Custom map

Once you start the game, you're allowed to either choose auto-generated map (that will create beautiful dungeons) or choose your own map. But how to create a custom map? Here is the tutorial.

The .mapfile format

This is a simple plain-text format, so you can event edit the map by yourself!

The map consist of two basic parts. Map is a rectangular with fixed amount of rows and unlimited amount of columns. So on the first line you should specify integer amount of columns (in range from 0 to 2147483647).

Let it will be 12 in our case. It will be a tiny map.

Contents of `my_map.mapfile` now:

12

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Then you have to describe a map itself. Feel free to be as creative as you wish!

You can use the following symbols as building blocks:

Symbol	Title	Description
#	Wall	Walls may be destroyed by fireball, but it is a the most common type of obstacle
-	Grass	Empty space on map. Player and all other actors may walk here
~	Water	It is also empty space like grass, however when player walks in water, he loses half of his speed
p	Player	This is a spawn point for a player. When you load this map, die or restart, player will spawn exactly at this position. When there is 0 or more than one spawn position, behavior is undefined
z	Zombie	Spawn position for zombie
s	Slime	Spawn position for slime
	Bedrock	Obstacle that cannot be broken. All unused space will be filled with bedrock

Let's build some map!

Example contents of my_map.mapfile:

12
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#----#######
#----------#
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#-~~--#
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#####
#---#
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#p---------#
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#----------#
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#-# #--# #-#
#-# #--# #-#
#-# #--# #-#
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Let's see, how this map looks like in game: