The 1987 Moria, ancestor of Angband: 50 levels down to the Balrog.

Umoria (1987) is the Unix version of Moria (1983), the game Angband grew out of. There is one town with six shops and one dungeon 50 levels (2500 feet) deep. At the bottom waits the Balrog; kill it to win. Levels are new every time you take the stairs. Death is permanent.

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

About the game

Umoria is Angband's ancestor, and much simpler. There are no artifacts to collect, no ego-item flood, fewer monsters and one fixed final foe, the Balrog at 2500 feet.

• Only six shops, no home: sell what you don't need.
• Spells are learned with G once you have the book and the level.
• Word of Recall scrolls take you between town and your deepest level.

Keyboard controls

Essential keys

Saving your game

• Saving is automatic. The game is stored in this browser (IndexedDB) every two minutes while it waits for your next command, and whenever you switch to another tab or window. Reloading the page continues from there.
• Ctrl+X saves and ends the session, as in the original; reload the page (or press Play again) to continue.
• When your character dies the game is over; the next start rolls a new character.
• Each browser keeps one game. New game deletes it and starts over.
• Export save downloads the save file; Import save loads one. Use them for a backup or to move a game to another browser or computer (the Mac version reads the same file).
• Window layout, zoom, the sound/music switches and the high scores are stored in the same browser storage.
• Private/incognito windows and "clear site data" delete the stored game. Export first if it matters.

Tips

• Your light is not lit at the start: wield a torch (w) before going down.
• Buy Flasks of Oil in the General Store: they are the best thrown weapon early on (f).
• Cure Light Wounds potions and Phase Door scrolls save lives.
• Dark corridors are not remembered once you leave them; lit rooms are.

New player's guide

Your first steps

1. Pick a race, sex and class. A Human or Dwarf Warrior is forgiving. Esc accepts the rolled stats.
2. Wield a torch (i, pick the torches) and buy armour, Flasks of Oil and Cure Light Wounds potions. Walk into a shop's number to enter it.
3. Press >: you walk to the town's staircase and go down. Then g explores.
4. Rest (R, then * or a count) when hurt. Eat (E) when the status says Hungry.

Playing in the browser

• Windows: the tiled map with Status to its right; Messages (with history) and Inventory below. Stores, help, lists and menus pop up over the map.
• Resize windows by dragging the gaps between them; a text window's contents shrink to fit when it is too small. Reset windows puts everything back.
• Zoom: A− / A+ on the Map title bar (shown on hover) change the size of the map tiles, up to 192 px. The map does not have to fit: when it is bigger than its window it scrolls to keep you in view. Hover over a text window's title to show its A− / A+ buttons.
• Sound and Music are off until you switch them on in the top bar. Sound effects are from the Dubtrain Angband Sound Pack; music plays in town.
• Keys: the arrow keys, the numeric keypad or 1–9 move you; . and a direction runs.
• 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+K (quit) and Ctrl+X (save and quit) do.
• If the game ever crashes, a message appears at the top; reload the page to continue from the last autosave.

About this version

• Based on Umoria 5.7.15.
• Tiles: Shockbolt (from Angband 4.2, default), Gervais (David Gervais's 32x32 tiles from Angband 4.2 and 3.0.9, CC BY 3.0), DawnLike by DragonDePlatino with DawnBringer's palette (CC BY 4.0), sprites picked by name via Tommy Ettinger's DawnLikeAtlas, or Amiga: the pictures of Henrik Harmsen's Amiga Moria 1.2 (1992, GPL-3), one per monster letter and object group; switch with the Tiles button (DawnLike|a: animated monsters).
• Original source: dungeons-of-moria/umoria, commit 3bf8abc
• Our changes (port, auto-explore, command menu, web build): memmaker/umoria