Scavenger room

Learn how to build and utilize the Scavenger Room in Dungeon Keeper. Discover its costs, creature attraction mechanics, and how to boost your dungeon's growth.

Alright, let's talk about the Scavenger room. This is one of the last rooms you'll likely build, and it's a real gold sink, so make sure your treasury is looking healthy before you start laying down tiles!

Cost & Value:

• Cost per tile: 750 Gold
• Research value: 27500 Gold
• Shortcut key: S

What it Does:

The main draw of the Scavenger room is its ability to attract more creatures to your dungeon, even if you've already hit the creature limit from Portals. It's also where your creatures go to 'scavenge' for new recruits.

Creatures Attracted:

• Directly: Hell Hound
• Indirectly: Many creatures via scavenging

Boosting Your Scavenging:

Here's a neat trick: if you have a Vampire hanging out in the Scavenger room, your monster attraction rate gets a 50% boost. That's a serious edge against your enemies!

How Scavenging Works:

You can assign any creature to the Scavenger room, and they'll start trying to bring in others of their own kind. The more creatures of a specific type you have scavenging, the better your chances of convincing a new one to join your ranks. It starts with the weakest versions and then moves on to the stronger ones. This works on any aligned creature on the map, even neutral ones!

Important Notes:

• If a creature can also be attracted via a Portal, you might see even more appear after all creatures on the map are already in your army.
• Once all creatures that can be attracted via a Portal are exhausted, it stops costing gold to attract them. Check this guide to see if attracting creatures is still worth it.
• Heads up: The Knight and Avatar can't scavenge any companions, so don't waste your gold on them trying to do so.