Mall
The Mall is a special level that appears in SLASH'EM and SlashTHEM. It contains many shops and various animals as well as its own watch, much like Minetown.
In Hack'EM, the Mall is incorporated as part of the Town dungeon branch.
Generation
The Mall has a 3⁄4 chance of being generated, and will be located on level 5 or 6 of the Dungeons of Doom.
It consists of a normal room-and-corridor level with four normal rooms and a large shopping-area room.
Maps
There are two possible maps for the layout of the main shopping area.[1][2] Both versions populate the mall with four watchmen, three watch captains, four muggers, and two sewer rats; the first variant will also have a kitten, while the second will have a little dog.
Both maps for the main room have the same chance of generating each type of shop:
- 100% chance of a general store
- 20% chance of a tool shop
- 40% chance of a food shop
- 20% chance of a scroll shop
- 30% chance of a potion shop
- 12% chance of a ring shop
- 33% chance of a lighting shop
- 12% chance of a book shop
- 17% chance of a wand shop
- 20% chance of a weapon shop
- 22% chance of an armor shop
Variant 1
(+ marks walls where shop doors will spawn and the letters mark shops as listed above.)
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Variant 2
(+ marks walls where shop doors will spawn and the letters mark shops as listed above.)
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Messages
- You hear the sounds of civilization.
- You entered the Mall.
