“	Biscuit: what's a hyper dungeon Tox: Hyper Dungeons are naturally spawning fortresses with unique gear, uber enemies, and bosses...designed by HyperSilence	”
	—Encyclopedia Tox

2016-07-27 04.22 — Frigid Floe, a Hyper Dungeon in Outer Pandora

Hyper Dungeons were ancient structures scattered across Dragonhollow and used by Eris and her Priesthood to test the valor, ingenuity, and skirmishing abilities of her subjects.

They bore the name of their architect, the Archpriest HyperSilence.

Raiders had to battle deadly unique enemies in order to acquire the dungeon's valuable loot. In most cases, these areas were not protected by the divine magic of Eris, so adventurers were able to both place and remove blocks and devise innovative strategies to conquer them.

By the Sixth and Seventh Eras, Hyper Dungeons had become the most common method by which residents obtained beacons.

History[]

	Terry: What can we expect to find in a Hyper Dungeon? Tox: pain
	—Tox prepares his fellow resident

Hyper2 — Hyper Dungeons, as their name suggested, were the brainchild of HyperSilence, the Archpriest of Eris

In the early days of the First Era, Eris envisioned community events in which her residents would compete against each other in dangerous obstacle courses where enemy mobs roamed free. The first realization of the concept was the Dragon Temple, a parkour featuring jumping puzzles patrolled by ghasts and zombie pigmen.

In the Fourth Era, the Archpriest HyperSilence revealed a series of treasure-filled dungeons in the Summerlands for his Dungeon Quest event. Ancient texts discovered within the dungeons seemed to indicate that some of them predated the First Era, meaning that HyperSilence simply repurposed them towards his own ends.

Retro was the first to discover a dungeon when he accidentally found the Guardian Trench and raided it on 4E:356.

Eris hid the only elytra of the Badlands inside her Skeleton Den dungeon in the closing days of the Fourth Era.

On 5E:101, Hyper announced the existence of a second Dungeon Quest as part of festivities surrounding the completion of the Frostburn Gate that allowed access to Wyvern Pointe and Outer Pandora.

In the Sixth Era, hundreds of Hyper Dungeons appeared above Hallowmere. Unlike previous iterations, these dungeons were not unique and contained similar layouts and several variations of enemies. They were extremely dangerous, being nigh-impossible to clear and causing many fatalities. Many adventurers attempted to bypass the enemies altogether and harvest their beacons from relative safely.

Such dungeons were also found scattered across the Hammerlands during the Seventh Era, bearing modified cross-sections altered by the Hegemon Retro so that it was more difficult to reach their valuable beacons and treasure. The return of a pickaxe capable of harvesting spawners offered adventurers the intriguing possibility of acquiring their spawners for use elsewhere.

Hyper Dungeons appeared on Halfast in the Ninth Era.

Known Hyper Dungeons[]

	"Hyper, your dungeons are big and full of a lot of loot."
	—Acey

Dungeon	Location	Raider	Notes
Guardian Trench	Summerlands	Retro	An undersea rift defended by guardians
Rabbit Reef	Summerlands	Tox	A floating isle populated by killer bunnies
Cloud Cay	Summerlands	Gabault	A sky fortress filled with slime
Witch Tree	Summerlands	None	A giant birch tree
Lava Sphere	Summerlands	Tox	A stone dome guarded by pigaceys
Sea Sphere	Summerlands	Tox	A giant hurt ball filled with seawater
Ghast Globe	Summerlands	Tox	A glass sphere containing skeleaceys and a ghast
Cylinderella	Summerlands	Gabault	A squat cylinder on the ocean floor swarming with fishies
Arachnodome	Everfroze	Tox	An icy dome infested with poisonous spiders
Skeleton Den	Badlands	Tox, Nut, Rocco	A subterranean chamber concealing the only elytra in the Badlands
Spidey Dungeon	Outer Pandora	Sprankles, Tox	A spruce dome filled with dark woods and twisting tunnels
Skelly Dungeon	Outer Pandora	Tox	An alpine ice dome with hilly terrain and thick forest
Husky Dungeon	Outer Pandora	Sprankles	A jungle dome overtaken by twisting ivy
Slimey Dungeon	Outer Pandora	Tox	A swampland dome constructed of clay and slime
Hardhome	Outer Pandora	Terry, Tox, MaccaMan	The acacia dome lair of a giant
Strayton Place	Outer Pandora	Tox, FlyingPokemon	Flying fortress of Strayton, a dangerous stray
Eyeland	Hollow	Tox	Home of Rambro deep within the End
Kyklooppi's Kove	Outer Pandora	Tox	Undersea domicile of Kyklooppi
Frigid Floe	Outer Pandora	Tox, Retro	Frozen den of Witherington, a deadly wither skeleton
Nether Dungeon	Nether	None	An undiscovered dungeon within the Nether
25k	Pandora	Gabault, Jinx	A small dungeon protected by shulkers
Red Square	Pandora	None	An experimental repurposing of an ocean monument
Thundermere	Hallowmere, Hammerlands	Many	A floating isle defended by skeletons and charged creepers
Venomere	Hallowmere, Hammerlands	Many	A floating isle defended by cave spiders
Blue Vexmere	Hallowmere, Hammerlands	Many	A floating isle defended by vexes
Gold Vexmere	Hallowmere, Hammerlands	Many	Home of The Tyrant
Withermere	Hallowmere, Hammerlands	Many	A floating isle defended by wither skeletons
Hyper Mansion	Midgard	Boiled Rice, Jrod	A woodland mansion-themed dungeon
Crystal Dungeon	Midgard	Alec, Y	A vex-infested geode

Behind the Scenes[]

The following is out-of-universe information about the real world Dragonhollow.

	Terry: hyper dungeon is such a cool name btw Tox: thanks, I named it myself
	—Tox coined the name

Hyper Dungeons were the brainchild of HyperSilence, who desired to give experienced players something more challenging—and rewarding—to do in the Summerlands. At the time, they were unique and had to be manually placed by Hyper. They eventually became a staple of the server. With the addition of the Biome Bundle plugin, Hyper Dungeons became naturally generating structures infinitely available to all players determined enough to find and conquer them.

Hyper Dungeon

History[]

Known Hyper Dungeons[]

Behind the Scenes[]

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