moria

classic single-player dungeon exploration game

TLDR

Start Moria (restores the default savefile if one exists)

$ moria

Play or restore a specific savefile

$ moria [path/to/savefile]

Force a new game, ignoring any existing savefile

$ moria -n [path/to/savefile]

Start with a fixed dungeon seed

$ moria -s [12345]

Show the high scores and exit

$ moria -d

Enable roguelike keys (hjkl movement, newer and older builds)

$ moria -r

Moria is a classic single-player dungeon exploration game (roguelike). The player creates a character, buys equipment in the town and descends through increasingly dangerous levels of a dungeon, fighting monsters and collecting treasure. The ultimate goal is to kill the Balrog on level 50, 2,500 feet underground.Moria features permadeath, randomly generated levels and ASCII graphics. Most Linux distributions ship the modernised Umoria 5.7 codebase under the name moria.

PARAMETERS

savefile

Savefile to create or restore (default game.sav, or moria.save on older builds).

-n

Force start of a new game.

-r

Enable roguelike key set on startup (missing in Umoria 5.7.x releases; use = in-game there).

-d

Display high scores and exit.

-s NUMBER

Game seed, a decimal number up to 2147483647.

-w

Wizard (debug) mode; can resurrect a dead character. Games are not scored.

-v

Print version and exit.

-h

Display usage help.

PREVIEW

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 #........#   ####
 #..@.....+###+..#
 #....k...#   #.>#
 #####.####   ####
     #.#
 Str:18 HP:24 AC:6 L:250ft

CONTROLS

$ 1-9 / numpad    - Move (original keys)
hjkl yubn       - Move (with -r)
i / e           - Inventory / equipment
w / t           - Wear / take off
m / p           - Cast spell / pray
f               - Fire or throw
q / r           - Quaff potion / read scroll
< / >           - Go up / down stairs
R               - Rest
=               - Set options
?               - Command summary
Ctrl-X          - Save and quit

CHARACTER CLASSES

$ Warrior, Mage, Priest, Rogue
Ranger, Paladin

INSTALL

nix profile install nixpkgs#moria

CAVEATS

Permadeath: the savefile is deleted when the character dies. Older 5.5/5.6 builds use different flags (-o original keys, -s show scores, -S own scores only). The key set can also be switched in-game with =.

HISTORY

Moria was developed at the University of Oklahoma by Robert Alan Koeneke starting in 1983, inspired by Rogue. Jim Wilson ported it to C as Umoria in 1987, and it became the ancestor of Angband and many other roguelikes. Umoria was released under the GPL in 2008 and has been modernised in C++ since 2017.

RESOURCES

Source code · Homepage