[Permafrost]

There’s an FE Builder patch that lets you add extra levels to a unit. I’ve never used it, but presumably you could run a check for if your Merlinus was deployed and alive during the chapter end event and add a level if he was. If you install the Set Unit State Patch, you should be able to reverse your Merlinus’s death flag if he died with UNCR and set the value to 4.

I’m not sure if you could have your Merlinus gain no EXP other than by globally setting the attack miss EXP to 0.

[Shuusuke]

[FE8] Adding a FE7-style transporter with FEBuilder

This topic will show how to replicate FE7’s transporter behavior in FE8. I’ve seen this question asked multiple times in the Discord channel, so I decided to just make a guide and direct people to it instead. This guide assumes knowledge on FEBuilderGBA’s functions, namely, the unit placer, patches, and event editor, so they won’t be explained. It was made based on the latest FEBuilder version available at the time of this post, so it is possible that updates make things look different or add b…

[Alice]

This is exactly what I was looking for! Thanks Shuusuke