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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Unicode glyph lookup instead of CP437 codes, rope and double-strand
frames with clean title ends, progress bars in eighth blocks.
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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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- 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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- 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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