Torture Chamber

For the bonus torture rooms scene, see Torture Dungeon.

The Torture Chamber is a room in Dungeon Keeper, Dungeon Keeper 2, Dungeon Keeper Online, and Dungeon Keeper Mobile. It is used to convert heroes, rebel creatures and enemy creatures to your side. This room attracts the fearsome Mistress, who regularly uses this room.

Dungeon Keeper[]

In Dungeon Keeper, this room is used to convert heroes and enemy creatures so you can use them to your own evil ends. The appearance looks similar to several platforms with dormant torturers in cloaks. The cloaked torturer will proceed to use specific styles of torture on different types of units, for example if an Imp is dropped on the table the cloaked torturer will hit him with a pick-axe.

Torture Animations
Evil Creatures		Goodly Heroes
Beetle		Archer
Bile Demon		Barbarian
Demon Spawn		Fairy
Dragon		Knight
Fly		Thief
Ghost		Avatar
Hound		Monk
Horned Reaper		Mountain Dwarf
		Priestess
		Samurai
		Tunneller
		Giant
Imp		Wizard
Dark Mistress		Time Mage
Orc
Skeleton
Spider
Tentacle
Troll
Vampire
Warlock

Dungeon Keeper early torture art — Early torture art

You can also torture your own creatures, which will increase the productivity of other creatures of that type by increasing their speed by 25 per cent (and they take half pay),^[2] but this hurts them over time and will result in anger if torture continues for too long. The speed buff provided by the Torture Chamber stacks with those of slapping and using the Speed spell, making it particularly useful if time is of the essence.

When trying to convert prisoners, heal them or feed them chickens, to reduce the chance that they will die before conversion. If the creature being tortured has the Heal spell, it will heal itself if picked up and dropped back into the Torture Chamber.

Should a victim die in the chamber, it will be resurrected as a Ghost, and all creatures of its type gain around 5 annoyance.^[2] The Ghost spawns at the same experience level as the victim, and their magical abilities may make them useful units if the wages of converted enemies can not be afforded. Ghosts themselves can be tortured; if one dies in the Torture Chamber, it will spawn a new Ghost at the same level as normal.

Torturing a creature for too long reduces the annoyance accumulation for every creature of the same type during the torture.^[2]

Trivia[]

Cloaked Torturers can not be tortured.

Dungeon Keeper 2[]

The Torture Chamber changes quite a bit in Dungeon Keeper 2: namely, the cloaked torturers have been replaced by automated electric chairs and torture wheels, and the unique torture styles are removed. The Mistress will spend most of her time here, torturing herself or her victims. There is a level based around the torture room, as you need to convert the princes Tristan, Felix, and Balder.

Torture Device concept art Dungeon Keeper 2 — Concept art for a torture device

Torture wheels are also placed on the walls, so you should remember to leave 3 tiles of wall around the chamber wherever possible to make more room for pain and sorrow.

You should often try to convert enemy creatures if you can afford their wages; the exception being the Thief, which is generally too weak to be worth the effort (The Dwarf is even weaker than the Thief, but their lack of basic needs and their ability to work like Imps more than make up for that.).

Converted heroes will only become unhappy if sharing the same connected Lair tiles as your portal creatures or if guarding, training, or working in the same room, and they are often just as strong or stronger than their evil creature counterparts.

Converted creatures do not count towards your Portal head count, so you can have a larger army if you convert every enemy you defeat, so long as you can afford the wage. If your money is limited, you should only try to convert the highest levels of your enemies.

Tips[]

Higher level creatures take longer to convert.
Fireflies, when dropped on electric chairs, are instantly killed (this particular instance of lightning is uniquely lethal to them).
The game handles experience very generously with conversion - every last point of XP a creature collects transfers over to his new allegiance after being converted.
Mistresses have a tendency to trap themselves on a torture device, stay there indefinitely, neglect food or pay, and still not ruin their mood because torture keeps them happy. (Although this mostly seems to work if they do it themselves - they can be dropped on a Torture Chamber room tile without an appliance for them to get the idea themselves - a lot of times it can work by the player manually doing it to his own entire Mistress population.) Obviously this is only a good idea of you cannot train them further as they'll neglect such a duty of theirs. Unrelated to the actual room, Mistresses in their Lair sleep in an iron maiden. As the Dungeon Keeper series has a medieval theme, iron maidens are an anachronism: evidence suggests they were actually invented in the 19th century; their existence during medieval times is a myth.

Bugs[]

When a wall disappears due to a mission event trigger, the wall wheel appliance remains floating in the air. May also be the case with Library, Workshop, Training Room. Tested on Level 9 - Ambush - Silverstream.
Hypnotised creatures are released from a torture device.

Trivia[]

Imps and Jackpot Winners cannot be tortured.
Enemy Mistresses are converted uniquely without being damaged/injured.
From among your allies, active torture victims cannot be grouped. Neither can in-pit pit fighters, or current prisoners.
Electric chairs were, like iron maidens, invented in the 19th century, and are thus an anachronism.
Seen on prerelease screenshots, when making the game, Bullfrog originally gave a brighter floor to the Torture Chamber, and torture wheels had spikes under and behind them.^{[image requested]}

Electric Chair Skeletons[]

All weapons disappear from the hand of tortured clients.

Armor pieces do not show up on a shaking electrified skeletal structure, even if the conductivity of such metallic materials should make the observer expect a presence by following cartoon logic. Thus, the Goblin (helmet), Elite Goblin, Troll (piercings), Elite Dark Elf, certain parts of a Mistress' clothing, Knight, Black Knight, Rogue, Bile Demon (horn maces), Guard, Royal Guard, Elite Dark Angel, Princes all appear as normal Skeletons.

Nearly all creatures, when sat in an electric chair, have their own bio-structural skeletons visually showcased cartoonishly in short bursts of electrification. As a rule of thumb, normal humanoids tend to simply temporarily transform into the same model as the Skeleton creature, and more unique creatures tend to have custom skeletal models.

But there are complicating inconsistencies like so:

Smaller and bigger creatures who have an overall humanoid frame lack a unique bone structure and instead use a normal-sized skeleton. This includes Goblin, Troll, Dwarf, and Giant.
The lack of presence of Fairy wings is understandable, but the Dark Angel should have wing bones, yet he hasn't.
The Skeleton creature obviously doesn't change, simply shakes. (Comment: Makes people wonder what different structured Skeleton minions could bring to the game...)

(Comment: These inconsistencies are definitely something a future remaster could expand upon.)

The creatures that have entirely unique skeleton shapes are:

Salamander, awesomely with a tail no less!!
Bile Demon
Maiden

Unique Torture Skeletons

The Vampire and Lord of the Land do produce a normal human Skeleton, even if they rarely if ever need to do so.

Further experimentation is needed with King Reginald and Stone Knights involving the different editors. Also Horny.

Dungeon Keeper Online[]

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Dungeon Keeper Mobile[]

Overview[]

This room Is one of the last rooms a keeper can access. It unlocks the powerful Mistress who can increase the effectiveness of other minions and immortals. The room itself damages enemies by firing rapid lightening strikes at a single target at a rate of 4 strikes per second. It also has one of the longest firing ranges of all the buildings within Dungeon Keeper.

Notes[]

Built-In defense travels very far and very fast
Unlocks the Mistress
4x4 building
Effective against Immortals due to single target damage
Does lightning damage which is effective against Tiny and Ghosts
Is not defended by a Mistress during player raids
Bolstering increases minion and immortal damage

Stats[]

Defense	Caged Lightning
Targets	Ground & Air
Damage Type	Electrical
Attack Speed	0.25s
Attack Range	5 Tiles
Size	4x4

Upgrades[]

Level	Damage	DPS	Health	Build Time	Build Cost (Stone)	Max Mistress Training	Dungeon Heart Required
1	23	92	7,350	1d	900k	Level 1	Level 8
2	24	96	7,650	1d 12h	1.8M	-
3	25	100	7,950	2d	2.3M	Level 2
4	26	104	8,250	2d 12h	2.7M	-
5	27	108	8,550	3d	3.1M	Level 3	Level 9
6	28	112	8,850	4d	3.5M	-
7	29	116	9,150	5d	4M	Level 4
8	30	120	9,450	6d	5.5M	-
9	31	124	9,750	7d	6M	-	Level 10
10	32	128	10,350	8d	6.5M	Level 5	Level 10
11	33	132	10,875	9d	13M	Level 6	Level 11
12	34	136	11,355	10d	13.2M	-	Level 12
13	35	140	11,915	11d	13.4M	Level 7	Level 13
14	36	144	12,620	12d	20M	-	Level 14
15	37	148	13,170	13d	28M	Level 8	Level 15
16	38	152	13,720	13d	40M	-	Level 17
17	39	156	14.210	13d	44M	Level 9	?
18	40	160	14.960	14d	48M	-	?
19	41	164	15.550	14d	49M	-	?
20	42	168	16,120	14d	52M	Level 10	?
21	43	172	16,690	14d	52.2M	-	?
22	44	176	17,260	14d	52.4M	-	?
23	45	180	17,830	14d	56M	?	?
24	46	184	18,400	14d	62M	?	Level 24
25	47	188	18,970	14d	66M	?	Level 25
26	48		19,540	14d	68M	-	Level 26
27	49		20,110	14d	70M	Level 12	Level 27
28	50		20,680	16d		-	Level 28
29	51		21,250	18d	80M	Level 13	Level 29
30	52		21,820	20d	84M	?	Level 30
31	53	?	?	22d	85M	?	Level 31
32	54	?	22,960	24d	86M	?	Level 32
33	55	?	23,930	26d	87M	?	Level 33
34	56	?	24,100	28d	88M	?	Level 34
35	57	?	24,670	30d	90M	?	Level 35

Note:

Build times have been updated for May, 2018 update.
Max level is 35

References[]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 房屋与建筑 (Chinese). Retrieved on 22 April 2020.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Prima's Official Guide To Dungeon Keeper Gold Edition. p. 124. Prima Publishing. (1998). ISBN 978-0-7615-1581-4.

[52pk-1] 1.0 ^1.1 房屋与建筑 (Chinese). Retrieved on 22 April 2020.

[Prima-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Prima's Official Guide To Dungeon Keeper Gold Edition. p. 124. Prima Publishing. (1998). ISBN 978-0-7615-1581-4.

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