Roguelike Dungeons Mod Guide: Towers, Floors, Rooms & Loot

Overview

Roguelike Dungeons places large procedurally generated underground structures throughout the Overworld. Each dungeon is entered through an above-ground tower, descends through five distinct floors, and terminates in a Nether-themed treasure vault. No two dungeons share the same layout, theme, or room arrangement, though the depth-based difficulty curve remains consistent.

The mod adds no new craftable items or blocks. Instead, it enriches exploration and loot hunting by layering procedural structures on top of vanilla Minecraft. You can browse all mod-added structures and content using the tabs on this page.

Dungeons spawn naturally in the Overworld between Y=60 and Y=100, defaulting to approximately one dungeon per 100 chunks at the default spawn frequency. They are often found near villages. Each dungeon is a self-contained adventure: the deeper you go, the better armored the mobs become, and the richer the chests they guard.

Tower Designs

The tower determines the visual theme of the dungeon's upper floors. Eight tower designs appear in default world generation, each built from a different block palette and architectural style. The tower itself is safe to explore and typically contains a Chest with starter loot, a Crafting Table, a Furnace, and basic furnishings.

The Rogue Tower is the default design, appearing as a rectangular fortified structure. The Eniko Tower generates as a tall, slender mountain spire. The Etho Tower is based on the Death Games hub from MindCrack Season 4. The Pyramid generates as a Desert Temple. The Jungle Tower is a large temple wrapped in vegetation, Logs, and Jungle Foliage. The Witch Tower is a tall swamp dwelling, and the House design appears as a traditional two-story residential building.

Each tower type has a corresponding interior theme. Pyramid towers generate Sandstone and Quartz interiors on the upper floors. House towers generate Oak and Spruce wood interiors. Jungle towers generate mossy, overgrown interiors. The visual language of the tower reliably predicts what the first two floors will look like.

The Five Floors

Every Roguelike Dungeon descends through five underground floors. Floor size increases from Floor 1 through Floor 3, then shrinks again on Floors 4 and 5. Each floor has a distinct visual theme and mob composition. The dungeon layout is generated using either a classic branching algorithm or an MST (minimum spanning tree) maze algorithm, producing different shapes each time.

Floors 1 and 2 — Tower Theme

The top two floors use a theme matching the surface tower. A House tower produces Oak Wood corridors and checkered floors. A Pyramid tower produces Sandstone and Quartz hallways. Mobs on these floors are Skeletons and Zombies wearing Leather and Chainmail Armor, and Spiders. The loot chests here contain basic Tools, Food, Ore, and lower-tier Armor and Weapons.

These floors serve as orientation. The branching corridor system and the sheer number of spawners can overwhelm unprepared players immediately. First-time visitors often retreat after the first floor, gather better gear, and return.

Floor 3 — Crypt or Sewer Theme

Floor 3 switches to a Crypt or Sewer visual theme regardless of the tower above. The Crypt theme is characterized by stone sarcophagi, arched ceilings, and Quartz tombstones placed at each burial niche. Many of these sarcophagi contain both a Skeleton or Zombie Spawner and a paired Armor or Weapons Chest, making Floor 3 one of the most efficient farming floors in the dungeon.

Wizard towers specifically use a Sewer theme on Floor 3, with a different block palette but the same spawner-chest pairing structure. Mobs begin wearing Iron Armor on this floor. Players who gear up here before continuing are better prepared for what lies below.

Floor 4 — Overgrown Temple Theme

Floor 4 uses an overgrown temple aesthetic with traps. Pressure plates trigger falling Sand, Arrow dispensers, or other hazards concealed along corridors. Wither Skeletons and Blazes begin appearing alongside regular mobs. An Enderman Spawner room appears on this floor, decorated with an Obsidian and Quartz checkerboard floor — a valuable find for Ender Pearl farming.

Floor 5 — Nether Theme

The bottom floor transitions to a Nether aesthetic. Nether Brick, Nether Quartz Ore, Obsidian, and Soul Sand appear in the walls and floors. The floor is partially made of Lava in the largest rooms, creating navigational hazards. Temperature-sensitive survival mods will inflict rapid heat damage on this floor, making Speed Potions and Fire Resistance essential.

Floor 5 always includes a dedicated treasure room with eight Chests arranged around a central structure. This is the most reliable high-value loot in the entire dungeon. The chests here are stocked with Enchanted Books, Diamond-tier equipment with multiple enchantments, and stacks of precious Ore and Blocks. Every piece of time invested reaching Floor 5 pays off here.

Room Types

Roguelike Dungeons generates a large variety of themed rooms across its floors. Rooms are classified as Random (weighted chance to appear), Single (appears once per dungeon), or Secret (hidden behind corridor walls). Here is what each major room type contains and what to expect from it.

Combat Rooms

The Blaze Room is an obsidian-encased chamber built over a pool of Lava with a Blaze Spawner suspended above it. Structural columns and fire features line the walls. Surviving the Blazes here is lucrative because the room always contains Chest loot on the surrounding ledges. Approach with Fire Resistance.

The Crypt Room generates sarcophagi along each wall. Each sarcophagus has a 20% chance to contain a Skeleton or Zombie Spawner alongside an Armor or Weapons Chest. In a single Crypt Room, players can encounter five or six Spawner-Chest pairs simultaneously — an overwhelming first encounter, but incredibly rewarding once cleared.

The Obsidian Room is one of the largest combat chambers. It contains multiple Spawners positioned around a central structure with lava windows, and generates Weapons, Armor, and Ore Chests tucked into alcoves throughout. The Ender Room deploys an Enderman Spawner on an Obsidian and Quartz checkerboard floor, making it the best location in the dungeon to farm Ender Pearls. The Spider Nest fills its chamber with Cobwebs and Cave Spider Spawners.

The Ossuary room decorates its walls with Skeleton and Wither Skeleton Skulls, with a 1-in-15 chance for any skull to be a Wither Skull. The Creeper Den concentrates Creeper Spawners; it is rare but produces an extremely explosive clearing experience. The Prison holds jail cells containing Skeleton and Zombie occupants.

Utility Rooms

The Enchanting Room contains an Enchanting Table surrounded by Bookshelves and specialized Enchanting Chests that hold Enchanted Books and Experience Bottles. The Lab Room provides Brewing Stands stocked with potion ingredients. The Library Room builds tall Bookshelf walls around reading desks. The Smithy Room, a secret room, contains Anvils and smelters alongside a Smithy Chest with a tempered blade and raw materials.

The Storage Room generates Supplies and Blocks Chests stacked with Seeds, Saplings, and building materials. The Dining Room creates a table with surrounding chairs and a Food Chest. The Treetho Room is one of the largest rooms in the dungeon, featuring a high-ceilinged open space with planted Birch Saplings.

Secret Rooms

Secret rooms generate behind corridor walls when space permits and are not directly accessible from main pathways. The Bedroom is the most useful starter secret room: it contains Beds and Starter Chests with initial gear and the in-game guide book. The Firework Room launches Fireworks from dispensers. The Smithy secret room provides Anvil access and is one of the easiest places to repair gear mid-dungeon. The Pit drops a vertical shaft toward Bedrock.

Loot System

Chests throughout the dungeon are assigned one of 14 loot types. The type determines what category of item the chest contains. A chest's quality scales with dungeon depth — the same Armor Chest on Floor 1 yields Leather and Chainmail pieces, while on Floor 5 it yields Diamond pieces with multiple enchantments.

The Starter Chest type, found in the Bedroom secret room, provides an initial gear set plus the in-game guide book. The Smith Chest contains a tempered blade and supporting ore, making the Smithy room extremely valuable for players who find it early. The Reward Chest is a single high-value chest placed at the center of the Reward Room — its contents use the dungeon's maximum difficulty level regardless of which floor it appears on.

Spawners and Mob Progression

Every spawner in the dungeon uses one of twelve predefined mob categories: Creeper, Cave Spider, Spider, Skeleton, Zombie, Silverfish, Enderman, Witch, Lava Slime, Blaze, Slime, and Zombie Pigmen. Spawners are assigned to room types thematically — Blaze Spawners appear in the Blaze Room, Enderman Spawners in the Ender Room, and so on — but general corridor spawners can generate any standard mob type.

Mobs spawn with procedurally generated equipment. The quality of that equipment scales with dungeon depth: Leather and Chainmail Armor on Floors 1 and 2, Iron Armor on Floor 3, Gold and Diamond-tier on Floors 4 and 5. Weapon quality follows the same depth curve, meaning a Skeleton on Floor 5 might carry an enchanted Diamond Sword in addition to its Bow.

Wither Skeletons appear naturally on Floor 4 and below without needing a Nether portal. Blazes also spawn on Floors 4 and 5 outside of their dedicated room. This means standard Overworld gear becomes insufficient around Floor 3, and Fire Resistance Potions become almost mandatory by Floor 4.

Dungeon Themes

Each dungeon floor uses a primary and secondary theme to determine its block palette. The mod supports 35 distinct themes including Oak, Spruce, Crypt, Mossy, Muddy, Nether, Sandstone, Quartz, Snow, Jungle, Brick, Dark Oak, Ice, Ender, Mineshaft, Pyramid, Sewer, Purpur, Terracotta, Stone, and several community-contributed designs named after content creators (Eniko, Etho). Themes affect walls, floors, stairs, pillars, and secondary accent blocks throughout every room and corridor.

Custom dungeon settings can define which themes apply to which floors using JSON files placed in the config folder. This allows server administrators and modpack designers to restrict dungeons to specific biomes, dimensions, or block palettes. The Ender theme uses an Obsidian-heavy palette and is associated with deep floor generation. The Hell theme uses Netherrack and soul materials, appearing primarily on Floor 5.

Configuration Options

The mod generates a configuration file at config/roguelike_dungeons/roguelike.cfg on first load. All settings can be adjusted without restarting the game since the file is re-read on demand. Advanced dungeon settings (themes, loot rules, room weights) use JSON files in config/roguelike_dungeons/settings/.

Advanced: Custom Dungeon Settings

Dungeon behavior can be customized per biome, dimension, or named profile using JSON settings files placed in config/roguelike_dungeons/settings/. Each settings file can define a custom tower type, room weights, loot rules, spawner compositions, themes per floor level, and generation criteria. Files support inheritance so a custom profile can extend a built-in one and only change specific fields.

Floor layouts support two generator types: CLASSIC (the default branching algorithm) and MST (minimum spanning tree, which produces more maze-like floor plans). Each floor level (0 through 4) can be assigned a different generator, room count array, range, and scatter distance. A wider scatter value produces longer hallways between rooms; a lower value creates dense, room-packed floors.

Spawner definitions can reference any entity ID testable with /summon, including mob IDs from other installed mods. Each spawner entry supports a weight for weighted random selection, custom equipment toggles, and NBT data attributes. This allows modpack designers to create themed dungeons where specific mods' enemies populate specific floor levels.