Mazes of Menace

The Mazes of Menace is the collective name for all the levels in the game. They can contain up to 81 levels, but not all will be present in every game.

Map

This diagram shows which dungeon levels the various special levels and branches can appear on. A branch is signified with a --. The Dungeons of Doom and Gehennom are technically branches, but appear contiguously as the main branch of the game.

Also note that, although they are not special levels per se, any levels between Medusa and The Castle have a 4/5 probability of being Mazes.

|-5   |Astral
|-4   |Water
|-3   |Fire
|-2   |Air
|-1   |Earth
| 1 --/                               \
| 2 \                                 |--Dungeons of Doom
| 3 |------------------|Gnomish Mines |
| 4 /                  |              |
| 5 \           |soko4 | \Minetown    |
| 6 |Oracle  \  |soko3 | /            | 
| 7 |        |  |soko2 |              |
| 8 |        |--|soko1 |              |
| 9 /        |         |              |
|10          /  \      | \Mines' End  |
|11 \         \ |BigRm | /            |
|12 |--Ludios | /                     | 
|13 |         |                       |
|14 |         |--|Quest home          | 
|15 | \       |  |                    |
|16 | |Rogue  /  |Quest locate        |
|17 | |          |                    |
|18 | /          | \Quest goal        |
|19 |            | /                  |
|20 |                                 |
|21 | \                               |
|22 | |Medusa                         |
|23 | |                               |
|24 | |                               |
|25 | | \                             |
|26 | | |Castle \                     |  \
|27 / | |       |Valley    \          |  |--Gehennom
|28   / |       |          |Asmodeus  |  |
|29     /       | \        |          /  | 
|30             / |Juiblex |             |
|31               |        | \           | 
|32               |        | |Baalzebub  |
|33    |Vlad3     |        | |           |
|34 \  |Vlad2     |        | |           | 
|35 |--|Vlad1     | \      | |           |
|36 |             / |Orcus / | \         |
|37 |               |        | |WizTower |
|38 |               |        / |         |
|39 |               |          |         |
|40 | \             |          |         |
|41 | |FakeWiz      |          |         |
|42 / |             |          |         |
|43   |             |          |         |
|44   | \           /          |         |
|45   | |VibSq \               |         |
|46   | |      |Sanctum        |         |
|47   | |      |               /         |
|48   | |      |                         |
|49   | |      |                         |
|50   | |      |                         |
|51   / |      |                         |
|52     /      |                         |
|53            /                         /

Properties

The following table lists the properties of the levels.

Branch	Level	Dungeon level	Bones eligible?	Mappable?	Teleportable?	Levelportable?	Diggable floor?	Diggable walls?
Elemental Planes	Astral Plane	-5	No	No	No	No	No	No
	Plane of Water	-4	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes
	Plane of Fire	-3	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes
	Plane of Air	-2	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes
	Plane of Earth	-1	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes
Dungeons of Doom	(Ordinary level)	1-28	Yes (except 1-3)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Oracle	5-9	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Big Room	10-12	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
	Rogue	15-18	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Medusa's Island	21-28	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Not in Medusa's hall or the starting room
	Castle	25-29	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Only in maze section
Gnomish Mines	(Ordinary level)	3-12	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Minetown	5-8	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Mines' End	10-13	No	varies	Yes	Yes	No	varies
Sokoban	(Sokoban level)	2-9	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
Quest	Filler level	11-21	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Home level	11-16	No	varies	No	Yes	No	No
	Locate level	13-18	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	varies
	Goal level	15-21	No	Yes	varies	Yes	No
Fort Ludios		11-27	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
Gehennom	(Ordinary level)	27-51	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Valley of the Dead	26-30	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No
	Asmodeus' Lair	27-36	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Not in Asmodeus' chamber
	Juiblex's swamp	29-36	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Baalzebub's Lair	31-38	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Not in Baalzebub's chamber
	Orcus-town	35-44	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Wizard's Tower (top and bottom level)	36-47	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Outside and small center only
	Wizard's Tower (middle level)	37-46	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Outside only
	Fake Wizard's Tower	40-51	Yes (for non-portal level)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Vibrating square	44-52	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
	Moloch's Sanctum	45-53	No	No	No	Only after invocation	No	No
Vlad's Tower	top and bottom levels	31-41	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No
	middle level	32-40	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No

Interdependence

Whenever there are several possibilities for the length of a branch, the depth of a branch entrance, or a special level, they are

• measured from the top of the parent branch,
• are equally likely,
• are independent of all the other choices made in this graph.

Exceptions are:

• Mines' End is the lowest mines level.
• Sokoban always branches off just below the Oracle.
• The quest portal is always 6-7 levels below the Oracle.
• The depth of Fort Ludios is complicated, see its article.
• Medusa's Island is 1-4 levels above the Castle.
• The Castle is the deepest level in the Dungeons of Doom.
• The Vibrating Square is the deepest accessible level of Gehennom. Moloch's Sanctum is immediately below, and both fake towers are 1-4 levels above.

Each level can be special in at most one way, and (additionally) host at most one branch entrance. For example, this means the stairs to Vlad's Tower can be located on any special level except Juiblex' swamp and both Fake Wizard's Towers.