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Unused graphics

Unused Portraits#

Interestingly most of the creatures (except for the Reactor and the Demon Queen) have their unique portraits. A few are used for a circus characters. Also the first portrait below shows a sprite of unused human enemy or peasant and a Skeleton portrait is based on an old, unused variant of this enemy.

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Monsters#

Alternative Acolyte of Baa#

Icons.lod contains alternative, yellow color palette for Acolyte of Baa. To see it in the game simply place pal165 file from Icons.lod in Bitmaps.lod.

Old Peasants Variants#

There are both male and female alternative Peasants in the game files. They can be found on the Arena on low levels of experience, male Peasant animation is also used for Q enemy in the Temple of the Snake. They don't seem to differ from regular peasants except for their models.

Alternative Skeleton Enemy#

Early variant of a Skeleton, however only his idle pose remains. An unused NPC portrait of the Skeleton is based on this model, not on the final one.

Alternative Broken Animation of a Bat#

Among the sprites of a bat there are five unused animations with broken colour palette. Each one present the bat in one of five idle positions facing different directions. Here is one of them:

Diseased Heroes#

Heroes affected by "diseased" condition has a set of appropriate portraits with dermatologic illness that can be found in the game files, sadly they're unused and replaced by portraits of heroes with "poisoned" condition.

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Trade Signs#

Dark and Light Guild Trade Sign

The final game features only Guilds, that sell Light and Dark magic tomes of knowledge separately; however this graphic and one of the prerelease graphic is proof the developers were also planning to place a guild that sells both Light and Dark magic tomes.

Apothecaries

M&M6_Bitmaps_apothpor.png M&M6_Bitmaps_apothmid.png M&M6_Bitmaps_apothrch.png Potions on these trade signs suggests, that there were plans for a one more type of shop - apothecary, that sells potions and ingredients just like in M&M7 and M&M8. Here in order from poor to rich.

Blacksmith

M&M6_Bitmaps_BLKSMPOR.png M&M6_Bitmaps_BLKSMRCH.png Poor and rich blacksmith signs - all the shops in the game use averagely wealthy signs.

City Councils

M&M6_Bitmaps_CNCILMID.png M&M6_Bitmaps_CNCLPOOR.png M&M6_Bitmaps_CNCLSPEC.png Only Mist city council has one such sign, the rest remains unused

Poor Mercenary Guild

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Pirate Tavern

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Taverns in Eastern Bootleg Bay Island and Northern Eel Infested Waters Isle are run by a pirate, however their signs are swapped - the first is using Goblin's tavern sign, second is using rich tavern sign. Moreover Goblins in Bootleg Bay city and Southern Eel Infested Waters Isle also run taverns, but don't use corresponding signboards.

Poor Store

Unused Dungeon Entrance Icon#

Unused Containers#

These chests do appear in the game world, however graphics of their insides are swapped with other chests.

Early maps#

The game contains early variants of Sweet Water and New Sorpigal maps.

First Sweet Water map variant	Second Sweet Water map variant	Final

Early New Sorpigal map	Final

Unused Loading Screen#

Release	Unused

Unused Map Decorations#

Collectible Herbs

Widowsweeps berries, Phirna Root and Poppysnaps have unique graphics of shrubs, from which the player could pick up potion ingredients.

Old Fountain Sprite

This sprite can be seen from different angles on an old promo screenshots. In the game files however only one frame remains.

Unused Pottery

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Stalactites and Stalagmites

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Flags

There are red and blue flags on some of the world's towers and castle, but green and yellow are not present.

Unused Bones & Corpses

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NSFW!	Ideas on where to find it
	Looks like a Bootleg Bay's Cannibals meal.
	It's very likely that it's another Werewolves pray.
	It's very likely that it's another Werewolves pray.
	A dead adventurer that can be found in unused dungeon zddb10.blv.

Miscellaneous

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Unused Trees, Rocks and Bushes

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This needs some investigation.
Discuss ideas and findings on the talk page.
Specifically: Look for more decorations in SPRITES.lod, for sure there are still a few of them.

Missing Textures and Decorations#

One of The Temple's of the Moon stone circles is lacking textures on it's upper facets (it's internal name was "d2wctrA"). It can't be seen during normal gameplay, however the other stone circles have proper stone wall bitmaps in this place, even though they also can't be seen.

Close to the Obelisk on a Hermit's Isle map there are placed two decorations, that don't have a proper sprite and during normal gameplay can't be seen.

There are also two unknown decorations beside altar in Superior Temple of Baa.

Miscellanous#

Old Turn-Based Combat Hand Mode

Unused and Broken Water Walk Spell Animation Sprite

It's saved as the last sprite of the Water Walk spell animation, however it looks like it's unused and it's hard to tell what it was exactly going to depict.

Placeholders

Placeholders respectively for equipment items and for adventure map objects.

Leftovers from Previous Games#

The signature of Jon Van Caneghen (the creator of the series) from the fourth and fifth games.