New room templates for Angband 4.0+

[Nomad]

All right, here's a new batch of templates for special rooms! These will hopefully be included in 4.1, but you can play with them in 4.0 right now - just replace the current version of the room_template.txt file in the gamedata folder with the updated version attached to this post. (Unfortunately, it's not compatible with 3.5 and earlier because the header format for templates has changed.) Swapping in the new version of the file should have no effect on saved games in progress, since the templates are only referenced when a new level is generated.

The new version of room_template increases the number of templated rooms from 100 to 300, with many more non-square rooms and unusual interior layouts. Some example screens:

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The new rooms have all been tested to make sure the layouts appear correctly, but there are tons of them and it's difficult to test every possible iteration of the ones where there are multiple possible random door positions, so if you see anything that looks like it's been overly chewed up by the dungeon-generation process, grab a screenshot and I'll check if there's an error in the template.

[Nick]

Excellent - I'll have a good look at those tomorrow.

[Nomad]

There are a few quirky little things in there as well like diagonal corridors and tiny moated rooms that could probably easily be done with dungeon generation rather than templates, but I stuck them in there for now since it's an easy way to play around with them.

I also reordered the file into sections that should make it easier to pull out individual types of rooms for different level profiles:

- rectangular rooms with standard interiors
- rectangular rooms with unusual interiors
- round/oval rooms
- other basic shapes
- irregular outlines
- rooms with treasure
- rooms with specified treasures

(Though I haven't done anything about filling out the type/rating fields yet since so far as I could tell templates with values other than 1 in the type field don't get generated with the current code.)

[d_m]

These rooms look really great! Thanks!

I'm excited to start seeing these in levels. I think a lot of the mini-vaults and other interesting room types have helped make Angband interesting at shallower dungeon levels.

[Thraalbee]

Awesome! Looking forward to playtesting already

[Nick]

Those are fantastic.

I'm thinking it would be a good psychological evaluation tool to ask which is the subject's favourite. Mine is the 'Exercise in frustration' series

[Nomad]

Those are fantastic.

I'm thinking it would be a good psychological evaluation tool to ask which is the subject's favourite. Mine is the 'Exercise in frustration' series

Haha, yes, I definitely enjoyed making those. (The best part is the fact that, due to a fun quirk of the way mapping handles solid blocks, no matter what you do all six blocks will appear equally hollow until and unless you actually open the doors.)

[Zireael]

Those are fantastic!

[Malak Darkhunter]

Those are really cool!

[Nomad]

Well, with my usual timing I've managed to leave it just a fraction too late for the release of 4.0.2, but anyway, here is the new, definitive (probably) version of room_template.txt!

• 200 new layouts added for a total of 500 (which, given optional walls and random door positions, will generate a total of ~1750 unique rooms)
• new range of diamond-shaped rooms and more large oval rooms
• triangle and diamond-shaped rooms given their own section in the file
• variant forms added to many existing rooms, plus flipped/inverted versions of some asymmetrical layouts
• general improvements to connectivity to integrate odd-shaped rooms better
• fixed a few door-numbering errors (these wouldn't have caused any problems, just meant not all possible variants of a given room were being generated)

A few screenshots:

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These are compatible with all versions from 4.0 onwards - just download the attached room_template.txt file and swap it for the existing one in lib/gamedata.

[Nick]

Those look excellent. I guess I'll have to do a 4.0.3 now

[Nomad]

Those look excellent. I guess I'll have to do a 4.0.3 now

Heh. I literally finished playtesting these the night before the new release, but decided I might as well leave off uploading the file for a day or two so I could try to get a few decent screenshots first. After all, what were the odds that you were gonna release 4.0.2 before I woke up the next morning...?

[Rowan]

Man, such a huge variety of new rooms- it really does significantly add to the game, especially for those of us who die often and have to stubbornly slog through the dungeon time after time. I'm just a new guy on the forums, but I wanted you to know people appreciate your work.

[Thraalbee]

+1 to that. I find the new rooms adding much to the enjoyment of the game

[Nomad]

Glad you like them! I'm actually in the "die a lot in the first half of the game" player group myself (bad tendency to stick it out and try to fight things to the death when it really would be smarter to run away) so that's why I'm trying to do my bit for a less samey early dungeon.

I'd love to design a similar set of pits and other mini 'monster chambers' or themed rooms to add even more variety before you start getting to the big vaults, but that's a bit more complicated to implement, so it's probably going to require somebody else to do the code part first. But just let me know when people want more layout designs of any sort - they're always a lot of fun to come up with!