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The floor, the stairs, the map

Dungeons Checked in the game on October 30, 2026 3 min read

Each floor is drawn at random: rooms, corridors, wild Pokémon, items on the floor, and stairs to find. What you see there, what you pick up, the special stairs, reinforcements, the level cap and the end of the place.

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In short
Seeing and finding your way
Picking up
Wild Pokémon, and reinforcements
The stairs

The golden stairs
The monster stairs

Gholdengo, the merchant
The level cap
The end of the place

In short

A floor drawn at random every time you go down: rooms, corridors, wild Pokémon, items, traps, and stairs somewhere.
The map fills in as you go; it zooms over four steps and shows everything you have seen.
Two special stairs: the golden stairs of the game rooms, and the monster stairs of the Monster House.
The place has a level cap: the last levels before the cap come slowly, and a place you have outgrown yields little.

Seeing and finding your way

In a room, you see the whole room; in a corridor, one or two tiles around you. A wild Pokémon outside your room notices you at two tiles. The map keeps everything the team has discovered: rooms, corridors, stairs, items on the floor, spotted traps, wild Pokémon in sight. It opens full-screen, can be dragged and zoomed, and its legend explains every sign. The grid, for its part, helps you count tiles to aim.

Picking up

Items on the floor are picked up by walking over them, if there is room left in the bag. Piles of coins go straight into the purse, without going through the bag. The bag has 16 slots and bears 40 pods: an item that stacks joins its stack, the others each take one slot.

Wild Pokémon, and reinforcements

A floor never empties for good: about every thirty turns, a wild Pokémon from its fauna arrives somewhere out of sight. Going round in circles on a floor therefore always ends up costing you. Some wild Pokémon are rarer than others, and a few are Alphas, bigger and stronger, who hit harder and rarely join you.

The stairs

The stairs take you down one floor. In front of them, a window sums up the floor and asks whether you go down. The whole team goes through with the Pokémon you control, wherever it is on the floor.

The golden stairs

From the second floor on, about one floor in twelve hides golden stairs (never on a boss’s floor), once per expedition. They lead to a game room: the Minesweeper Room, the Memory Tiles or the Ice Rink, with a chest at the end for whoever succeeds. At the entrance, a scroll reminds you of the rules.

The monster stairs

They lead to a Monster House: a whole room of wild Pokémon falling on you in waves, with a chest at stake. If the team is swept away, it is thrown out without the treasure, but the run goes on.

Gholdengo, the merchant

Gholdengo wanders through the dungeons with his stall. As soon as he sees you in his room, he comes to you and calls out; he never leaves his room. He sells at rarity prices and buys back at a tenth, like Delibird. You talk to him by touching him, or with the Talk key; hurting him closes his stall.

The level cap

Each place has a level cap, written on the departure sheet. Two levels from the cap, experience is only worth 60%; at the last level before the cap, 35%. At the cap, you gain nothing more in this place: the next place is what makes the team grow.

The end of the place

On the last floor, a boss is waiting, or the exit. Once the place is done, the team returns to the Hollow with the bag, the purse and the recruits, the run summary appears, and the requests taken are settled. An Escape Orb brings the whole team back to the Hollow at any time, bag included; the place, for its part, remains to be finished.