The Town and Wilderness
After you have created your character, you will begin your adventure in
the town called Outpost. Symbols appearing on your screen will
represent the walls, floor, objects, features, and creatures lurking
about. In order to direct your character through his adventure, you
will enter single character commands (see [a]).
The Global Map: Press the < to enter the global map for
wilderness travel.
Since this world is very large, it is convenient to go into global map
mode by pressing the < key, and then return to local map mode by > key
when you are at the destination. When in the wilderness, stay in safe
grids such as roads or plains; seas and lava fields are best avoided
for a while.
Many towns and dungeons await you; good ones to explore early on
include the orc caves and the Labyrinth. To the northeast of the town
of Morivant, near the center of the map, is the dread dungeon of
Angband. It is home to the Serpent of Chaos, whom you must kill in
order to win the game.
Town and Wilderness Symbols
Symbols on your map can be broken down into three categories: terrain
features such as walls, floor and doors, and trees, water and lava;
objects which can be picked up such as treasure, weapons, magical
devices, etc; and creatures which may or may not move about, but are
mostly harmful to your character's well being. Symbols specific to the
town and wilderness are shown below. Note that many creatures and
objects from the dungeon may also appear in town and you should also
review the comprehensive listing of all the various symbols which can
be found in the dungeon section (see [b]).
Terrain Shops
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# A Tree 1 Entrance to General Store
~ Shallow Water 2 Entrance to Armory
~ Deep Water 3 Entrance to Weapon Smith
~ Shallow Lava 4 Entrance to Temple
~ Deep Lava 5 Entrance to Alchemy Shop
# Mountains 6 Entrance to Magic Shop
. Floor / Road 7 Entrance to the Black Market
. Dirt 8 Entrance to your Home
. Grass 9 Entrance to Bookstore
> Dungeon Entrance 0 Entrance to the Museum
> Quest Entrance
Quest Exit
Note that trees, water (deep and shallow) and lava (deep and shallow)
may also appear in the dungeon.
The Town Level
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Outpost
The town level is where you will begin your adventure. The first time
you are in town it will be daytime (unless you are playing an undead
race who start at night), but note that the sun rises and falls as time
passes and if you enter the town at night, the town will be dark.
Fortunately, the various shops and the other special buildings are open
on a 24-hour basis.
The world includes multiple towns separated by a wilderness and many
dungeons as well. Be sure to check the various buildings in each town
to see what services are available. Some buildings will offer you
quests to complete, and reward you (lavishly?) upon success (see [c]
below).
While most people welcome this large world, it is not for everyone and
consequently, there exists an option to disable the wilderness. In this
case, you will begin life in a special town and there will only be a
single dungeon entrance to the Pits of Angband. You can set this
option during character generation (see [d]).
Your choice of town is fixed for the duration of your character's life
and will be the new default for future characters created with that
savefile. This of course may be changed by pressing = during the
creation of your next character.
The Wilderness Option
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Surface
The wilderness consists of a 97x62 tile world. Each tile is the size of
a standard dungeon level and contains themed wilderness terrain
(mountainous areas, oceans, plains, etc). There are several towns
located in various parts of the world and each town is situated in its
own wilderness square. In addition, there are numerous (too many?)
dungeon entrances in the wilderness. Again, each is located on its own
wilderness square.
The wilderness is not uninhabited and can be dangerous for the unwary.
As a general rule, the further your character gets from civilization
the more cautious he or she should be. When traveling between towns,
try to stay on the roads. These are by no means safe, but they are
safer than wandering off the beaten path. In addition, traveling is
safer during the daytime.
Since this world is very large, it is convenient to go into global map
mode by pressing the < key, and then return to local map mode by
pressing the > key when you are at the destination. In the global map,
however, you might suddenly get ambushed by monsters. In such a
situation, you cannot simply run away using the < key but you might try
escaping with a scroll of teleport.
Each of the towns contains the standard nine shops where you can
purchase your supplies for your trips into the dungeon and sell the
items you have collected. There are also special buildings offering
services for a fee. The services available and the prices charged may
vary from town to town so it can be worth hunting around for the best
prices.
The No Wilderness Option
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Town
The No Wilderness option creates a 1x1 wilderness square containing a
single town. This town contains the nine standard shops, the special
buildings and access to a limited wilderness. Some fixed quests are
also available. This option is intended to be used by players who want
to take advantage of the special buildings and fixed quests but don't
want the large wilderness and by players who need a smaller wilderness
for computer efficiency reasons.
Townspeople
The town contains many different kinds of people. There are the street
urchins, young children who will mob an adventurer for money, and seem
to come out of the woodwork when excited. Blubbering idiots are a
constant annoyance, but not harmful. Public drunks wander about the
town singing, and are of no threat to anyone. Sneaky rogues who work
for the black market are always greedily eyeing your backpack for
potential new 'purchases'... And finally, what town would be complete
without a swarm of half drunk warriors, who take offense or become
annoyed just for the fun of it.
Most of the townspeople should be avoided by the largest possible
distance when you wander from store to store. Fights will break out,
though, so be prepared. Since your character grew up in this world of
intrigue, no experience is awarded for killing the town inhabitants,
though you may acquire treasure.
One word of warning however: occasionally a creature who normally would
inhabit only the wilderness and dungeons may wander into the town.
These should generally be handled with much more caution than the
ordinary townspeople.
Shopping in Town
Your character will begin his adventure with some basic supplies, and
some extra gold with which to purchase more supplies at the town
stores. You may enter any open store and barter with the owner for
items you can afford by simply moving onto the entrance, which is
represented by a number from 1 to 9.
Shopping has been re-written for version 6.0.0. Please see [e] for up
to date help about shopping commands.
Stores do not always have everything in stock. As the game progresses,
they may get new items so check from time to time. Also, if you sell
them an item, it may get sold to a customer while you are adventuring,
so don't always expect to be able to get back everything you have sold.
Note that new store inventory will not be added while you are in town,
even if you save the game and return (However, items you just sold may
be resold at any time. In fact, there seems to be an insatiable demand
for quality items, and they can get resold rather quickly!). You must
spend time in the dungeon if you wish the store owner to clear out his
stock and acquire new items. If you have a lot of spare gold, you can
purchase every item in a store, which will induce the store owner to
bring out new stock, and perhaps even retire.
Store owners will not buy harmful or useless items. If an object is
unidentified, they will pay you some base price for it. Once they have
bought it they will immediately identify the object. If it is a good
object, they will add it to their inventory. If it was a bad bargain,
they simply throw the item away. In any case, you may receive some
knowledge of the item if another is encountered.
Object Pricing
Each store owner has three primary attributes: the maximum amount they
will pay for an object, their race and how greedy they are. Each of
these affects how much a store owner will charge for an object and how
much they are prepared to pay for something. Only the first two
attributes can be known by the player. The final factors affecting
pricing are the race, charisma and notoriety of the player.
Each object has a base value which is computed based on the quality of
the object. This base value is modified depending on the store owner's
greed (greedy store owners charge more and will pay less), your
charisma (charismatic players pay less and can charge more) and whether
or not the shopkeeper is friendly to your race (Shopkeepers are quite
distressed whenever a Balrog enters their shop!). Also, famous players
are treated favorably in the towns, but new adventurers are a dime a
dozen and make ready marks for greedy store owners. Frankly, the
shopkeepers have had enough of pretentious, know-it-all, upstarts who
think they can just buy a lantern and go kill Morgoth. Pshaw!
Finally, when selling objects, the cap on the store owner's purse is
applied so that even a favored race with a high charisma can not sell
an item for more than that amount. This cap applies only to single
items so it is possible to sell a stack of similar items for more than
the cap on the store owner's purse.
List of Shops
The General Store (1)
The General Store sells foods, drinks, some clothing, torches, lamps,
oil, shovels, picks, and spikes. All of these items and some others
can be sold back to the General store for money.
The Armory (2)
The Armory is where the town's armor is fashioned. All sorts of
protective gear may be bought and sold here.
The Weaponsmith's Shop (3)
The Weaponsmith's Shop is where the town's weapons are fashioned.
Hand and missile weapons may be purchased and sold here, along with
arrows, bolts, and shots.
The Temple (4)
The Temple deals in healing and restoration potions, as well as bless
scrolls, word of recall scrolls, some approved priestly weapons, as
well as books of Life magic for priests and paladins.
The Alchemy shop (5)
The Alchemy Shop deals in all types of potions and scrolls.
The Magic User's Shop (6)
The Magic User's Shop deals in all sorts of rings, wands, amulets,
and staves, as well as some magic books.
The Black Market (7)
The Black Market will sell and buy anything at extortionate prices.
However, it occasionally has VERY good items in it. The shopkeepers
are not known for their tolerance...
Your Home (8)
This is your house where you can store objects that you cannot carry
on your travels, or will need at a later date. See [f] for more
information.
The Bookstore (9)
The Bookstore deals in all sorts of magical books. You can purchase
and sell spellbooks for the spellcasters here.
The Museum (0)
This is a place where you can donate any item to display. Use it when
you find interesting but needless items and you want to leave it in
memory. See [g] for more information.
Special Buildings
In addition to the shops, the town will have special buildings with
custom services. The buildings vary from town to town significantly
both in terms of their name and the services they offer. Each town
contains an Inn where the player may obtain food (assuming food does
them any good) and rest for the night. Each town also contains a
building which houses the local ruler.
In addition to the inn and the ruler's house or castle, other buildings
might include libraries where you can research objects and monsters,
guilds for the various classes and magic realms, gambling dens and
casinos, temples, healers and more. Note that some buildings such as
guilds may offer preferential prices to members of their guild or offer
services which are only available to their guild. Some building owners
may offer preferential treatment to their own race or to a group of
races.
Here is a sample from a local Casino which always seems glad to take my
gold:
Materim (Human) Casino
Dice Slots
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Again(Y/N)?
Gold before game: 122651
Current Wager: 1
Current Gold: 122650
Fixed Quests
At least one building in each town will offer the player the
opportunity to undertake a quest. Such quests typically fall under the
following categories: kill a certain number of a certain type of
monster (for example kill 10 orcs), kill all the monsters in the quest
level, retrieve a certain object, and escape from the quest level. For
example:
Denegor (Human) Castle
Quest Information (Danger level: 15)
The Sewer
The sewer underneath the city has been acting strange
lately. There are rumors of monsters living beneath our
fair city. I need you to exterminate the vermin and
bring the sewer back to its normal, if dirty, self.
q) Request quest
ESC) Exit building Gold Remaining: 123k
When you request a quest, you will be given a brief description of the
quest and your objective and also an indication of its danger level (a
number which represents the dungeon level equivalence of the quest).
Note that the danger indication can be somewhat misleading since the
fixed nature of the quests allows you to apply tactics learned through
several attempts to the same situation often making successive attempts
easier. It also allows the quest designers to set up some particularly
nasty ambushes!
Once you have accepted a quest an quest entrance will appear and you
may enter the quest level. Note that you do not have to enter the quest
at that time and can delay entering until much later in the game should
you wish. Many of the quests only allow you to attempt them once per
game and you should therefore not enter them until you are confident in
your ability to succeed.
Whether you complete a quest or fail it, be sure to return to the
person who assigned the quest and report. If you were successful you
may receive a reward which will be waiting for you outside the building
when you leave. However the rewards may take other forms. If you
failed, you will receive a damning review of your performance. Note
that you may not request another quest from that person until you have
collected your reward or reported your failure. And if you do fail, the
quest granter might not be willing to trust you in the future, so you
will need to look elsewhere for fame and glory (and loot).
Note: You can not use Genocide, Mass Genocide or
Destruction inside a quest.
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Updated : Zangband DevTeam
Updated : Hengband 1.0.11
Updated : PosChengband 4.0.0