Patches

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Various patches for the games, both official and unofficial, have been released over the years. They improve the game by adding features and fixing bugs.

Dungeon Keeper

Official patch

The official patch was released several weeks after the game's release. It is available on Keeper Klan here, and has the following improvements:

• Improved AI
  • Computer players sell doors and traps for gold
  • Improved ability to find gold
  • Computer players are more economical
• Enhanced the logic of the Computer Assistance
• Creature activity algorithms have been streamlined
  • They no longer teleport to unexplored areas
  • Parties whose leader is killed now select a new one
• Rebalanced creatures
• Increased security of saves

Dungeon Keeper Gold and Dungeon Keeper Premium have this patch pre-applied. Dungeon Keeper Collector's Edition, however, does not.

Fan patches

Zuqkeo's patch

This unofficial patch was released in June 2008, and is available here. It has the following changes:

• Adds a Locate Hidden World special to Sleepiburgh, so Secret 5 is accessible
• Fixed locked doors in Woodly Rhyme
• In Secret 1:
  • Altered some enemies after the level 8 Vampire
  • Locked doors that should have been locked
  • Added traps
  • Added a Transfer Creature special
  • Added an Imp when the level is beaten, so you can use the Transfer Creature
  • Swapped Magic Doors for Iron Doors
• In Secret 5:
  • Added two Increase Level specials
  • Locked doors that were meant to be locked
• In Secret 6:
  • Fixed some terrain errors
  • Map is more symmetrical
  • Added a Library to claim the spellbooks
  • Added a level 10 Barbarian as the reward for beating the level
  • Added a Transfer Creature special
  • Slightly weakened the enemy dwarves
• Fixed mismatched level outtros (English only)

Dungeon Keeper 2

Official patches

1.51

This patch fixes various bugs, some of the more serious ones being:

• You no longer inherit the host's game settings when joining a DK2 Multiplayer game lobby
• Game no longer crashes on pressing Alt+Tab
• Hero Gates can be destroyed in Regicide
• Fixed a synchronisation problem pertaining to gaolbreaks
• Fixed cutscenes refusing to play on some CD drives
• Fixed creature flowers flashing when they shouldn't
• Fixed animation of creatures who'd been frozen whilst in possession
• Horny no longer gets stuck when collecting a Portal Gem
• Fixed certain Mentor lines being played incorrectly
• Imps no longer refuse to take trap crates to the blueprints
• Creatures created in the Temple no longer get stuck in the pool
• Secret levels no longer show up as level 20 on the high score screen

Other changes (list is not exhaustive):

• Added 1024x768 support
• Added A3D support
• Added several skirmish and multiplayer maps
• Added gain mana cheat
• Computer players now use the Combat Pit
• Horny is now immune to freezing
• Magic Doors immune to non-magic attacks
• Payday countdown now begins when the first creature joins your dungeon
• Disabled cheats in multiplayer
• Mistresses train more and torture themselves less
• Mentor has more silly lines
• Boulder Traps take damage when slapped
• EAX disabled by default
• Added ability to enter the level as a lost soul after losing a multiplayer match
• Dark Elves now flag when patrolling
• Creatures can now cast the Heal, Armour, and Invisibility creature spells on themselves
• Added Temple recipes involving Keeper spells
• Improved music scripting

1.61

This patch introduced the Elite Creatures and the ability to replay completed levels in the campaign.

1.7

• Added the Maiden creature
• Added the Jack In The Box Trap
• Added multiplayer and Skirmish maps
• Added Environment Mapped Bump Mapping
• Added a new My Pet Dungeon level
• The game now officially supports Windows 2000
• Elite creatures are now much tougher
• Wizards no longer fall into the Temple pool
• Imps vanish when your mana reserves are depleted
• Creatures get hungry whilst in the Combat Pit
• Fixed shrinking Princes problem on Interception
• Introduced Mercenary Portals

Fan patches

GIM

The General Improvement Mod (GIM) was created by Wyrmcast and released in 2014. It is available on Keeper Klan here. There are many, many changes, but in a nutshell, the patch attempts to combine the best of versions 1.51 and 1.7.