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Tomsod: /* Special levels with temples */ valley

2024-09-06T16:07:59Z

‎Special levels with temples: valley

Umbire the Phantom: organize, format, copyedit...

2024-07-09T04:14:27Z

organize, format, copyedit...

SilverDragonMystic: Minor typo fix

2023-06-06T16:12:30Z

Minor typo fix

Netzhack: simpler wording

2023-01-22T21:09:14Z

simpler wording

Umbire the Phantom: /* Messages */ formatting - can use line breaks within the temple to hold multiple messsages

2022-09-02T13:18:14Z

‎Messages: formatting - can use line breaks within the temple to hold multiple messsages

Cathartes: /* Messages */ add missing untended temple message, use the same order as they appear in the source code

2022-09-02T03:24:09Z

‎Messages: add missing untended temple message, use the same order as they appear in the source code

Ardub23: /* Strategy */ Cleanup: removed redundant links, grouped similar ideas, enhanced brevity

2021-07-05T22:16:43Z

‎Strategy: Cleanup: removed redundant links, grouped similar ideas, enhanced brevity

Aximili: Update sources

2020-07-04T23:44:10Z

Update sources

Aximili: Reorganize and reformat

2020-06-27T05:23:50Z

Reorganize and reformat

Aximili: Move info from Special room

2020-06-27T04:56:55Z

Move info from Special room

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 ===Special levels with temples===
-The following [[special level]] and other locations listed below contain temples:
+The following [[special level]]s and other locations listed below contain temples:
 * Every layout of [[Minetown]] has a temple containing an aligned priest and a randomly aligned altar with the exception of [[Orcish Town]], which instead has an unaligned altar in a desecrated temple. Minetown can also load [[bones]], making it possible to have a temple where the altar, the priest or both may not be present.
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 ** The [[Monk quest]] home level contains a desecrated temple with an unaligned altar.
 ** The [[Priest quest]] home level has a desecrated temple with an unaligned altar, while the locate level has a temple to Moloch.
-* The [[Tourist quest]] locate level has a desecrated temple with no altar.
+** The [[Tourist quest]] locate level has a desecrated temple with no altar.
-* The [[Wizard quest]] goal level has a desecrated temple that is always cross-aligned.
+** The [[Wizard quest]] goal level has a desecrated temple that is always cross-aligned.
 The room in [[Orcus Town]] with an unaligned altar is ''not'' considered a temple.

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-An [[altar]] with a [[Aligned priest|priest]] tending it is a '''temple'''. If the priest and altar are [[alignment|co-aligned]] with you and your alignment record is good enough, the temple is a [[sanctuary]]. If a temple's resident priest dies or is otherwise removed from the room, the temple becomes desecrated; every time you enter a desecrated temple, there is 1/5 chance of "an enormous ghost" appearing next to you, paralyzing you for three turns, and then acting as an ordinary [[ghost]].{{refsrc|src/priest.c|502|version=NetHack 3.6.6}} A desecrated temple cannot be restored; in all desecrated temples that are generated normally (i.e. not in a bones file) the altar will be unaligned if present.
+A '''temple''' is a type of [[special room]] that appears in ''[[NetHack]]'', and usually (but not always) contains an [[altar]] to a deity that is typically placed in the center of the room, along with a peaceful [[aligned priest]] of that deity tending to the altar. The altar of a temple is internally known as a '''shrine'''.{{refsrc|src/mkroom.c|584|version=NetHack 3.6.7}}
 ==Generation==
-One temple is created with probability 1/5 from level 9 on in an ordinary rooms-and-corridors level in the main dungeon, provided it does not already have a shop, a throne room, a leprechaun hall or a zoo.{{refsrc|src/mklev.c|776|version=NetHack 3.6.6}} There is an 80% chance the temple is the same alignment as its hosting [[dungeon branch]], the rest of the time it has 1/3 chance of each alignment.{{refsrc|src/mkroom.c|590|version=NetHack 3.6.6}}{{refsrc|src/dungeon.c|1560|version=NetHack 3.6.6}}
+A temple has a {{frac|5}} chance of being created in any ordinary room within a standard rooms-and-corridors level that is on or below [[dungeon level]] 9, provided it does not already have a [[shop]], a [[throne room]], a [[leprechaun hall]] or a [[zoo]].{{refsrc|src/mklev.c|776|version=NetHack 3.6.7}} A temple generated in a dungeon [[branch]] that has bias towards a particular [[alignment]] has a {{frac|4|5}} chance of being the same alignment as that branch, and the rest of the time it will be any of the three alignments with a {{frac|3}} chance of each.{{refsrc|src/mkroom.c|590|version=NetHack 3.6.7}}{{refsrc|src/dungeon.c|1560|version=NetHack 3.6.7}}
-==Special levels with temples==
+===Special levels with temples===
-* [[Minetown]] is guaranteed to have a temple
+The following [[special level]] and other locations listed below contain temples:
-The room with the unaligned altar in [[Orcus Town]] is not considered a temple.
+* Every layout of [[Minetown]] has a temple containing an aligned priest and a randomly aligned altar with the exception of [[Orcish Town]], which instead has an unaligned altar in a desecrated temple. Minetown can also load [[bones]], making it possible to have a temple where the altar, the priest or both may not be present.
-==Messages==
+The room in [[Orcus Town]] with an unaligned altar is ''not'' considered a temple.
-{{message|You hear a strident plea for donations.<br>You hear someone praising <deity>.<br>You hear someone beseeching <deity>.|A priest who can speak is present whose alignment matches that of the altar.{{refsrc|src/sounds.c|241|version=NetHack 3.6.6|comment=Temple sounds}}}}
+A temple is considered "desecrated" if the resident priest is dead or otherwise removed from the room, including the temples listed above that are always created without an attendant priest and/or altar; desecrated temples cannot be restored. Each time a character enters a desecrated temple, there is {{frac|5}} chance of a [[ghost]] being generated next to the character, and if a ghost is generated the character is immobilized for three turns, ignoring [[free action]].{{refsrc|src/priest.c|502|version=NetHack 3.6.7}}
 ==Strategy==
-You can [[Aligned priest#Chatting to a priest|chat to a priest]] and donate gold to get [[protection]], which improves your [[AC]].
+After using the altar to [[beatitude]]-test rings and scrolls, it's a good idea to leave the temple before using them. Otherwise you risk causing the priest to attack you with a [[ring of conflict]] or angering them with a [[scroll of fire]].
 Do not test a drum that might be a [[drum of earthquake]] anywhere on the level. If the altar is within line of sight, it may be destroyed, and the priest be made hostile. Even if the altar is not within line of sight, the priest may still be made hostile by a chasm opening underneath him.
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 ==History==
 The messages involving priests pleading, praising, beseeching or sacrificing were not always limited to priests who matched the alignment of the altar. That limitation was added in [[NetHack 3.6.0]].
 ==References==
+<references/>
-{{nethack-366}}
+{{nethack-367}}
 [[Category:Special rooms]]

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−	An [[altar]] with a [[Aligned priest\|priest]] tending it is a '''temple'''. If the priest and altar are [[alignment\|co-aligned]] with you and your alignment record is good enough, the temple is a [[sanctuary]]. If a temple's resident priest dies or is otherwise removed from the room, the temple becomes desecrated; every time you enter a desecrated temple, there is 1/5 chance of "an enormous ghost" appearing next to you, paralyzing you for three turns, and then acting as an ordinary [[ghost]].{{refsrc\|src/priest.c\|502\|version=NetHack 3.6.6}} A desecrated temple cannot be restored; in all desecrated temples that are generated normally (i.e. not in a bones file) the will ~~altar~~ be unaligned if present.	+	An [[altar]] with a [[Aligned priest\|priest]] tending it is a '''temple'''. If the priest and altar are [[alignment\|co-aligned]] with you and your alignment record is good enough, the temple is a [[sanctuary]]. If a temple's resident priest dies or is otherwise removed from the room, the temple becomes desecrated; every time you enter a desecrated temple, there is 1/5 chance of "an enormous ghost" appearing next to you, paralyzing you for three turns, and then acting as an ordinary [[ghost]].{{refsrc\|src/priest.c\|502\|version=NetHack 3.6.6}} A desecrated temple cannot be restored; in all desecrated temples that are generated normally (i.e. not in a bones file) the altar will be unaligned if present.

	==Generation==		==Generation==

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−	An [[altar]] with a [[Aligned priest\|priest]] tending it is a '''temple'''. If the priest and altar are [[alignment\|co-aligned]] with you and your alignment record is good enough, the temple is a [[sanctuary]]. If a temple's resident priest dies or is otherwise removed from the room, the temple becomes desecrated; every time you enter a desecrated temple, there is 1/5 chance of "an enormous ghost" appearing next to you, paralyzing you for three turns, and then acting as an ordinary [[ghost]].{{refsrc\|src/priest.c\|502\|version=NetHack 3.6.6}} A desecrated temple cannot be restored; all desecrated temples that are generated normally (i.e. not in a bones file) will ~~have the~~ altar be unaligned if ~~one is~~ present.	+	An [[altar]] with a [[Aligned priest\|priest]] tending it is a '''temple'''. If the priest and altar are [[alignment\|co-aligned]] with you and your alignment record is good enough, the temple is a [[sanctuary]]. If a temple's resident priest dies or is otherwise removed from the room, the temple becomes desecrated; every time you enter a desecrated temple, there is 1/5 chance of "an enormous ghost" appearing next to you, paralyzing you for three turns, and then acting as an ordinary [[ghost]].{{refsrc\|src/priest.c\|502\|version=NetHack 3.6.6}} A desecrated temple cannot be restored; in all desecrated temples that are generated normally (i.e. not in a bones file) the will altar be unaligned if present.

	==Generation==		==Generation==

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 ==Messages==
-{{message|You hear a strident plea for donations.}}
+{{message|You hear a strident plea for donations.<br>You hear someone praising <deity>.<br>You hear someone beseeching <deity>.|A priest who can speak is present whose alignment matches that of the altar.{{refsrc|src/sounds.c|241|version=NetHack 3.6.6|comment=Temple sounds}}}}
 {{message|You hear an an animal carcass being offered in sacrifice.|A priest who can speak is present whose alignment matches that of the altar, but you cannot see the priest or altar.{{refsrc|src/sounds.c|241|version=NetHack 3.6.6|comment=Temple sounds}}}}
-{{message|You have a forbidding feeling.|You are entering a desecrated or cross-aligned temple.}}
+{{message|You have a forbidding feeling...|You are entering a desecrated or cross-aligned temple.}}
 {{message|You have a strange forbidding feeling.|You are entering a temple and have an alignment record of -4 or lower.}}
-{{message|You experience a sense of peace.|You are entering a temple and have an alignment record of 20 or higher.}}
+{{message|You experience a sense of peace.|You are entering a coaligned temple and have an alignment record of 20 or higher.}}
 {{message|You experience an unusual sense of peace.|You are entering a temple and have an alignment record below 20.}}
-{{message|You have an eerie feeling...}}
+{{message|You have an eerie feeling...<br>You feel like you are being watched.<br>A shiver runs down your <[[Body parts|spine]]>.|You are entering a temple without a priest.}}{{refsrc|src/priest.c|482|nethack=3.6.6}}
 ==Strategy==

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 ==Strategy==
-You can [[Aligned priest|donate]] [[zorkmid|gold]] to the priest to get extra [[AC]]. For more information, see [[protection]] and [[Aligned_priest#.23Chatting.2C_e.g._for_protection|aligned priest]].
+You can [[Aligned priest#Chatting to a priest|chat to a priest]] and donate gold to get [[protection]], which improves your [[AC]].
-It is possible to change the [[alignment]] of an altar in a temple by sacrificing a monster, especially the right type of [[unicorn]], but doing so will anger the priest. More information is on the page about [[altar]]s.
+It is possible to change the [[alignment]] of an altar in a temple by [[sacrificing]] a monster, especially the right type of [[unicorn]], but doing so will anger the priest.
-When you are [[Curse-testing|BUC testing]] rings, do not put them on inside the temple. If the ring is a [[ring of conflict]], chances are you will have [[YASD]] on your hands. In fact, it is probably just a good idea to use the altar to do this anyway.
+After using the altar to [[Curse-testing|BUC test]] rings and scrolls, it's a good idea to leave the temple before using them. Otherwise you risk causing the priest to attack you with a [[ring of conflict]] or angering them with a [[scroll of fire]].
-If you are [[identification|read-identifying]] [[scroll]]s that you have recently BUC tested in the temple, it would be a good idea to read scrolls that are possibly [[Scroll of fire|Scrolls of fire]] away from the priest, preferably in another room, to avoid having the scrolls accidentally damage and anger the priest.
+Do not test a drum that might be a [[drum of earthquake]] anywhere on the level. If the altar is within line of sight, it may be destroyed, and the priest be made hostile. Even if the altar is not within line of sight, the priest may still be made hostile by a chasm opening underneath him.
-If there is a [[gas spore]] in the room, lure it out of the temple before killing it - if you kill it while in the temple and the priest is caught in the explosion, the priest will get angry.
+If there is a [[gas spore]] in the room, lure it out of the temple before killing it. If you kill it while in the temple and the priest is caught in the explosion, the priest will get angry.
 ==History==

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−	#~~REDIRECT~~ [[~~special~~ room#~~Temples~~]]	+	An [[altar]] with a [[Aligned priest\|priest]] tending it is a temple. If the priest and altar are [[alignment\|co-aligned]] with you and your alignment record is good enough, the temple is a [[sanctuary]]. If a temple's resident priest dies or is otherwise removed from the room, the temple becomes desecrated; every time you enter a desecrated temple, there is 1/5 chance of "an enormous ghost" appearing next to you, paralyzing you for three turns, and then acting as an ordinary [[ghost]].{{refsrc\|priest.c\|384}} A desecrated temple cannot be restored; all desecrated temples that are generated normally (i.e. not in a bones file) will have the altar be unaligned if one is present.
		+
		+	==Known locations of temples==
		+	[[Minetown]] is guaranteed to have a temple with an altar, but this level may leave [[bones]], meaning a file can occur where the altar, the priest or both may not exist. As of [[NetHack 3.6.0]], the Orcish Town variant, imported from the variant [[UnNetHack]], has a desecrated temple.
		+
		+	The [[Valley of the Dead]] contains a temple of [[Moloch]] with an unaligned altar. The room in [[Moloch's Sanctum]] housing the [[high priest of Moloch]] is also a temple.
		+
		+	Many quests have a temple one of their floors; the [[Knight quest#The Isle of Glass\|knight quest locate level]] has a neutral temple, and the [[Healer quest#The Temple of Coeus\|healer quest locate level]] has a chaotic temple. The [[Caveman quest]] home level has a temple that is always co-aligned, while the [[Wizard quest]] goal level has a desecrated temple that is always cross-aligned. The [[Monk quest]] home level (and by extension the [[Priest quest]]'s home level) contains a desecrated temple; the Priest quest also has a temple to Moloch on the locate level. The [[Tourist quest]] locate level has a desecrated temple that does not contain an altar at all.
		+
		+	The room with the unaligned altar in [[Orcus Town]] is not considered a temple.
		+
		+	==What to do in a temple==
		+	You can [[Aligned priest\|donate]] [[zorkmid\|gold]] to the priest to get extra [[AC]]. For more information, see [[protection]] and [[Aligned_priest#.23Chatting.2C_e.g._for_protection\|aligned priest]].
		+
		+	It is possible to change the [[alignment]] of an altar in a temple by sacrificing a monster, especially the right type of [[unicorn]], but doing so will anger the priest. More information is on the page about [[altar]]s.
		+
		+	==What not to do in a temple==
		+	When you are [[Curse-testing\|BUC testing]] rings, do not put them on inside the temple. If the ring is a [[ring of conflict]], chances are you will have [[YASD]] on your hands. In fact, it is probably just a good idea to use the altar to do this anyway.
		+
		+	If you are [[identification\|read-identifying]] [[scroll]]s that you have recently BUC tested in the temple, it would be a good idea to read scrolls that are possibly [[Scroll of fire\|Scrolls of fire]] away from the priest, preferably in another room, to avoid having the scrolls accidentally damage and anger the priest.
		+
		+	If there is a [[gas spore]] in the room, lure it out of the temple before killing it - if you kill it while in the temple and the priest is caught in the explosion, the priest will get angry.
		+	Do not test a drum that might be a drum of earthquake anywhere on the level. If the altar is within line of sight, it may be destroyed, and the priest be made hostile. Even if the altar is not within line of sight, the priest may still be made hostile by a chasm opening underneath him.
		+
		+	==Frequency and alignment==
		+
		+	One temple is created with probability 1/5 from level 9 on in an ordinary rooms-and-corridors level in the main dungeon, provided it does not already have a shop, a throne room, a leprechaun hall or a zoo.{{refsrc\|mklev.c\|735}} There is an 80% chance the temple is the same alignment as its hosting [[dungeon branch]], the rest of the time it has 1/3 chance of each alignment.{{refsrc\|mkroom.c\|513}}{{refsrc\|dungeon.c\|1434}}
		+	==Messages==
		+	Since [[NetHack 3.6.0]], the following sounds can be heard if a priest is present whose alignment matches that of the altar: {{refsrc\|src/sounds.c\|241\|version=NetHack 3.6.0\|comment=Temple sounds}}
		+	* "You hear someone praising ''<deity>''." (only if the priest can speak)
		+	* "You hear someone beseeching ''<deity>''." (only if the priest can speak)
		+	* "You hear an an animal carcass being offered in sacrifice." (only if you can't see the priest or altar)
		+	* "You hear a strident plea for donations." (only if the priest can speak)
		+
		+	The following other messages are related to temples:
		+	* "You have a forbidding feeling." (entering, temple desecrated or cross-aligned)
		+	* "You have a strange forbidding feeling." (entering, alignment record -4 or lower)
		+	* "You experience a sense of peace." (entering, alignment record 20 or higher)
		+	* "You experience an unusual sense of peace." (entering, alignment record less than 20)
		+	* "You have an eerie feeling..." (entering, no priest)
		+	* "You feel like you are being watched." (entering, no priest)
		+	* "A shiver runs down your <[[Body parts\|spine]]>." (entering, no priest)
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		+	==References==
		+
		+	[[Category:Special rooms]]