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Skills Guide

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Creature Attributes

Attributes are skills that have levels and can be boosted by magic, armour or weaponry.

The common ones are:

damage
spell damage
ranged damage
fire damage
cold damage
defense
parry
spell speed
digging
multi-weapon skill
furnace
workshop
forge
laboratory
jeweler
morgue

Binary Skills

Binary skills are skills that you either have or you don’t have. There are no levels or scale. Binary skills are often permanent intrinsic buffs that certain creatures carry or have earnt. The list of buffs and nurfs can be found here:

Buffs And Nurfs

These skills are worthy of attention and are explained in a bit more detail:

Ambush

Hide and ambush unsuspecting enemies. Press ‘h’ to hide on a tile that allows it.

Adventurers have this skill. Also, werewolves very rarely have it.

Construction

Mine and construct rooms.

Ability to gather resources, building rooms, traps and installations.

Consumption

Absorb other creatures and retain their attributes.

Creature will absorb an other creatures with higher stats, other skills or more body parts. After that it has all the absorbed creatures higher stat values, additional skills and grows new body parts. The absorbed creature will die in this process.
When it has consumed one head, two arms and two legs it will become a humanoid.

Copulation

Only copulates with male, humanoid and not uncorporal creatures.
After some time the creature will give birth to one of the following:

Crops

Peasants tend crops, a useless skill once confined to a dungeon.

Digging

Ability to dig your dungeon out of the mountain face.

Disarm Traps

Evade traps and disarm them.

Creature does not trigger traps and disables them, so they have to be rearmed.

Exploring

Animals that go out during the day and explore your local map uncovering the starter tribes.

Exploring cavesExploring caves

Animals that explore cave networks around your local map, uncovering starter tribes.

Exploring nocturnally

Wolves and werewolves that go out and hunt at night.

Forging

Creatures able to forge iron and adamantium kit. Insane goblins are sometimes skilled enough to craft artifacts.

Jewellery

Creatures able to craft magic rings and amulets

Laboratory

Creatures able to make potions

Creatures able to navigate towards your dungeon whilst digging, allowing surprise attacks.

Swimming

Cross water without drowning. Creature can walk over water.

Spider

Creatures able to spin webs

Stealth

An ability to kill enemies without awakening other enemies.

Workshop

An ability to craft leather armour and hand torches and traps. Some rare crazy goblins can make artifact armour and weapons.

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