Chapter 1 — The Long Watch

Level 4: Dark Forest

🌲 Forest 4 waves 2 entrances ⚠️ Disasters on

Dense forest canopy. Splitters and healers emerge.

Map

Entrance ×2 (row 0, columns 2, 8)
Fortress (3×3, bottom centre)
🌳 Forest ×2 (T-tetromino (T-shape))
🌿 Swamp ×1 (L-tetromino (L-shape))
🗻 Mountain ×1 (S-tetromino (zigzag))

11×18 grid, 16 cells of it terrain. Terrain is impassable and unbuildable; enemies enter at the marked cells and path to the fortress.

Vitals

Starting gold55g

Waves4

Total enemies64

Difficulty●○○○○

3 stars★★★ ≥ 80% fortress HP

2 stars★★☆ ≥ 40% fortress HP

Arsenal

Towers: 💣 Cannon Tower ❄️ Frost Tower 🏹 Scout Tower

Spells: ⚡ Chain Lightning 🔥 Fireball 🧊 Freeze Burst New: Freeze Burst

Enemies you will face: Flyer Grunt Healer Runner Splitter

Waves

Wave	Composition	Count	Spawn gap	HP ×	Total HP	Kill gold
1	Grunt×10 Runner×6	16	0.6s	×1	630	16g
2	Flyer×8 Splitter×4	12	0.55s	×1.22	878.4	24g
3	Healer×6 Grunt×8 Runner×4	18	0.5s	×1.44	993.6	24g
4	Splitter×6 Healer×4 Flyer×8	18	0.45s	×1.66	1626.8	36g

The wave counter resets per level, so HP scaling here starts from ×1 regardless of which level you are on.

Difficulty read

Total effective HP4128.8

Gold available171g (55 start + 100 kills + 16 bonus)

Leak damage if unopposed106 (2.1× the fortress's 50 HP)

Gold available assumes you kill everything. Against 4128.8 total HP, that is roughly 24.1 HP to remove per gold piece you will ever hold — a useful sanity check on whether this level wants more towers or more upgrades.