Training Room

Training Room
Details
Appears in	Dungeon Keeper, Dungeon Keeper 2
Attracts	Demon Spawn - 1 tile (with Treasure Room) Orc - 9 tiles (with Barracks) (DK1) Salamander (DK2)
Health per Tile	1250 (DK1) 10000 (DK2)
Turns to Research	1000
Zoom-to Key	Shift + T (DK1)

The Training Room will allow creatures to train themselves to higher levels. Creatures will slowly use up gold while training. It attracts several types of creatures through the dungeon Portal, both on its own and in conjunction with other rooms.

Dungeon Keeper

The Training Room is where creatures will probably gain most of their experience. Generally, the room is crucial to preparing a force that can handle the opposition on a map, and the ongoing cost of training creatures is the largest item in the Keeper's expense column. This room is considered one of the "basic five," along with Treasure, Lair, Hatchery, and Library, and is usually available for construction by default, without needing to be researched or captured.

Experience levels gained in training or combat will increase creatures' size, raw combat stats, and job skill (although innate skill at training itself does not change). Creatures also gain new spells and abilities at various level benchmarks. The availability of Gold and Gem seams in the realm gives an indication of how far a player can go about training his minions there.

When you have decided to tunnel out of your dungeon, the Training Room is a good place to start your corridors, as invaders who enter will surely stumble upon a room full of high-level minions ready to kill them. In the very least, strive to place the lively room in the path between attackers and the Dungeon Heart.

Training Overview

Training is a primary job for Skeletons, Spiders, Demon Spawn, Orcs, Barbarians, Giants, and Samurai. It is a secondary job for Dragons, after research. Rather than idle in their lairs, these creatures prefer to train. Therefore, they need to be given something else to do when money is too tight.

All other creatures, including Imps, are willing to use the Training Room when dropped into it. They will use it until they reach Level 10, breaking only for lunches, paydays, battles, and healing, and only stopping completely if coin runs out.

The table below shows how much gold is needed to train a minion to a specified level. The entries are listed in descending order of how quickly the creature can reach the 10th, considering issues like innate training skill, when and whether the creature gains Speed, and how often it gets hungry.

­ Training Costs for Creatures ­
Icon	Creature		Cumulative gold spent to reach level...
			2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10	Grow Up
	Skeleton	20	80		360		760		1,280		1,980		2,840		3,880		5,180		6,820
	Hellhound	14	112		504		798		1,162		1,652		2,254		2,996		3,906		5,054
	Orc	15	120		540		1,155		1,950		2,475		3,120		3,915		4,890		6,120
	Dragon	40	200		960		2,040		3,440		5,320		7,600		10,400		13,880		18,240
	Dark Mistress	24	192		864		1,848		3,120		4,800		6,840		8,112		9,696		11,640
	Warlock	30	240		1,080		2,310		3,900		6,000		8,550		11,760		15,660		20,580
	Demon Spawn	15	120		540		1,155		1,950		3,000		4,275		5,880		7,830		10,290	12,750
	Bile Demon	38	304		1,368		2,926		4,940		7,600		10,830		14,896		19,836		26,068
	Vampire	50	200		900		2,200		4,650		8,100		13,150		21,300		31,450		43,600
	Imp	10	410		980		1,390		1,920		2,620		3,480		4,550		5,860		7,500
	Horned Reaper	150	2,400		10,950		23,250		39,300		49,800		62,700		78,600		98,400		123,000
	Troll	12	192		876		1,860		2,508		3,336		4,380		5,652		7,224		9,192
	Fly	5	80		365		775		1,310		2,005		2,870		3,935		4,590		5,410
	Ghost	20	320		1,460		3,100		5,240		8,020		11,480		15,740		20,980		27,560
	Tentacle	14	224		1,022		2,170		3,668		5,614		8,036		11,018		14,686		19,292
	Spider	18	288		1,314		2,790		4,716		7,218		10,332		14,166		18,882		24,804
	Beetle	8	128		584		1,240		2,096		3,208		4,592		6,296		8,392		11,024
­ Training Costs for Subverted Heroes ­
Icon	Creature		Cumulative gold spent to reach level...
			2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10	Grow Up
	Samurai	50	200		900		1,900		3,200		4,950		7,100		8,400		10,000		12,050
	Barbarian	40	200		960		2,040		3,440		5,320		7,600		10,400		13,880		18,240
	Knight	40	200		960		2,040		3,440		5,320		7,600		10,400		13,880		18,240
	Priestess	16	128		576		1,232		2,080		3,200		4,560		6,272		8,352		10,976
	Wizard	30	240		1,080		2,310		3,900		6,000		8,550		11,760		15,660		20,580
	Giant	35	280		1,260		2,695		4,550		7,000		9,975		13,720		18,270		24,010
	Thief	12	192		876		1,860		2,508		3,336		4,380		5,652		7,224		9,192	~13,000
	Archer	8	128		584		1,240		2,096		3,208		3,904		4,752		5,800		7,112
	Monk	12	192		876		1,860		3,144		4,812		6,888		9,444		12,588		16,536
	Mountain Dwarf	5	80		365		775		1,310		2,005		2,870		3,935		5,245		6,890
	Tunneler	10	160		730		1,550		2,620		4,010		5,740		7,870		10,490		13,780
	Fairy	4	64		292		620		1,048		1,604		2,296		3,148		4,196		5,512

Notes on Cost

Capacity

1x1	1
2x2	1
3x3	4
4x4	7
5x5	11
6x6	18
7x7	24
8x8	32
9x9	40
10x10	50

The figures above are a mix of results and extrapolations for a Training Room running at 100% Efficiency, meaning that the room has reasonable geometry and is bounded on all sides by Fortified Walls, Doors, and/or Guard Posts. An inefficient room will exact the same ongoing costs, but research suggests that its occupants' experience gains get adjusted by the efficiency percentage. On the other hand, slapping creatures, running Must Obey, and torturing somebody will make trainees work harder, and you can expect to pay less than the listed values and get ready for battle more quickly.

Speed, either from the Keeper spell Speed Monster or the creature spell Speed, doubles the training rate while holding the cost steady. Throwing the Keeper spell is always recommended for creatures who cannot hasten themselves naturally, as long as you can afford it.

It helps to have an idea of how much a strong minion will cost. As an example, let us compare a Horned Reaper to his component sacrifices. Getting a Reaper from 2, the minimum level from the temple recipe, to 5, when he learns Speed, starts at about 37,000 gold plus paydays. However, training a Troll to 3, a Bile Demon to 4, and a Mistress to 5 only costs about 7000 gold. Throw these into the well, and a level 5 Reaper comes forth (the temple takes the average level of the sacrifices, rounded down, and then adds +1).

Say we want to train one full Hand of 8 Mistresses to level 7, to clobber a tough enemy Keeper and get whisked away before taking any losses. This costs around 55,000 gold. When there is an Increase Level, it is best to use it when the group has reached level 6, even if you intend to train the group to level 9 or 10, since it happens to be the longest and most expensive level for a Dark Mistress.

Notes on Time

Actual training times are too dependent on internals, like lunches and paydays, and externals, like the framerate the game is running at, to make robust estimates. Training the highly-desirable level 3 Imp costs the equivalent of about 1 Gold Seam square and takes five to six minutes. Training gets arduous at high levels; in a competitive situation, maxing out is not a good idea. Minions with reasonable, midrange training speeds, such as Warlocks and Bile Demons, take about 27 minutes to reach the ninth level and 35 minutes, total, for ten.

The training gap between the highly-skilled, martial types— particularly those who can Speed themselves— and the buffoons, is vast. A Samurai goes from ground-level to ten in about twelve minutes. A Beetle takes about an hour and a half.

Experience Overview

Level	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Modifier	100%	135%	170%	205%	240%	275%	310%	345%	380%	415%
	The Modifier applies to: Salary Research Skill Manufacturing Skill Scavenging Skill Health Strength Dexterity Experience for hitting					The following are not affected: Hunger Training Skill Annoyance Armor Level Movement Speed Luck Fear Hearing
	Leveled Spells for Creatures
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Beetle
Bile Demon
Mistress
Demon Spawn
Dragon
Fly
Ghost
Hound
Horned Reaper
Imp
Orc
Skeleton
Spider
Tentacle
Troll
Vampire
Warlock
	Leveled Spells for Heroes
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Archer
Avatar
Barbarian
Fairy
Giant
Knight
Monk
Mountain Dwarf
Priestess
Samurai
Thief
Tunneller
Wizard

Dungeon Keeper 2

"Your creatures use the Training Room to hone their fighting skills. Working with the dummies and targets available, creatures increase their experience level every turn. Each turn, there is a cost in Gold incurred for each creature that you are training. Once a creature has gained the required experience points, it advances to the next level."

The Training room will allow creatures to train themselves up to level 4. Creatures will slowly use up gold while training. The Training room also attracts Salamanders. After level 4, creatures will not train here and can only raise up in combat.

Gallery

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The Training Room in Dungeon Keeper