- researched in the library (and unlocked in the campaign), in the spells menu with own icons and a radius under the pointer
- haste speeds up everything a creature does, stoneskin halves damage, invisible creatures are ignored by enemies and towers until they attack (drawn see-through), plague spreads among enemies, quake hurts and stuns enemies only, cave-in turns floor back into earth
- particles for every spell
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- studying creatures collect research points (mages and owls best, higher levels faster); studying gives less mana than before
- free play starts with the basics; campaign missions know what their story allows and can research what the next four missions would bring
- research shown in the top bar; the library's info lists the current item and what comes next; locked tools say whether they can be researched
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- forge room: creatures work there (coglings fastest), the work goes into the oldest planned trap or door; finished pieces wait as crates, imps carry and install them
- traps: spike pit, poison vent (cloud), fire jet, stone roller, alarm bell (calls creatures), rune mine (one big blast), frost glow (slows around it)
- doors: wood, iron, magic (hurls attackers back); own creatures pass, enemies smash them on their way; clicking a door with a door tool locks it for everybody
- new 'Traps' category in the toolbar, forge in the rooms; texts EN/DE, bestiary entries; atlas grown for new textures and icons
- tests: forge to installed trap, spikes hurt, doors lock and get smashed
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- projectiles get styles: arrows (shaft and fletching), cannonballs and fireballs fly in an arc, shadow, holy, arcane, rune and magic bolts with their own glow
- trails of embers, sparks, motes or smoke that drift down to the floor
- fireballs explode on the ground (flash, shock wave, embers, smoke, scorch mark), cannonballs burst into stones, dirt, sparks and smoke
- arrows stay stuck in walls (or glance off into the floor) for five minutes, at most 400; they drop out when the wall is dug away
- spells: lightning sprays sparks and scorches the floor, healing lifts green motes, level-ups and summoning rain sparkles; digging throws earth, gold pops coins
- particles are never saved and use their own random numbers
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- own towers in black obsidian and dark iron with red glowing joints, bone spikes, skulls, chains; arrow spire with a ballista, hellmouth cannon with a demon-head barrel, dark spire with horns and a crystal; every level adds parts
- soul core: a crystal heart beating lub-dub (faster when hurt, cracked at low health) held by chains on an obsidian throne, veins with a pulse across the floor, rising embers
- portals: an arch of stone and bone with a skull and horns, a vertical vortex with runes and falling sparks; grey and dead until claimed
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- dungeon creatures against knights, balanced reinforcements for the weaker side
- towers on both banks; heavy units go for them, destroyed towers are rebuilt after 25 s
- the camera slowly circles the bridge; battle sounds stay muted; the demo is never saved
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- five sprite views per kind and gear tier (front, front three-quarter, profile, back three-quarter, back), mirrored for the other three directions; chosen from the unit's facing and the camera
- units face where they walk, dig, repair or fight
- animations: imps stomp while claiming (squash on landing), swing while digging, hammer while repairing; lunges in combat, punches in training, nodding while eating, swaying while reading or praying, breathing when idle, leaning back with loads, lying in bed, chained creatures pulling at their chains, flyers flapping
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- tabs: creatures, humans (incl. cave dwarves), dungeon buildings and towers, ranks
- every unit at every level: sprite with gear, rank badge, health, attack, range, speed, wage or bounty, what attracts it
- Crookfinger's texts: loving about the creatures, disgusted about the humans (EN/DE)
- projectiles, hit sparks and splashes grow with the attacker's level, with halos from Lv 5 and glow at Lv 9+
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- 1-4 cave slots by map size, 50% each (at least one); knight treasure caves only where a mission places them
- dwarves fight intruders near the cave, never chase far, heal at home, grow with distance and the player's army, never count for victory
- rune chest: one free rune forge tower (chain bolt to three more enemies), upgradeable for gold, sold once it comes back (next mission / free play at once), unbuilt ones carry over
- new tool (key N) shown in the tower menu while a rune tower can be built or upgraded
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- missions interleaved into one story (EN/DE), new epilogue, map sizes grow to 176x176
- islands in water or lava with treasure and/or a mana spring; rivers at least four tiles wide
- sealed caves with treasure and a chained creature that joins once the cave is claimed
- new goals: rival cores, mana springs, freed creatures
- rival messages name the masters; new progress key for the new mission order
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- One opponent on maps up to 128x128, two on bigger maps; with a chance of one in two one of
them is the humans' gate instead of a rival master
- Simplified rival masters (rival.rs): own soul core and dungeon (lair, treasury to loot) that
grows ring by ring, creatures appear and get stronger over time, guard the dungeon and attack
in groups - the player, the other master or the humans' gate; a fallen core puts the master
out and frees its ground
- The humans attack everybody: waves now and then march on a rival master
- Sides for units: all other sides are enemies; towers and contested ground follow them; the
hand cannot pick up rival creatures; the flag next to a rival core attacks it
- Difficulty (easy / medium / hard) in the New Game dialog
- Colours: green and blue floors, cores, unit rings, minimap, HUD bars of the rival cores
- Victory in free games: every rival core and the gate (if any) destroyed
- Tests for setups, growth and attacks, elimination and victory, humans against rivals
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- New creatures report at the portal (2 s), walk to the lair (flyers: aerie), set up their
bed (4 s) and only then do as they like; without a reachable lair they start right away
- Payday: the training bill is paid at once; every creature goes for its wage at a random
moment within about a minute, to the nearest treasury tile holding treasure (or the core),
and takes it out of that tile; no gold = an angry creature; unreachable = paid anyway
- Tests for the arrival and the walking payday
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- Level gear is painted into five sprite variants per kind (shoulder pieces, helmet with horns
or plume, cape, gold with crown), derived from each silhouette, so it moves, sways and
flips with the unit; billboards use the 12x12 cell with the gear border
- Arrow tower: plinth, masonry courses, arrow slits, corbels, wooden platform, merlons,
pennant and ladder; cannon tower: round body with iron bands, carriage, barrel with muzzle
ring, cannon balls; magic tower: stepped base, buttresses, glowing rune bands
- Hero gate / gate of the order: plinths, banded pillars, capitals, stepped arch with
keystone, half-raised portcullis, banners of the order
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- Service: accounts with Argon2 password hashes and session tokens; the first login creates
the admin (shared savegames of before move to the admin); the admin creates and deletes
users; everybody can change the password; savegames are stored and listed per user
- Game: login page before the title (only when the service is reachable), with licence and
repository link; account page (password, logout; users for the admin); text fields with
Tab/Enter, masked passwords, browser dialog on touch screens; long status messages wrap
- Download Standalone: DungeonCraft.html with the game embedded (built in the Docker image,
served to logged-in users via nginx auth_request); works from file:// without server and
opens downloaded savegames
- Without the service (standalone, local files) there is no login, savegame files as before
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- New tool Steel (key O, orders category; campaign from mission 11): 80 gold per earth wall,
40 for a reinforced wall; riveted iron plate texture
- Heroes dig through steel 20 times slower than through earth and avoid it (path cost 300)
- Selling turns a steel wall back into a reinforced wall and refunds half the plating
- Texts EN/DE, test
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Jailers pick a prisoner nobody works on yet (their favourite work), stand next to it and
torment it; with a jailer about 28 of 40 prisoners defect instead of about 18. Test.
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- New room: aerie (key Y, rooms category, campaign from mission 7); flyers sleep there
- Arrivals: aerie 4+ bats; + torture chamber gargoyles; + library owls; big aerie and treasury
(16+ each) a rare ember wyrm; portal checks free places in lairs and aerie separately
- Flyers cross water and lava (path finding, flag, attacks), are not burnt by lava, patrol far
when idle, attack single enemies, flee to the aerie below 25% health and rest there up to 75%
- Owls shoot arcane bolts, the wyrm breathes fire with splash damage; shots from the air
- Hovering sprites with flapping, aerie floor, perches, roosts, plinths, twig and ember nests
- Room counts are recounted on load (no longer stored); tests for flying and arrivals
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- Military rank badges instead of level numbers: Lv 2-4 bronze chevrons, Lv 5-7 silver bars,
Lv 8-9 gold stars, Lv 10 gold star in a wreath; rank names in the unit info (EN/DE)
- Equipment grows with the level: shoulder pieces (bronze/silver/gold), helmets with horns
(creatures) or plumes (heroes), capes from Lv 7, glowing ring from Lv 9, aura at Lv 10
- Fix: before the first mouse move the pointer counts as (0, 0) and the edge scrolling
moved the camera at the start and after loading a savegame
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Imps already walk to the nearest treasury; the treasury display now places the delivery there
(nearest tiles that can take it) instead of the first free tiles anywhere. Test.
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- props.rs: furniture drawn near the camera every frame
- beds built by each creature on arrival, matching its kind (straw, web, starry cushion,
fur pile, chain bunk, ember cushion, rock hollow, camp bed); gone when the owner is
- training: spinning dummies, weapon racks, wobbling targets; torture: turning wheel,
iron maiden, brazier with glowing coals; temple: altar with candles and fire bowl,
candle stands; library: book shelves, lecterns with floating books while studying
- treasure chests in the treasury, closed when empty, filled with their treasure otherwise
- Soul core: stepped obsidian pedestal, four spikes with energy threads, circling runes,
unsteady pulse when hurt
- Portals: circle of standing stones with runes, column of light and rising sparks
- Floors: cracked, chipped and shattered stones, grit and crack decals
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The 3D resolution setting refers to a window 1080 device pixels high; smaller windows use a
proportionally smaller divisor (1/1 stays full resolution). Settings show the divisor in effect.
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Imps with nothing else to do (no digging, delivering, claiming, repairing or reinforcing of
their own) walk to a task of another imp and help; every 1.5 s they check for own work again.
Claiming floor keeps its priority before helping. Test.
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Imps cannot reach such corners (only diagonal to own floor); they are closed every two seconds.
Knight fortress walls do not count; the floor condition keeps it from spreading. Test.
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- Portal interval scaled by free beds (1 free: ~3x slower, 6: normal, 14: 2x faster, up to ~3x)
- Lair info shows the free beds and the arrival speed
- Test
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- With no unit in reach, towers fire at opposing towers (both sides) and the player's towers
at the gate of the order / hero gate (line of sight needed, walls block)
- Rooms, bridges, sell, flag and towers pick the floor tile under the pointer; only digging
and the hand still aim at walls
- Test for tower duels and gate fire
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- Title screen: Campaign with the list of the 20 missions (done / open / locked)
- Briefing per mission: story told by old Crookfinger (EN/DE), goals, new tools,
creatures and gold carried over; start button
- In the game: goals panel with progress (click/tap opens the briefing again), the pause menu
has a Briefing entry to read the whole briefing again
- Mission end: next mission / try again and back to the campaign; won missions and the
carry-over are stored in the browser; epilogue after the last mission
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- campaign.rs: missions as key data (size, rivers, fortresses, goals, waves, time limit, gifts);
start_mission builds the map with the generator; tools unlock step by step; the strongest
5 creatures and 20% of the gold are carried into the next mission; campaign progress type
- Map generator options (portals, treasure caves, hero gate) and meandering rivers with
knight bridges
- Mission goals: shards, gate of the order, all knights, vault loot, knight towers, waves;
time limits; waves and gate defenders only where the mission wants them
- Locked tools are shown dark and cannot be chosen; HUD shows gate/waves/time only when used
- Fix: patrol routes no longer start on tower spots
- Tests: every mission builds, its goals are possible, wave heroes reach the core
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- fortress.rs: fortress builder (masonry walls with doors, courtyard, corner towers, vault chambers
full of mixed treasure, shard chamber, gate of the order as the heart, guards, patrols)
- Knight towers shoot the player's units; creatures tear down knight towers within reach
- Patrols walk their round; guards and patrols that spot an enemy alarm the others nearby
- Imps claim knight ground (slower, not next to fighting heroes); vaults hand over their treasure,
shard chambers give the shard back; claiming alarms the knights
- Knights tear down the player's bridges near their posts
- Fix: units next to a tower could stop at the tile edge just out of melee reach
- Tests for towers, vault looting, patrols/alarm and bridge tearing
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- New veins (appended kinds): silver (common), ruby (rare), diamond (very rare, far from the core);
treasure caves contain gems; each treasure is worth a different amount per strike and per vein
- Imps carry one kind of treasure at a time
- Treasury tiles hold up to 500 each and show gold coins, silver bars, rubies or diamonds;
spending empties random treasury tiles, the soul core keeps what does not fit
- Training no longer drains gold continuously: it is billed on the next payday
- Payday is announced 20 s before (message with the cost); the HUD shows a payday countdown and
the cost of the next payday in red next to the gold counter
- Tests for the treasury and the payday bill
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- New tile kinds (appended for the savegame codec): water, lava, wooden bridge, stone bridge, core shard
- Sunken river beds with banks, bridge decks with rails, lava glow and lights
- Bridge tool (key U, rooms category): bridges grow from own ground, 30 gold/tile over water, 75 over lava
- Selling a bridge drops the units on it into the river (water: swim to the bank, lava: burn)
- Cannon blasts and punches knock units back; into lava = burnt (heroes still pay their bounty)
- Heroes cannot path through rivers; texts EN/DE; tests for bridges and lava
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- touch.rs: gesture recognition (tap, double tap, long press, drag, two-finger pan/pinch/rotate)
- Touch mode: Auto (touch device or first touch) / On / Off in Settings -> Game
- Larger interface factor on touch screens, top bar wraps, smaller minimap, fewer messages
- Toolbar grouped into categories with pop-up rows and a menu button, also on the desktop
- Long press shows information or drops held units; double tap with the hand slaps
- Savegame name via the browser's text dialog when the name field is tapped
- Touch help texts (EN/DE)
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Effects now carry start/end heights; leftover 2D height offsets that moved
projectiles and hit sparks sideways on the map are removed.
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- server/: small axum service storing savegames as files (1 MB each, 500 MB total, rate limit)
- docker compose: second container with a volume; nginx forwards /api/
- JS plugin: asynchronous HTTP requests polled by the game
- Save/Load open a list page (name field, new, overwrite, load, delete with confirmation)
- Without a reachable service the game keeps using savegame files and the browser autosave
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- pointing monster hand with the active tool's icon, grabbing hand / fist, animated backhand and punch
- active tool highlighted in the toolbar (pulsing frame, arrow)
- hand: pick up unconscious heroes on own ground, drop prisoners anywhere on own ground
(onto a free torture place = locked up), Shift+click backhand (speed-up) / punch (stun)
- fix: hint slots overflowed with the new hints; hint times are no longer saved
- test for the hand rules
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- text only at 1x/2x/4x times an integer interface factor (auto or 1-4 in the settings)
- high DPI rendering, own 2D camera in device pixels, mouse converted
- toolbar buttons 6 columns, integer icon scale, minimap integer pixels per tile
- all bars (top bar, unit/tower/gate HP) as CP437 block characters
- 3D world optionally rendered at 1/2, 1/3, 1/4 and upscaled with nearest filtering
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- generator: leitmotif as scale degrees, keys/modes, augmentation, diminution, inversion,
fragment sequences, accompaniment and drum styles; hand-written title 2, boss themes, victory 2
- organ, bell, choir, sub bass, tom, crash, harp, timpani; 8-bit samples, unused instruments stripped
- src/tracks.rs generated with categories; music director with boss themes and room moods
- all pieces validated with libopenmpt; notes checked to stay in key
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- defeated heroes are knocked out if the torture chamber has room; imps carry them in
- torture drains HP over ~100 s; ~40% defect (paladins ~25%) and become own creatures
- Jailer (6+ torture tiles): tanky melee that pulls enemies in with a chain
- temple: creatures pray for mana (more than studying) and mood
- Flame Priestess (6+ temple tiles): fireballs with splash, heals creatures and the Soul Core
- tests: prisoner chain + defect rate, temple prayer + core healing
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