Diablo I

The best way to learn about Diablo and Hellfire is the play the games. Both games are fun and easy to learn (Blizzard's trademark). If you are more familiar with Diablo II (as is often the case these days, you should find the D2 to D1 differences article very useful in easing your transition. We also recommend that you read the Diablo manual; if you don't have a hard copy click that link to read it online.

This wiki is designed to service players with some familiarity with the game, and does not include all of the most basic "how to" game info. It's assumed that you know how to operate the controls, create characters, engage in combat, etc. (And if you don't you'll learn those in the first hour of playtime, so what are you doing wasting time reading this for?)

What this Diablo I and Hellfire wiki does compile all of the intermediate and advanced information; especially stats and figures not found in the manual or even in the game itself. Here you'll find the stats for every monster, item and spell. There are also detailed character overviews with basic strategy for the Rogue, Warrior, and Sorcerer, as well as Hellfire's Monk, and the hidden characters, the Bard and Barbarian (with instructions on how to enable them). You can also learn about all of the quests and NPCs, details of the game plot and world mythology, and much more. Use the navigation boxes below each page, or head to the Diablo I category for a link to every page about this game.

The remainder of this introductory page covers various general game information topics that aren't covered (at least not in such detail) elsewhere in this wiki.

Inventory Management

There is no town "stash" in Diablo I or Hellfire. The only items a character can keep from game to game are those you carry on your back or in your inventory. Furthermore, since most characters need to drink a constant supply of mana and health potions while fighting, you will need to largely (or entirely) empty out your inventory during each game, before picking up everything you wish to save at the end of a game.

It's recommended that you make pretty patterns with the items you drop in town.

Items, gold, potions, spellbooks, and everything else can be left on the ground in town, wherever you find convenient. There were some bugs in early versions of Diablo that caused items left in town to vanish, but those are fixed in later versions and in Hellfire. Just be sure you pick everything up before you exit the game. This includes exits caused by killing Diablo, since when he dies all players on level 16 will be frozen in place, before being dumped out of the game and back onto Battle.net, or else to the game creation menu if you're playing multiplayer offline.

Duping

One flaw in the programming of Diablo and Hellfire is the ability to "dupe" (duplicate) any item, in the game. Doing so is cheating, even if it's only cheating yourself at this point, and using it to excess will remove the fun from the game. However, in the interests of providing full information about the game, here's how to do it.

1. Drop the item you want to duplicate.
2. Walk several spaces away.
3. Click on the item on the ground.
4. Just as you reach the item and pick it up, click on another other item in your inventory or belt. The item on the ground will pop into your inventory, and the item you clicked on and are now holding will become a copy of the item you just picked up.

It's that simple. The easiest way to dupe is to buy partial healing or mana potions, and click on those in your belt as you create copies of whatever you are duping. You must have open space in your inventory sufficient to hold the item, and time it perfectly, but the process itself is quite simple. In fact, it's worth knowing how to do it so that you don't do it accidentally. It's quite easy to click on something you wish to pick up, start rearranging your inventory while walking towards it, and turn a piece of your equipment or something useful in your inventory into a stack of gold (or whatever you were picking up) inadvertently.

In later patches (and in Hellfire) the Diablo programmers included a dupe detecting feature. This addition checks a unique item ID number for any item on the ground, and deletes extra copies of the item, whether the dupe is a piece of jewelry, a weapon, an elixir, or anything at all. This doesn't make duping impossible; it just prevents players from dropping multiple copies of the same item on the ground. If you're playing with someone and you see this message when they die, they were almost certainly using 2 duped copies of the same ring, one of which just vanished. (Or if they were a Bard they might have been dual-wielding two copies of the same weapon.)

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Diablo and Hellfire Navigation -- Diablo Basics [e]
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Quests in Diablo and Hellfire -- Quest General Info -- D1 & HF Quest Items [e]
Dungeon: The Butcher Poisoned Water Supply The Curse of King Leoric Gharbad the Weak Ogden's Sign	Catacombs: The Magic Rock Valor The Chamber of Bone Halls of the Blind Zhar the Mad	Caves: Black Mushroom Anvil of Fury	Hell: Warlord of Blood Lachdanan Archbishop Lazarus Diablo	Hellfire Quests: The Farmer's Orchard The Jersey's Jersey The Defiler Little Girl Grave Matters Cornerstone of the World Reconstructed Note Na-Krul

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Diablo I Monsters [e]		Hellfire Monsters		Special Monsters	Diablo Monster Info
Animals: Fallen Ones -- Bosses Horned Demons -- Bosses Scavengers -- Bosses Spitting Terrors -- Bosses Winged Fiends -- Bosses Undead: Skeletons -- Bosses Skeleton Archers -- Bosses Skeleton Captains -- Bosses Zombies -- Bosses	Demons: Balrogs -- Bosses Gargoyles -- Bosses Goatmen -- Bosses Goatman Archers -- Bosses Hidden -- Bosses Knights -- Bosses Lightning Demons -- Bosses Mages -- Bosses Magma Demons -- Bosses Overlords -- Bosses Succubi -- Bosses Vipers -- Bosses	The Hive Arachnons Felltwin Hellboar Hork Spawn Lashworm Psychorbs Stingers Shredded Torchant	The Crypt Biclops Crypt Demons Devil Kin Brutes Firebats Flesh Things Gravedigger Liches Reapers Skullwings Satyr Lords Tomb Rat	In Diablo: The Butcher The Skeleton King Diablo In Hellfire The Hork Demon The Defiler Na-Krul	Monster Basics SuperUniques (Full boss listing) Quest Bosses