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the game is significantly different from either virtually all roguelikes within a total of ways. Its interface is heavy mouse-depending. Numbers of commands can't exist as entered by using a keyboard a least bit, whereas traditional roguelikes come usally controlled entirely by keyboard sustaining the mouse existence utilized as a secondary input, in case in the least. Castle of the Winds too allows a streaming video player to save a game at any point, & to restore protected games fallowing death — features never seen within the traditional roguelike game.

Magic

the game tends to favour a apply of magic around combat, when spells come a single weapons that act from either a few feet away (no bows). the streaming video player character automatically profits a spell sustaining every level-up, and could for even good benefit an additional using the corresponding book (obtained or purchased), until he learns all the Thirty spells that he might study. (A maximal level is besides Thirty.) There are quaternity types of elementary damage: cold vs. fire, & lightning vs. acid/poison. (A streaming video player has there is no acid/poison attacks.) A spells come divided into septet categories:

Attack Spells Magic Arrow: A basic wizardly attack, light & non-elemental, affecting 1 target monster. Cold Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Fire Bolt: Other right, elementary attacks, too affecting a single target monster. Non counting elementary strengths & weaknesses, fire is stronger so lightning which is stronger so cold. Cold Ball, Ball Lightning, Fireball: Have a blast radius of of these square. Wash damage same to the corresponding bolt at its center, & half as much damage in the eight adjacent squares. When by having a bolts, fire is stronger so lightning which is stronger so cold. Sleep Monster: Puts a single target monster to sleep. Occasionally monsters & 100% bosses come resistant & 100% may wake up within astir x transactions or even after attacked. Slow Monster: Slows a target monster's movement & attacks to half. Bosses come resistant. Another cast reduces a speed to 1/3, so to 1/4 then in. A few monsters, such as devils, might never move at to a lesser degree half the speed. Transmogrify Monster: the monster targeted may vary into a different monster haphazardly. It can transform into any animal except the boss. Again, bosses come resistant. Proportional health is preserved, that is, the transmogrified hill giant which experienced half of its to the full health might however keep close at hand half of its health. Defense Spells Shield: Temporarily increases a streaming video player's armour value. Casting a spell multiple days may fold, that is, increase it higher & higher. Resist Cold, Resist Fire, Resist Lightning: Temporarily lessens by half a damage a streaming video player sustains from either these elementary attacks. Healing Spells Recover Minor Wounds, Recover Medium Wounds, Recover Major Wounds: Severally recover 20%, 40% & 60% of the user's easy lay health or even 8/16/24 hp, whichever is higher. Healing: Restores a streaming video player to to the full hit points. Neutralize Poison: Ends poisoning. Although a spell has a equivalent mana cost as Recover Medium Wounds, these are efficacious against any nature and severity of poisoning, potentially that inflicted by Green Dragons. It might non recover any damage inflicted per poison before a spell's utilize. Movement Spells Phase Door, Teleport: Both move a streaming video player to random locations on the equivalent floor, however Teleport is protracted-range. Levitation: Makes a streaming video player imperviable to non-magical traps. That is, all about except glyphs of warding & teleporter traps. Runic letter of Go to: Carries a streaming video player from either either a dungeon to town, or even from town to the deepest visited level of the dungeon. Fallowing casting this spell, the user may want to hold off a patch prior to existence teleported. Divination Spells Second sight: Fills in the streaming video player's map of the 10x10 vicinity anywhere on the floor, including any traps & secret doors. Detect Objects: Reveals altogether movable things on the floor, except victims carried by monsters. Detect Traps: Reveals everthing traps in Tenner tiles, & has the decreasing risk to reveal other distant traps. Detect Monsters: Reveals 100% monsters, wherever it is, for Half-hour. Carries in from either floor to floor should a user move. Identify: Reveals enchantments/curses or even even lack thereof in an object, & reveals the total of charges of a wand or staff. Miscellaneous Spells Dislodge Curse: Makes the unsaved object "uncursed," meaning that a streaming video player potty require it slay. Usually, doomed things can't become flushed when fictitious. Its veto results are non flushed, & these are however vile. Weak: Reveals the room, or even even the 3x3 locality of corridor, including any monsters or objects that can be in it. (Rooms & corridors come distinguished does'nt by structure, however by different types of floors using different colours & descriptions.) Non-Character Spells (which might just exist as cast by things like scrolls & wands) Produce Traps: Fills a floor squares adjacent to the streaming video player (as much as eight) by having traps. In case a streaming video player so casts Detect Traps & Levitation, he potty ordinarily disarm a traps sustaining minimum danger, & benefit own household budget for disarming the two. Cast sole by doomed things. Clone Monster: Creates the fit duplicate of the monster; efficacious potentially in bosses. the select few players let it run to benefit extra own household budget & treasure against monsters which unremarkably carry a high own experience value & very much of treasure. Cast exclusively by unsaved things. Teleport Away: Similar to Teleport, however infects a target monster like than the streaming video player. Haste Monster: Reverse of Slow Monster. Cast just by unsaved things. Summon Monster, Summon Undead (ex-directory in the Spell Directory): Produce the random monster in the space next to the caster.

Items and the inventory system

Castle has the super sophisticated inventory body, limiting the streaming video player's batch according to weight (measured around grams) and bulk (measured within cubic centimetres) rather than total of things, & letting a character to apply different types of containers when packs. A item types come when follows: Containers Packs & Bags (microscopic, medium & big), apiece with the weight & bulk of their have + that of their contents, & the utmost weight & bulk. Chests (microscopic, medium & big), which occupy their maximal bulk disregardless of how else fully it is. Belts, which have a fixed total of slots additionally to the maximal weight & bulk. A Utility Belt & Wand Quiver Belt use at times specialty slots that might hang on to single specific types of things. Potions, Scrolls, Books & Wands could simply exist as activated whilst on the belt, worn in situ of the belt, or even carried in the Yours free! Hand. Purses, which function a equivalent way when packs, using high capacity, however may merely carry money. Enchanted Packs of Holding (microscopic, medium & big), a sole wizard containers, which weigh less & choose higher less space than their contents. Enchanted Packs repel every more magnetically, and so unlike wholly more containers, it might non nest. Wearable items Suits of Armour of numerous types, like Leather Armour, Studded Leather, Ring armor, Splint Mail, Shell Mail, Shell Armour, Elven Chain Mail & Meteoric Steel Shell Armour. Shields processed of many materials (Wooden, Iron, Steel, Meteoric Steel), both of which may be little, medium or even big. Helmets within Leather, Iron, Steel & Meteoric Steel. The Helmet of Detect Monsters besides lives. Bracers & Gauntlets. Enchanted bracers might universally increase armour class, enchanted gauntlets might increase nature & severity, manual dexterity, armour class or even two risk to hit and damage. Boots, which add a little total of Armour Value, & whenever enchanted, can besides increase a streaming video player's speed or even reason him to levitate. Unsaved boots might slow a streaming video player down. Everthing boots come mass produced of leather, unlike another RPGs which include chain boots, etc. Cloaks, which are worn under armour & provide the little total of Armour Value. Enchanted Capes of Protection come cloaks using an possibly higher Armour Value boots. Rings and Amulets. Enchanted rings might raise of these attribute or even even armour class, enchanted talisman might increase a trend lines to an element or undead stat draining. Unredeemed talisman might set boundaries the carrying capacity ("Cursed amulet of burden") or even may reduce the trend lines to an element. Many types of weapons, by owning the wide kind of conceivable enchantments & curses, however 100% reaching simply into adjacent squares (there is no bows etc.) the strongest weapons come both-bimanual blade, which may non become wielded when professional people hang on to a shield. A 2nd strongest come bogus steel. Staffs, which can work each when wands & when weapons. the spells staffs might cast come different to people a wand could cast. Things to exist as Activated Potions and Scrolls, with the wide kind of wizard results. Healing spells, Detect Objects, Detect Monsters & Detect Traps may be performed by two potions & scrolls; Levitation is performed lone by the potion; & more spells in the game simply by scrolls. Additionally, Scrolls of Map Quadrant & Map Level survive, & occasionally favorite potions restore Mana or even even allow a character to benefit own experience or for good increase attributes. Books, each containing a spell that the streaming video player potty view. The streaming video player might instantly recognize the book for the spell he already knows, then may universally see something freshly from either an unidentified spellbook. Wands, which cast a spell & have a certain total of charges. Scraps of parchment, at three key points in the story, to each one displaying the message while Activated (underst&) and crumble subsequently.

About each item inside a game may be rule, cursed or even enchanted, using curses & enchantments working the equivalent way is in Nethack. Although things don't break around have, numerous may be broken or even rusted retired whilst a streaming video player finds the two. Since rings, talisman, potions, scrolls, wands & staffs come valued single for their magic results, a non-magical Ring of Adornment, Necklace of Adornment, Distillation of A water supply, Blank Scroll, Dead Staff & Dead Wand come likewise unworthy. Numbers of things in the game may be known as, then professional people potty call for your computers brand "Excalibur" if you wish.

Monsters
A Ninety types of monsters in the game include: Animals, ranging from a simply nettlesome Giant Rat and Giant Bat to the ferocious Cave Bear and White Wolf. Dragons of six different ages, by having increasing strengths. (Dragons don't actually age around-game, because based on data from legend this requires hundreds of years.) Dragons come of iv different colours, for each one by owning its have elementary attack: Red (breathe fire) Blue (breathe lightning) White (breathe cold) Green (breathe poison flatulency; least fatal whenever Neutralize Poison spell is known) Devils, which can open gates to summon their allies Elementals: Air, Water, Fire, Earth, Dust, Ice, Magma Giants of five types Human and humanoid monsters such as: The Evil Warrior and Berserker (fight hand-to-hand) The Brigand (fires arrows) The Wizard and Necromancer, who may cast: Slow, Summon Monster (Sorcerous)/Summon Undead (Necromancer), Phase Door, Teleport, a trey bolts, & Recover Medium Wounds. The Smirking Sneak Thief (who might steal things then teleport away) The Kobold (a midget, feeble mechanical man) The Vast Ogre The Sick Troll Goblins (including the infirm basic Hob, a Goblin Fighter & a Hobgoblin). Undead, many of whom develop attribute-draining attacks; A few irregular, occasionally lasting. Lamia come virtually all mighty, & could suck your computers easy lay HP away. The Rat-Human, Wolf-Werewolf, Bear-Human & Bull-Man Animated Statues within wood, bronze, iron & marble. The Gunk (fast, resistant to physical but not wizardly attacks) The Carrion Creeper & Manticore, both fantasy beasts The Gelatinous Glob (close to a equivalent monster known around Dungeons & Dragons as the Gelatinous Cube)

Character attributes
A streaming video player's iv attributes are represented not by counts, however by a bar graph, by owning blue & green bar representing the value prior even to & fallowing any item enchantments, curses or drains. A attributes come: Nature and severity — determines how else tremendously damage is neutralize h&-to-hand combat, and a Maximal Weight a streaming video player potty carry. (A Maximal Bulk is fixed at 1,000,000 cm³ &, within practice, is non the limiting factor.) Sleight — determines how else inside all probability the streaming video streaming video player is to hit & to prevent the hit in h&-to-hand combat, and gives the player the risk to make sure your not damage after he sets off a trap. Besides infects Armor Value. Intelligence — determines a streaming video player's maximal Mana. Constitution — determines a streaming video player's maximal Hit Points. Whenever the streaming video player's Constitution lessens as well far beneath its base level, he dies. (Note: Whenever a stats come inside just about a mile of norm, it give the equivalent symptom as an "average" stat, potentially fallowing gaining numerous levels. And then for a virtually all away from your computers stats, maximize deuce and balance a more 2. Nature & severity and Manual dexterity come skillful options because it own multiple results.)

A more standard characteristics include: Special attributes (resistances/vulnerabilities to Cold, Fire, Lightning & Drain Life, vulnerability to Acid, & Levitating). Hit Points. (A Lamia may, by biting a streaming video player, decrease a maximal Hit Points, however these additional points come simply temporarily blocked & hidden: it may be restored by camping the Temple of Odin.) Mana: a streaming video player's reserve of sorcerous energy. A streaming video player may cast spells that redo Manthe into a negative, risking a irregular however possibly calamitous drop by Constitution. Armour Value: Defense against physical damage, a cooperative aggregate of armour, braces, gauntlets, cloak, boots, helmet, shield, & enchantments/curses. Weight & Bulk: A streaming video player's system weight & bulk are non counted on text, single a things he is wearing or even carrying. Copper: This includes money carried in a purse & in dump at the bank.

Towns and Dungeons
When a story progresses, a setting changes twice; there are so trey towns, for each one using its have dungeon nearby. the game has a aggregate of Xl dungeon levels, a few every which way generated, others pre-designed.

The Tiny Hamlet and the Abandoned Mine
the streaming video player begins around a lilliputian hamlet, nigh which he utilized to survive. His domestic has been destroyed & his godparents flushed. A 1st dungeon he might travel to at this instance is an abandoned mine overrun by having animals & a few infirm undead monsters. These are quaternary levels deep & features there is no emboss battles or even right things.

A buildings in the hamlet come when follows: A Temple of Odin, which offers healing spells and restoration of drained attributes whether irregular or even lasting likewise when Dislodge Curse & Runic letter of Link to, for the price. '''Olaf's Junk Store, which sells nothing however may acquire anything, including a "worthless" things that more merchandiser reject, for which it pays Twenty-five copper pieces (CP). But, it might non pay supplementary than Xxv CP for an item, possibly while more merchandiser might. Within a bit of events, like boots & cloaks, a broken version of an item is worth to a higher degree a normal, unbroken version (i personally.e. Xxv CP versus possibly less). The home of the sage, who might identify any unknown item for the fee. Two merchandiser, the blacksmith (buys & sells weapons & armour) & the general store (buys & sells scrolls, potions, spellbooks, cloaks, boots, containers). Two farmhouses and a village well, which have there is no work & come strictly cosmetic.

Fallowing clearing out a abandoned mine, a streaming video player finds a number 1 discarded of parchment, & is restored to the hamlet to call for it pillaged. He (or even she, when this game allows smart shoppers to play when either) so travels to Bjarnhaven.

Bjarnhaven
A buildings around Bjarnhaven come: A Temple of Odin, Olaf's Junk Store, & the sage, which act a equivalent way when in the hamlet. A branch office of the First Bank of Crossroads, where a streaming video player could dump money. He may so non keep close at hand to carry the money or even chance getting it stolen by a Smirking Sneak Thief', however it might however exist as available to spend in the quaternity shops. Four merchandiser. the total of homes & a little fountain, all cosmetic.

A fort touching Bjarnhaven is Xi levels deep & is held by Hrungnir, capitol hill Elephantine Lord (a just boss in the fort). Hrungnir carries a Enchanted Amulet of Kings, which grants the trend lines to Drain Life (attribute- & personal experience-draining attacks). Whenever he Activates a talisman, Section I personally ceases, & a game may be imported or even began concluded within A share Deuce. In the main, the streaming video player is extrthe had whenever he carries above a winning character, like than creating a freshly a single.

Town in Part II
A castle touching this town is ruined. Simply a dungeon & area of a ground floor remain; a dungeon is Xxv levels deep & has been converted per monsters sleep in it: the crypt has been desecrated, a Necromancer has install his page (using the bed & desk), & favorite rooms for elementals installed. the minor bosses come a Wolf-Werewolf & the Bear-Human; at deeper levels, a streaming video player fights a foursome elephantine kings, followed per Fire Giant leader Surtur. A buildings in the town come: A telephone exchange keep, in which a Jarl might not admit a streaming video player at the start, however will provide advice & ii enchanted things fallowing specific bosses come flushed. A Temple of Odin, 'Olaf's Junk Store, the sage & a 1st Bank of Crossroads'''. Ten merchandiser. A total of apartment buildings and the super big fountain.

Other features

A game keeps track of how else tremendously instance has been spent in the game. Although story cases are non triggered by instance, it does determine after merchandiser vary their index. Besides, victorious players come utilized on the "Valhalla's Champions" list sequentially of period taken (by owning a fastest wins employed number 1). Castle has the plot loosely according to Norse mythology, but— such as virtually all Roguelikes —it's basically upright astir sidesplitting monsters (& buying/selling stuff to defeat the two by using, or even keep from either incurring flushed).

Glitches
Get the store to drop its contents: Last into the store & cast phase door even or teleport. Exit a screen. the pile of things is sitting around a unremarkably inaccessable spot for picking things higher however there are ii slipway for it. Of these, Last back to the store's screen, cast summon monster or even even undead from either a damned w& or staff, exit a screen, last into the inventory screen and pick it totally higher. Both, Keep utilizing phase door even or teleport until busy people l& on a space by using a things and last itno the inventory screen. Note: Trying to have the acquire command to pick a things higher might symptom within a crash.

If, in a inventory screen your family cast phase door even or teleport, smart shoppers could however access the floor of the space smart shoppers were once in. This is fixed when we leave a inventory screen.

Re-randomize a floor even: If you have ) to last down the step or ( to last higher the step instead of the most common > & < or menu command the floor you enter will be re-created, including any bosses that would reside there.

Extreme manthe bug: Make their way down to -Two mana so step onto a glyph of warding that stimulates wise shoppers to lose mana. Your systems mana is either super, super high or even super, super great.

Now public domain

Around 1998, the author, Rick Saada, decided to produce it public domain & allowed a registered and shareware versions to become freely distributed, however he did non release the source code.