How to Build a Really Good Dungeon in Dungeon Keeper 1?

Created by Bullfrog (part of the EA corporation), and released in 1997 for the PC, Dungeon Keeper 1 provides rich and challenging gameplay that can keep the player hooked for hours. However, a lot of these players become stuck at later levels and may require some help. Your problems may be easily solved by using effective management skills when building your dungeon.

At the beginning of each game, always take some time to open up the map of the land (press M to bring it up) and analyse how much space you have to create your dungeon. By doing this, you can easily see where certain rooms need to go.WH.performance.mark('step1_rendered');

Build the primary rooms (Treasure Room, Hatchery, Lair and Training Room) near your dungeon heart. Of course, this isn't necessary, but it brings these important rooms close together, which allows the walking distance for your creatures to be minimized. By building them close to your heart, and not building out to far initially, you prevent yourself from stumbling upon large areas of lava or water, which the enemy can easily cross using bridges and attack you.

Dig towards the portal and claim it. This allows creatures like Bile Demons and Demon Spawn to fill up your ranks. Once these creatures have created their houses in the Lair, send them immediately to the training room to whip them into shape and to increase their power.

Build the secondary rooms (such as The Barracks, Torture Chamber, Library, Workshop etc...) on the outsides of your primary rooms. But it is important to note that you should always leave space for the primary rooms to expand.

Force your Imps to fortify all walls so enemy intruders cannot breach your dungeon. To do this, simply drop an imp next to an unfortified wall and they will do the task.

Allow a wide variety of creatures to come and live in your dungeon. Creatures like Warlocks, whose speciality it is to study in the library for spells, should be allowed to research. But a good choice would be to send at least two of them to train. This should be done to all creatures who have jobs like manufacturing (Trolls), researching (Dragons and Warlocks), or even doing nothing except sleeping (Beetles).

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