👉 A Garden is a peaceful special room containing trees, herbs, and garden gnomes.
ℹ️ Description
A Garden is a unique GnollHack-specific special room designed as an indoor courtyard or arboretum. It is filled with trees, various herbs, and fungi, providing a natural respite from the dark dungeon. The garden is tended by garden gnomes, who can often be found posing as statues.
🗺️ Generation
Gardens can be generated randomly as a special room. They will only generate in rooms that have exactly one door and no stairs. When a garden is generated, the room is cleared of standard dungeon debris and populated with garden-variety trees and a diverse selection of vegetation on the grass.
👹 Monsters and Statues
Unlike standard rooms, gardens generate a very specific set of monsters and statues, which scale depending on the dungeon's difficulty level.
There is a 50% chance for a garden to generate with statues acting as traps.
| Level Difficulty | Spawning Monsters | Spawning Statues |
|---|---|---|
| Low Levels | Hobgoblin, bugbear | Gnome |
| Mid Levels | Ogre, ogre lord | Gnome lord, gnome king, gargoyle |
| High Levels | High-level Ogre-class monsters up to ogre overlord | Winged gargoyle |
ℹ️ Note: Gnome statues in gardens always spawn wearing a conical hat, blending in as traditional garden gnomes until disturbed.
🌳 Trees
A garden randomly populates a selection of trees. Chopping them down may occasionally anger killer bees, just like regular trees.
| Common | Uncommon | Rare |
|---|---|---|
| Apple tree | Date palm | Banana plant |
| Orange tree | Fig tree | Wizened tree |
| Small deciduous tree | Pitaya plant (Dragon fruit) | |
| Eucalyptus tree | ||
| Tree | ||
| Oak tree |
🍏 Foraging and Items
Gardens are treasure troves of natural items. Depending on how you interact with the garden, you can find a massive variety of produce.
Surface Items
Searching the grass may yield various herbs, fruits, and fungi.
| Category | Items Found |
|---|---|
| Herbs & Veggies | Clove of garlic, sprig of wolfsbane, handful of spinach leaves |
| Fruits | Apple, pear, melon, banana, pomegranate, cloudberry, fig, dragon fruit |
| Helpful Fungi | Champignon, penny bun, chanterelle, healing mushroom, mana mushroom |
| Dangerous Fungi | Death cap, fly agaric, oracular toadstool, panther cap |
Buried Items
Digging up the grass tiles with a pick-axe or dwarvish mattock has a chance to yield buried root vegetables.
| Item Type | Description |
|---|---|
| Carrot | A common root vegetable. |
| Ginseng root | A restorative root. |
| Mandrake root | A rare and magical root. |