AscensionGates

Features

• Rank-tier gates with charge → open → collapse lifecycle
• Private dungeon instances per player or party
• Themed dungeon families — per-theme mob pools, bosses, and block palettes (ant tunnels, golem mines, void citadels, monarch rifts, …)
• Boss encounters, loot tables, mana crystals (themed bosses use Shadow wild-model-engine-id; optional bosses.*.model-engine-id for vanilla fallback)
• Red gates — high-risk sealed dungeons (no exit until the boss dies) with boosted rewards and an extra boss-loot roll
• World events — scheduled boss gates with pre-announcements, a reward multiplier, and a first-guild-to-clear bonus
• Dungeon modifiers — randomized per-instance affixes that change combat, with boss stats scaling to online party size and a matching loot multiplier
• Exit gates — every dungeon has an exit portal on the back wall of the entry room (opposite the corridor, so it does not block walking deeper). It uses the same dungeon-portal ItemDisplay as overworld entrances (proximity leave — no solid END_GATEWAY frame). Defeating the boss spawns a second exit on the far wall of the boss arena and starts the extraction countdown (instances.post-boss-countdown-seconds, default 30s). Leaving via /spawn / /home tells you in chat; /back into a closed/orphan instance is blocked.
• Dungeon weapon effects — loot items with weapon-effect (ice slow, bleed, cleave, …)
• Dungeon breaks when gates expire uncleared
• Gate parties — shared squad instances
• Wild auto-spawn near online players
• Optional spawn zones and spawn points (admin)
• Exclusion zones where gates never spawn

Red gates

On spawn, each gate rolls red-gates.chance-percent for its tier. A red gate is visually distinct (&c[RED GATE]), seals the entry — the exit portal isn't placed and leave commands are blocked until the boss dies — and applies red-gates.reward-multiplier plus a guaranteed extra boss-table roll. Safety valves (hard timeout, /gate admin break, and login crash-recovery) evict players safely; death releases you normally. Spawns can be broadcast. See Gates configuration.

World events

world-events defines scheduled boss gates (fixed weekly time or a repeating interval) that open in a spawn zone with pre-announcements, a reward multiplier, and a bonus for the first guild to clear. Next-fire times are persisted so a restart between announcement and spawn doesn't double-spawn. See Gates configuration.

Dungeon modifiers & party scaling

Instances can roll modifiers — affixes that affect combat and rewards. Boss stats scale with the number of online party members entering (solo hunters keep the base fight), and the loot multiplier grants bonus boss-table rolls (which stack with the red-gate extra roll). See Gates configuration.

Key files

Related docs

• Gate commands
• Gate admin
• Gates configuration
• Dungeon families — themed mob pools, bosses, palettes
• Spawns & exclusions