# Are the itemgroups in the npc folder used by anything?

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**Category:** The Garage\
**Created:** [July 3, 2017, 9:50pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/are-the-itemgroups-in-the-npc-folder-used-by-anything/13964 "2017-07-03T21:50:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![BorkBorkGoesTheCode](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/borkborkgoesthecode/32/2343_2.png) [@BorkBorkGoesTheCode](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/BorkBorkGoesTheCode)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2017, 9:50pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/are-the-itemgroups-in-the-npc-folder-used-by-anything/13964/1 "2017-07-03T21:50:59Z")

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I cannot find any reference to the NC\_foo itemgroups in npc folder in the source.

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**Author:** ![Coolthulhu](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/coolthulhu/32/2446_2.png) [@Coolthulhu](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Coolthulhu)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2017, 10:33pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/are-the-itemgroups-in-the-npc-folder-used-by-anything/13964/2 "2017-07-03T22:33:29Z")

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Currently hardcoded uses by NPCs.  
SunshineDistillery proposed changing it and I went with a prototype PR, but didn’t really see much interest. [https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/pull/20616](https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/pull/20616)