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Royal Guard
"The king survives the night. So does his gate."
How do I install Royal Guard?
Download the free ProjectMods desktop app, then install Royal Guard for Stonewards in one click.
</>What does Royal Guard do?
The cruelest way to lose a Stonewards run is not dying. It is coming back from a good dig to find the king down and the gate in pieces because something wandered in from the far side. Royal Guard puts a stop to that. Two separate switches let you protect the king, the walls, or both, and each one holds against everything in the game that can hurt them. Protect the walls and you can go as deep as you like without a timer in the back of your mind. Protect the king and the fail state simply stops existing, which turns a tense defense run into a relaxed mining trip whenever you want one. Leave one on and one off for a middle ground: let the walls take a beating and get repaired as normal, while the king himself stays safe. This one runs on the host's machine, so switch it on while playing solo or hosting for the group.
</>What is Royal Guard?
The cruelest Stonewards loss is coming back from a good dig to find the king down and the gate in pieces. Royal Guard has two switches, protect the king and protect the walls, so you can dig as deep as you like without a timer in the back of your mind. Switch it on while playing solo or hosting for the group. Free tier from ProjectMods.
</>Common questions about Royal Guard
What does Royal Guard do in Stonewards?
Royal Guard makes the king and your walls indestructible in Stonewards. Two separate switches let you protect the king, the walls, or both. The cruelest way to lose a run is coming back from a good dig to find the throne empty and the gate in pieces, and this removes that entirely. Protect the walls and you can dig as deep as you like without a timer in the back of your mind. Protect the king and the fail state stops existing, which turns a tense defense run into a relaxed mining trip. Free tier on the ProjectMods desktop app.
What is the difference between Protect The King and Protect The Walls?
The two Royal Guard switches cover different fail states. Protect The King keeps the king himself from taking any damage, which is the one that ends a Stonewards run outright, because if he goes down while you are deep in a tunnel, that is the run. Protect The Walls keeps your gate and defenses from being damaged at all, so a breach becomes noise rather than a countdown. Because they are separate switches you can run either alone. If you want a middle ground, protect the king and leave the walls breakable, which keeps repairs and wall management as a real part of the game.
Does Royal Guard stop every kind of damage to the king and walls?
Yes. Rather than blocking a list of specific enemies, each switch covers every source of damage, so ordinary monsters, ranged attackers, elites and anything that explodes all leave the king and the gate untouched. That matters in Stonewards because the thing that ends a run is usually not the enemy you were watching, it is the one that wandered in from the far side while you were three tunnels down. The only thing the switches do not change is your own dwarf, who still takes damage normally unless you are also running Second Wind or Stone Skin.
Can I protect the king but leave the walls breakable?
Yes, and it makes for a good middle ground. Leaving Protect The Walls off means your gate still takes a beating and still needs repairing, so wall management stays a real part of a Stonewards run, while Protect The King removes the one failure you cannot come back from. The reverse works too: indestructible walls with a vulnerable king turns the game into a bodyguard job where the only thing you have to watch is the throne. Both on is the relaxed mining trip. Each switch is independent, so you can change your mind between runs.
Does everyone in my group need Royal Guard?
No, it works from the host side, so whoever is running the Stonewards session should be the one with it switched on. If you are hosting, the protection applies to the king and walls everybody is defending, and your friends need nothing installed. If you have joined somebody else's game, switching it on will not do anything, because their machine is the one deciding what the king and the walls take. Playing solo counts as hosting, so it behaves exactly as you would expect on your own. It is the simplest way to set up a relaxed night for a whole group.
What options does Royal Guard include?
Protect The King
The king cannot be hurt, so a run never ends because he went down while you were away.
Protect The Walls
Your walls cannot be damaged, so you can dig as deep as you like without worrying about the gate.
Two switches, one problem solved: Royal Guard makes the king and your walls indestructible in Stonewards, so a run never ends while you are away digging. Free tier from ProjectMods.
System Requirements
What features does Royal Guard include?
- Make the king untouchable, so a run never ends because something wandered in while you were three caverns down.
- Protect the walls so the gate holds no matter how deep you dig or how long you stay out there.
- Mix and match: let the walls take a beating and get repaired while the king himself stays safe.
- Covers every source of damage, not just the attacks you happen to be watching at the time.
- Turn it on when you are playing alone or running the session, since it works from the host's side.
Best For
- Miners who want a proper deep run without a countdown running in the back of their head.
- Groups teaching new players the map, where one missed spawn should not cost everyone the whole run.
- Players who enjoy the digging far more than the defending and want a relaxed evening of it.
- Crews on a long attempt who have already lost twice to one straggler slipping past the gate.
- Anyone who wants to reach the later waves without restarting every time the king goes down.
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