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Small maps, always forgettable and often unmappable, twisty little passages all alike. 700 feet beneath the surface, The Minotaur of The Labyrinth mostly plays Sudoku while he waits for your visit.

400' of sandwalls, worms, and bugs. Jewelry and stat potions seem common. Sandworm Queen and friends lurk at the bottom. Worms can spawn inside walls here.

Be prepared for a watery grave. Rooms are often nothing more than a thin rock shell filled with water, surrounded by water. Seams of rock provide some cover. Water trolls, ogres, hounds are everywhere. 850 feet below the surface is Ar-Pharazon the Golden, who can summon.

Mountains. Levels are disconnected rooms scattered throughout the mountains. Pits and vaults are possible. If you like corridors, this is not the place to dive. Stairs go both ways and recall works.

Monsters are standard for the depth, with surprisingly few dragonriders. T'ron lurks at -300.

Mountains and chasms, some stone walls. Many delicious D, at least up to Sky Drakes, in pits and vaults and everywhere else.
Stairs are down-only. Recall is possible at the bottom, -600ft, where Smaug spawns when the thrush knocks on Durin's Day.

When dealing with deep piles of loot, it would be helpful to have an extended pickup command. I'm picturing this as a menu like a house or the inventory list, paged like houses for extremely deep piles, where pressing the letter of the item works exactly like the normal pickup command. Shift-letter ...