Zangband 2.7.6: Angband in Amber's shadow, with a huge scrolling wilderness, many towns, pets, chaos and Amberites.

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

About the game

Zangband is Angband set in the worlds of Roger Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber, and one of the biggest Angband variants. Instead of one town above one dungeon you get a huge wilderness that scrolls as you walk, with many towns, each with its own shops, buildings and quests, and several dungeons.

• Many races (Amberites, Imps, Mind Flayers, Golems …) and classes, with magic from seven realms (Life, Sorcery, Nature, Chaos, Death, Trump, Arcane).
• Pets you can command with p, chaos patrons and mutations.
• Monsters from Amber and the Cthulhu mythos alongside Tolkien's; Oberon and the Serpent of Chaos wait at the bottom.

Keyboard controls

Essential keys

Saving your game

• Saving is automatic. Every save goes straight into this browser's storage (IndexedDB). The game saves every two minutes while it waits for your next command, and whenever you switch to another tab or window.
• Ctrl+S saves and keeps playing. Ctrl+X saves and quits; reload the page (or press Play again) to continue.
• Reloading or closing the tab loses at most the last couple of minutes. The browser asks before you leave a running game.
• Each browser keeps one character. File ▾ → New game deletes it and starts over.
• Export save downloads your savefile; Import save loads one. Use them to keep a backup or to move a character to another browser or computer.
• Your window layout, zoom levels, window titles and the Tiles/Sound/Music buttons are stored in the same browser storage and survive a new character.
• Private/incognito windows and "clear site data" delete the stored game. Export first if the character matters.

Tips

• You start in a town in the wilderness. Buy Cure Light Wounds potions, Phase Door scrolls, food and oil flasks before going down.
• > in town walks to the town's dungeon entrance and goes in. H then explores each level for you; it stops when a monster comes into view.
• Zangband is known to be harder than Angband early on: fight in corridors, rest to full before exploring, and leave by the stairs when a level feels wrong (^F repeats the level feeling).
• Word of Recall takes you back to town and down to your deepest level again. Buy one as soon as you can.
• Inscribe items with @q1 and the like to use them by number; destroy junk with k.

New player's guide

Your first steps

1. Make a character: a Human or Dwarf Warrior, or a High-Elf Mage, is a gentle start.
2. You start in a town. Visit the General Store for food, oil flasks and torches, the Alchemist for Cure Light Wounds potions and Phase Door scrolls. Walk onto a shop entrance to go in.
3. Press >: you walk to the town's dungeon entrance and go down.
4. Press H to explore. Fight what you meet, pick up what you find, and go back up (<) to sell loot and heal.

Finding your way

• The town is part of the wilderness: walk off its edge and the map simply scrolls on. Other towns and dungeons lie out there; M shows the map.
• L scrolls the map section by section; l looks at what is near you.
• Word of Recall scrolls take you from the dungeon to town and back to your deepest level.
• Buildings in towns hand out quests and other services; the in-game help (?) explains them.

Staying alive

• Always carry Phase Door and Cure Light Wounds; later Teleportation and Word of Recall.
• Look (l) at unknown monsters and read their recall before fighting.
• Rest (R) to full health and mana before every fight you can choose.
• Leave a level early if it feels dangerous: new levels are generated every time.

Playing in the browser

• Windows: the map fills the big window; Inventory and Visible (monsters and items in view) are on the right, Messages along the bottom. Recall, Equipment and Character can be turned on under Windows.
• Resize windows by dragging the gaps between them. The windows always fill the screen and never overlap; the game redraws them at their new size. 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 small window's title to show its A− / A+ buttons, which change its text size.
• Rename a window by clicking its title, typing a new name and pressing Enter (Esc cancels, an empty name restores the default).
• Keys: arrow keys, the numeric keypad or 1–9 move you; Shift + direction runs. Zangband has no mouse support.
• Tiles switches between Shockbolt tiles and text. Sound and Music are off by default; Music plays a town tune while you are on the surface (towns and wilderness).
• 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.
• If the game ever crashes, a message appears at the top; reload the page to continue from your last save.

Credits

• Zangband 2.7.x: Topi Ylinen (original author, 1994), Robert Rühlmann, Steven Fuerst and the Zangband DevTeam (2.3.0–2.7.5), JJ Mifsud (2.7.6); based on Angband 2.7–2.8 (Ben Harrison), Moria (Robert Alan Koeneke, 1985) and Umoria (James E. Wilson, 1989). The sources carry the Angband licence: free to copy and distribute for educational, research and not-for-profit purposes with the copyright notice.
• Tiles: Shockbolt Angband 64x64 tileset, © Raymond "Shockbolt" Gaustadnes 2012, used under its licence for Angband and its variants (no fee, not modified).
• Sounds: Dubtrain Angband Sound Pack. Town music: new_town.ogg.
• Web port, auto-explore, command and item menus: memmaker (github.com/memmaker/zangband).

About this version

• Based on Zangband 2.7.6.
• Original source: jjnoo/Zangband (dev), commit e177ff5
• Our changes (port, auto-explore, command menu, web build): memmaker/zangband