FAangband 2.0.1 (First Age Angband) by Nick McConnell: Angband 4.2 set in Beleriand during the War of the Jewels, with a wilderness map of towns, forests, mountains and dungeons instead of one town above one pit.

• About the game
• Keyboard controls
• Saving your game
• Tips
• New player's guide
• Playing in the browser
• Credits
• About this version

About the game

FAangband (First Age Angband) is Angband set in Beleriand during the War of the Jewels. Instead of one town above one bottomless dungeon you travel a map of Beleriand: forests, mountains, rivers and the towns of Men, Elves and Dwarves, with dungeons along the way and Angband itself at the end. Version 2.0 rebuilt the game on Angband 4.2, so the interface, classes and item handling feel like modern Vanilla.

• Choose the world at birth: the full Standard Wilderness, an Extended one, a Hybrid Dungeon, or a single Angband Dungeon below a town.
• Specialties (S): feats you pick as you level up.
• Rogues set monster traps (+) and steal (s); Beornings change into bears (!).
• A monster list fused from Angband 4.2 and the old FAangband, with the First Age's heroes and villains.

Keyboard controls

Essential keys

Auto-explore, stairs and the item lists

• FAangband is played here in the browser (ruzzoli.de/roguelikes/faangband) with the game's own Shockbolt tiles. Windows: Map, Inventory, Visible monsters, Visible items and Messages; Recall and Equipment under Windows.
• Auto-explore (p) walks to the nearest unexplored place, opening doors and clearing rubble. It never picks locks and stops for a monster in view, a new message or any key; it needs light. In the wilderness a monster is nearly always in view, so it is mostly for dungeons.
• < / > take the stairs or path you stand on, or walk to the nearest known one and take it.
• Enter opens a menu of every command, grouped, with its key; letters pick an entry.
• i / e show inventory and equipment with a cursor: a letter does the item's main action, Shift+letter drops, Ctrl+letter inspects, Enter lists everything you can do with it. The list opens again after an action unless a monster is in view.
• No -more- prompts: messages scroll on (read them again with ^P).
• Sound is off by default: Sound turns on the effects, Music a town tune (the browser needs a click first).

Saving your game

• Saving is automatic. The game is stored in this browser (IndexedDB) while it waits for your next command, when you switch to another tab, and on every level change. Reloading the page continues from there.
• Ctrl+S saves right away. Ctrl+X saves and ends the session; Play again continues.
• When your character dies, Play again starts a new one (based on the old one).
• Each browser keeps one character. New character deletes it; Export save / Import save move it between browsers or to the desktop game.
• Private windows and "clear site data" delete the stored game. Export first if the character matters.

Tips

• For a first game pick Angband Dungeon at birth: one town, one dungeon, like Vanilla Angband.
• Wilderness levels are joined by paths at their edges (easy and hard paths, drawn like up and down stairs); < / > walk to the nearest known one and take it.
• When the status line shows Spec., press S to learn a specialty.
• Rogues set monster traps with + and steal with s.
• Rest (R then &) before moving on; try unknown scrolls and potions when you are safe: that is how they get identified.
• Keep a Scroll of Word of Recall: it takes you home and later back down to your deepest level.

New player's guide

Your first steps

1. At birth pick Angband Dungeon for a first game (one town, one dungeon). A Warrior, or a Dwarf or Easterling fighter, is the forgiving choice.
2. Shop: Flasks of Oil (throw them with v), Cure Light Wounds potions and a few Phase Door scrolls in the General Store and Alchemist.
3. p explores and stops when a monster appears. Fight in corridors so only one enemy reaches you.
4. Take > when the level is done; go deeper only while you win most fights easily. Check C for your resistances.

Finding your way

• In the wilderness, levels are joined by paths at their edges: easy and hard paths, drawn like up and down stairs. < / > walk to the nearest known one and take it.
• M shows the whole level, L scrolls the map.
• Word of Recall takes you back to town and down to your deepest level again.

Staying alive

• Leave early: Phase Door, then walk away; drink a potion before your hit points turn yellow.
• The wilderness always has monsters about: rest (R, &) before you move on.
• Look (l) at unknown monsters and read their recall before fighting.

Playing in the browser

• Windows: the tiled map (the game's own Shockbolt tiles); Inventory, Visible monsters and Visible items on the right; Messages along the bottom. Recall and Equipment are in the Windows menu. Menus, stores and help pop up over the map.
• Resize windows by dragging the gaps between them. Reset windows puts everything back.
• Zoom: A− / A+ on the Map title bar (shown on hover) change the size of the map tiles. Hover over a text window's title to show its A− / A+ buttons; click a title to rename the window.
• Sound and Music are off until you switch them on in the top bar: the game's own sound events with the Dubtrain Angband Sound Pack that ships with FAangband, and town music.
• Keys: the arrow keys or the numeric keypad move you; Shift+arrow runs. Center map and auto_more are on by default here (change them under =).
• Browsers keep a few shortcuts for themselves (Ctrl+W, Ctrl+T, Ctrl+N, and Cmd shortcuts on a Mac), so those never reach the game. Ctrl+S and Ctrl+X do.
• If the game ever crashes, a message appears at the top; reload the page to continue from the last save.

Credits

• FAangband 0.1.0–2.0.1: Nick McConnell (github.com/NickMcConnell/FAangband); FAangband 0.3.6 by Si Griffin. Based on Moria, Umoria, Angband 4.2 and Oangband, with ideas from NPPangband and Unangband. Contributors named on the news screen: Robert Alan Koeneke, James E. Wilson, Alex Cutler, Andy Astrand, Sean Marsh, Geoff Hill, Charles Teague, Charles Swiger, Ben Harrison, Robert Ruehlmann, Leon Marrick, Bahman Rabii, Jeff Greene, Diego Gonzalez, Andrew Doull, Andi Sidwell, Pete Mack, Si Griffin.
• Licence: GNU GPL 2, or the Angband licence (free to copy and distribute for educational, research and not-for-profit purposes with the copyright notice), as the source headers say.
• Tiles: Shockbolt Angband 64x64 tileset, © Raymond "Shockbolt" Gaustadnes 2012, shipped with the game, plus same-set stand-ins for FAangband's additions.
• Sounds: Dubtrain Angband Sound Pack (ships with the game). Town music: new_town.ogg.
• Web port, auto-explore, stair walking, command and item menus: memmaker (github.com/memmaker/faangband).

About this version

• Based on FAangband 2.0.1 (Nick McConnell; Angband 4.2 code base), upstream main at commit 0d85203a0.
• Original source: NickMcConnell/FAangband at 0d85203a0
• Our changes (auto-explore, stair walking, command menu, inventory item actions, tile stand-ins, sound, web build): memmaker/faangband