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********************* DUNGEON KEEPER 2: FAQ/WALKTHRU ********************
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PC Strategy Game; released 1999 UK

FAQ/WALKTHRU (Version 1.0) 24/01/2004

Author - falsehead (Sophie Cheshire). Contact me at falsehead@aol.com

Copyright stuff; this is (c) Sophie Cheshire. If you wish to use this FAQ on
your website, feel free to do so under the following conditions. a) You email
me first and let me know where it will be appearing and b) you do not alter the
content in anyway (if you need to change the formatting slightly for display
purposes that's OK).

This guide may NOT be used as part of a restricted Pay-to-Enter website or in
print unless you are prepared to pay me for its inclusion.

If I find out that any part of this FAQ has been lifted and used without credit
to me, especially if you use it to earn money, then I will be annoyed. I didn't
type all this up for the good of my health you know.

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********************************* CONTENTS *****************************
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1) INTRODUCTION/REVISION HISTORY

2) GETTING YOUR REIGN OF TERROR STARTED
a) Installation and Patch versions
b) The Controls
c) The Mentor

3) THE BASICS OF BEING EVIL...
a) Excavation and Building
b) Cash, Mana, (Marvellous)
c) Using the Hand of Evil
d) First Person Mode
e) Combat

4) BUILD A BETTER DUNGEON
a) Room List
b) Planning Dungeon Layouts
c) Room configurations for Elite Creatures (ver 1.61 - 1.7)

5) THE UNGRATEFUL DENIZENS
a) Creature List
b) Creature Comparison table

6) THE WEEDY FORCES OF GOOD
a) Hero (pah!) List
b) Hero Comparison Table

7) MAGIC and MANA
a) Researching Spells and Accumulating Mana
b) Spell List
c) Magic Items

8) PRACTICAL DUNGEON SECURITY
a) Doors
b) Traps

9) CAMPAIGN MODE WALKTHROUGH
a) Warcry
b) Enchantments
c) Greed
d) Snipers
e) Fear
f) Besieged
g) Rout
h) Caverns
i) Aftermath
j) Ambush
k) Smashing
l) Carnage
m) Scavenge
n) Conversion
o) Reap
p) Storm
q) Crusade
r) Creep
s) Angelic
t) Brotherhood
u) Interception
v) Regicide

10) SECRET LEVELS
a) Golf
b) Duckshoot
c) Maze
d) Bowling

11) MY PET DUNGEONS
a) Liberty
b) Discovery
c) Bottleneck
d) Recruits
e) Furnace
f) Masterpiece
g) Torment

11) PATCH HISTORY
a) Ver 1.51
b) Ver 1.61
c) Ver 1.70

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INTRODUCTION - Well I am doing it and no one can stop me, ahahahah!!! Yes
Dungeon Keeper 2 is one of my favourite games of all time and I have decided to
write the definitive FAQ. Within this document you will find pretty much all
the information you will need to play the game and play it well. I have
included the list of controls and guide to the interface for those who may have
lost manuals and also a guide at the end to the various patches available for
the game. The rest is my guide to the various rooms and creatures, building
strategy and a walkthrough of the main single player campaign mode.

Dungeon Keeper 2 is the sequel to the original Dungeon Keeper game that was
created by the same people who brought us such strategy classics as Theme Park
and Populous. Although Dungeon Keeper was a great game in it's own right, it
was criticised by some for lacking focus. Missions were simply a case of
building a big dungeon and overpowering the enemy. Dungeon Keeper 2 is
everything you could ask for in an update, adding a coherent and challenging
Mission based campaign mode as well as large "Pet Dungeons" to play around in.
With its array of great characters, wicked sense of humour and extreme
flexibility, it really is the best strategy game ever made!

This guide was written using both the original unpatched version of the game
and also the patched version 1.7. Anyone with any version of the game
shouldn't have difficulty following this; any new items are labelled as such to
avoid confusion.

So please enjoy this FAQ and this fabulous game!

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REVISIONS - (24/01/2004).

I sweated blood over this! The ultimate Dungeon Keeper 2 guide and I am damn
proud of it. There are a few little extras I plan to add, but this is as it
stands everything you need to know to play the game and more. Just to keep in
with the humour of the game, I've written it in the style of the in-game
mentor. I think it works!

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Welcome Keeper, we have heard great things about you and are eager to see how
you will measure up to the challenge of enforcing the rule of evil. But before
we begin you must face perhaps your greatest challenge, getting the game to run
on your PC.

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a) INSTALLATION and PATCHES
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Only the Dark Lord himself could have come up with such infernal architecture
as exists within the modern Personal Computer. You may find yourself with a
computer that far outstrips the requirements and yet.. refuses to run the game
stably. Ah well, the devil works in mysterious ways.

To run the game effectively your computer requires the following minimum
specifications.

Windows 95 or 98
Pentium 166 MHz (or equivalent)
32MB free system RAM
285MB Hard Drive Space
4 x CD ROM
2MB Video Card

It is recommended for efficient running that you actually have the following or
better.

Pentium II - 266 MHz (or equivalent)
64MB free hardware system RAM
660 hard drive space
8 x CD ROM Drive
Supported 16MB 3D Accelerator

Once the game is installed, graphics and sound options can be toggled in-game.
However before you begin, it is a good idea to install any patches you want to
the game first.

Why?

Well because installing the patches at a later date can sometimes affect your
save game data. It is recommended that you periodically back-up your save game
directory as this can sometimes be affected if you have to Uninstall then
Re-Install the game for any reason.

There are several patches available for the game with the final one being Patch
1.7. If you check your version of the game CD you may find the patches included
with some of the budget re-release versions (for example one EA compilation
version has patch 1.51 included). It is recommended that you install patch 1.7
if you can get it, this can be downloaded off the ea-Europe site. This
contains all the tweaks and additions added in prior patches and also offers
the following major changes:

- New character, the Maiden of the Nest
- Improved Elite Creatures
- New traps and levels
- Better support for 3D accelerated graphics

Download from: http://dk2.ea-europe.com/

A full patch history is included at the end of this guide. The main things you
must bear in mind is that to successfully install patch 1.7 after you have
begun a game, you should uninstall then reinstall the game. If you have save
data that uses an older patch version then it is likely that your save data
will become unusable, so it is better to install the patch before you begin a
game.

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b) THE CONTROLS
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So Keeper you have the game up and running, but now you face another problem.
You have no manual. Maybe you lost it, maybe you purchased the game
second-hand and it was not present, perhaps you have the budget version and
cannot get hold of Adobe Acrobat to read the manual off the CD (which you
probably lost anyway). I am sure that evil though you are you didn't download
this game using a P2P file-sharing service...

Whatever the reason, here is the full list of controls.

GOD (!) MODE

Scroll Up - Arrow Key UP
Scroll Down - Arrow Key DOWN
Scroll Left - Arrow Key LEFT
Scroll Right - Arrow Key RIGHT
Zoom In - HOME or CTRL+ Arrow Key UP
Zoom Out - END or CTRL+ Arrow Key DOWN
Speed Scroll - Key and SHIFT
Rotate View Left - DELETE or CTRL+ Arrow Key LEFT
Rotate View Right - PG DN or CTRL+ Arrow Key RIGHT
Pause + Options - ESC
Take Screen Shot - PRINT SCREEN
Pick up Objects (Not creatures) - PAGE UP
Send Multiplayer messages - TAB
Increase Ambient Light =
Decrease Ambient Light -
Camera Isometric - F1
Camera Top Down - F2