👉 A garden is a GnollHack special room of grass and trees, with herbs, fruit and mushrooms lying on the ground.
🗺️ Generation
A level between dungeon level 2 and Medusa's Island that has enough rooms has a 1 in 6 chance of a garden, whether or not it also has another special room. Any ordinary room without stairs can become one. Its floor decorations are removed and the floor turns to grass, and about one square in three that is not next to a door or another tree becomes a tree.
👹 Monsters and Statues
Half of all gardens have statues, and the statues are statue traps. Which monsters and statues appear depends on the depth, and the monsters are generated asleep.
| Level Difficulty | Spawning Monsters | Spawning Statues |
|---|---|---|
| Low Levels | Hobgoblin, bugbear | Gnome |
| Mid Levels | Ogre, ogre lord | Gnome lord, gnome king, gargoyle |
| High Levels | High-level Ogre-class monsters up to ogre overlord | Rock troll, winged gargoyle |
Half of the gnome statues contain a conical hat: usually a gnomish felt hat, and 1 time in 20 a cornuthaum or a dunce cap.
🌳 Trees
The trees are picked at random with these frequencies:
| Common | Uncommon | Rare |
|---|---|---|
| Apple tree | Date palm | Banana plant |
| Orange tree | Fig tree | Wizened tree |
| Small deciduous tree | Pitaya plant (Dragon fruit) | |
| Eucalyptus tree | ||
| Tree | ||
| Oak tree |
As with other trees, one in six apple, orange, fig, pitaya, eucalyptus, oak and ordinary trees holds a hive of killer bees. Kicking such a tree can release the bees. If a kick only makes you hear a low buzzing, the tree has a hive.
🍏 Herbs, Fruit and Mushrooms
About one grass square in five has herbs, fruit or mushrooms lying on it:
| Category | Items Found |
|---|---|
| Herbs & Veggies | Clove of garlic, sprig of wolfsbane, handful of spinach leaves |
| Fruits | Apple, pear, melon, banana, pomegranate, avocado, cloudberry, fig, dragon fruit |
| Helpful Fungi | Champignon, penny bun, chanterelle, healing mushroom, mana mushroom |
| Dangerous Fungi | Death cap, fly agaric, oracular toadstool, panther cap |
About one grass square in six has root vegetables buried under it, which you can dig up with a pick-axe or a dwarvish mattock. Each of the three kinds is equally likely: 1 to 3 carrots, 1 to 3 ginseng roots, or 1 or 2 mandrake roots.