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********************* DUNGEON KEEPER 2: FAQ/WALKTHRU ********************
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PC Strategy Game; released 1999 UK
FAQ/WALKTHRU (Version 1.0) 24/01/2004
Author - falsehead (Sophie Cheshire). Contact me at falsehead@aol.com
Copyright stuff; this is (c) Sophie Cheshire. If you wish to use this FAQ on
your website, feel free to do so under the following conditions. a) You email
me first and let me know where it will be appearing and b) you do not alter the
content in anyway (if you need to change the formatting slightly for display
purposes that's OK).
This guide may NOT be used as part of a restricted Pay-to-Enter website or in
print unless you are prepared to pay me for its inclusion.
If I find out that any part of this FAQ has been lifted and used without credit
to me, especially if you use it to earn money, then I will be annoyed. I didn't
type all this up for the good of my health you know.
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********************************* CONTENTS *****************************
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1) INTRODUCTION/REVISION HISTORY
2) GETTING YOUR REIGN OF TERROR STARTED
a) Installation and Patch versions
b) The Controls
c) The Mentor
3) THE BASICS OF BEING EVIL...
a) Excavation and Building
b) Cash, Mana, (Marvellous)
c) Using the Hand of Evil
d) First Person Mode
e) Combat
4) BUILD A BETTER DUNGEON
a) Room List
b) Planning Dungeon Layouts
c) Room configurations for Elite Creatures (ver 1.61 - 1.7)
5) THE UNGRATEFUL DENIZENS
a) Creature List
b) Creature Comparison table
6) THE WEEDY FORCES OF GOOD
a) Hero (pah!) List
b) Hero Comparison Table
7) MAGIC and MANA
a) Researching Spells and Accumulating Mana
b) Spell List
c) Magic Items
8) PRACTICAL DUNGEON SECURITY
a) Doors
b) Traps
9) CAMPAIGN MODE WALKTHROUGH
a) Warcry
b) Enchantments
c) Greed
d) Snipers
e) Fear
f) Besieged
g) Rout
h) Caverns
i) Aftermath
j) Ambush
k) Smashing
l) Carnage
m) Scavenge
n) Conversion
o) Reap
p) Storm
q) Crusade
r) Creep
s) Angelic
t) Brotherhood
u) Interception
v) Regicide
10) SECRET LEVELS
a) Golf
b) Duckshoot
c) Maze
d) Bowling
11) MY PET DUNGEONS
a) Liberty
b) Discovery
c) Bottleneck
d) Recruits
e) Furnace
f) Masterpiece
g) Torment
11) PATCH HISTORY
a) Ver 1.51
b) Ver 1.61
c) Ver 1.70
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*************************** 1) INTRODUCTION *****************************
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INTRODUCTION - Well I am doing it and no one can stop me, ahahahah!!! Yes
Dungeon Keeper 2 is one of my favourite games of all time and I have decided to
write the definitive FAQ.  Within this document you will find pretty much all
the information you will need to play the game and play it well.  I have
included the list of controls and guide to the interface for those who may have
lost manuals and also a guide at the end to the various patches available for
the game.  The rest is my guide to the various rooms and creatures, building
strategy and a walkthrough of the main single player campaign mode.
Dungeon Keeper 2 is the sequel to the original Dungeon Keeper game that was
created by the same people who brought us such strategy classics as Theme Park
and Populous.  Although Dungeon Keeper was a great game in it's own right, it
was criticised by some for lacking focus.  Missions were simply a case of
building a big dungeon and overpowering the enemy.  Dungeon Keeper 2 is
everything you could ask for in an update, adding a coherent and challenging
Mission based campaign mode as well as large "Pet Dungeons" to play around in.
With its array of great characters, wicked sense of humour and extreme
flexibility, it really is the best strategy game ever made!
This guide was written using both the original unpatched version of the game
and also the patched version 1.7.  Anyone with any version of the game
shouldn't have difficulty following this; any new items are labelled as such to
avoid confusion.
So please enjoy this FAQ and this fabulous game!
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REVISIONS - (24/01/2004).
I sweated blood over this!  The ultimate Dungeon Keeper 2 guide and I am damn
proud of it.  There are a few little extras I plan to add, but this is as it
stands everything you need to know to play the game and more.  Just to keep in
with the humour of the game, I've written it in the style of the in-game
mentor.  I think it works!
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*************** 2) GETTING YOUR REIGN OF TERROR STARTED *****************
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Welcome Keeper, we have heard great things about you and are eager to see how
you will measure up to the challenge of enforcing the rule of evil.  But before
we begin you must face perhaps your greatest challenge, getting the game to run
on your PC.
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a) INSTALLATION and PATCHES
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Only the Dark Lord himself could have come up with such infernal architecture
as exists within the modern Personal Computer.  You may find yourself with a
computer that far outstrips the requirements and yet.. refuses to run the game
stably.  Ah well, the devil works in mysterious ways.
To run the game effectively your computer requires the following minimum
specifications.
Windows 95 or 98
Pentium 166 MHz (or equivalent)
32MB free system RAM
285MB Hard Drive Space
4 x CD ROM
2MB Video Card
It is recommended for efficient running that you actually have the following or
better.
Pentium II - 266 MHz (or equivalent)
64MB free hardware system RAM
660 hard drive space
8 x CD ROM Drive
Supported 16MB 3D Accelerator
Once the game is installed, graphics and sound options can be toggled in-game.
However before you begin, it is a good idea to install any patches you want to
the game first.
Why?
Well because installing the patches at a later date can sometimes affect your
save game data.  It is recommended that you periodically back-up your save game
directory as this can sometimes be affected if you have to Uninstall then
Re-Install the game for any reason.
There are several patches available for the game with the final one being Patch
1.7. If you check your version of the game CD you may find the patches included
with some of the budget re-release versions (for example one EA compilation
version has patch 1.51 included).  It is recommended that you install patch 1.7
if you can get it, this can be downloaded off the ea-Europe site.  This
contains all the tweaks and additions added in prior patches and also offers
the following major changes:
- New character, the Maiden of the Nest
- Improved Elite Creatures
- New traps and levels
- Better support for 3D accelerated graphics
Download from: http://dk2.ea-europe.com/
A full patch history is included at the end of this guide.  The main things you
must bear in mind is that to successfully install patch 1.7 after you have
begun a game, you should uninstall then reinstall the game.  If you have save
data that uses an older patch version then it is likely that your save data
will become unusable, so it is better to install the patch before you begin a
game.
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b) THE CONTROLS
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So Keeper you have the game up and running, but now you face another problem.
You have no manual.  Maybe you lost it, maybe you purchased the game
second-hand and it was not present, perhaps you have the budget version and
cannot get hold of Adobe Acrobat to read the manual off the CD (which you
probably lost anyway).  I am sure that evil though you are you didn't download
this game using a P2P file-sharing service...
Whatever the reason, here is the full list of controls.
GOD (!) MODE
Scroll Up  - Arrow Key UP
Scroll Down - Arrow Key DOWN
Scroll Left - Arrow Key LEFT
Scroll Right - Arrow Key RIGHT
Zoom In - HOME or CTRL+ Arrow Key UP
Zoom Out - END or CTRL+ Arrow Key DOWN
Speed Scroll - Key and SHIFT
Rotate View Left - DELETE or CTRL+ Arrow Key LEFT
Rotate View Right - PG DN or CTRL+ Arrow Key RIGHT
Pause + Options - ESC
Take Screen Shot - PRINT SCREEN
Pick up Objects (Not creatures) - PAGE UP
Send Multiplayer messages - TAB
Increase Ambient Light =
Decrease Ambient Light -
Camera Isometric - F1
Camera Top Down - F2
Camera Oblique - F3
User Camera 1 - F4
User Camera 2 - F5
User Camera 3 - F6
Ally Window - A
Zoom to next fight - F
Toggle GUI - G
Zoom To Dungeon Heart - H
Toggle Player Information - I
Map - M
Zoom To Portal - P
Camera Mouse Rotate  - X + MOUSE LEFT/ RIGHT
Camera Mouse Zoom - Z + MOUSE UP/ DOWN
Increase Gamma - SHIFT + .
Decrease Gamma - SHIFT + ,
Roll Right (Free Camera / Set User Camera) - CTRL + DELETE
Pitch Down (Free Camera / Set User Camera) - CTRL + END
Pitch Up (Free Camera / Set User Camera) - CTRL + HOME
Roll Left (Free Camera / Set User Camera) - CTRL + INSERT
Yaw Right (Free Camera / Set User Camera) - CTRL + PG DN
Yaw Left (Free Camera / Set User Camera) - CTRL + PG UP
Pick High Level Creature - CTRL + . + Click on Creature portrait
Pick Low Level Creature - CTRL + , + Click on Creature portrait
Quick Load - CTRL + L
Restart Level - CTRL + R
Quick Save - CTRL + S
POSSESSED (1ST PERSON MODE)
TOGGLE SNIPER MODE - Insert
Pick Lock/ Disarm/ Jailbreak - NUM 0
Fire - SPACE
Creep - CTRL
Run - SHIFT
Possessed Melee Select - 1
Possessed Spell Select 1 - 2
Possessed Spell Select 2 - 3
Possessed Spell Select 3 - 4
Possessed Primary Ability - 5
Possessed Secondary Ability - 6
Possessed Group Select - 7
Remove From Group - CTRL + G
In Possessed mode you actually need to hold down the relevant key then left
click the mouse to make your selection in some cases.  For example, making up a
group of possessed creatures, you must hold down 7 to get a highlight on the
creature you wish to add then left click to get it to follow you.
The screen layout seems complex, but soon becomes easy to understand.  Across
the top of the screen you will find your Dungeon Heart health icon, your
current Mana reserves, the $ payday metre, your stored gold and a scrolling
information panel.
In the bottom right left corner is the map of the dungeon, as you excavate more
lands it turns red.  Lava is marked in dark red, unclaimed and enemy land as
grey.  Rival Keepers territory is blue/green/purple/yellow.  Portals are a
flashing dot and the various circles marked on the map are the radius of
influence from certain rooms. You can click on the map to move quickly to
another area.  Around the map are four icons: ? is the query icon, $ allows you
to select areas of rooms to sell off, the PC icon takes you to the Option Menu
and the Magnifying Glass zooms in and out of your dungeon.
Next to this are your room, spell and creature management panels. The Imps
panel stays permanently displayed.  From top to bottom it shows, total number
of imps, number of imps idle, number of imps busy, number of imps fighting.
Left click on the imps panel to pick up imps quickly.
The creature symbol allows you to view the creature panel.  This shows how many
and what type of creatures you have in your dungeon.  Left click on them to
quickly pick them up, right click to just move the dungeon view to where they
are. Click on the Jobs icon to quickly see who is engaged in what activities.
Click the Fighting Panel to see who is engaged in combat or guarding the
Dungeon. Click on moods to quickly find out who is unhappy and restore their
good mood.
The Rooms Panel gives you the rooms currently available to build.  Select the
room then drag out the blueprint in an excavated and claimed area of land.  If
the frame turns red, it means it costs to much to build right now, so go get
more gold!
The Workshop Panel gives you the current selection of Doors and Traps you can
build.  Once you have selected an item and dropped to blueprint onto the
dungeon, you need to get workers into the workshop to build them.  Once the
panel is closed you can track the building of items as a sort of clock hand
moves around the Workshop icon, to find out which item, open the workshop panel
and see which has the clockhand moving around it.
Spells, like the Workshop icon this can be used to monitor the progress of
spell research and upgrades.  Here you also select spells to cast as long s you
have the Mana available to do so.
Next to these panel icons and above the panel they open is the message panel.
Here information and alerts from your Mentor will appear in written form. Right
click to get rid of them quickly.  If you are attacked by an enemy then a
battle icon will appear at the far right of the bottom area.  Right click on it
to quickly zoom to the battle.
Finally in Campaign Mode only there is the HORNY icon.  Horny is the demon who
appears to collect Portal Gems at the end of each campaign level.  If you find
a bonus level then at the end of the current level a quarter of the Horny
Talisman will fill in. Finding a piece gives you the ability to summon Horny in
the next realm.
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c) THE MENTOR
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As you play the game Keeper, the stentorian tones of the Mentor will guide you
on your way.  He is my brother and is just as keen as I to see you succeed in
your endeavours.   As your dungeons become bigger and more complex he will be
most helpful in alerting you to any problems that occur.  He will notify you if
a creature has become angry or unhappy.  He will tell you if you require bigger
rooms, he will let you know when spells have been researched and when items
have been finished in the workshop.  He will let you know if you are under
attack, or if your creatures are rebelling.  Although these notifications also
appear on the message panels, its saves valuable time hearing them from him
rather than clicking on the panels.
Sometimes you need to use your judgement as to how you follow his advice.  He
may tell you a room is too small, but if you have multiple rooms of that type,
you can ignore his advice.  Just make sure access to the rooms is easy.  If he
tells you a creature is unhappy because it hasn't been paid, check the payday
timer at the top.  If it is past halfway you can leave the creature alone, it
will be paid soon.  If payday is just gone and creatures are still unhappy,
check the locations of your treasuries, in larger dungeons your imps maybe
dumping gold in far-flung treasuries while the ones near your main areas are
empty.  Listening to your Mentor is a useful way of finding these things out.
(And sometimes he likes to have a little joke with you to.  He'll even suggest
you get some sleep if you play too late into the night and if you pause the
game for a while, prepare for sarcasm!)
It is of course up to you what actions you take, but ignoring his advice and
warnings can result in problems as you become overwhelmed with demands, fights
and forget to check on things like training, spell research and workshop
activity.  Your Mentor is an important part of your micro-management, not just
a tutorial function!
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Now Keeper, its time to familiarise yourself with the basics of the game.
The first Campaign Mode levels introduce rooms, creatures and spells to you
slowly and your mentor will give you pointers on control and combat.
If you combine this with playing around in My Pet Dungeon Mode as you progress
through campaign mode, you can experiment with different styled maps and
practise combat in a safe environment, as it becomes progressively harder in
Campaign Mode.
This is just a basic overview, more detailed information of the various
Creatures, Hero's, Security, Gold, Mana and Rooms are found in the in-depth
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a) EXCAVATION AND BUILDING
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You begin most dungeons with just your dungeon heart and four Imps.  Imps are
your magical servants, they need no food, or rest.  But they do require Mana to
keep them going.  Imps excavate rock, reinforce walls and most importantly
claim land for you.  Once a tile of land is claimed as yours, you can build on
it and it will also generate 1 point of mana for your mana reserves every turn.
Your Dungeon Heart is your most important area.  It acts as a treasury,
storing a maximum of 16,000 Gold and if it is destroyed, then that is the end
of your dungeon.  You should make your dungeon heart well fortified with doors
and traps.
Using the Hand of Evil you can select areas to excavate.  If rock has a gold or
gem seam imps will prioritise the collection of that over anything else.  You
should start by excavating fairly small room shapes connected by tunnels ready
to start laying down your network of rooms.  No creatures will appear until you
claim a Portal, these are often buried in nearby rock, but you can tell where
they are usually by a black square shadow marked in the rock.  If you wish to
spend sometime storing gold and building rooms wait and do so before you break
into that area and claim the portal.
Once the first portal is claimed it will support a maximum of 15 creatures,
further portals will allow another five each.  So if you have three portals you
can have 25 creatures through.  If one dies, another creature will come to
replace it, but will never rise above 25.  This obviously excludes skeletons,
vampires and captured Heroes, who do not arrive via a Portal.  You should also
watch for Hero Portals, if you are in campaign mode these are used for attacks
against you.
When you excavate you will find various kinds of terrain to cope with.
- Soft Rock, easily dug through by your imps
- Bedrock, thick rock you cannot dig through and nor can enemies, use it to
make natural borders to your dungeon.
- Gold Seam, shiny gold running through the rock.  Your imps will collect the
gold and run back to put it in the treasury.
- Gem Seam, usually just once square marked with multicoloured blobs.  These
can be mined infinitely for cash.  However, your imps prioritise the collection
of wealth over everything except defending the dungeon heart.  If your imps
aren't doing their other jobs, make sure you deselect the gem seam for a while!
- Water, will slow your creatures down a bit, but only vampires cannot cross
it.  Build wooden bridges across it to make traversing easier.
- Lava, only passable by Salamanders and Giants.  Use Stone Bridges to cross
permanently or wooden bridges for a quick crossing (they burn up).
- Enemy Territory, usually marked in grey.  Disarm any traps nearby so the Imps
can claim the land safely for you.
Each map will present a different dungeon building approach but a general rule
is you should keep lairs fairly small and spread out across the dungeon so
creatures can bed down near where they want to work.  Place plenty of
hatcheries about the places so they don't get unhappy and have to walk too far
for food.  The same with treasuries, if your dungeon is going to sprawl, make
sure you keep the central treasuries well stocked to prevent creatures not
being able to get their wages.  If the level is not a timed one and Gold isn't
to tight to mention, always add a casino to keep them very happy.
Also try and keep your rooms enclosed within rock walls with doorways, rather
than on open ground.  Install doors in the doorways as soon as you can, even a
lowly wooden door increases your creature's sense of security and makes them
happier.
Don't be too eager to excavate and claim territory over and above building
rooms.  You may runs into a Hero Gate and find yourself dreadfully unprepared.
Create more Imps right from the start.  Add at least one more straightaway and
another five when you have the mana.  Keep them out of danger and they will
level up and become mega-efficient. If you are nearing the end of the level and
don't need as many imps anymore drop them into the dungeon heart to reclaim
half their original mana cost.
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Speaking of mana, Keeper, Let me now tell you about this and the other thing
you need to keep your dungeon running well.  Gold.
Mana is your source of power for all magical things. In the top left corner of
the screen is your current Mana levels (number in blue).  Each square of land
you claim will generate 1 Mana point per turn.  If you claim a Mana Vault
(looks like green smoking tiles), these will add 100 Mana each turn.  If you
have built a Temple, you can get your creatures to pray there to add more mana.
Casting spells and maintaining Imps drain mana.  Some powerful spells can take
off 50,000 mana, and as you can only store 200,000 maximum its pays not to get
too trigger-happy with spells.  If you decided you don't need as many imps
anymore, drop any superfluous ones into the Dungeon Heart.  You'll save mana by
not having to keep them alive and also get a mana boost of half the Imps mana
cost.
Gold can be acquired through mining the finite seams of yellow or the permanent
Gem seams.  You can hold as much gold as you have treasury space to keep it in.
If you run out of space the gold will be left lying there, you can collect it
later when you have space though, it won't disappear.
As you get creatures into your dungeon, they will need paying.  The payday
timer is located at the top of the screen and the gold moving round its rim is
the countdown to the next payment date.  The amount that you will lose will
flash briefly in blue, make sure it doesn't take you into the red, or your
creatures will get angry.  It also costs money to train creatures in the
Training Room, but you really can't get around that.
Casino's can be used to recycle your gold through, if you "rig" the casino, you
will make money back off your creatures, but they won't be as happy.  If a
creature wins the casino Jackpot but is unable to collect, they will also get
mad.  If money is running low, collect up all your Imps and drop them in a
treasury, they may have gold they haven't deposited yet.  As an emergency
measure you can sacrifice Mana to make gold with the handy "Create Gold" spell,
or sell off rooms using the $ option in the bottom left of the screen near the
aerial map.
If you become bankrupted, your creatures will leave your dungeon rather
quickly; so effective cash management is vital, not every level has an infinite
Gem seam to mine in it.
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The hand of evil is YOUR hand Keeper.  This is you way of keeping control of
your dungeon and its minions.  As well as acting like a normal mouse pointer,
it has several modes and actions that can be discerned visually:
- If the hand is not engaged in anything, it will be open and will restlessly
move its fingers.
- If you pass it over something and left click it will pick that creature or
gold up.  If it has a creature you will see it dangling from your finger.  You
can pick up more than one at a time.  If it holds gold, it will cup itself.
Left click to drop the gold/creature again.
- If you pass the hand over a creature you can right click to slap them.
- If a pickaxe appears in the hand this is an area you can tag blue for your
imps to excavate.
- If you have selected something from the control panel, like a spell, or room,
or trap etc the finger will point.  Drag and/or drop then left click to
activate or right click to deselect. The action icon appears by the hand, if
there is a red line through it, the action cannot be performed in that place.
With the hand you interact with your creatures in two ways.  Picking them up is
useful for quickly moving them to Lairs, Hatcheries and Treasuries if they are
moaning about lack or sleep/food/cash.  You can also drop them into an area to
do work, e.g. Research in the Library or Training in the Training Room (there
is no guarantee they will always do it then though!).
You can also drop creatures near to enemies, but be warned, there is a "stun"
effect when they land and they make take damage if dropped too close to a foe.
You can also use the hand to pick up imprisoned enemies and drop them in the
torture devices or in the combat pit.
Slapping is the other way to interact with them.  This is best reserved for
your imps, as your other denizens may get angry from your abuse and leave.
Imps however will squeak and work harder with the odd slap.  The exception is
the Dark Mistress; she positively loves a damn good "right clicking". Be
careful as well with your imps, too much sadistic slapping may kill them.  Take
it out on a chicken instead; they explode in a bloody mess of feathers when
slapped (mwahahaha).
Creatures normally work at 80% efficiency.  Slapping (once) will add 10% to
that as will dropping the creature where you wish it to be working.
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Once your Warlocks have researched the Possession Spell you can cast this upon
a creature to see through their eyes.  Using the mouse to look around and the
cursor keys to move about you can stroll through your dungeon and admire your
handiwork close up.
It also has a more important function, possessing certain creatures can be
tactically useful, some have special abilities you can use while in control of
them.  Dark Elves have the ability to snipe enemies from long distances; you
can use this to quickly take out enemies from far away.  A Rogue can cloak
himself and you can use him to infiltrate enemy dungeons, he can then pick the
locks of enemy prisons and release any captured creatures inside.  You can also
use the Rogue to scout out land unseen and you can use the Troll to spot and
disarm those invisible enemy traps. Possessing a Vampire gives you access to a
wider range of spells to cast, even possessing a Dark Mistress while you
interrogate a prisoner will make them capitulate faster.
While in Possession Mode you can also group together a gang of creatures and
lead them into battle.  This is useful if you have only low-level creatures at
your disposal.  Under your direct command they become much braver and will not
flee battle.  Battle can become chaotic though, and takes some getting used to.
It is recommended that you spend time practising with Possession Mode in My
Pet Dungeon; this will make life much easier for you when it comes time to use
it in your evil Campaign!
Possessing is a great way of getting the most out of your dungeon. If you are
in a quiet period, it's nice to wander around watching your creatures having
fun in the Casino or cheering on a fight in the combat pit.  They may be
disgusting hell-spawn, but Keeper, they are YOUR disgusting hell-spawn.  Be
proud of them!
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Combat can be a pretty chaotic affair. As you have no direct control over your
forces (unless you have someone under possession) you need to put some planning
into how you approach your fights.  Each creature has a different fighting type
and functions better or worse in certain situations.  You also cannot expect
creatures to fight against overwhelming odds; most of them (except for the Dark
Mistress and skeleton) will flee if they are outnumbered.  The four types are:
- BLITZER.  These are your shock troops, these are the ones who charge the
enemy and fight quickly and viciously.  Dark Angels and Dark Mistresses fall
into this category as do the mindless skeletons and the tough Vampires.
- BLOCKER.  These are creatures that provide the next line of attack if enemies
get through the Blitzers and also provide a wall of defence.  These include the
slow but strong Bile Demons and Trolls, and the powerful Dark Knights.
- FLANKERS.  These are weaker creatures that function better in groups. They
will attack from the sides supporting the Blitzers, and overwhelming the enemy
through their numbers.  Goblins and Salamanders fall into this category.
- SUPPORT. These are the physically weak creatures that should be kept out of
close combat. They specialise in distance attacks, Warlocks with their spells
and Dark Elves with their arrows make the best support.
The Rogue and the Firefly are categorised as Flankers but really should be kept
out of combat.  Their specialities lie elsewhere.
So when planning combat first make sure your creatures have trained and
levelled up as much as you can afford or have time to do. Try and send as many
in as you can, force of numbers gives your creatures more confidence and more
fearful creatures such as Goblins will be less likely to flee when the Lord of
the Land appears. Use common sense and don't drop a load of Warlocks on the
front line and then be surprised when they are hacked to pieces.
Pay attention to training, when you can access a combat pit, do use it, as many
creatures effectiveness rises dramatically with the jump to level 5.  For
example the Dark Mistress will acquire more spells making her even more awesome!
Use your spells to support your creatures, Lightning Bolt is weak but can drop
armoured foes to the ground allowing your weaker Flankers to pile in and attack
them.  Healing also helps tip the scales in your favour, but don't get to click
happy, it can drain your mana reserves quickly.  You can see how injured a
creature is by the petals left on their mood/health flower, if they get knocked
down to two petals, heal them NOW!  Once they are at one petal they will be
incapacitated and if an Imp doesn't take them away to rest up, they will die.
So then most importantly make sure you drop Imps into the combat field
regularly, they will rush in and drag any injured foes into the Prison, and
also will take away the fallen bodies of your creatures, if they get them back
to their lair quickly enough, it will recover to fight another day.
Creatures level up to four maximum in the Training room, then they can go up to
level eight in the Combat Pit.  They can only attain level nine and ten via
level up items and combat with enemies.  To check up on their progress zoom in
so you can see a "clock-hand" moving round their health flower.  This shows you
how much further they have to go until they attain the next level.  Once a
creature is level eight it will not fight anymore in the Combat Pit nor will
others attack it.
Spells like Call to Arms allow you to quickly muster your forces in one place,
and if you have fortified your dungeon with traps these can provide extra
support.  Once again Keeper, it is recommended to experiment in My Pet Dungeon
Mode, here you can trigger Hero invasions whenever you wish and plan tactics
around a variety of terrain and situations.  With practice and some thought you
can build a truly terrifying combat force out of even the lowliest collection
of Goblins, Skeletons and Warlocks, the Lord of the land will stand no chance
when Dark Knights and Mistresses start flocking to your cause!
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*********************** 4) BUILD A BETTER DUNGEON ***********************
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Now Keeper, we have quickly covered the basics of the game, now it is time to
go into depth.  First we shall look at the various rooms you can build and how
to get the best from each of them, including in the final section the layouts
you must follow to attract the Elite Creatures to your dungeon (for those of
you with versions 1.61 and 1.7).  In this and following sections I have listed
for your convenience a shortened three-letter code for each room, which is then
used in the layout grids.  Onward!
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a) ROOM LIST
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1) DUNGEON HEART
Your Dungeon Heart is the lynchpin of every nefarious kingdom you construct.
It's health is depicted by the small heart icon at the top of the screen, if it
should come under attack its health will drop until it is destroyed, which
means you have failed the level.  So you must keep it well protected, even your
Imps will battle to protect your Dungeon Heart sacrificing themselves to keep
it safe, ah such loyalty Keeper, it makes your rotten heart glow...
Your Dungeon Heart also acts a treasury and will store up to 16,000 Gold
Pieces. It also gives your surrounding creatures a boost in confidence, the
threat factor of attacking enemies will be reduced once they enter your Dungeon
Hearts sphere of influence that is marked on the map by a circle radiating
outwards.
If you need a quick Mana boost you can also pick up and drop Imps back inside
and you'll get half their original Mana cost back.  As soon as you can do so,
fortify your Heart with heavy doors and traps, it is recommended you DON'T
excavate out the walls around it, but leave access via doorways only so you can
defend it more effectively.
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2) LAIR (Code: LAI)
Cost: 300 per tile
Attracts: Firefly
Goblin (minimum 5 tiles)
Bile Demon (minimum 9 tiles)
Minimum recommended size: 1x1 Tile
Every creature that wanders into your Dungeon and into your service needs a
place to sleep, a place where they can call home... ahhh. Creatures only
require one tile to make a lair upon, although to make keeping track of your
creatures easier it is better to build larger lairs and group them together.
Because Lairs can be any size it is better to place them in strips next to
other rooms rather than excavate specific squares. For example when you build a
library a strip down one side of three - four lairs can provide a nice resting
place for your Warlocks close to their preferred workplace.
Or you can build small Lair and hatchery rooms just "off" a larger room if you
wish to maximise wall space; e.g.
LIB LIB LIB LIB     LAI LAI LAI LAI
LIB LIB LIB LIB     HTY HTY HTY LAI
LIB LIB LIB LIB DOR HTY HTY HTY LAI
LIB LIB LIB LIB     HTY HTY HTY LAI
Keeping Lairs close to Hatcheries is generally recommended, as creatures often
want to sleep after they have eaten. Creatures will tend to head for the Lair
closest to the Portal the arrive in, so if you wish to have certain creatures
bed down in certain places, grab them and drop them onto the Lair tile and they
will happily make a new home.
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3) HATCHERY (Code: HTY)
Cost: 300 per tile
Attracts: Bile Demon (minimum 3x3 tiles)
Min recommended size: 3x3 tiles
Hatcheries can be as small as one tile and will still generate chickens for
your hungry minions to eat, but it is recommended you make them at least 3x3
tiles.  This will make a coop appear in the middle and chickens will be
replenished much faster.  You should make hatcheries small, but plentiful if
your dungeon starts to grow to a large size.  You will find getting hungry and
not being able to get to a hatchery fast enough is a sure way to put a creature
in a bad mood.
You can also use chickens to heal dungeon denizens either before you get the
Heal Spell or to save on Mana.  Drop an injured creature in the Hatchery and it
will eat and recover some health before retiring to its Lair to lick its wounds
and recover fully.
You can also use chickens to keep your captured enemies alive in Prison and in
the Torture Chamber.  Simply left-click to pick up as many chickens as you wish
and then hold them over the pathetic Hero in question, right click to keep
dropping them down and they will hungrily eat them until they crack.
(There is also the mystery of the coop, if you possess a creature and wander
into a Hatchery with a Coop, watch it closely.  It will begin to rock from side
to side, then feathers will fly, then a door will open and an egg will be fired
out of it... but what is inside? It is a mystery O Keeper!)
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4) TREASURY (Code: TRE)
Cost: 200 per tile
Attracts: Nothing
Min recommended size: 1x1 tile
Now your creatures have a place to rest and food to eat, but they also need
paying, and you need moolah to build more rooms and defences.  There are all
those lovely seams of gold to be mined, so you need to build a treasury to
store it in.  It tends to be a good idea to keep Treasuries easy to access and
in the middle of large groups of rooms.  Multiple doorways are recommended.
Basically your creatures hate to be kept waiting when they have to get their
pay, it may seem insecure, but it is better than having your minions become
angry due to lack of cash.
Because Imps prioritise the collection of money above everything except
protecting the Dungeon Heart it's a good idea not to make your treasuries too
far out of the way, as they will waste a lot of time then running back and
forth to store gold.  A good idea is to make one fairly large treasury near to
your Dungeon heart, and then if your Dungeon begins to extend a long way, add
smaller, outlying treasuries to make sure your more far-flung creatures can
reach payment.
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5) TRAINING ROOM (Code: TRR)
Cost: 500 per tile
Attracts: Salamander
Min recommended size: 3x 3 tiles
So we now have cash, food and rest covered.  Time to stop pampering those
fiends and get them working, right Keeper?!  So we need to train them, and for
this we require, a Training Room.
To maximise the efficiency of your Training Room, ensure it has walls. For
every three tiles of wall-space you have, you will add another training target,
thus increasing the amount of creatures that can train at once. Creatures can
train up to a maximum of level 4 in the Training Room, after that they can only
gain levels in actual combat, via battles or the Combat Pit.
It costs 20 Gold per turn to train a creature up, but it is recommended you do
so as much as you can afford.  Level 4 creatures make far more formidable
combatants than Level 1 ones.  Some creatures will train themselves happily
without you having to give them friendly encouragement (like dropping them in
and locking the door!).  Salamanders and Dark Knights will train themselves up
without being coerced.  Other creatures will concentrate on priorities first,
for example, Warlocks prefer to be researching spells, Dark Mistresses prefer
to be interrogating prisoners, Trolls prefer to be toiling in the Workshop and
Rogues prefer to be off exploring or gambling.
However a bit of slapping and dropping in the room should get it through to
them that you require them to level up, NOW! But use your sense, the more
Warlocks you have researching, the faster you get your spells.  If you have
traps and doors under construction, then you really should leave the Trolls
working at that. Interrogations and conversion don't require a Dark Mistress,
but they happen a lot faster with her "personal" touch, and do you really want
your Rogue in battle?  He may be better left scouting new territory.
So you see Keeper, you need trained minions, but plan access wisely.  Let the
Salamanders, Dark Elves, Goblins and Skeletons train up first, then when they
are done, it should be time to let some Warlocks, Bile Demons and Mistresses
loose in there.  Once everyone has reached level 4 and if you have no plans to
extend your forces with new skeletons or captured Heroes, then sell the
Training Room.
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6) LIBRARY (Code: LIB)
Cost: 600 per tile
Attracts: Warlock
Min recommended size: 3x3 tiles
Your magic spells need to be researched Keeper and a Library is vital to the
operation of your Dungeon.  It will quickly attract the Warlock into your realm
and his preference is for research so you will not need to coerce him into it.
Like the Training Room, it is best if you can have the room surrounded by
walls.  Wallspace generates more shelves and you can store more researched
spells in there. A nice size for a Library is 4x5 tile.  This is pretty big but
the more Warlocks you can cram in researching, the faster you get your spells!
Its best to keep your Library to the back of your Dungeon, this is because any
magical items discovered by your Imps will be stored there and you don't want
enemies capturing those. Warlocks will most likely be your primary researchers.
If you can capture an enemy wizard early on you can add him, but give him a
small library of his own as he and the Warlocks will hate working together.
Dark Angels, Vampires and The Maiden also like to research and are the best at
it, but you will probably have done all your spell research by the time they
deign to enter your Dungeon.
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7) WORKSHOP (Code: WOR)
Cost: 600 per tile
Attracts: Troll
Bile Demon (minimum 3x3 tiles)
Min recommended size: 5x5 tiles
As your Dungeons expand, they will need protection. For this a Workshop will be
yours to create Traps and Doors in. A Workshop should be at least 4x5 or 5x5
and again it should be walled to increase worker capacity and storage space.
Once a workshop is available the Workshop Icon appears on the panel.  Click on
it to open up the range of items you can build.
Bile Demons and Trolls are your best manufacturers. Both will happily work away
creating traps and doors, other creatures like Goblins can be induced to help
out, but it's best to leave the Trolls as your major workers, giving the Bile
Demons time off to train up for battle.
Building and running and effective Workshop is a complex business and is
covered in more depth in the section on Dungeon Design.
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8) GUARD ROOM (Code: GAR)
Cost: 600 per tile
Attracts: Dark Elf
Min recommended size: 1x1 tile
An important room in some dungeons and not in others.  If your dungeon has
sprawled along way out from its centre it's a good idea to put a Guard Room or
two along the further reaches.  Each tile supports one guard, so create it as
big or as small as you need.  A 3x3 guardroom is good idea and it has a decent
sphere of "alertness", this is a ring of influence that if enemies stumble into
will raise an alarm and bring nearby guards running.
A nice way to set up a Guard Room is to place a few lairs and a Hatchery next
to it and even a few treasury tiles with cash on them.  This way your Guards
can stay focused on patrolling and won't need to go all the way back to the
central dungeon area.  If you add doors, you can use this to lock down
creatures until they are ready for battle then use possession to lead them on a
raid into enemy territory.
If you are playing My Pet Dungeon then this room becomes less important, but
experiment with building them and seeing how the Guards react to invasions.
Any creature can be dropped on a Guard Room and most will then perform Guard
duties.  Dark Elves perform this as their preferred duty. Salamanders can also
be useful guards once they are done in the Training Room and you have no Combat
Pit to level them up further.  Skeletons also make good guards as they don't
require food, sleep or pay.
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9) PRISON (Code: PRI)
Cost: 750 per tile
Attracts: Skeletons
Min recommended size: 5x5 tiles
Well Keeper, your minions are fed, rested, paid and have work to occupy
themselves.  But sometimes those sickeningly righteous forces of good want to
spoil your smooth running of things.  Once you have smited them, you need to
give them your best accommodation.  So what better than a dank prison full of
rats and bones?
You may not require such a big prison as a 5x5 one, a 5x4 one is often big
enough.  Once an enemy has had its health reduced to one petal on its health
metre your imps will drag it away and place it in the dungeon.  What happens
next depends on what you want out of the following.
Do you want more skeletons?  Then let them die quickly and they will rise again
as Skeleton fighters on your side. Do you have a Graveyard and need a Vampire?
Take them straight to the Torture Room and quickly have them tortured to death,
then the imps will dump them in the graveyard and mulch them down for Vampire
fodder.  Finally if you wish to convert them to your side, heal them first in
prison either with a spell or a chicken, then take them to the torture room
until their puny will breaks.
If you want to prevent Imps putting prisoners in a particular prison, click on
the door bar to lock it down.  This makes no difference to the security of the
prison, it's just to keep Imps out if you want them to take enemies to another
prison, or let them die and become Graveyard fodder.  You can manually drop
more creatures in the prison until it reaches over capacity, but you may suffer
a jailbreak, so it's not recommended.
When a creature dies and rises as a skeleton you may have to remove it manually
if you are playing the original unpatched version of the game.  Later patches
improved the skeletons ability to walk out of the prison, with 1.7 they will
leave straight away.  They need no lairs either, just keep them away from Bile
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10) TORTURE CHAMBER (Code: TOR)
Cost: 1500
Attracts: Dark Mistress
Min recommended size: 3x3 tiles
If you don't leave your enemies to rot in prison then you can leave them in the
loving clawed hands of the Dark Mistress.  It is here you can either torture
enemies to death to gain map information and corpses for the graveyard or you
can convert enemies to join your dark cause.
When you build a torture chamber maximize its capacity by keeping it walled.
This will give you extra torture devices on the walls.  You'll get an electric
chair and some wall wheels in a small chamber, make it larger and a horizontal
wheel is added as well.
To begin torture pick up the unfortunate from the prison and make sure the
torture device is highlighted when you drop him down.  If they miss they will
be free to start attacking again and your creatures will swiftly crush him and
send him back to prison. Now once they are in a device, they will wail and
scream.  Place a Mistress nearby to speed the process up.  If your Mistresses
"client" is weak and unhealed they will die quickly and reveal map information.
If you have a graveyard the Imps will take their pathetic corpses away to rot
down for Vampire life force.
If you want an enemy to join your side, then heal them either before you place
them in the chamber or as soon as they are strapped down.  Keep an eye on their
health and if it drops to two petals heal them again with spells or chickens.
The weedier the enemy the quicker it will convert. Dwarfs and Wizards break the
fastest; Giants, Knights and Royal Guards take the longest.  But they will
break, everyone breaks... eventually.
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11) COMBAT PIT (Code: COM)
Cost: 750
Attracts: Black Knight
Min recommended size: 5x5 tiles
Now its time to let your creatures get their hands and claws bloody with some
one-on-one combat.  This allows them to rise up to level 8.  To get to levels 9
and 10 you must engage in battles with the enemy.
If you keep heroes or enemy creatures alive in your prison you can use them as
fodder for your minions in the pit.  Drop an enemy in with one of yours and
they will fight until one is knocked out. You can also pit your own creatures
against each other.  If you drop multiple creatures in they will only fight in
pairs. As they knock out one foe they turn on the next until only one is left