Beginner's Guide: Basic Operations and Survival Defense

Haunted Dorm is a tower-defense survival game built around the loop:
Pick a room → Sleep to earn coins → Build towers/economy → Repel ghost attacks → Survive until dawn.

This guide starts from core mechanics and gives new players the most stable opening path.

🛏️ 1. Room selection (the most important opening decision)

Your room affects how often you're attacked and how you place buildings later.
Principles:

Prioritize rooms with only 1 entry (a single door)
Ghosts mainly attack from the door; fewer entries = easier to defend.
Avoid rooms too close to main corridors or corners
Ghost patrols pass more often, increasing the chance of being targeted.
Room size doesn't affect income, but it affects tower placement
Most rooms can place about 4–7 buildings.

😴 2. Sleep and coin income

You earn coins per second while sleeping (income speed can be increased by buildings)
When awake you can build and upgrade freely
If your “sleep bar” hits zero from attacks, you fail

🏗️ 3. Early build priority (recommended path)

Recommended order:

Power/income buildings (increase income)
Reinforce the door (door HP is critical)
Basic defense towers (Pillow Cannon)
Add as needed by difficulty: Slow Tower, Lightning Tower, Radar, etc.

🪙 4. Economy development

Early economy determines whether you can withstand late pressure.

Stable economy path (recommended for 90% of new players)

Build 2–3 economy buildings first
Start upgrading defenses mid-game
This path ensures you can afford high-tier defenses later

Rush survival path (for high-pressure maps)

First reinforce the door and build 1–2 cannons
Prevent getting deleted early
Add economy in mid-to-late game

🛡️ 5. Tower summary

Pillow Cannon: basic DPS with excellent value
Slow Tower: key to delaying Dream Hunter advances
Lightning Tower: better vs single tough enemies
Radar: increases range team-wide (exists in some versions)

👻 6. Avoiding fast breaches

Ghosts will keep knocking and ramp up attacks. Tips:

Upgrade the door to mid strength (at least 2–3 reinforcements)
Don't place all towers on one side, avoid being wiped by AoE skills
Build an economy + defense parallel system as early as possible

🧭 7. Common rookie mistakes

Greeding economy too early (dying to early knocks)
Never upgrading the door (fatal)
Clumping towers together (easy AoE wipe)

🎯 Closing

With a good room, steady economy, and timely door upgrades, your survival-to-dawn rate will be very high.
This is the most stable, recommended beginner path in the current version.