Door vault

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The door vault is a particularly infamous and deadly vault. It can appear in the Depths, the Vaults, the Elven Halls, Hell, the Crypt, or the Realm of Zot, and can appear multiple times. It consists of a 10x10 square that is primarily made up of layers of doors, the outermost layer of which are runed doors. The innermost 16 squares contain many nasty out-of-depth monsters. There is no increased chance of loot within.

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Monster sets

The monsters at the center of the vault will be appropriate to the branch you're currently in. For Vaults and the main dungeon, this means standard out-of-depth monsters: the crowd you'd usually see around Depths:5, including such nasties as shadow dragons and titans. The other branches have more specific monster sets:

History

Prior to 0.12, the outermost doors of a door vault were hidden rather than runed. This meant that wandering monsters could and would happily open the vault for you, releasing the contents for you to encounter as you explored the floor.

This vault has been taking out players for many versions now. In older versions, though, it was somewhat kinder when it appeared outside of the Vaults or the main Dungeon, tending to contain monsters that were simply appropriate to the branch end. However, the game itself did not provide any warning as to the vault's nature, and preventing autoexplore from opening it would require manually excluding all of the outermost still-closed doors.