Temple

Temple
Details
Appears in	Dungeon Keeper Dungeon Keeper 2 Dungeon Keeper Online
Icon
Attracts	Tentacle (also needs Lair - 9 tiles) Horned Reaper (DK1) Dark Angel x2 per Temple Hand (min size 5x5) (DK2)
Health per Tile	1000 (DK1) 10000 (DK2)
Cost (Buy/Sell)	350/175 (DK1) 3000/1500 (DK2)
Turns to Research	25000 (DK1)
Zoom-to Key	right Ctrl + T (DK1)

The Temple (sometimes referred to as the Unholy Temple in Dungeon Keeper 2) is a room in Dungeon Keeper, Dungeon Keeper 2, and Dungeon Keeper Online.

Dungeon Keeper

Description

The Temple is a room dedicated to the dark gods where creatures can worship and/or be sacrificed to gain rewards.

Worship makes creatures happy. It also protects them from Scavenging; any creature assigned to worship in the Temple will protect 2 more of its kind from scavenging, and its own immunity to scavenging lingers for about 1½ minutes after it leaves. Worship also cures the conditions of  Chicken and  Disease.

One should be aware of the recipes, or be willing to bear the risks, when indulging in sacrifice. Not all creatures or recipes produce desirable results.

Worship

There are several issues to bear in mind when using a Temple. First and foremost, creatures dropped along the stone-tiled borders of the room will perform worship, but those dropped over the center, the rippling pool squares, will be sacrificed. The number of creatures that can worship in the structure is, as usual, determined by its size and efficiency. Creatures are not talented geometrists; strive to build square rooms; e.g., 5x5, to prevent creatures from getting stuck figuring out a path around/through/out of the room.

The main use for worship is in reducing Anger. An announcement is made when a creature becomes angry; otherwise, use the Query tool to determine if a visit to the Temple could be worthwhile.

The only occasion to lay down a particularly large Temple is to combat a Disease. The Temple cures the disease and, if large enough, can be a sort of quarantine— without it the disease might just pass endlessly around as creatures sit in the Lair trying to heal.

Quirks

• Ghosts love moaning in the Temple. In fact, their default task is worship, and they will only engage in their secondary task, Research, when the structure is not present or there is no space in it.
• Vampires hate the gods. The only way to cure anger on these creatures is to bribe them or let them sleep for a while. They will rapidly become angry when using a Temple (and are the only minion that does so), although a split-second visit can still be useful to protect the fiend from scavenging and to purge enemy curses. In KeeperFX you can use the  Must Obey spell to force them to pray, useful in getting them cured, but they certainly won't be happy for it.
• Worship is a useful ongoing job to keep idle Horned Reapers happy.

Sacrifice

When a new minion is generated by appropriate sacrifices, its level is determined by the following formula:

Level of resulting creature = average level of sacrificed creatures (rounded down) + 1

The centerpiece recipes in the original version of the game include the Horned Reaper and a method for lowering the incremental cost of Imps (allowing any number of them to be amassed at effectively 300 gold apiece). Insects are also useful in a number of rituals. The tables below provide a full listing.

Beneficial Dungeon Keeper Recipes
Sacrifice	Result
	Cost of  Create Imp drops
	Complete Manufacturing
	Complete current Research
	Bile Demon
	Warlock
	Dark Mistress
	Horned Reaper
	Gives gold to allies in multiplayer. Else: "This is no wishing well, Keeper."
Harmful Dungeon Keeper Recipes
	All Chickens die
Chicken	All Chickens die
	All creatures become  Diseased
	All creatures become angry
	Turns all your creatures into Chickens

Beneficial Keeper FX Recipes
Sacrifice	Result
	Casts  Rebound on your creatures FX
	Casts  Protect Monster on your creatures FX
	Casts  Conceal Monster on your creatures FX
	Casts  Flight on your creatures FX
	Casts  Speed Monster on your creatures FX
	Casts  Heal on your creatures FX
	Horned Reaper FX
	Bile Demon FX
	Tentacle FX
	Tentacle FX
	Demon Spawn FX
	Hound FX
	Troll FX
	Hound FX
	Beetle FX
	Fly FX
	Orc FX
	Imp FX
Harmful Keeper FX Recipes
	Creates a good Horned Reaper FX
	Creates a good Skeleton FX
	Casts  Freeze on your creatures FX
	Casts  Slow on your creatures FX

Gallery

Interior slab ripple effect

Dungeon Keeper 2

The Temple is the last room The Keeper gets access to, and costs 3000 gold per tile. It has a minimum size of 5x5, and attracts a maximum of 2 Dark Angels per Temple hand.

Building a 3x3 Temple allows the sacrifice of units. All sacrifices generate mana but sacrificing certain combinations of units will create either a new unit (both creatures and heroes), with a level average to the sacrificed units or an item.

A Temple becomes useful at higher levels when more powerful portal creatures are available; the weak ones can be sacrificed, and will generate more mana depending on the creature type and level. Resultant creatures from combinations also scale with the material creatures used.

It is usually not a wise move to build a Temple solely for the Dark Angels, unless gold is not a problem.

Another use of the Temple is to quickly generate mana by forcing creatures to pray by dropping them onto the outer ring of the Temple. Creature level doesn't affect the amount of produced mana from praying, except in the case that a level 4 creature only seems to generate 1/4 (rounded down) of the normal amount. Vampires and Warlocks will choose to pray willingly after spells have been researched.

When sacrificing something, The Mentor says "The Dark Gods have accepted your sacrifice" but when you sacrifice 2 Dark Mistresses and get a Skeleton, he says "Are you mad? the Dark Gods will punish you for such blasphemy!".

If you do not keep an eye on your praying creatures once in a while, sometimes one of them will fall into the pool and eventually "sacrifice" itself. Vampires seem to be especially prone to this for some reason.

Note that the creatures with which you are blessed by sacrificing other creatures, much like creatures converted in the Torture Chamber, do NOT count against the total number that your Portals will attract.

Sacrifices

To get evil creatures
Creature	Creature	Creature	Result
2 Vampires	--	--	Bile Demon
2 Trolls	--	--	Warlock
2 Salamanders	--	--	Mistress
2 Dark Elves	--	--	Troll
2 Warlocks	--	--	Goblin
2 Rogues	--	--	Salamander
2 Skeletons	--	--	Dark Elf
2 Black Knights	--	--	Vampire
2 Bile Demons	--	--	Rogue
2 Mistresses	--	--	Skeleton
1 Guard	1 Mistress	--	Black Knight
1 Black Knight	1 Warlock	1 Firefly	Imp

Gallery

DK2TempleArt.jpg

Concept Art for DK2's Temple. Looks more like the portal to the Overworld.

Dungeon Keeper Online

In Dungeon Keeper Online, this room works similarly to Dungeon Keeper 2; it boosts creature morale, and sacrifices to the gods can be made for rewards. It uses the same icon as Dungeon Keeper 2.