Dungeon Maker System

Overview
Dungeon Maker is a system similar to player housing that allows players to create their own dungeons using a variety of available map layouts. Players can locate and collect a variety of floor layouts and styles, decorate your dungeon using furniture just as you would in player housing, and then select monsters to populate the new dungeon. Dungeon Maker was introduced with Age of Discovery.

Once created, players can publish their dungeon so that other players can play through them as Adventure Avatars to win experience and awards for your player characters.

Advanture Avatars, map layouts, creature spawners, and effect items are available as loot throughout Norrath, while others can be purchased via the Marketplace (type /marketplace or click the SC button) using Dungeon Tokens awarded for playing through player-made dungeons.

Creating a Dungeon
To start creating a dungeon, click on the "Dungeons" tab on the "Character" sheet (default hotkey "c"). Here you can "Create" a new dungeon from a selection of layouts, "Edit" any dungeons you have created, or "Delete" any dungeons you no longer need. This Create screen can also be accessed by clicking the "Create" button on the Dungeon Maker leaderboard screen.

Notes:
 * You cannot use Dungeon Maker while inside a house or guild hall. You will need to step outside first.
 * If you accidentally close the Dungeon Toolbox window, you can reopen it using /show_window PlayerHousing.DMToolbox

Map Layouts
The Dungeon Maker allows for different maps and different themes. Some may be purchased in the Marketplace using Dungeon Tokens or Station Cash.


 * Crushbone Keep
 * Crushbone Keep 1 (12 rooms)
 * Crushbone Keep 2 (12 rooms)
 * Crushbone Keep 3 (12 rooms)
 * Crushbone Keep 4 (12 rooms)
 * Crushbone Keep 5 (9 rooms)


 * Lair of Scale
 * Lair of Scale 1 (11 rooms)
 * Lair of Scale 2 (9 rooms)
 * Lair of Scale 3 (12 rooms)
 * Lair of Scale 4 (5 rooms)


 * Mistmoore
 * Mistmoore 1 (10 rooms)
 * Mistmoore 2 (12 rooms)
 * Mistmoore 3 (10 rooms)
 * Mistmoore 4 (12 rooms)
 * Mistmoore 5 (10 rooms)


 * Chardok
 * Chardok 01 (12 rooms)

Populating Your Dungeon
While anyone can adventure in player-made dungeons, you must own Age of Discovery to create your own dungeons.

Adding Creatures
There are three basic types of spawners available:
 * Boss Spawners
 * Elite Spawners
 * Creature Spawners

Fine Tuning Your Creatures
Effect Objects are available for use in player-made dungeons to create special encounter effects. There are different types of effect objects that can be used alone or in combination to achieve a wide range of encounter modifications, including:


 * Damage effects
 * Aggro effects
 * Buff effects
 * Difficulty modifier effects

Decorating Your Dungeon
Furnishing and decorating a player-made dungeon works just like decorating player housing.
 * Furniture items that are placeable in player housing can be used within your dungeons.
 * If you have picked up or moved the wrong item, remember that you can hit Escape to stop moving the current item.
 * If you get stuck behind or under something while decorating, instead of moving things you've carefully placed to get out, you can use the /house command to exit.
 * You may use the command /republish_house to update the name of your currently published dungeon.

The EQ2 Housing Layout Editor may be used with Dungeon Maker. The commands are:
 * /save_layout dungeonname 
 * /load_layout dungeonname 

Dungeon Ratings
The Dungeon Maker leaderboards use a "Like" system for ratings. When you have completed playing through a Dungeon Maker zone, you have the option to "Like" the zone in two categories, Style and Creativity. The leaderboards are now based on the accumulation of "Likes". A dungeon can win trophies in both the Style and Creativity categories. Winning 50 or more awards will elevate a dungeon to the Hall of Fame.

Playing a Dungeon
To view and play through any published dungeon, click on the "Dungeon Maker" button found on the "EQII" menu. There you will see a list of all currently published dungeons. Choose any and click on "Enter" to start your play-through. Player-created dungeons may be played solo, or you can play with friends in groups of up to six members. The dungeon difficulty will scale appropriately.


 * Note: You cannot enter a player-made dungeon while inside a house or guild hall. You will need to step outside first.

Adventure Avatars
Players enter the new dungeons and select an Adventure Avatar for play. Adventure Avatars come in different races and classes, and each has different abilities. Some Adventure Avatars are available by default, while others are found as loot within the world of Norrath. Others will be available for purchase in the Marketplace using Dungeon Tokens or Station Cash.

Player Characters
Smokejumper has announced that, coming soon, Dungeon Maker will allow players to play their characters in a player-created Dungeon Maker instance. No specific date for this change has yet been announced.


 * Any character that is level 20-90 will be playable in Dungeon Maker instances.
 * Using Adventure Avatars will still be supported. A group will need to be composed either of all player characters or all Adventure Avatars.
 * When using player characters in a Dungeon Maker instance, the dungeon will scale to the group level.

Rewards for Playing a Dungeon
When you have completed a player-made dungeon, your player character will gain adventure experience. Adventure Avatars do not level; all experience goes to your regular character. In addition, Dungeon Tokens are awarded for playing through player-made dungeons. These tokens can be used to make purchases in the Marketplace, if you own Age of Discovery. The number of tokens awarded depends on the difficulty of the dungeon. Tokens are not awarded unless you exit the dungeon via the official exit.

Additional Resources

 * everfrost.dungeonmakers World-wide Dungeon Maker chat channel
 * EQ2Players Dungeon Maker Forum
 * EverQuest 2 Dungeon Maker Toolbox
 * Dungeon Maker Map Layouts
 * Effect Objects and Combination Effects
 * The EQ2 Housing Layout Editor
 * Course in Using the EQ2 Housing Layout Editor
 * EQ2 Dungeon Maker System Preview

Credits
 
 * Feldon, SOE Community Webcast EverQuest II: Dungeon Maker, EQ2 Wire