ClaytonW
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I found this room while playing around in Dugan's Dungeon in the DROD:AE editor. Why does this room exist? There is no way into it, and it is obviously not required to conquer level 14. I don't recall anyone speaking of this room ever before in the several years I've played DROD. The room itself isn't bad either, why was it left out Erik, why?

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It is mentioned actually, in the Bugs forum I think, under "Inaccessible room in level 13?" It is a discussion on inaccessible rooms and the "easter eggs" - one in level 1, one in 13, and one in 14.

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ClaytonW wrote:
I found this room while playing around in Dugan's Dungeon in the DROD:AE editor. Why does this room exist? There is no way into it, and it is obviously not required to conquer level 14. I don't recall anyone speaking of this room ever before in the several years I've played DROD. The room itself isn't bad either, why was it left out Erik, why?

Back in ancient times, I had a level editor which was much buggier than the one we have now. It had a habit of swallowing up rooms by assigning a new room the same room coordinates as another room. I think this happened to the room directly south of the room you found. The room that was previously there probably had a passageway to the north, but then the editor lost it, and I just forgot about the walled-off north room.

Mike Rimer rediscovered the room this year. I decided to leave it in as an easter egg. So have fun with those goblins and roachies!

-Erik

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I'd be interested to know how many people go back and finish this room.

Matt

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Mattcrampy wrote:
I'd be interested to know how many people go back and finish this room.

I just tried a bit--it's damn hard. I haven't yet found a good place to kill multiple goblins. I assume I'll get it eventually.

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It's a fun room - I solved it a while ago when I first go my editable dugan's dungeon - but it would be less frustrating if it had a checkpoint; I kept dying going after the last three goblins.

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ClaytonW
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I cleared it before I posted about it. It's not too hard in my opinion. I'm suprised I didn't see it until now. I've played around in Dugan's Dungeon with the editor before. But this time, I was copying rooms from it for a mini-hold. It was kinda funny, because looking at the map, I thought to myself, "Oooh, that'd be a good one to toss in!" And then I opened it, and realized I'd never seen it before.

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Eh. I was only able to try a few times. I'll throw a checkpoint in there, for sure, when I get back to it. For goblins, it's all about the sweet spot...

Well, I never claimed to be a great DROD player, just a persistent one...

Game on,

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Okay fine! I went and did it...added a checkpoint to forestall idiotic mistakes...I really hate the orb on the upper left. Let me ask...



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eytanz wrote:

Click here to view the secret text

×The lower-right goblins I killed in the lower-right corner - I found no other way to do them.

Really?



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I did it almost exactly the way that eytan described.

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eytanz wrote:
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Click here to view the secret text

×Killed the upper-left orb trio by trapping two of them in the corridors formed between the force-arrows and walls with a roach on the other side; the third I pushed at a wall. The middle goblins I killed using the wall in the bottom-center of the room - if you run below it immediately, only one goblin will get to your side, and then once he's dead you can get another over safely. The lower-right goblins I killed in the lower-right corner - I found no other way to do them.

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Not me; for one thing, I killed the upper-left group first.

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You know what wouldve been cool: if the editable version of DD was made available only to those who are registered as completing the game. Of course, I haven't yet, and I'm wondering where I can find it

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It's linked from the main DROD web page www.drod.net), but you can't edit Dugan's Dungeon until you beat it, so it won't help you anyway unless someone copied the dungeon into a new file, allowed anyone to edit it, and then sent it to you. Which it is not likely that someone would do...I'm afraid you'll just have to view it as another reward for beating the game.

Game on,

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Just to clarify the first part of Oneiromancer's answer - Once you beat DD, it becomes editable automatically.


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