# Orcus-town
Not to be confused with Orcish Town.

Orcus-town

Location

Level 10–15 of Gehennom

Bones

Yes

Mappable

Yes

Teleportable

No

Diggable floor

Yes

Diggable walls

Yes

Orcus-town, also known as the ghost town (and The Orcus Level in the source), is a special level that occurs in NetHack.

Generation
Orcus-town is placed somewhere between the 10th and 15th levels of Gehennom (and therefore between DL 35 and DL 44). It may contain the stairs to Vlad's Tower.
Orcus-town is eligible to leave bones files. The entire level is no-teleport, and all walls and the floor are diggable.

The following information pertains to an upcoming version (NetHack 3.7.0). If this version is now released, please verify that it is still accurate, then update the page to incorporate this information.

The demon lairs are no longer no-teleport levels, but the presence of the demon lord or prince will block others from teleporting.
Map
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The empty left hand side is filled with ordinary Gehennom-like maze, and contains the upstair.
Orcus is on the downstair, accompanied by two vampires, two vampire lords, two shades, and a human zombie; in addition to the usual undead in the marked graveyard, there are three vampires, two vampire lords, three human zombies, three ettin zombies, three giant zombies, four shades, five skeletons and five random other monsters randomly placed in the town. The abandoned shops contain standard general store items, and usually a large contingent of mimics; ten random other objects are created in the town. Two magic traps, three fire traps, a spiked pit, an anti-magic trap and a sleeping gas trap are placed randomly.

Strategy
The main attraction on this level is Orcus' wand of death. If you approach him by battling through his entourage, he is likely to have used up all its charges by the time you reach him. One alternative is digging or level teleporting to the level below and climbing the stairs armed with a means of stoning him in one turn.
Orcus-town is also a darker, scarier version of Minetown, in that there are two shops with many items and lots of mimics. If you have spare scrolls of genocide, it might be a good idea to genocide mimics before you arrive on this level so that the shops are filled with more items (although by this stage of the game, your inventory and stashes should be well stocked).

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