- caverns in free play and the campaign (mission pieces, fortresses, islands, sealed caves and dwarf caves stay untouched)
- caverns sometimes hold a pool of water or lava, veins in their walls, rarely a small treasure or a creature in chains to free
- rivers keep away from the start; test: open share, liquids and a hero path to the core
- standalone file in play/ rebuilt
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- README: logo, badges (Rust, WebAssembly, Claude Code, MIT), intro addressed to the master, features with screenshots, the household, how to play, licences and credits
- INSTALL.md: server, PWA, building, tests, savegame service and API, languages, how to refresh generated files
- BESTIARY.md generated from the game's data (tools/make_bestiary.py) with exported sprites and icons (docs/img, test export_doc_images)
- play/DungeonCraft.html: the whole game in one file to download and play offline
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- giant (from wave 6): slow and enormous, smashes doors three times as hard and wrecks traps by standing next to them
- fairy spy (from wave 3): flies, finds the dungeon's traps (marked with a glint) so the heroes wreck them, and heals heroes around it
- battle mage (from wave 4): throws fireballs with splash and blasts reinforced walls (steel resists him better)
- sprites, bestiary texts EN/DE, test: fairies find traps, giants wreck them
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- prison: captured heroes sit in cells apart from the torture chamber, do not defect and starve in time; the hand can move prisoners between cells and torture
- graveyard: the fallen are buried there; after a while some rise as revenants (undead: no food, no sleep, life drain from level 5)
- guard post: creatures hold the position and attack whatever comes into view
- arena: creatures spar in pairs for fast, free experience, at the cost of bruises
- sacrifice altar: creatures dropped on it are sacrificed; certain pairs bring a rare creature, otherwise a blessing (mood and mana)
- researched in the library, campaign unlocks, textures, furniture, texts EN/DE, bestiary
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- every kind loves one room (working there lifts the mood) and cannot stand certain other kinds; close by they sour each other's mood and now and then brawl (they stop at 30% health)
- learned abilities: imps dig faster, kobold dash, spider web, mage shadow step, ogre stomp, jailer shackle, priestess healing pulse, chainbreaker whirlwind, bat shriek, gargoyle stone form, owl volley, wyrm inferno, cogling bomb
- bestiary lists likes, hatreds and the ability (highlighted from its level on)
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- explored tiles stay known (saved compactly as bits), enemies are only drawn while in sight; sight runs along open ground, walls block it
- unexplored tiles are black blocks; units, towers, torches, furniture, portals, gate and rival cores in the dark are hidden; minimap and tile info too
- the nearest portal is known from the start; the seer's eye opens a wide area for 20 seconds without remembering it
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- 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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