Mission graph with branches, mission settings and goals, map editor on the
3D view (terrain, places, units, towers, traps, forts, rivals, zones; undo,
brush, rectangle, fill, mirror), block editor with palette, nesting, live
problems, undo, copy/paste and search; test play with a script debug view;
demo campaign and built-in missions as templates.
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Editor missions keep a painted map or roll a random map per campaign run,
leave out goals they cannot have, and run their triggers in the fixed step.
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Touch clicks in menus happen on release without a swipe. The first-start
language picker is a flag grid that scrolls.
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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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 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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- 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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