THE WORLD DUNGEON · HOME INSTANCE
Survival Guide
Unlocks after Floor 02
Current / total
Species: Human · Tween — Teenager firmware installing… 11% (do not power off)
Tracking unlocks in a future patch. For now: glory is its own reward.
Welcome, Crawler.
Your home has been selected for conversion into a fully operational Dungeon. The renovation is complete. The rules are now live. The cameras are everywhere. (Okay, the cameras are your parents. Same energy.)
You have reached Level 11 — the level at which most crawlers begin emitting attitude, sighing at a professional level, and treating the laundry hamper as a load-bearing piece of furniture. This is normal. This is also over.
This Survival Guide covers Floor 1 — The Domestic Warren, the floor you are standing on right now. Complete its quests, keep its bosses down, collect the achievements. Ignore them, and the Dungeon will respond the way Dungeons always do: slowly, then all at once, and usually with a parent standing in your doorway.
The Management (Mom & Dad) wish you good luck.
You're going to need it. The hamper has been feeding.
Übersetzung für die Galerie: Räum dein Zimmer auf, sonst kommt der Boss. Viel Glück, Kriegerin.
NOW ENTERING · FLOOR 01 / 18
Floor 1 of 18 · also known as: your house.
You are standing on Floor 1 — The Domestic Warren: a sprawling network of burrows, dens, and corridors that, on the surface, looks exactly like your home. It is divided into five neighborhoods, and each one answers to a boss. You can roam the whole floor freely — but the stairs down stay sealed until every boss here is kept in line. There are seventeen more floors below this one. You cannot see them yet. That's the point.
The floor collapses on March 31 — Crawler Lana's birthday. Reach zero without dying and the System does not crush you. It does something far more dangerous: it levels you up , rebuilds the whole Warren harder, and resets every boss to full health. Enjoy the quiet while it lasts.
› The System has been unusually generous with the fuse on this one. Most crawlers get hours. You got the better part of a year. Do not waste it.
Your room. Yes, that one. We can smell it from the corridor.
Neighborhood Boss — THE HOARD WRAITH — a creature made entirely of stuff that 'has a place, you just haven't put it there yet.'
You enter your private chamber. Loot is everywhere. None of it is where it belongs. The Hoard Wraith stirs. It grows stronger every time something is dropped 'just for a second.' Clear the neighborhood, Crawler.
Keep your desk tidy. It is the control panel for your entire floor — you cannot pilot a starship buried under three weeks of crafting supplies and one mysterious cup.
› A cluttered desk reduces all INT-based rolls by 50%. Science. (Probably.)
Achievement Unlocked
Mission Control
You can see the actual desk. Historians weep with joy.
Reward — A desk you can actually use. That's it. The System is not running a charity.
No trash on the bedroom floor — or anywhere outside the bin. Wrappers, tissues, and 'I'll throw that out later' are not decor.
› Every piece of trash left on the ground feeds the Hoard Wraith one (1) HP. Don't be the reason it gets a health bar.
Achievement Unlocked
The Floor Is Lava (Of Garbage)
Zero trash detected on the ground. The Wraith is furious.
Reward — None. You picked up your own trash. We don't hand out medals for the bare minimum, champ.
Empty your bin BEFORE it overflows. A summit of garbage balanced on a full bin counts as overflowing. So does the avalanche next to it.
› Pro tip: the bin does not have a 'just one more' setting. It never did. Müll raus, bevor's eklig wird.
Vacuum your room once a week. The dust mites have formed a small civilization under your bed and they are NOT paying rent.
› Weekly raid boss. Respawns every 7 days. The vacuum is your legendary weapon. Use it.
Achievement Unlocked
Mite-y Warrior
An entire dust civilization, gone. They had families, Lana.
Reward — The eternal, silent gratitude of the carpet. It cannot express this. It is a carpet.
Carry empty bottles and glasses back to the surface (the kitchen). They do not migrate home on their own — believe us, we have waited.
› An empty bottle left in your room for 3+ days achieves sentience and demands a name. Don't let it get that far.
Achievement Unlocked
Bottle Necromancer (Reformed)
You returned the vessels before they rose again. Well done.
Reward — The bottle deposit. Just kidding — that goes to Dad. Processing fee. Handling. Vibes.
Where clean clothes go to wait... forever... on the chair.
Neighborhood Boss — THE OVERFLOWING HAMPER — der Wäschegolem. It has been feeding for six days. It is almost as tall as you now.
A damp, sock-scented maze. Somewhere in here is a chair that was last seen in 2024, now entirely consumed by 'the clothes chair.' The Wäschegolem blocks your path. It is made of everything you said you'd 'deal with tomorrow.'
Put away freshly washed laundry. Clean clothes that get dumped on the chair or bed are loot you refused to collect — and now it's just a pile again.
› The 'clean clothes chair' is a known dungeon trap. It looks like furniture. It is a mimic.
Achievement Unlocked
Loot Goblin Deluxe
Every drawer closed. Every shelf stocked. The chair is FREE.
Reward — One (1) fully operational chair, returned to active service. Sit on it. You earned it.
Don't let the hamper overflow — and carry your laundry down to the basement yourself when it's full. The hamper has a lid for a reason; it is not a fountain.
› When the pile reaches mountain height, the boss spawns. Haul it to the cellar before the encounter triggers. Selbst. Tragen.
Achievement Unlocked
Golemslayer
The Wäschegolem is defeated. The basement accepts your offering.
Reward — Clean clothes you can find in under an hour. Legendary-tier convenience.
Don't toss clothes into the wash inside-out (unless they truly need it). Turning forty sleeves right-side-in is a side-quest nobody requested.
› Each inside-out sock is a cursed item. Lift the curse BEFORE it goes in the basket, not after, when it's someone else's problem.
The kitchen, and the long and storied journey of a single plate.
Neighborhood Boss — THE CRUSTY PLATE MIMIC — disguises itself as a 'I'll put it in the dishwasher in a sec' and then welds itself to the counter overnight.
The smell of food. Also, the smell of food from earlier. The Crusty Plate Mimic waits in the kitchen, slowly fossilizing whatever you left behind. Two quests stand between you and a clear counter.
Put your own dishes in the dishwasher after eating. The dishwasher is a hungry dungeon beast that does ALL the work — you just have to feed it. That's the whole deal.
› A plate left on the counter 'for now' becomes the Crusty Plate Mimic by morning. Don't create the boss.
Achievement Unlocked
Beastmaster of the Kitchen
Every dish loaded by your own hand. The Mimic starved. Tragic.
Reward — The Iron Beast hums contentedly. That is the reward. That is the whole reward.
Take your lunchbox (Brotbox) out of your backpack after school — same day, not the day before it's needed again. Anything left inside ferments. We've all seen what a forgotten Brotbox becomes.
› A Brotbox sealed over a weekend rolls on the rare-loot table. Unfortunately the prize is a sentient sandwich. Don't roll.
Achievement Unlocked
Brotbox Custodian
Extracted, emptied, returned. No new lifeforms created today.
Reward — A backpack that smells like a backpack and not like regret. Priceless — payment not included.
Maintaining the most important piece of equipment: you.
Neighborhood Boss — THE GREASELING — a slippery shadow that grows whenever 'I'll wash it tomorrow' is uttered aloud.
Even the greatest crawler must maintain their own gear — and their own self. Skip it, and the Greaseling latches on. It's not dangerous. It's just... noticeable. Very noticeable.
Wash your hair at least twice a week. Your hair is your character's signature look — keep it legendary, not lank.
› The Greaseling gains +1 power for every skipped wash. At max stacks it speaks for you. You don't want that.
Achievement Unlocked
The Mane Event
Hair washed, Greaseling banished. Shampoo commercials are jealous.
Reward — +10 Charisma, minus one (1) Greaseling. Net result: glorious.
Clean your own shoes when they need it. A crawler's boots carry them through every floor — mud, fields, and the occasional puddle of doom. Look after them yourself.
› Boots of Traveling (uncommon). Durability drops fast when caked in the courtyard. Self-repair available at zero cost: a cloth and two minutes.
When you're sick, collect used tissues in a separate little bin bag. It keeps the plague contained and makes cleanup a single, heroic move.
› Used tissues are Class-IV biohazard loot. Contain them in the designated pouch. The rest of the party (us) thanks you for not starting an outbreak.
Achievement Unlocked
Quarantine Hero
Biohazard contained at the source. The party's HP is preserved.
Reward — The party stays alive. The reward is literally everyone else's health. Selfless. Not tax-deductible.
The World Dungeon has 18 floors. You are on the first one.
Below the Warren, the staircase down is sealed. It will not open until Floor 1 is stable — every neighborhood here in order, every boss kept in line. The System does not let a crawler descend while the floor above is still on fire. That's just good dungeon management.
What's down there? You can't see it yet — that's how the Dungeon works. You only ever see the floor you're standing on. Almost certainly bigger bosses. Possibly a sock dimension. (We don't fully know either. The lower floors are still being built.)
Hold this floor first, Crawler. The stairs will reveal themselves when you've earned them.
That's Floor 1, Crawler — every neighborhood of the Warren, end to end.
Hold this floor and you don't just survive — you thrive. You become the kind of legend the System writes patch notes about. The bosses fear you. The hamper trembles. The Greaseling has filed for relocation.
Clear Floor 1, descend, clear Floor 2 — and your Class unlocks. The System stops calling you 'unspecified humanoid' and lets you choose what kind of legend you're going to be.
Rewards for now are pure glory and bragging rights. But rumor says the Management is drawing up a proper loot table — real achievements, real rewards — for a future patch. Stay tuned. Stay tidy.
Now go. The floor won't clear itself.
(It really won't. We've checked. Many times.)
— The System, on behalf of The Management (Mom & Dad), with love. ❤
13 achievements waiting across Floor 01's 5 neighborhoods. 17 more floors lie sealed below. The hamper is watching.