Rooms wake their monsters as you approach, spawners turn up from the first level and burn out after a
while, and every lair has a named boss with a boss bar. The rest of the dungeon is a set of ideas, most
of them borrowed from the old dungeon card games, each one somewhere on some level.
Traps and decoys
Pressure plates and tripwires fire darts, gas, alarms, webs, rockfalls, frost, fire and ambushes - deeper kinds deeper down. Some plates are decoys; most real traps leave a tell nearby, a skull, a scorch, frost, a dead plant. Break one or sneak-use it to try to disarm it, and it might go off in your face.
Puzzle rooms
On nearly every level: mazes of narrow paths over the void, ice boards crossed in one go round their pillars, and teleport mazes. A solved puzzle blesses you for six minutes, and its hoard holds one of the seals the bottom door wants.
Encounters with a twist
Survival rooms that bar their doors until you have held out for a minute, numbered guards to be killed in order, sentries who sound the horn if they see you, mimics from the third level, and a gelatinous cube gliding down a corridor with its last meals inside.
Lairs, and false ones
Every lair has a named boss. Some sleep: sneak, and the hoard is yours. Some keep a prisoner, freed once the beast is dead, with a gift and a true rumour. And some are a pretender's, with the real one growling behind a secret wall.
Objective rooms
Set pieces with a job: the Fighting Pit, the Firechasm with its crumbling bridge and its dragon, the Fountain of Light, the Tomb Chamber and the Idol Chamber. Two jobs each, guards from the level below, a reward chest, and a way back to the surface built into the room.
Vaults and secrets
Vaults where you may take only one treasure before the cages slam shut, token vaults whose guards carry the key, secret walls, locked doors with their keys somewhere on the level - and the thing you should not touch.
The bottom
The deepest boss sleeps in a sunken arena until you set the seals won from each level on its altar, and offer gold. Beat it, and the altar can call it back, stronger each time, with a richer hoard.
Coming back
Every twelve real hours a dungeon restocks: rooms, traps and chests fill again, broken chests and doors are mended - never while someone else is inside. Replay tablets from objective rooms wake a dungeon again, harder, with a boon and a bane for everyone in it.
Loot worth the trip
Five tiers by depth: Mending, rare enchantments, armour trim templates, the netherite upgrade, and trimmed, enchanted armour at the bottom. Ordinary datapack loot tables, so a pack can change them.
