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- The Dark Zone now shows the war that was fought there: trenches along the fronts, shell holes, burnt ground and old firing posts.
- 230 strongholds stand where the roads meet the fronts and on either side of them, each held by a boss.
- A stronghold's boss comes back a week after it falls, and pays a Warlord's Insignia every time.
- Every boss in the Dark Zone now pays at its layer, and spawners there hold the layer's own creatures.
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01The war on the ground
- Trenches run along each layer's fronts and behind the fallen walls, with duckboards, firing steps and the wire's old posts.
- A trench breaks off on steep slopes and leaves every road its way across.
- Shell holes, each its own shape, cover the ground near a front; the hottest ground is burnt.
- Sandbag posts, gun pits, field graves and wire fields lie scattered, built in each layer's own stone.
- This shapes ground nobody has walked yet; places already explored keep what they had.
02Strongholds
- Each layer has a stronghold where every road meets its front, and two more on that front, on either side.
- Xendar and the Heart have a second line of strongholds as well.
- A boss that falls comes back a week later, the next time somebody comes near.
- Strongholds are on no map: walk the road towards the front to find one.
03What bosses pay
- Every boss in the Dark Zone pays at its layer: its own trophies, caches of its layer and finds of its layer.
- A stronghold's boss also drops a Warlord's Insignia every kill, and now and then a relic of its layer.
- At a smithing table, the insignia and a Dark Metal plate raise a diamond-class chestplate to the Dark Metal chestplate, plate class.
04The world's structures
- Structures that fit no layer are gone: clown caravans, pumpkin fields, witch huts, jungle ruins, arena shrines and the Heart's windmill castle.
- Buildings no longer stand on a raised square of grass or sand, and desert buildings stand only where the layer lays sand.
- Oil sites read as oil fields, and no wrecked cars or carts lie on the roads.
- Spawners in the Dark Zone hold the creatures of their own layer instead of zombies and skeletons.