- 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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- manifest.webmanifest (full screen, any orientation), icons 192/512/maskable/apple-touch
- sw.js: network first, cache as offline fallback, the savegame API is never cached
- registered only over HTTPS or on localhost; nginx serves the manifest type
- README: installing, HTTPS requirement
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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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- New Game dialog with map width/height (steps of 32), remembered in settings
- map dimensions are per game; renderer chunks, minimap and camera follow them
- content scales with area; grace period grows with the distance to the Hero Gate
- treasure caves with rich gold, guarded by hero squads that hold their post
- marked blocks: translucent yellow box with outline on all edges
- savegame v2: packed run-length encoded tiles (256x256 map ~320 KB), v1 still loads
- tests: savegame round trip on 96x128, 256x256 generation/simulation/save
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- src/xm.rs: FastTracker 2 XM and ProTracker MOD replayer (verified against libopenmpt)
- src/audio.rs: music players with crossfade + effect voices, rendered on demand
- src/sfx.rs: 29 synthesised chip sound effects
- www/dc_plugin.js: AudioContext started on first input, streams samples from WASM
- music follows the game: title, rotating build tracks, battle, gate assault, jingles
- macroquad audio removed; all tests run natively with cargo test
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tools/compose_music.py synthesises chip instruments and writes FastTracker 2 XM files
(editable in MilkyTracker). The title leitmotif runs through all pieces: title,
three build tracks, two battle tracks, victory and defeat jingles.
Validated with libopenmpt; instrument tuning checked (A4 = 440 Hz).
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- title screen (continue/new/load/settings/help) and Esc pause menu
- settings: language & sound, camera, graphics, game, rebindable keys;
stored in localStorage and in every savegame (always applied on load)
- savegames as JSON (.dcsave): download, load via file picker or drag & drop
- autosave to localStorage every 2 minutes and when the tab is hidden/closed
- configurable wall detail, light count, interface size, game speed, hints
- audio behind a cargo feature so native tests run (cargo test --no-default-features)
- savegame round-trip test
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- in-game texts moved to lang/en.lang and lang/de.lang (key = text, placeholders)
- game logic emits message keys + args, translated at display time
- localStorage access via own miniquad JS plugin (www/dc_plugin.js)
- code comments, DESIGN.md, CREDITS.md translated; README.md added
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