From 0ec21154e93aeb4f2dfa271ddd19b142011536a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tegiminis <dragonmaw@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2023 16:50:46 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] fixing spawn/update to respect value type instead of
 converting to string

(cherry picked from commit 7bf869fcade0a659dcd4d42ba205871d6dc32a3a)
---
 evennia/prototypes/spawner.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/evennia/prototypes/spawner.py b/evennia/prototypes/spawner.py
index 727a1b82f8..ce2e6e8992 100644
--- a/evennia/prototypes/spawner.py
+++ b/evennia/prototypes/spawner.py
@@ -713,7 +713,7 @@ def batch_update_objects_with_prototype(
                     def _init(val, typ):
                         return init_spawn_value(
                             val,
-                            str,
+                            typ,
                             caller=caller,
                             prototype=new_prototype,
                             protfunc_raise_errors=protfunc_raise_errors,