What’s Different

What ZangbandTK does that Angband does not. If you have played Angband and want the short version, read How Balance Differs first — it is the account of what will kill you that would not have before.

Some of these pages describe features that are not yet implemented; each says so at the top where that is the case.

• How Balance Differs
  • Monsters die sooner
  • Why scale rather than import
  • Experience is unchanged
  • Tuning it yourself
  • Savefiles
• Monsters
  • Where the new monsters come from
  • Monsters that are not what they appear
  • How dangerous are they?
  • Rooms full of them
  • Not yet implemented
• Objects
  • Three new weapon properties
  • New artifacts
  • New ego types
  • The Ancient and Foul Curse
  • Activations
  • Not yet implemented
• The Wilderness
  • The world
  • Terrain
  • Deep water
  • Rivers and lakes
  • Travel
  • What lives there
  • What you leave behind
  • What you wounded
  • What you know
  • Leaving the town
  • Going down
  • What is not here yet
• Towns and Services
• Quests
• The Realms of Magic
• Mutations
• Virtues
• Pets and Allies
• Nightmare Mode