Rocks 'n' Diamonds

About

Rocks 'n' Diamonds (RnD) is absolutely the most comprehensive Boulderdash game around. In fact, it is not a clone but a game in which you can play different Boulderdash games. Besides the four classic games Boulder Dash, Emerald Mine, Sokoban (officially not a Boulder Dash clone) and Supaplex you can play in this great game, you can also select elements from the games Diamond Caves II and DX-Boulderdash in the level editor.

But Rocks 'n' Diamonds offers more than that. It has extensive possibilities to create your own levels with completely new artwork, music and sounds! And you can make new objects (Custom Elements = CE's) without any knowledge of programming!

The author of this cool game is Holger Schemel of Artsoft Entertainment. He is currently busy with making three so-called game engines: the Boulder Dash engine, the Emerald Mine engine and the Supaplex engine. When these game engines will have been made, you can play the original Boulder Dash, Emerald Mine and Supaplex with their original behaviour!

That means that all Boulder Dash, Emerald Mine and Supaplex levels are guaranteed solvable then and that you can do the old tricks, which were especially possible in the original Supaplex, again! And with the Boulder Dash engine and the Emerald Mine engine you can also play the old levels with their old graphics, music and sounds!

All your personal data are automatically saved in the My Documents folder. It contains your selfmade levels, tapes of all levels you played (while playing a tape is being recorded) and the levelsetup (i.e. info about which level of a particular levelset you played last). If you can't solve a level, you can also download a played tape and copy it into the 'tapes' folder. Then you can see how to solve a level. Many already recorded tapes can be downloaded on Bojster's Tape Archive.

There is an active forum about this game. When you have got a new idea, when you have found a bug or if you have something else to tell others, then report it on the forum! The author of this game (Holger) is always listening to the players of his game and he is always willing to realise your idea in the game in a newer version!

This game is absolutely the solution for hours of fun! There are 10,000s of levels (really!) waiting for you: player contributions, levels with new artwork and objects, Emerald Mine Club levels, Supaplex levels, DX-Boulderdash levels, tutorials etc.! And the game can be played on four platforms: Unix, Mac OS X, Windows and Dos. I highly recommend this fantastic Boulderdash game!

Download

Rocks 'n' Diamonds can be downloaded below. I would recommend to download the level structure as well (to avoid one big messy level directory). Read about it in the 'Levels' section. Beware that the game is constantly in development, so regularly check out this section!

Rocks 'n' Diamonds 3.1.2 - Windows	The Windows version.
Rocks 'n' Diamonds 3.1.0 - MS DOS	The MS DOS version (which goes until version 3.1.0).
Rocks 'n' Diamonds 3.1.2 - Unix	The Unix version.
Rocks 'n' Diamonds 3.1.2 - Mac OS X	The Mac OS X version.
RnDTest 25	A modified RnD version (created by HerzAusGold) with many extra options such as a 'game at work' mode and a mouse mode. For all the options, see the hag_readme.txt file.
Rocks 'n' Diamonds 3.1.0 ('RoNDi') - Palm OS (limited) - colour	A limited PalmOS version (created by DiPal) of RnD in colours. Working from PalmOS 3.5.
Rocks 'n' Diamonds 3.1.0 ('RoNDi') - Palm OS (limited) - greyscale	A limited PalmOS version (created by DiPal) of RnD in greyscale. Working from PalmOS 3.5.
Rocks 'n' Diamonds ('RoNDi') - Palm OS - sound data	The sound data for the PalmOS version of RnD. Only working from PalmOS 5.
Rocks 'n' Diamonds 3.1.0 ('RoNDi') - PocketPC (limited)	A limited PocketPC version (created by DiPal) of RnD
Rocks 'n' Diamonds ('RoNDi') - Palm OS / PocketPC - level converter	A utility for the PalmOS / PocketPC version of RnD ('RoNDi') to convert original Rocks 'n' Diamonds, Emerald Mine, Sokoban or Supaplex levels.
Element Descriptions	Descriptions of all elements. Just copy the text files into the docs/elements directory of Rocks 'n' Diamonds.
Improved Supaplex Graphics	Replace the Supaplex graphics file by this one for better Supaplex graphics (the colours are a little bit different)!.
Level Structure	Delete the level directory and copy this level directory instead for a neatly arranged level directory! Then download all available levels on this page and copy them into the new directories. Very clear with this structure! (More information about this can be found in the 'Levels' section of this page.)

Screenshots

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Levels

There are thousands, or even ten thousands levels available for Rocks 'n' Diamonds. Some of them have been created with the level editor in the game and have either 'normal' graphics or custom graphics. Other levels are native and come originally from other games, such as Supaplex and Emerald Mine. As long as the level collections are put in their own folder in the 'levels' directory of the game and contain a levelinfo.conf file, they can be played in Rocks 'n' Diamonds. Because there are so many levels, I have created a level directory structure. With this structure, the level directory looks as following:

Additional Classic Levels

Additional Player Levels

Classic Games

Contributions

Examples

Multiplayer Levels

Tutorials

Download the level structure here. It's important, otherwise your level directory looks like a mess. Just remove the whole 'Levels' directory, unpack the level structure zip file, which contains a new level directory, and download all available levels you want below! The levels below have been sorted according to the level structure but you can still mix them up if you don't like the structure!

The next version of Rocks 'n' Diamonds will have the Emerald Mine engine. Then the Emerald Mine Club levels will come in their original Amiga format. There is a list with all available Emerald Mine levelsets from the Amiga. Unfortunately, many of them are still missing. Aaron Pile, the webmaster of the Emerald Web, has made a spreadsheet file with all the Emerald Mine levelsets (games) in it. Some games does he (= Aaron Pile) have and some do I (= Martijn Mooij) have. Have a look at that list and see which games we both don't have. It would be great If you can help me providing some new games so we can get as many levels as possible! For a simple list, with just the missing levelsets, have a look at the missing levelsets textfile.

Here is the great list of levels. Beware that some in some level collections not all levels are solvable but that will be fixed when the native game engines will be built in. (Read in the 'About' section about the game engines.) If you really don't want how to solve a level, have a look at Bojster's Tape Archive, a site with many tapes for download.

If you want to see the power CE's, download the Additional Player Levels. There are some very nice levelsets among them. Some of these Additional Player Levels have their eventual documentation, graphics, sounds or music somewhere not in their own directory, but in the main directory of the game. But you will discover that when you download the zip files. You can be sure that the downloads below contain everything needed for the concerning levelset.

Levelset Name	Number of Levels	Author	Description / Note
Boulderdash	319	Several Authors	Contains Boulderdash II, Boulderdash 16 and XBD.
DX-Boulderdash	1400	Several Authors	Levels from the game DX-Boulderdash (also available on this site). Many still unsolvable! Thanks to Yoshi348 for fixing some levels!
Emerald Mine Club	10318	Several Authors	Levels from the Emerald Mine Club. Don't play them at this moment because soon all your game records (tapes) will be broken because of the upcoming EM engine! Some levels have been fixed by Yoshi348.
Sokoban	764	Several Authors	A collection of different Sokoban levelsets.
Supaplex	4350	Several Authors	Fan levels from the game Supaplex.

Levelset Name	Number of Levels	Author	Description / Note
42 Steps	1	Francesco	One additional Snake Bite level. Requires Snake Bite!
Alan's Random Levels	7	Alan Bond	Seven randomly created levels. Requires BD2K3!
Arcade Levels	5	Francesco	Five levels featuring Rockford with his joypad...
BD2K3	43	Alan Bond	Great CE levelset with splendid graphics!
BD Dream	102	Martijn Mooij	A nostalgic levelset with levels in the original BD style with a story about a castle shrouded by a mysterious mist...
Bug Hunter	1	Francesco	An old scroll tells the wonders of a special weapon against bugs. Are you ready for the quest?
Danilo Parantar Serrano	6	Danilo Parantar Serrano	A strange but funny CE levelset.
Defender	1 (endless)	Alan Bond	A very nice remake of the game 'Defender'. It's all possible with CE's!
Earth Shaker Collection	64	Jamie Cullen	Two levelsets based on the classic game 'Earth Shaker'.
Hard Skills	17	Several Authors	A collection of levels to get furious at (only the first one is simple)!
Jürgen Bonhagen (rnd_jue)	145	Jürgen Bonhagen	A collection of great-looking and mind-boggling levelsets. The 'handicap' is always set to 'off' in this levelset! That's by intention of the author.
Little Games	2	Sascha Mücke	Two levels with counters. Only for boring moments!
Magic CE's	8	Francesco	In this levelset you have to master the skill of sustaining rocks in open air and of animating the Magic Boxes.
Maniac Mines	31	David Hutchinson	An original Emerald Mine style levelset. Requires version 3.1.0 or above!
Manuel	22	Manuel Butter	Nice levels in the classic style.
Master-Rocks	8	Francesco	A nice version of the board game 'Mastermind' in RnD. Also known as 'Master-Rocks II' (because the old version has been superseded).
Memory	2	Francesco	The classic Memory game for RnD! See the Multiplayer Levels section for an extended version ('Memory MP') for two players!
Missions	4	Misja	Four levels with CE's and other graphics, music and sounds.
Mixed Levels	38	Catlady & daughter	A very entertaining levelsets with levels that are not too hard! Requires Walpurgis Gardens (from the Walpurgis Collection)!
Multi-Random Level	2	Francesco	Two levels with nine randomly created levels enclosed in each of these levels...
Negundo World 2	50	Rado W. Negundo	The sequel to Negundo World (which can be found in the Contributions 2004). Requires BD2K3!
Pipemania	10	David Hutchinson	Direct the pipe to the end pipe, before the water flows out!
Puzzles	33	Several Authors	Little tricky puzzles created by some members of the RnD forum.
Random Games	5	Manuel Butter	Five levels with CE nice tricks.
Richard	185	Richard Kleber	A collection of many inventive levelsets.
Rockfighter	9	Francesco	Just like in beat'em-ups, insert key combos to destroy the enemies and to protect yourself.
Ryan's Random Levels	6	Ryan Pineda	SIx levels which are randomly created while you are waiting!
Snake Bite	71	Alan Bond & Jürgen Bonhagen	Two awesome Snake style levelsets with many new elements! Requires version 3.1.1 or above!
Step Puzzles	15	David Hutchinson	Ffteen levels in which you have to press all the blue tiles but not more than one time! Requires version 3.2.0-7 or above!
Stinky	9	Stinky	Nine beginners' levels.
Super Comic Levels	126	Several Authors	Many strange but funny levels in different sets.
The H. World	46 (or 47 if you count the intro screen (not playable) as a level)	Daniel H. & Nathan H.	Make your journey through the H. World! It consists of five levelsets with many CE's and one levelset (or rather: directory) with an intro screen.
Through the Ages	3	Sascha Mücke	A levelset in the Medieval style!
Trucky Cargos v0.1	6	Francesco	Try to move the blocking cargos somewhere else to get to the exit.
Walpurgis Collection	180	Jamie Cullen	Three unique creations.
Warparound Murphy	2	Francesco	Two levels to get crazy of.

Levelset Name	Number of Levels	Author	Description / Note
Boulderdash	100	Peter Liepa	The original Boulder Dash.
Emerald Mine	102	Klaus Heinz & Volker Wertich	The original Emerald Mine.
Sokoban	50	Several Authors	The original Sokoban.
Supaplex	111	Philip Jespersen	The original Supaplex.

Levelset Name	Number of Levels	Number of Contributions	Description / Note
Contributions 1995	22	2
Contributions 1996	63	2
Contributions 1997	25	2
Contributions 1998	104	2
Contributions 1999	66	4
Contributions 2000	272	4
Contributions 2001	48	5
Contributions 2002	529	11
Contributions 2003	619	20
Contributions 2004	730	21	Also contains three extra levelsets by Andreas Buschbeck.
Contributions 2005	272	7
Contributions 2006	8	1

Example Name	Author	Description / Note
Adder Blower	Ryan Pineda	See how the butteflies explode!
Adrian	Adrian Siekierka	Two 'levels' with some nice CE animations.
Amoeba Show	Zomis	Watch the amoeba exploding show!
A. Siekierka X-Mas 2005	Adrian Siekierka	Actually not an example (but it doesn't fit anywhere else), but a Christmas greeting from A. Siekierka.
A. Siekierka's CE's	Adrian Siekierka	Fireworks, shooting pacmans and special doors.
AS Machine	Adrian Siekierka	A machine that changes the colours of emeralds and sorts them.
Automatic Movement	Tomi Belan	See how you can make the player walking on in last pressed direction!
Auto-mover	Ryan Pineda	An example to show you how you can let the player move without pressing a key.
BD Diamonds Factory	Adrian Siekierka	An example of two factories which produce BD Diamonds.
Bomb and move Bridge	Zomis	A small level as an example how easy it is to make something useful with only one CE.
Boulder Generator	Alan Bond	See how boulders are created infinitely.
Brain Scanner v1.0	Sascha Mücke	The computer can read your thoughts! Try it!
Character Switch	David Hutchinson	An example of how to switch between two players.
Colour Cycle	Alan Bond	A nice example with colour transitions. Requires version 3.2.0-6 or above!
Custom Jumping	Rockford4ever	Jump extra high with CE power! Requires version 3.2.0-6 or above!
Diamond Caves 3 Elements	David Hutchinson	Remakes of all of Diamond Cave 3's new elements (compared with Diamond Cave 2). Make your own levels with the existing DC 2 elements and these new elements!
Element follows element	Zomis	An example of how an element follows a CE technique.
Emerald Factory (Easy)	Adrian Siekierka	Watch a machine that automatically produces emeralds!
FMV	Alan Bond	Push the button and a block of CE's with different numbers changes. Each CE's number is simultaneously added up or subtracted! Requires v3.2.0-6 or above!
Fool that bug	Zomis	Fool the bug by using a boomerang CE.
GemTris	David Hutchinson	See how to make a columns/tetris game in RnD. Because it's quite buggy, I put it in the 'examples' category and not in the 'Additional Player Levels' category.
Generation by Indexes	Tomi Belan	Insert five numbers and the corresponding elements are created.
Gun Turret	Alan Bond	An example of gun turrets that aim and shoot at the player.
Line of sight	Alan Bond	In the dark, you can't look far...
Level in level	Adrian Siekierka	A level inside a level.
Locate the n-th instance	Zomis	Locate the n-th instance of a CE.
Logical Gates	Zomis	Two levels.
Mathematical Examples	Several Authors	Many examples of mathematical things, such as counters.
Maze Generator	Tomi Belan	Wait while the computer is generating a maze for you.
Maze Solver	Tomi Belan	Let the computer calculate the solution of a maze!
Mazers	Francesco	A collection of fifteen different automatically generated mazes.
Moving Elements	Francesco	A nice scene of moving elements.
Multifloor Maze	Francesco	A maze on different floors.
New Zealand 2005	Holger Schemel	The holiday photos of Holger Schemel. An example of the result of creating a photo map with BMP2Photomap2 by Alan Bond!
Parallax Scrolling	Alan Bond	A great example of slower and faster scrolling at the sime time while walking!
Photo Map	Alan Bond	A demo about how to make photo levels in RnD.
Photo Map 2	Alan Bond	A photo map example with 167 photo levels.
Pseudo-Chromium	Francesco	A workaround for the missing 'PlayerMoves' option (in version 3.1.1). This example will be obsolete very soon, because this option will be added in a newer RnD version.
Quicksand for Emeralds	Zomis	See how to make quicksand for emeralds instead of rocks.
Random Group Element	Zomis	An example to show you how to create random Group Elements.
Random Level	David Hutchinson	See how to generate a random level (in Emerald Mine/Supaplex style).
Reaction Test	Sascha Mücke	Test how fast your reaction is!
Richard Kleber	Richard Kleber	This example shows you some of the possibilities you have with CE's.
Roadblock Basic	Zomis	An example that shows how to make a game like Roadblock in Rocks 'n' Diamonds. The second level requires v3.2.0-5 or above!
Robot Central Control	David Hutchinson	See how you can fire random bombs at the robots.
Rock Elevator	Jannik	An example of how to elevate rocks. The second level contains the Boulder Generator by Alan Bond.
Ryan's Movies	Ryan Pineda	Two levels to watch.
Shooting a bullet	Francesco	See how to make it possible to shoot a bullet without free space ahead.
Small Passages	Ryan Pineda	An idea from the game SubTerra. Find your way in compact passages.
Teleporter as usual	Sascha Mücke	A standard teleporter.
Teleporters	Zomis	Thirteen levels that show you different teleporters.
Text Input	Tomi Belan	An example that shows you how to input text.
Text Teleporter	Tomi Belan	A teleporter example about how to teleport characters.
Transporter Test	FractalDreams	See how transporters work.

Levelset Name	Number of Levels	Author	Description / Note
4 Player Battle	20	David Hutchinson	Twenty levels in Bomberman style for four players!
DenMine 3 Players	1104	Several Authors	The DenMine levels by the Emerald Mine Club modified for three players.
DenMine 4 Players	1104	Several Authors	The DenMine levels by the Emerald Mine Club modified for three players.
Get It?	5	Rockford4ever	Be faster than your opponent!
Jannik One	10	Jannik	Ten funny and small multiplayer levels. Requires version 3.2.0-8 or above!
Memory MP	2	Francesco	Play Memory with two players! This levelset is an extension of 'Memory' in the Additional Player Levels section.
MP - Richard	100	Richard Kleber	A hundred nice levels by Richard Kleber.
Project	1	Manuel Butter	Try to defeat the other player.

Levelset Name	Number of Levels	Author	Description / Note
Aaron Davidson's Tutorial	26	Aaron Davidson	A tutorial by Aaron Davidson.
Niko Böhm's Tutorial	42	Niko Böhm	A very complete tutorial.
Tutorial Alpha	12	Richard Kleber	Does not really handle all elements separately, but is more global.

Graphics

In Rocks 'n' Diamonds it's possible to use your own graphics - for the 'normal' objects as well as the CE's. But you can also use custom graphics for the toons in the menu and the side panel to the right for example - and often these graphics come with a levelset designed by someone. So you only have to download a levelset with custom artwork and put it in the level folder to have the graphics in the game. Then they are automatically loaded when you start playing the levelset they belong to, but you can also select them in the Main Menu - Setup - Custom Artwork screen.

Some other graphics are meant as alternative graphics, to use instead of the standard game graphics. They can be downloaded below (and all the other graphics besides these can be found in the level packages in the level section above, of course). But you can also find some graphics which cannot be loaded in the game (because they don't have a graphicsinfo.conf file and because they don't have the right size) below. You can use them for the toons in the main menu for example. Here are the additional graphics:

Graphics (set) Name	Author	Description / Note
Adrian's Graphics	Adrian Siekierka	Some graphics by Adrian Siekierka.
EM Tank	David Hutchinson	A tank sprite instead of the normal spaceship.
Icy World	Sascha Mücke	Too cold for me!
MBPGS	Manuel Butter	A funny graphics set with some selfmade graphics and many graphics from BD2K3.
YamYam Palace - Animal Kingdom	Flyboy (?)	An alternative graphics set for the levelset YamYam Palace (Contributions 2002).

Music

Music is an important thing in the game. It sets the atmosphere. Like the graphics, most additional music also comes with levelsets. But download some other music sets to use in the game below:

Music (set) Name	Author	Description / Note
Original Supaplex Song	Unknown	The original Supaplex song (not the remix). Use it instead of the Supaplex music in RnD if you prefer this one!

Sounds

If you think that the standard sounds are annoying or if you are just fed up with them, it's possible to use other sounds instead. Below you can find new sounds to use in the game.

Sound (set) Name	Author	Description / Note
Retro	Rockford4ever	A sound set in the 'Retro' style.

Tools & Utilities

There are also some (mostly small) programs available that have to do with Rocks 'n' Diamonds. They can be downloaded in this section.

Utility Name	Author	Description / Note
BMP2Photomap2	Alan Bond	A program to create your own photo levels. Just open a *.BMP file and save it as a *.level file!
ConfEdit v1.0.1	Alan Bond	A great and very comprehensive utility to create or modify a levelset. It has many options and you save a lot of time by using this!
Level Sketch v2	Alan Bond	Create level sketches and convert it into forum code to let other visitors of the RnD forum see what you mean! You can also save your sketch as a *.level file.
Res 'n' Diamonds	Alan Bond	A small program to run Rocks 'n' Diamonds in other resolutions. It can stretch the screen and make the gameplay smoother.
RnDTool	Simon Forsberg	With RnDTool you can easily manage your levels. It's about importing and exporting CE's, changing level info etc. Very useful!

Documentation

Niko Böhm has created a Rocks 'n' Diamonds Documentation page. Go there to find out more about Rocks 'n' Diamonds. After that Documentation, the same Niko Böhm has created a Rocks 'n' Diamonds Wiki. There everyone can add his/her own information about the game. The Rocks 'n' Diamonds Wiki is very comprehensive.

Other documentations are the Linux Software Map file and the Readme file (which can also be found in the game directory).

For beginners, there is a tutorial for Custom Element creation (by Francesco) available. It consists of a levelset and a 'draft' file, which tells you the basics about CE's and has assignments to do with the provided levelset. (One assignment for example is: 'Make a CE which will look and act like a rock, but that will turn into an emerald when pushed by the player'). Download 'CE's Walkaround' now and learn your first steps in Custom Element creation! A little note: according to the author's words, the 'draft' is not official and it contains errors.

Forum & Chat

There is a special Rocks 'n' Diamonds Web Forum. Meet other fans there, suggest new ideas, report bugs, announce your levels there, request help etc. Become a member today! For those who are interested there's also the Old Rocks 'n' Diamonds Web Forum. And if you are Polish, you could visit the unofficial Polish Rocks 'n' Diamonds Web Forum!

Besides the Web Forum, there's also a Rocks 'n' Diamonds Chat available. Have a nice chat with other RnD players there!

Links

Although all the necessary information from other sites about Rocks 'n' Diamonds can already be found on this page, you could still visit the other sites if you want. Below are the links to other sites about Rocks 'n' Diamonds (except the forum sites which are mentioned above):

Artsoft Entertainment	The homepage of Rocks 'n' Diamonds.
Andreas Buschbeck's RnD Pages	Andreas Buschbeck's Rocks 'n' Diamonds Resources.
Bojster's Tape Archive	A great site with hundreds of tape records by Bojster!
Don Shadow's (Richard's) Homepage	Richard Kleber's RnD site (with his own Custom Artwork levels).
Dr. Sloan's RnD Levelsets	The site about Dr. Sloan's levels with CE's and Custom Artwork.
Entuland RnD Page	The website of Francesco with some RnD examples of his own and some utilities (which are not specifically for RnD).
Flumminator's RnD Corner	Flumminator's levels, documentation and the RnD IRC chat.
HerzAusGold's Homepage	The homepage of HerzAusGold's RnDTest.
Jürgen Bonhagen's RnD Pages	Jürgen Bonhagen's site with his own Custom Artwork and levels.
RoNDi	A page with about the PalmOS and PocketPC version of RnD.
Zomis' RnD Files Archive	A very handy site on which you can upload your own files concerning RnD to share it with others!

This website has been created by Martijn Mooij. All the content is free to download. Use it at your own risk.