Got it, the (TL) tag had me curious, thanks!

Pet here means Fish...

That is ok, if they say TL it is a regular Torchlight pet. As to the two vendors, those were the regular TL2 Essential vendors, except that now they sell 'my' pets. I assumed that would be better than them not selling anything ;)

There are 2 sets of vendors that sell huge amounts of pets in the Enclave and some are tagged (TL), may be working as intended but figured I would mention it!

Some more adjustments, his pets now use the same basefile as mine, so the Synergies compatibility patch affects them as well (some might still appear, as the fish still can be caught...).

Nothing too fancy, just some global replace all and automatic deletion of lines that are identical to the ones in the base file (so it takes them from there instead of overriding them).

Ah, got it. Yes, I did not include bosses as starting pets (without any skills) like Xev did. I only have the boss version of it for sale. It just felt wrong to have bosses without powers as starter pets to me ;)

We could purchase the dragon in town, but pets are missing during character creation. Not too huge a deal, just noticed that there were there on Pet Collection (when TL2 Essentials is not overwritten) and missing when using this version that removes duplicates.

Ok, different approach, less brute force ;)

All pets and fish are still named the same, but the spawnclasses now use my pets instead. All his starting pets are now pets, so you cannot select them.

His vendors should therefore now sell my pets rather than none.

Well, maybe your understanding of what I did is different from mine. I removed all his pets and fish (by renaming them), so his merchants cannot sell them any longer. Thereby getting rid of the overlap - and maybe somewhat more, did not really check all 200 or so pets for ones that are not really an overlap, most are.

I don't know Essential all that well, so not sure who the red mage is, but I am not surprised that no one selling pets any more - other than my vendors. That is what the change does...

Will see if there is a better solution

Well, my merchants should have one...

Yeah not sure, just noticed as I went to make a Red Mage and was like AH YISSSS where is that dragon pet, never found it haha. My other friend enjoys Dragoon + Dragon pet so we noticed immediately that Xev's had issues going on.

Will have to check that, I didn't see any of his pets in the starter selection. I also renamed all his pets and fish, so the merchant spawnclass should not show them any more.

Maybe what you are seeing are my pers and fish (there could be a name overlap - obviously there is one at least for the standard pets...) ?

Maybe I have to change his spawnclass...

Tested this briefly and it seems to be incomplete unfortunately. While I do not currently have the time to check each individual pet, for sure it is missing Dragon from Xev's Pets (missing from character select, still available in the shop - Also there seem to be 2 different sets of shops going on). This leads me to believe that the Dragon and possibly other pets from Xev's (and maybe other mods) is included in TL2E but not your original Pet Collection.

Great mod that allows the option to use MPC and TL2 Essentials without having duplicate pets!