Moria (roguelike) - Revision history

Netzhack: Alleviates some "with X doing Y" run-ons.

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Furey: Reword the mention to ancient multi-hued dragon. Delete link to http://angband.oook.cz/monsters.php. It's dead, and archive.org doesn't have captures of monsters.php with parameters.

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2024-06-16T01:28:16Z

Fix Wikipedia link (it landed on a disambiguation page). Fix roguebasin links. Delete {{noversion}}; there is no NetHack versioning here.

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 '''''The Dungeons of Moria''''', often shortened to just '''''Moria''''', is one of the earliest [[roguelike]] computer games, created in 1983 by Robert Alan Koeneke.
-''Moria'' and its [[variant]]s rival ''NetHack'' in popularity - many classifications divide roguelike games between "hacklikes" and "*bands", with the latter being named after ''[[Angband]]'', the most famous ''Moria'' variant. ''Moria'' was also the first open source roguelike and was ported to many different computer platforms, which was a major achievement for the era.
+''Moria'' and its [[variant]]s rival ''NetHack'' in popularity. Many classifications divide roguelike games between "hacklikes", named after Hack and its descendants, and "*bands", named after ''[[Angband]]'', the most famous ''Moria'' variant. ''Moria'' was also the first open source roguelike and was ported to many different computer platforms, which was a major achievement for the era.
 ==History==
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 ==Summary==
-''Moria'' and most of its variants are set in [[wikipedia:Middle-earth|Middle-earth]], with the game taking its name from [[wikipedia:Moria, Middle-earth|the underground city of Moria]].
+''Moria'' and most of its variants are set in [[wikipedia:Middle-earth|Middle-earth]], and the game takes its name from [[wikipedia:Moria, Middle-earth|the underground city of Moria]].
-Moria deviates from the structure of ''Rogue'' in many significant ways, with the most notable being the addition of a town above the [[dungeon]]. Unlike ''NetHack'', where the [[dungeon]] is a long trek away from civilization, ''Moria'' has a town set right near the dungeon entrance. Due to the non-persistent floors, ''Moria'' generates a new level with new monsters and items every time you leave a floor and return to it at a later point, making staircases one-way; Angband would change this during its own development so that staircases could be re-used. Therefore, ''Moria'' players seeking to make stashes generally leave them in the town, where they may still be disturbed by the town's other inhabitants.
+Moria deviates from the structure of ''Rogue'' in many significant ways, most notably by the addition of a town above the [[dungeon]]. Unlike ''NetHack'', where the [[dungeon]] is a long trek away from civilization, ''Moria'' has a town set right near the dungeon entrance. Due to the non-persistent floors, ''Moria'' generates a new level with new monsters and items every time you leave a floor and return to it at a later point, making staircases one-way; Angband would change this during its own development so that staircases could be re-used. Therefore, ''Moria'' players seeking to make stashes generally leave them in the town, where they may still be disturbed by the town's other inhabitants.
 Another significant change from the structure of ''Rogue'' was the shift of the main objective. Rather than retrieving the Amulet, the objective of the original ''Moria'' and variants that retain its name is to reach the bottom of the dungeon and defeat [[wikipedia:Balrog|the Balrog]], which completes the game.
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 ===Monsters===
-In ''Moria'', ranged attacks from monsters can target you on any a square within their range, compared to ''NetHack'' and its eight-directional combat; ''Umoria'' variant ''Morgul'' allows the player to do so as well, as does ''Angband'' and its variants. Monsters cannot target the player around corners or pillars, allowing characters with sufficiently high speed to attack monsters and quickly dash out of their sight before they retaliate; this is known as "pillardancing".
+In ''Moria'', ranged attacks from monsters can target you on any a square within their range, compared to ''NetHack'' and its eight-directional combat; ''Umoria'' variant ''Morgul'' allows the player to do so as well, as does ''Angband'' and its variants. Monsters cannot target the player around corners or pillars, allowing characters with sufficient speed to attack monsters and quickly dash out of their sight before they retaliate; this is known as "pillardancing".
 As you fight monsters in Moria, the game will gradually "memorize" their capabilities and store it in a ''"monster memory"''. This feature contains information such as how many times you killed each type of monster, how fast they move, what attacks it has, and what level it normally appears on depending on how many of that monster you've fought. This monster memory is the only thing besides options that persists even after character death.
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 Saving slots in ''Moria'' is done by eventually replacing carried items with better ones, such as finding spellbooks with multiple spells, and amassing enough gold that they no longer need to gather [[junk]] to sell. ''Moria'' has no gems and fewer miscellaneous tools to worry about, and of those tools light sources have a dedicated slot; digging implements, which are second only in importance to lighting, can be put in the "spare weapon" slot.
-''NetHack'' items can be [[Beatitude|blessed, uncursed or cursed]], with beatitude having an effect on item usage (i.e., blessed items often have much more beneficial or less harmful effects, while cursed ones tend to have weakened useful effects or much worse detrimental ones). ''NetHack'' items can also have additional properties applied, such as [[erosion]]-proofing, [[greasing]], and [[Charging|a set number of uses]]. While ''Moria'' items function similarly in that items can be cursed or noncursed, armor and weapons that are generated cursed have negative enchantments, and cursed weapons and armor cannot be removed, the curse itself does not actively degrade the item as in ''NetHack''.
+''NetHack'' items can be [[Beatitude|blessed, uncursed or cursed]], with different effects (i.e., blessed items often have much more beneficial or less harmful effects, while cursed ones tend to have weakened useful effects or much worse detrimental ones). ''NetHack'' items can also have additional properties applied, such as [[erosion]]-proofing, [[greasing]], and [[Charging|a set number of uses]]. While ''Moria'' items function similarly in that items can be cursed or noncursed, armor and weapons that are generated cursed have negative enchantments, and cursed weapons and armor cannot be removed, the curse itself does not actively degrade the item as in ''NetHack''.
 In lieu of [[artifact]]s, Moria has "Ego" items. Unlike artifacts, more than one of a given type of ego item can appear in a given game, and can have any number of extra properties not unlike [[object properties]] in variants of ''NetHack'': a [[scimitar]] might have a "Frost" brand, making it a Scimitar of Frost that does extra [[cold]] damage and provides cold resistance. A [[scroll of identify]] will not reveal all these advanced properties, and only gives the two-letter code for the ego-type; the manual contains the key that details what each of the ego-types do.

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 ==Moria and NetHack==
-''NetHack'' draws from J. R. R. Tolkien's setting and works, among many others, and naturally shares some other traits with ''Moria'' (e.g. the inclusion of [[lembas]], [[mithril]], etc.). For instance, the [[balrog]] of ''NetHack'' is a powerful regular enemy that generates in [[Gehennom]] and can be gated in by other [[major demon]]s, but cannot perform gating itself.
+''NetHack'' draws from J. R. R. Tolkien's setting and works, among many others, and naturally shares some other traits with ''Moria'' (e.g. the inclusion of [[lembas]], [[mithril]], etc.). For instance, the [[balrog]] of ''NetHack'' is a powerful hostile monster that generates in [[Gehennom]] and can be gated in by other [[major demon]]s, but cannot perform gating itself.
-The ancient multi-hued dragon from ''Moria'' is one of the [[hallucinatory monster]]s in ''NetHack''.
+The ancient multi-hued dragon from ''Moria'' is one of the many [[hallucinatory monster]]s in ''NetHack''.
 ===Moria in variants===
-[[UnNetHack]] has the [[Ruins of Moria]] branch, which draws heavily from Middle-Earth and even features a unique balrog, [[Durin's Bane]], as a boss monster. The third level also simulates a dungeon level found in a typical game of ''Moria''.
+[[UnNetHack]] has the [[Ruins of Moria]] branch, which draws heavily from Middle-Earth and even features a unique balrog, [[Durin's Bane (UnNetHack)|Durin's Bane]], as a boss monster&mdash;the third level also simulates a dungeon level found in a typical game of ''Moria''.
 ==Licensing==

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 ==External links==
-* [http://beej.us/moria/ Moria homepage]
+* [https://beej.us/moria/ Moria homepage]
-* [http://www-math.bgsu.edu/~grabine/moria.html Final Moria maintainer's page]
+* [https://web.archive.org/web/20200221144759/http://www-math.bgsu.edu/~grabine/moria.html Final Moria maintainer's page]
 [[Category:Roguelikes]]

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 ==Licensing==
-NetHack is [[free]] and open source software under its [[NetHack General Public License]]. Moria and its variants originally used a license which prohibited selling copies of the game. The practical effect of this is that operating systems like [[Debian]] originally classified NetHack as "free" and Moria as "non-free", and refused to include Moria when selling discs of the system. The [[Angband OpenSource Initiative]] was a successful attempt to change this: on January 9, 2009,<ref>http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.roguelike.angband/msg/2db2fc9961d41c50</ref> Angband and Moria were completely dual licensed under the Moria license, and the GNU General Public License. (Moria had in fact been so dual licensed some time earlier, thanks to its lower number of contributors.)
+NetHack is [[free]] and open source software under its [[NetHack General Public License]]. Moria and its variants originally used a license which prohibited selling copies of the game. The practical effect of this is that operating systems like [[Debian]] originally classified NetHack as "free" and Moria as "non-free", and refused to include Moria when selling discs of the system. The [[Angband OpenSource Initiative]] was a successful attempt to change this: on January 9, 2009,<ref>https://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.roguelike.angband/msg/2db2fc9961d41c50</ref> Angband and Moria were completely dual licensed under the Moria license, and the GNU General Public License. (Moria had in fact been so dual licensed some time earlier, thanks to its lower number of contributors.)
 The Moria license also did not contain explicit permission to modify the game, but modification is a strong tradition of the Moria community.

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 ==Licensing==
-NetHack is [[free]] and open source software under its [[Wikihack:NetHack General Public License|NetHack General Public License]]. Moria and its variants originally used a license which prohibited selling copies of the game. The practical effect of this is that operating systems like [[Debian]] originally classified NetHack as "free" and Moria as "non-free", and refused to include Moria when selling discs of the system. The [[Angband OpenSource Initiative]] was a successful attempt to change this: on January 9, 2009,<ref>http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.roguelike.angband/msg/2db2fc9961d41c50</ref> Angband and Moria were completely dual licensed under the Moria license, and the GNU General Public License. (Moria had in fact been so dual licensed some time earlier, thanks to its lower number of contributors.)
+NetHack is [[free]] and open source software under its [[NetHack General Public License]]. Moria and its variants originally used a license which prohibited selling copies of the game. The practical effect of this is that operating systems like [[Debian]] originally classified NetHack as "free" and Moria as "non-free", and refused to include Moria when selling discs of the system. The [[Angband OpenSource Initiative]] was a successful attempt to change this: on January 9, 2009,<ref>http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.roguelike.angband/msg/2db2fc9961d41c50</ref> Angband and Moria were completely dual licensed under the Moria license, and the GNU General Public License. (Moria had in fact been so dual licensed some time earlier, thanks to its lower number of contributors.)
 The Moria license also did not contain explicit permission to modify the game, but modification is a strong tradition of the Moria community.

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 A port from VMS and Pascal to Unix was eventually created, known as ''Umoria'' - ''Angband'' is one of several ''Umoria'' variants - while another variant, called [[roguebasin:Imoria|Imoria]], was created based on the original Pascal version.
-Development of the original ''Moria'' essentially ended in the late 1980s, while development of other non-''Angband'' variants of ''Moria'' would continue until 1993; there was brief attempt to revive ''Imoria'' after this year, and development of ''Umoria'' would end in 1995. On the other hand, development of ''Angband'' and its derivatives continue to this day. The ''Moria'' community considers Umoria, VMS Moria, and in later eras Angband, to be "[[vanilla]]" versions of the game in contrast to variants like ''[[roguebasin:ZAngband|ZAngband]]'', ''IMoria'', or ''[[roguebasin:PMoria|PMoria]]'' - these would be analogous to ''[[NetHack Plus]]'' or ''[[SLASH]]''.
+Development of the original ''Moria'' essentially ended in the late 1980s, while development of other non-''Angband'' variants of ''Moria'' would continue until 1993; there was brief attempt to revive ''Imoria'' after this year, and development of ''Umoria'' would end in 1995. On the other hand, development of ''Angband'' and its derivatives continue to this day. The ''Moria'' community considers Umoria, VMS Moria, and in later eras Angband, to be "[[vanilla]]" versions of the game in contrast to variants like ''[[roguebasin:Zangband|Zangband]]'', ''IMoria'', or ''[[roguebasin:PMoria|PMoria]]'' - these would be analogous to ''[[NetHack Plus]]'' or ''[[SLASH]]''.
 ==Summary==

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-{{Wikipedia|Moria (video game)}}
+{{Wikipedia|Moria (1983 video game)}}
 {{RogueBasin|Moria}}
 '''''The Dungeons of Moria''''', often shortened to just '''''Moria''''', is one of the earliest [[roguelike]] computer games, created in 1983 by Robert Alan Koeneke.
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 ''[[Rogue]]'' started as a binary for [[BSD]], which was then a variant of [[Unix]] running on VAX hardware. Because Rogue did not include its source code and originally ran only on one platform, several Rogue clones came into existence. Moria was the first of these many ''Rogue'' clones, or ''roguelikes'', created for computers running [[VMS]]. Meanwhile, a free Rogue clone known as ''[[Hack]]'' was made for Unix, from which ''NetHack'' would come to be; Hack added features such as [[persistent level]]s, [[pet]]s, and [[shop]]s, while ''NetHack'' changed the game even more with additions like [[dungeon branch]]es.
-A port from VMS and Pascal to Unix was eventually created, known as ''Umoria'' - ''Angband'' is one of several ''Umoria'' variants - while another variant, called [http://roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment.org/index.php?title=Imoria Imoria], was created based on the original Pascal version.
+A port from VMS and Pascal to Unix was eventually created, known as ''Umoria'' - ''Angband'' is one of several ''Umoria'' variants - while another variant, called [[roguebasin:Imoria|Imoria]], was created based on the original Pascal version.
-Development of the original ''Moria'' essentially ended in the late 1980s, while development of other non-''Angband'' variants of ''Moria'' would continue until 1993; there was brief attempt to revive ''Imoria'' after this year, and development of ''Umoria'' would end in 1995. On the other hand, development of ''Angband'' and its derivatives continue to this day. The ''Moria'' community considers Umoria, VMS Moria, and in later eras Angband, to be "[[vanilla]]" versions of the game in contrast to variants like ''[http://roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment.org/index.php?title=ZAngband ZAngband]'', ''IMoria'', or ''[http://roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment.org/index.php?title=Pmoria Pmoria]'' - these would be analogous to ''[[NetHack Plus]]'' or ''[[SLASH]]''.
+Development of the original ''Moria'' essentially ended in the late 1980s, while development of other non-''Angband'' variants of ''Moria'' would continue until 1993; there was brief attempt to revive ''Imoria'' after this year, and development of ''Umoria'' would end in 1995. On the other hand, development of ''Angband'' and its derivatives continue to this day. The ''Moria'' community considers Umoria, VMS Moria, and in later eras Angband, to be "[[vanilla]]" versions of the game in contrast to variants like ''[[roguebasin:ZAngband|ZAngband]]'', ''IMoria'', or ''[[roguebasin:PMoria|PMoria]]'' - these would be analogous to ''[[NetHack Plus]]'' or ''[[SLASH]]''.
 ==Summary==
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 * [http://beej.us/moria/ Moria homepage]
 * [http://www-math.bgsu.edu/~grabine/moria.html Final Moria maintainer's page]
-{{noversion}}
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 ''NetHack'' items can be [[Beatitude|blessed, uncursed or cursed]], with beatitude having an effect on item usage (i.e., blessed items often have much more beneficial or less harmful effects, while cursed ones tend to have weakened useful effects or much worse detrimental ones). ''NetHack'' items can also have additional properties applied, such as [[erosion]]-proofing, [[greasing]], and [[Charging|a set number of uses]]. While ''Moria'' items function similarly in that items can be cursed or noncursed, armor and weapons that are generated cursed have negative enchantments, and cursed weapons and armor cannot be removed, the curse itself does not actively degrade the item as in ''NetHack''.
-In lieu of [[artifact]]s, Moria has "Ego" items; unlike artifacts, more than one of a given type of ego item can appear in a given game, and can have any number of extra properties; a [[scimitar]] might have a "Frost" brand, making it a Scimitar of Frost that does extra [[cold]] damage and provides cold resistance. A [[scroll of identify]] will not reveal all these advanced properties, and only gives the two-letter code for the ego-type; the manual contains the key that details what each of the ego-types do.
+In lieu of [[artifact]]s, Moria has "Ego" items. Unlike artifacts, more than one of a given type of ego item can appear in a given game, and can have any number of extra properties not unlike [[object properties]] in variants of ''NetHack'': a [[scimitar]] might have a "Frost" brand, making it a Scimitar of Frost that does extra [[cold]] damage and provides cold resistance. A [[scroll of identify]] will not reveal all these advanced properties, and only gives the two-letter code for the ego-type; the manual contains the key that details what each of the ego-types do.
 Item generation probabilities remain uniform in ''NetHack'' across dungeon levels, though they differ between branches (e.g., item generation in the [[Gnomish Mines]] is slanted towards [[tool]]s). In ''Moria'', each item has an associated dungeon depth, and progressively more powerful items - higher-quality Ego items, weapons and armor with high enchantments, etc. - become more common as the hero descends deeper.