Dungeons

Mystery dungeons are the main source of gameplay in Pokémon Mystery Universe. Dungeons are complex structures that typically have a random layout. There are many dungeons, each with different qualities, characteristics, and difficulty. Players explore dungeons as an enterprise, training, completing missions, obtaining recruitable Pokémon, or finding rare items, either solo or with a party or guild. Rather than being able to see and enter dungeons from a list, dungeon entrances can be found throughout and entered from areas in the overworld. HMs may be necessary in order to access some dungeons, or travel through them.

Dungeons can have restrictions such as limiting the amount of items that can be in the inventory when entering, or setting the level of the team's Pokémon for the duration of the dungeon. These are frequently introduced in high-level dungeons.

Being cautious in dungeons is essential. If the player faints as their team's leader and cannot revive nor escape, they must give up, resulting in item loss and putting them back at the Crossroads or their set spawn point.

Components

Dungeon Floors

Every dungeon has a set amount of floors until the end. Each floor in a dungeon has a randomized layout, along with wild Pokémon and items. Dungeon floors are made up of several rooms and tiles; the main tiles being the floor and walls. Walls arrange the rooms and hallways in dungeons. Dungeons can have other additional tiles, such as water or lava, with certain Pokémon types being able to traverse them while others cannot, unless holding a Mobile Scarf or similar items. In order to advance further in dungeons, the player must find and traverse onto the stairs located on a floor, which take you a floor forward in the dungeon.

Although Pokémon and items cannot normally spawn in hallways in the original games, they can in PMU, albeit depending on the dungeon.

A line of Static Traps in Concealed Laboratory

Traps

Main article: Traps

Traps are a special type of tile, different from floors and walls as they're harmful to the player. Traps appear hidden unless stepped on or revealed through using a basic attack, eating a Gummi or using a See-Trap Orb, and can trigger all sort of negative effects when activated. There are a few ways to avoid traps, such as using the moves Rapid Spin (next to one) and Defog or a Trapbust Orb to destroy them, or holding a Trap Scarf which will not trigger them.

All four wind alerts

Wind

Wind is a feature prominent in dungeons to prevent explorers from lingering in a floor for too long. Because of the real-time gameplay, wind is not turn-based but instead goes off a timer unique to the dungeon, which begins to tick after a player's first action upon entering a floor. There will be four messages alerting the player of a strong gust before kicking them out of the dungeon, acting as a give up. As a result, wind can remove many items from the inventory, except if you have an Escape Rope.

A sealed chamber in Snowveil Den

Sealed Chambers

Some dungeons have locked doors set to appear on specific floors, appearing as a small square with a locked door at the bottom. Dungeons typically have only have one or two sealed chambers. If there are two, they contain the same contents.

A Silver Key is required to open a sealed chamber. Inside of sealed chambers is a Silver Box, which has a chance of holding a silk among other items. The silk's type tends to match the general type of the dungeon the sealed chamber is located in (e.g. Red Silk in a dungeon with many Fire-types).

A Kecleon Shop in Rustic Savannah

Kecleon Shops

Main article: Kecleon Shop § In Dungeons

Kecleon Shops can be found in some dungeons on specific floors. The items for sale will vary between each dungeon, however.

Monster Houses

A Monster House in Mysterious Jungle

Main article: Monster House

Monster Houses, instead of being a room that becomes invaded with lots of Pokémon (usually identified with an abnormal amount of items visible), make up an entire dungeon floor as a single square room floor filled with Pokémon, that can randomly appear upon stair entry on Floor 6 and up in most dungeons. Monster Houses are the only method to recruit Zorua, via the move Sweet Scent, and can likewise be a great spot for training as they have a x1.5 experience boost.

Set Floors

A puzzle midpoint in Ash Forest

Midpoints

Midpoints or rest points in dungeons are intervals that are not ordinary dungeon floors. They are often accompanied by a Kangaskhan Storage statue and, rarely, a Chimecho Assembly post or heal bed, some furthermore allowing the player to exit out of the dungeon. Dungeons may also have puzzle or maze midpoints to be traversed in order to pursue the rest of the dungeon, these appearing more often than rest areas. Midpoints are commonly seen after boss rooms or around the middle of longer dungeons, as a standard breaking point or connection to a dungeon's deeper continuation.

Glitter Core, the boss room of Glitter Cavern

Boss Rooms

Boss rooms are floors where the boss Pokémon of a given dungeon is fought, should there be any to complete it or proceed further. Boss Pokémon frequently have buffs applied, drops such as Mushrooms and Big Mushrooms, and cannot be recruited (with the exception of Joey at Exbel Woods). Legendary and Mythical boss Pokémon have a chance to drop their Heart Slate, serving as their method of obtainment to players.

After defeating the final boss of a dungeon, there will be warps that lead out of the dungeon or to the end room if there is one. While there are boss rooms, few dungeons have boss Pokémon that will spawn in regular dungeon floors, like Lush Archipelago. Wonder Orbs can still be used in a boss room, unlike in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon.

Sunny Hilltop, the end room of Sunny Hillside

End Rooms

End rooms are characterized by being the very last floor in a dungeon, leading to an exit warp and usually having a reward like boxes; known commonly as end boxes. End rooms may contain additional items such as Poké, or spawnable Pokémon via Honey, all determined by the particular dungeon. Not all dungeons have traditional end rooms, as boss rooms can serve as the end rooms, or the dungeon will just leave the player in the overworld upon entering the last set of stairs.

Secret Rooms

A Secret Room in Risen Derelict

Main article: Secret Room

Secret Rooms are floors that can be found in a dungeon by uncovering hidden golden stairs leading to them. What lies in a Secret Room depends on the dungeon. The most common trait Secret Rooms have are Deluxe Boxes. Some can have unique Pokémon obtainable from them via Honey, even rarely including Legendary Pokémon, among other things.

Weather

Main article: Weather

Weather is a major part of dungeons. Weather can either appear naturally on floors or be set by Abilities or moves of either wild Pokémon or the player. All weather comes with their own effects, and often coordinate with the type of Pokémon found in a dungeon (e.g. Rain in a dungeon with many Water-types). Having weather control is regarded as an important feat for venturing through dungeons smoothly, as weather can not only make wild Pokémon less or more of a threat, but can hinder the player's efficiency unless equipped with the respective Crystal or Gem.

Darkness

Darkness is a hazard frequently present in dungeons. The player will have a small radius of light around them, while the remaining floor is obscured. When there is darkness, items and Pokémon cannot be seen unless they are within view range. Vision in darkness can be increased with the Ability Keen Eye, or it can be removed completely in a dungeon floor through eating a Gummi, using a Luminous Orb or the move Flash, or holding a X-Ray Specs or X-Ray Charm.

Hunger

Main article: Stats § Belly

The active Pokémon will get hungry over time in dungeons, shown by the Belly stat in the menu.

Restrictions

There are some restrictions a dungeon, or a dungeon section, may have before the player can enter:

• Must have a specific type in the team.
• Must have an empty inventory.
• Must have no more than a specific amount of items in your inventory.
• Can only bring a specific amount Pokémon.
• No experience is gained.
• No Pokémon can be recruited.
• The level of the team is temporarily set to a specific number. Whether the present moves are kept or not varies from dungeon to dungeon.
• Cannot be rescued, meaning party or guild members may not meet up with you.
• Parties will be disbanded.

Parties

Dungeons can be entered with more than one player either by being in a party or a guild. A party can be created using the command /createparty or /cp. Up to three other players can join the party, by standing next to the leader and typing /joinparty or /jp, following the leader's username while also being adjacent to them on the same map. From there, players can enter dungeons together once they have all selected "Yes" to the enter prompt of the same dungeon. All online players will need to be on a floor's staircase in order to progress in dungeons.

Being in the same party or guild makes players allied in dungeons; damaging moves will not affect them, but supportive moves such as Helping Hand will. Experience from defeated enemy Pokémon will be gained by every party member. At a certain level range too low from the player that defeated a Pokémon, only 1 Experience will be gained unless the party member is nearby them. Any dialogue in a dungeon will only be seen by a party's leader. Guild meetups are independent from parties. Experience will not be shared to other guild members and stairs can be traversed normally.

A party can be left when outside of a dungeon using /leaveparty or /lp. Escaping a dungeon, as well as some midpoints will remove players from a party. Parties can still be created and joined when inside dungeons. The Explorer Kit has a page that lists all party members and their active Pokémon's HP and experience.

List of Dungeons

Below is a list of all non-event dungeons in Pokémon Mystery Universe.

Name	Abbr	Type	Region	Floors
Archford Training Dojo	ATD	Fighting/Grass	Archford	40
Archford Tunnel	AT	Poison/Rock	Archford	2
Ash Forest	AF	Bug/Flying	Exbel	33
Ashen Graveyard	AG	Ghost	Exbel	17
Beach Bunker	BB	Rock/Water	Tanren	24
Boggy Wastes	Boggy/BW	Poison	Archford	48
Caustic Sewers	Sewers/CS	Poison	Undercity	30
Ancient Caustic Sewers	Sewers/ACS	Poison	Undercity	15
Cliffside Relic	Cliffside/CR	Ground	Exbel	21
Concealed Laboratory	CL	Steel/Psychic	Winden	40
Crescent Islet	CI	Bug/Grass	Archford	28
Crescent Islet Depths	CI Depths	Normal/Grass	Archford	7
Cryptic Chasm	CCh	Psychic	Tanren	60
Crystal Ruins	CR	Ice/Water	Winden	20
Crystal Castle	CC	Ice/Ghost	Winden	10
Deserted Tomb	DT	Steel/Rock/Ground	Tanren	44
Dragon's Descent	DD	Dragon	Tanren	50
Dragon's Descent Depths	DDD	Dragon	Tanren	20
Dream Grove	DG	Fairy/Psychic Dark/Ghost	Undercity	40
Dream Grove (Daydream)	Daydream DG/DDG	Fairy/Psychic	Undercity	40
Dream Grove (Nightmare)	Nightmare DG/NDG	Dark/Ghost	Undercity	40
Dynamo Sands	Dynamo/DS	Ground/Rock/Electric	Tanren	60
Exbel Woods	-	Normal	Exbel	3
Friendship Forest	FF	Normal/Grass	Exbel	5
Frigid Rivulet	FR	Water/Ice	Winden	20
Fruity Grotto	FG	Grass	Exbel	10
Gritty Burrow	Gritty/GB	Ground	Exbel	15
Glitter Cavern	GC	Rock/Electric/Fairy	Winden	36
Happiness Lake	HL	Water	Exbel	8
Harmonic Tower	HT	Varies	Exbel	99
Honeydrop Meadow	Honeydrop/HDM	Bug	Exbel	27
Iceberg Cavern	Iceberg/IC	Ice/Water	Tanren	7-10
Iceberg Frigid Waters	IFW	Water	Tanren	34
Iceberg Adrift	Iceberg/IA	Ice/Water	Tanren	42
Inferno Volcano	IV	Fire/Ground/Rock	Archford	60
Island Garden	IG	Grass	Exbel	13
Jailbreak Tunnel	Jailbreak/JT	Poison	Exbel	12
Lake of Acuity	Acuity	Water	Winden	25
Lake of Valor	Valor	Water	Archford	25
Lake of Verity	Verity	Water	Tanren	25
Loch Lenile Cavern	Lenile/LLC	Water	Exbel	38
Lucent Burrow	LB	Water/Ice	Winden	10
Lush Archipelago	Lush/LA	Bug/Grass	Archford	30
Archipelago Thicket	AT	Bug/Grass	Archford	25
Marowak Training Dojo	MTD	Varies	Exbel	5/10/15
Mineral Cavern	MC	Water	Exbel	30
Mistspring Woods		Grass/Psychic/Fairy/Ghost	Exbel	60
Mt. Barricade	Barricade/Barr	Rock/Ground	Exbel	30
Mt. Moon	MM	Fairy/Psychic/Normal	Archford	60/40
Mt. Skylift	Skylift	Flying	Exbel	36
Mt. Stormhold	Stormhold	Ice/Flying	Winden	29
Murky Trench	Murky/MT	Ghost/Water	Archford	12
Mysterious Jungle	MJ	Grass/Bug	Archford	60
Mystic Coven	Mystic/MC	Ghost/Psychic	Tanren	50
Pebble Cave	PC	Normal/Ground/Dark	Exbel	5
Pebble Cave Depths	PCD	Varies	Exbel	1010
Pitch-Black Abyss	PBA	Dark/Poison	Exbel	1
Razed Fields	RF	Water/Flying	Exbel	1
Risen Derelict	RD	Water/Ice/Poison	Winden	60
Rocky Ravine	RoR/RR	Grass/Ground	Tanren	35
Rocky Shoreline	RS	Water	Tanren	40
Rustic Savannah	Rustic/RS	Electric/Normal	Tanren	28
Sandy Shallows	SaSh/SS	Water	Archford	30
Sauna Cavern	Sauna/SC	Fire/Rock	Winden	28
Sauna Cavern Depths	SC Depths	Rock	Winden	10
Sea Crevice	Crevice/SC	Ice/Water	Tanren	21
Seafloor Ruins	SFR	Water	Archford	41
Eastern Seafloor Ruins	East SFR	Water	Archford	60
Central Seafloor Ruins	Central SFR	Water	Archford	60
Western Seafloor Ruins	West SFR	Water	Archford	60
Seafoam Cove	Seafoam	Water/Bug	Exbel	15
Seaside Cavern	Seaside	Water	Exbel	5
Scorched Grasslands	Scorched/SG	Fire/Grass	Archford	50
Sentimental Aquifer	SA	Water	Exbel	60
Shimmering Seabed	Shimmering/SSB/ShS	Water	Archford	60
Sky Fortress	SF	Varies	Winden	99
Snowveil Den	Snowveil/SD	Ice/Steel	Winden	25
Snowveil Lair	Snowveil/SL	Ice/Steel	Winden	10
Sour Root Cave	Sour Root/SRC	Bug	Exbel	10
Southern Sea	SS	Water	Exbel	25
Southern Sea Depths	SS Depths	Water	Exbel	15
Spectral Thicket	Spectral/SpTh	Dark/Ghost/Psychic	Winden	70
Stark Volcanic Woods	Stark/SVW	Fire/Grass/Ground	Archford	60
Starlit Lagoon	Starlit/SL	Water/Psychic	Archford	60
Sunken Gardens	SG	Grass/Water	Tanren	40
Sunny Hillside	Hillside/SH	Fire/Grass	Exbel	6
Sunrise Temple	Sunrise/ST	Ground/Fire	Tanren	28
Tanren Chambers	TC	Varies	Tanren	99
Tanren Mansion	TM/Mansion	Ghost	Tanren	40
Tanren Courtyard	Courtyard	Ghost/Poison	Tanren	25
Tanren Basement	Basement/TB	Ghost	Tanren	20
Tanren Graveyard	Graveyard/TG	Ghost	Tanren	35
Tanren Mines	Mines/TM	Ground/Poison	Tanren	42
Tanren Mines Depths	TM Depths/TMD	Ground/Poison	Tanren	14
Tanren Training Dojo	TTD	Fighting/Ground	Tanren	36
Tanren Tunnel	TT	Ground/Poison	Exbel	10
Thunderstorm Forest	Thunderstorm/TSF	Electric/Bug	Exbel	20
Far Thunderstorm Forest	Far TSF	Electric/Bug	Exbel	15
Tiny Grotto	TG	Grass	Exbel	5
Undercity Catacombs	Catacombs/UC	Ghost/Ground	Undercity	30
Verdure Bluff	Verdure/VB	Grass/Ground/Poison	Tanren	40
Voltaic Rainforest	Voltaic/VR	Electric/Bug/Grass	Archford	50
Wildfire Hills	Wildfire/WH	Fire	Exbel	20
Winden Forest	WF	Ice	Winden	18
Deep Winden Forest	Deep WF	Ice	Winden	10
Winden Pass	WP	Ice	Winden	10
Winden Training Dojo	WTD	Fighting/Ice	Winden	30