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Hellfire is an expansion pack for Diablo. Hellfire is an add-on, not a full new game, and once Hellfire is installed the Diablo CD must be in your cd-rom drive to play. This wiki contains full information for Diablo I and Hellfire. See the Diablo I Main Page for a directory structure.

Hellfire Features

Hellfire adds one character class, the Monk, two new dungeon areas the Hive and the Crypt, a few new shrines, some new item prefixes and suffixes, a few new uniques (mostly jewelry), and new specialty items including oils and runes. Other improvements and enhancements include numerous bug fixes, the ability to move at a double-speed walk while in town, and the option to select Nightmare and Hell difficulty levels in single player. Griswold sells more items than he did in Diablo, and he will attempt to offer you higher quality items than you currently possess, making it possible to buy very high quality gear. A few new spells are added, and every spell can be learned by reading books, including Apocalypse, which could only be used from scrolls and staff charges in Diablo.

Undocumented Features

There are several undocumented features in Hellfire. While the product works with single player or multiplayer in v1.00, the official v1.01 patch removes multiplayer capability. It's easy to unlock the multiplayer capability (Hellfire can not be played over Battle.net, but works nicely with a LAN or TCP/IP) though, and there are additional features available as well. There are also two additional characters to choose from; the Barbarian (who uses the Warrior's graphics) and the Bard (who uses the Rogue's graphics). A couple of additional quests can be enabled as well, and Na-Krul can be given a humorous bonus speech. Finally, it's possible to lock the color palette in the Hive to always be consistent rather than chosen at random as most palettes are.

Unlocking the Undocumented Features

You must have hellfire installed on your machine before any of the following will do you any good. We do not have information about where you can obtain Hellfire. Neither Sierra nor Blizzard sell it through their online store, it is not part of the Diablo Battlechest, and few stores will have the game in stock at this time. You can find used copies through Amazon.com and other game retailers, but they are usually expensive. Checking ebay.com might be your best bet, or finding a friend who owns it who would let you borrow it. You do not need the Hellfire CD to run the game, once it's installed.

1. Download this file (640k, zip) hosted by the Unofficial Diablo Site. It contains Sierra's official Hellfire v1.01 patch (also can be downloaded directly from the Sierra site), the hacked hellfrui.dll you need to enable multiplayer in Hellfire v1.01, and the command.txt file.
2. Open the zip and run hf101.exe to upgrade to the Hellfire v1.01 patch.
3. Extract hellfrui.dll and command.txt to your hellfire folder (C:/sierra/hellfire by default). Hellfrui.dll will overwrite the existing version of the file.
4. That's it. The Bard, Barbarian, the Theo quest, Cow quest, and multiplayer are now enabled.

Command.txt Editing

Here is the full list of all possible commands.

cowquest;theoquest;bardtest;multitest;barbariantest;nestart;

It does not matter what order these are in, so long as they are listed in this fashion, with a semicolon separating each command. You can mix and match as well; removing any portion will turn it off without breaking the rest of the operations. For instance, if you don't like the cow suit quest, just remove that part of the code, leaving this.

theoquest;bardtest;multitest;barbariantest;nestart;

The instructions are fairly self evident by their names, but here's a quick explanation:

• cowquest -- Enables the Jersey's Jersey quest. See that page for more details.
• bardtest -- Enables the Bard character.
• barbariantest -- Enables the Barbarian character.
• multitest -- Enables multiplayer. (You'll need to change another file as well, in Hellfire v1.01. See above.)
• nestart -- Enables a different palette for the Hive. Try the game with and without this option to see the fairly slight difference.

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