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	This level has a console version.

This level occupies the map slot E2M7. For other maps which occupy this slot, see Category:E2M7.

E2M7: Spawning Vats is the seventh map of The Shores of Hell in Doom. It was designed by Tom Hall and Sandy Petersen and it uses the music track "Waltz of the Demons." The par time is 4:00. As the last of the levels representing man-made complexes, Spawning Vats is in effect an amalgamation of all previous bases, including a container warehouse and a computer complex.

In the PlayStation and Sega Saturn versions, it contains an added secret exit to MAP55: Fortress of Mystery.

Walkthrough

Map of Spawning Vats

Letters in italics refer to marked spots on the map. Sector, thing, and linedef numbers in boldface are secrets which count toward the end-of-level tally.

Essentials

At least on ultra-violence and easier, if you warp in and start with the fist and pistol, avoid fighting the demons in that room where you start out. Instead, dodge them and run to the right (west) corridor, which will bring you to the room with the blue key door. There, you can dispatch a sergeant to get his shotgun, pickup a box of shotgun shells, and then take down the two demons easily. Do not continue past the blue key door room yet, as you do not have the ammo to deal with the tougher monsters yet.

Beware of the door that closes behind you when you enter the descending stairs to the crate room (warehouse). Before you step on the stairs, use a couple fist punches to alert some demons, which you can dispatch before getting trapped. Getting the berserk will allow you the dispatch the rest of the demons easily. Save the invulnerability for taking on the baron and cacodemons outside, where you can save ammo by using the berserk fist.

Be careful when you go through the yellow key door, as there are a large number of imps behind it and they will have been alerted to your presence, since that area is connected to the outside where you fought the baron and cacodemons. Also avoid the middle trench of the hallways which are illuminated by blue lights, since these will reduce your health.

Secrets

In the hall connecting the warehouse and the outdoor area in the east, climb the small staircase leading to a small control room. Follow another set of stairs down to a switch. Flip it to open a secret room behind you. (sector 250)
In the corridor lined with hemi-cylindrical "vats" in the west, there's a narrow opening between two of the vats on the west wall that leads outside. (sector 284)
At the north end of secret 2 is a switch on the wall. Flip it to open another secret area. (sector 301)
In the room in the southwest with several small slime pools in alcoves. In one of these alcoves is a small tunnel leading to a rocket launcher and a teleporter. (sector 44)
After getting the red keycard, go through the teleporter in secret 4. Open the red door and flip the switch behind it. (sector 72)
After flipping the switch in secret 5, as well as the switch behind the blue door, go all the way back to the starting room. A nook holding a soul sphere and a bulk cell will be accessible. (sector 294)

Bugs

Two "hanging leg" decorations (Things 192 and 193) and an energy cell (Thing 99) have no flags set for any of the difficulty classes, so they do not actually appear in the level.

In this level it is possible to trigger an example of the Tutti-frutti effect. Upon entering the crate room, a door closes behind the player. The door consists of two sectors. By blocking the second sector, it is possible for one sector to be closed while the other remains open. A short texture which does not vertically tile is used for the linedef between the sectors: as a result, the tutti-frutti effect appears.

All versions of this map have several linedefs with flag bits 9-15 set, which had no function.

Linedef 1286 (just in front of the south side of the yellow door), lacks a lower texture causing a small HOM effect.

A reject table blindspot causes the demon behind the blue key door to not see the player in front of the door. In total there are 27 known anomalies in this level's REJECT table.

While possibly intentional to create a puzzling, unwordly atmosphere, the southeast courtyard with the two small nukage pools has two corpses hanging from the ceiling despite it being open sky.

Areas / screenshots

Starting room

Speedrunning

Routes and tricks

Current records

The Compet-n records for the map are:

Run	Time	Player	Date	File
UV speed	00:15	Drew DeVore (stx-Vile)	2005-04-22	e2m7-015.zip
NM speed	00:17	Drew DeVore (stx-Vile)	2005-04-21	n2m7-017.zip
UV max	03:44	Radek Pecka	2002-09-27	e2m7-344.zip
NM100S	02:24	Radek Pecka	2002-09-26	n2s7-224.zip
UV -fast	04:12	Radek Pecka	2002-03-24	f2m7-412.zip
UV -respawn	03:36	Radek Pecka	2000-11-14	r2m7-336.zip
UV Tyson	03:51	Radek Pecka	2004-01-30	t2m7-351.zip
UV pacifist	00:19	Jonathan Rimmer	2001-11-10	p2m7-019.zip

The data was last verified in its entirety on July 6, 2020.

Deathmatch

Player spawns

This level contains five spawn points:

facing south. (thing 219)
facing west. (thing 220)
facing west. (thing 221)
facing south-east. (thing 222)
facing south. (thing 223)

Statistics

Map data

Things	235
Vertices	1626*
Linedefs	1764
Sidedefs	2252
Sectors	323

* The vertex count without the effect of node building is 1451.

Things

This level contains the following numbers of things per skill level:

Single-player
Monsters	1-2	3	4-5
Shotgun guy	3	4	4
Imp	40	41	46
Demon	18	26	33
Spectre	0	1	5
Cacodemon	2	5	5
Baron of Hell	1	1	2
Weapons	1-2	3	4-5
Chainsaw	1
Chaingun	1
Rocket launcher	1
Plasma gun	1
Ammunition	1-2	3	4-5
Clip	16
Box of bullets	3
4 shotgun shells	6
Box of shotgun shells	6
Rocket	2
Energy cell	3
Energy cell pack	2
Health & Armor	1-2	3	4-5
Stimpack	16
Medikit	5
Armor	1
Megaarmor	1
Items	1-2	3	4-5
Armor bonus	12
Health bonus	9
Supercharge	1
Backpack	1
Berserk	1
Computer area map	1
Invulnerability	2
Partial invisibility	1
Keys	1-2	3	4-5
Blue keycard	1
Red keycard	1
Yellow keycard	1
Miscellaneous	1-2	3	4-5
Exploding barrel	1
Teleport landing	2

Multiplayer
Monsters	1-2	3	4-5
Shotgun guy	3	4	4
Imp	40	41	46
Demon	18	26	33
Spectre	0	1	5
Cacodemon	2	5	5
Baron of Hell	1	1	2
Weapons	1-2	3	4-5
Chainsaw	1
Shotgun	1
Chaingun	1
Rocket launcher	2
Plasma gun	2
Ammunition	1-2	3	4-5
Clip	16
Box of bullets	3
4 shotgun shells	6
Box of shotgun shells	6
Rocket	2
Energy cell	3
Energy cell pack	2
Health & Armor	1-2	3	4-5
Stimpack	16
Medikit	5
Armor	1
Megaarmor	1
Items	1-2	3	4-5
Armor bonus	12
Health bonus	9
Supercharge	1
Backpack	1
Berserk	1
Computer area map	1
Invulnerability	2
Partial invisibility	1
Keys	1-2	3	4-5
Blue keycard	1
Red keycard	1
Yellow keycard	1
Miscellaneous	1-2	3	4-5
Cooperative start	4
Deathmatch start	5
Exploding barrel	1
Teleport landing	2

Inspiration and development

E2M7 was the first level started for Doom, and early versions appear as E1M1 of Doom 0.3, E1M1 of Doom 0.4, and E1M11 of Doom 0.5. Originally conceived to be the Hangar 2 building described in the Doom Bible, the starting room in the alpha versions of Doom takes the form of a control room where marines gather to play cards. Doom 0.3 features the setting described originally with the marines playing cards on top of a crate, but alphas 0.4 and 0.5 change this to a control desk. This starting room would eventually become home to a single cacodemon in the released version, and the player's starting point would be moved to a room with columns that originally had no particular purpose.

The room that in the released version contains the blue keycard was originally the hangar bay area, with alphas 0.3 and 0.4 having the characteristic "number two" signs on the floor that the Doom Bible describes. Doom 0.5 changed the numbered flats to a generic UAC insignia.

The warehouse room originally featured an exit that was meant to connect to Supply Depot 2, but it was removed in the released version, and instead, a new exit was added south of the map.

Gallery

Level map

E1M1 in Doom 0.3
E1M1 in Doom 0.4
E1M11 in Doom 0.5
E2M7 in the released version

Cards room

Doom 0.3
Doom 0.4
Doom 0.5
Released version

Silver structure room

Doom 0.3
Doom 0.4
Doom 0.5
Released version

Column room

Doom 0.3
Doom 0.4
Doom 0.5
Released version

Warehouse

Doom 0.3
Doom 0.4
Doom 0.5
Released version

Hangar bay

Doom 0.3
Doom 0.4
Doom 0.5
Released version

Trivia

Spawning Vats is the next-to-last level in the Sega 32X version of Doom.
This level contains one of the rare instances in official Doom levels of a non-animated damaging floor, a row of blue lights in a trench.
The PlayStation and Sega Saturn version of Spawning Vats contains a secret exit to E2M9: Fortress of Mystery .
The official French name of this level is Cuves de reproduction.

External links

E2M7 demos from the Compet-n database: UV speed • NM speed • UV max • NM100S • UV -fast • UV -respawn • UV Tyson • UV pacifist
E2M7 demos (archived 🏛) at the Doomed Speed Demos Archive
Top-down perspective view of all Doom levels by Ian Albert

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Contents

Walkthrough

Essentials

Secrets

Bugs

Areas / screenshots

Speedrunning

Routes and tricks

Current records

Deathmatch

Player spawns

Statistics

Map data

Things

Inspiration and development

Gallery

Level map

Cards room

Silver structure room

Column room

Warehouse

Hangar bay

Trivia

External links

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-{{The Shores of Hell}}
+{{The Shores of Hell|consolever=MAP15: Spawning Vats (Console Doom)}}
 {{map|slot=E2M7}}
+'''E2M7: Spawning Vats''' is the seventh map of [[The Shores of Hell]] in [[Doom]]. It was designed by [[Tom Hall]] and [[Sandy Petersen]] and it uses the [[Doom music|music]] track "Waltz of the Demons." The [[par time]] is 4:00. As the last of the levels representing man-made complexes, Spawning Vats is in effect an amalgamation of all previous bases, including a [[E2M2: Containment Area (Doom)|container warehouse]] and a [[E1M7: Computer Station (Doom)|computer complex]].
-'''E2M7: Spawning Vats''' is the seventh map of [[The Shores of Hell]] in [[Doom]]. E2M7 was the first level started for Doom, and early versions appear as E1M1 of [[Doom 0.4]] and E1M11 of [[Doom 0.5]]. It was designed by [[Tom Hall]] and [[Sandy Petersen]] and it uses the [[Doom music|music]] track "Waltz of the Demons." The [[par time]] is 4:00.
+In the [[Sony PlayStation|PlayStation]] and [[Sega Saturn]] versions, it contains an added secret exit to {{maplinkgen|MAP55|Fortress of Mystery|PlayStation Doom}}.
-As the last of the levels representing man-made complexes, Spawning Vats is in effect an amalgamation of all previous bases, including a [[E2M2: Containment Area (Doom)|container warehouse]] and a [[E1M7: Computer Station (Doom)|computer complex]].
+== Walkthrough ==
+[[File:E2M7 map.png|thumb|300x300px|Map of Spawning Vats]]
+{{map spots}}
-==Strategy==
+===Essentials===
-[[Image:E2M7 map.png|thumb|300px|Map of E2M7]] <br clear="left"/>
+At least on [[skill level|ultra-violence]] and easier, if you warp in and start with the [[fist]] and [[pistol]], avoid fighting the [[demon]]s in that room where you start out. Instead, dodge them and run to the right (west) corridor, which will bring you to the room with the blue [[key]] door. There, you can dispatch a [[Shotgun guy|sergeant]] to get his [[shotgun]], pickup a [[box of shotgun shells]], and then take down the two demons easily.  Do not continue past the blue key door room yet, as you do not have the [[ammo]] to deal with the tougher [[monster]]s yet.
-===Walkthrough===
+Beware of the door that closes behind you when you enter the descending stairs to the crate room (warehouse). Before you step on the stairs, use a couple fist punches to alert some demons, which you can dispatch before getting trapped. Getting the [[berserk]] will allow you the dispatch the rest of the demons easily. Save the [[invulnerability]] for taking on the [[Baron of Hell|baron]] and [[cacodemon]]s outside, where you can save ammo by using the berserk fist.
-At the start, you will see two openings to go through. Take the one on the left. Follow this hallway into another room. When you do get into the a new room, go straight into another room, skipping the door on your right. In this room, kill the [[Imp]]s in here, and go right, heading down the stairs. In this large room, kill all the [[Demon]]s in here. Grab the goodies. In the southeast part of the room, there is a lump with a switch on it. Hit it, and the lump will lower. Go through the hall into a bigger room. Kill the [[Cacodemon]](s) and a [[Baron of hell|Baron]] in here (that only appears on hard skill levels). In this room, take the health, and get the blue [[key]]. Now backtrack your steps back to the room you started this level in.
-In the room you started in, take the other opening you did not go through. Follow the hall into another room. In this room, open the blue door. Kill the Demon in front of you, and go right and get the [[Chaingun]]. Now turn around, go straight (not up the stairs), and go through the opening to the left of the staircase. Kill any enemies here, and go up the stairs in the room. Follow the staircase to a platform with the yellow key.
+Be careful when you go through the yellow key door, as there are a large number of [[imp]]s behind it and they will have been alerted to your presence, since that area is connected to the outside where you fought the baron and cacodemons. Also avoid the middle trench of the hallways which are illuminated by blue lights, since these will [[Damaging floor|reduce your health]].
-From where you are, kill the Imps in front of you. When you do, hop off the platform and go through the opening north of the platform you just jumped off. In this room, go left, and open the yellow door to your right. Go into the room killing any Imps. From the yellow door, get all the way to the other end of the room, and open the door to the right. Kill the Imps in here, and enter the alcove near the pillar. Follow the small hall to a switch, and hit it (kill the Imp in here too). Now, exit this hallway to see the pillar has lowered. Get the red key on it. Now leave this room and go left, out the yellow door. Out here, go left, and then when you get to the "rectangular" hallway, go left, and when you get to the wall, go right, and open the door. In this room, open the red door to your right. Go inside, and hit the switch on the right. The switch will disappear, and hit the new one. Leave the red door, kill the Cacodemon, and take the bridge rising to the exit door. Open it, and hit the exit switch.
+===Secrets===
+# In the hall connecting the warehouse and the outdoor area in the east, climb the small staircase leading to a small control room. Follow another set of stairs down to a switch. Flip it to open a secret room behind you. ('''sector 250''')
+# In the corridor lined with hemi-cylindrical "vats" in the west, there's a narrow opening between two of the vats on the west wall that leads outside. ('''sector 284''')
+# At the north end of secret 2 is a switch on the wall. Flip it to open another secret area. ('''sector 301''')
+# In the room in the southwest with several small slime pools in alcoves. In one of these alcoves is a small tunnel leading to a rocket launcher and a teleporter. ('''sector 44''')
+# After getting the red keycard, go through the teleporter in secret 4. Open the red door and flip the switch behind it.  ('''sector 72''')
+# After flipping the switch in secret 5, as well as the switch behind the blue door, go all the way back to the starting room. A nook holding a soul sphere and a bulk cell will be accessible. ('''sector 294''')
+===Bugs===
+Two "hanging leg" decorations ([[Thing]]s 192 and 193) and an [[Energy cell (Doom)|energy cell]] (Thing 99) have no flags set for any of the [[Skill level#Doom and Doom II skill levels|difficulty classes]], so they do not actually appear in the level.
+In this level it is possible to trigger an example of the [[Tutti-frutti effect]].  Upon entering the crate room, a door closes behind the player.  The door consists of two sectors.  By blocking the second sector, it is possible for one sector to be closed while the other remains open.  A short texture which does not vertically tile is used for the linedef between the sectors: as a result, the tutti-frutti effect appears.
+All versions of this map have several [[linedef]]s with [[Linedef#Linedef flags|flag bits]] 9-15 set, which had no function.
+Linedef 1286 (just in front of the south side of the yellow door), lacks a lower texture causing a small [[Hall of mirrors effect|HOM effect]].
+A reject table blindspot causes the demon behind the blue key door to not see the player in front of the door. In total there are 27 known [[Blind spots in Doom reject tables#E2M7: Spawning Vats|anomalies]] in this level's [[REJECT|REJECT table]].
-===Secrets===
+While possibly intentional to create a puzzling, unwordly atmosphere, the southeast courtyard with the two small [[Damaging floor|nukage]] pools has two corpses hanging from the ceiling despite it being open sky.
-# In the hall connecting the warehouse and the outdoor area in the east, climb the small staircase leading to a small control room. Follow another set of stairs down to a switch. Flip it to open a secret room behind you.
-# In the corridor lined with hemi-cylindrical "vats" in the west, there's a narrow opening between two of the vats on the west wall that leads outside.
-# At the north end of secret 2 is a switch on the wall. Flip it to open another secret area.
-# In the room in the southwest with several small slime pools in alcoves. In one of these alcoves is a small tunnel leading to a rocket launcher and a teleporter.
-# After getting the red keycard, go through the teleporter in secret 4. Open the red door and flip the switch behind it.
-# After flipping the switch in secret 5, as well as the switch behind the blue door, go all the way back to the starting room. A nook holding a soul sphere and a bulk cell will be accessible.
-==Areas / screenshots==
+== Areas / screenshots ==
-<gallery>
+<gallery mode=nolines widths=160px>
-Image:E2M7 start.png|Starting room
+E2M7 start.png|Starting room
 </gallery>
-==Bugs==
+== Speedrunning ==
-* Two "hanging leg" decorations ([[Thing]]s 192 and 193) and an [[energy cell]] (Thing 99) have no flags set for any of the [[Skill level#Doom skill levels|difficulty classes]], so they do not actually appear in the level.
-*In this level it is possible to trigger an example of the [[Tutti-frutti effect]].  Upon entering the crate room, a door closes behind the player.  The door consists of two sectors.  By blocking the second sector, it is possible for one sector to be closed while the other remains open.  A short texture which does not vertically tile is used for the linedef between the sectors: as a result, the tutti-frutti effect appears.
-*Early versions of this map had several [[linedef]]s with [[Linedef#Linedef_Flags|flag bits]] 9-15 set (which apparently had no function).
-*In the southeast courtyard with the two small [[nukage]] pools, two corpses hang from the ceiling despite it being open sky.
-*Linedef 1286 (just in front of the south side of the yellow door), lacks a lower texture causing a small hom.
-* A [[Blind spots in Doom reject tables|Reject table blindspot]] causes the demon behind the blue key door to not see the player in front of the door.
-==Speedrunning==
 ===Routes and tricks===
-===Records===
+===Current records===
+The [[Compet-n]] records for the map are:
-The [[Compet-N]] records for the map are:
 {| {{prettytable}}
-!Run||Time||Player||Date||File||Notes
+! Run !! Time !! Player !! Date !! File !! Notes
 |-
-|[[UV speed]]||00:17||[[Marijo "Sedlo" Sedlic]]||2003-01-19||{{competnftp|doom/speed/e2m7-017.zip|e2m7-017.zip}}||
+|[[UV speed]]||00:15||[[Drew DeVore (stx-Vile)]]||2005-04-22||{{competnftp|doom/speed/e2m7-015.zip|e2m7-015.zip}}||
 |-
-|[[NM speed]]||00:21||[[Jonathan Rimmer]]||2000-05-01||{{competnftp|doom/nmare/n2m7-021.zip|n2m7-021.zip}}||
+|[[NM speed]]||00:17||[[Drew DeVore (stx-Vile)]]||2005-04-21||{{competnftp|doom/nmare/n2m7-017.zip|n2m7-017.zip}}||
 |-
 |[[UV max]]||03:44||[[Radek Pecka]]||2002-09-27||{{competnftp|doom/max/e2m7-344.zip|e2m7-344.zip}}||
 |-
 |[[NM100S]]||02:24||[[Radek Pecka]]||2002-09-26||{{competnftp|doom/nm100s/n2s7-224.zip|n2s7-224.zip}}||
 |-
 |[[UV -fast]]||04:12||[[Radek Pecka]]||2002-03-24||{{competnftp|doom/fast/f2m7-412.zip|f2m7-412.zip}}||
 |-
 |[[UV -respawn]]||03:36||[[Radek Pecka]]||2000-11-14||{{competnftp|doom/respawn/r2m7-336.zip|r2m7-336.zip}}||
 |-
 |[[UV Tyson]]||03:51||[[Radek Pecka]]||2004-01-30||{{competnftp|doom/tyson/t2m7-351.zip|t2m7-351.zip}}||
 |-
 |[[UV pacifist]]||00:19||[[Jonathan Rimmer]]||2001-11-10||{{competnftp|doom/pacifist/p2m7-019.zip|p2m7-019.zip}}||
 |}
-==Statistics==
+''The data was last verified in its entirety on July 6, 2020.''
+== Deathmatch ==
+===Player spawns===
+This level contains five spawn points:
+# facing south. ('''thing 219''')
+# facing west. ('''thing 220''')
+# facing west. ('''thing 221''')
+# facing south-east. ('''thing 222''')
+# facing south. ('''thing 223''')
+== Statistics ==
 ===Map data===
-{| {{prettytable}}
+{{mapdata|
-|[[Things]]||235
+  things=235|
+  vertexes=1626|
+  linedefs=1764|
+  sidedefs=2252|
+  sectors=323|
+  vertexbefore=1451}}
+===Things===
+This level contains the following numbers of [[thing]]s per [[Skill level#Doom and Doom II skill levels|skill level]]:
+{{col-begin}}
+{{col-break|width=33%}}
+{| {{prettytable|style=text-align: center;}}
+!colspan="4"|Single-player
+|-
+![[Monster|Monsters]]!!1-2!!3!!4-5
+|-
+|style="text-align: left;"|[[Shotgun guy]]||3||4||4
+|-
+|style="text-align: left;"|[[Imp]]||40||41||46
+|-
+|style="text-align: left;"|[[Demon]]||18||26||33
+|-
+|style="text-align: left;"|[[Spectre]]||0||1||5
+|-
+|style="text-align: left;"|[[Cacodemon]]||2||5||5
+|-
+|style="text-align: left;"|[[Baron of Hell]]||1||1||2
+|-
+![[Weapon|Weapons]]!!1-2!!3!!4-5
+|-
+|style="text-align: left;"|[[Chainsaw]]||colspan="3"|1
+|-
+|style="text-align: left;"|[[Chaingun]]||colspan="3"|1
+|-
+|style="text-align: left;"|[[Rocket launcher]]||colspan="3"|1
+|-
+|style="text-align: left;"|[[Plasma gun]]||colspan="3"|1
+|-
+![[Ammo|Ammunition]]!!1-2!!3!!4-5
+|-
+|style="text-align: left;"|[[Clip]]||colspan="3"|16
+|-
+|style="text-align: left;"|[[Box of bullets]]||colspan="3"|3
+|-
+|style="text-align: left;"|[[4 shotgun shells]]||colspan="3"|6
+|-
+|style="text-align: left;"|[[Box of shotgun shells]]||colspan="3"|6
+|-
+|style="text-align: left;"|[[Rocket]]||colspan="3"|2
+|-
+|style="text-align: left;"|[[Energy cell (Doom)|Energy cell]]||colspan="3"|3
+|-
+|style="text-align: left;"|[[Energy cell pack]]||colspan="3"|2
+|-
+![[Item#Doom games|Health & Armor]]!!1-2!!3!!4-5
+|-
+|style="text-align: left;"|[[Stimpack]]||colspan="3"|16
+|-
+|style="text-align: left;"|[[Medikit]]||colspan="3"|5
+|-
+|style="text-align: left;"|[[Armor]]||colspan="3"|1
+|-
+|style="text-align: left;"|[[Megaarmor]]||colspan="3"|1
+|-
+!Items!!1-2!!3!!4-5
+|-
+|style="text-align: left;"|[[Armor bonus]]||colspan="3"|12
+|-
+|style="text-align: left;"|[[Health bonus]]||colspan="3"|9
+|-
+|style="text-align: left;"|[[Supercharge]]||colspan="3"|1
+|-
+|style="text-align: left;"|[[Backpack]]||colspan="3"|1
+|-
+|style="text-align: left;"|[[Berserk]]||colspan="3"|1
+|-
+|style="text-align: left;"|[[Computer area map]]||colspan="3"|1
+|-
+|style="text-align: left;"|[[Invulnerability]]||colspan="3"|2
+|-
+|style="text-align: left;"|[[Partial invisibility]]||colspan="3"|1
+|-
+![[Key|Keys]]!!1-2!!3!!4-5
+|-
+|style="text-align: left;"|Blue keycard||colspan="3"|1
+|-
+|style="text-align: left;"|Red keycard||colspan="3"|1
 |-
-|[[Vertices]]||1626
+|style="text-align: left;"|Yellow keycard||colspan="3"|1
 |-
-|[[Linedefs]]||1764
+!Miscellaneous!!1-2!!3!!4-5
 |-
-|[[Sidedefs]]||2252
+|style="text-align: left;"|[[Barrel|Exploding barrel]]||colspan="3"|1
 |-
-|[[Sectors]]||323
+|style="text-align: left;"|[[Teleporter|Teleport landing]]||colspan="3"|2
 |}
+{{col-break}}
-===Things===
+{| {{prettytable|style=text-align: center;}}
-{| {{prettytable}}
+!colspan="4"|Multiplayer
-!Monsters||[[I'm Too Young To Die|ITYTD]] and [[Hey, Not Too Rough|HNTR]]||[[Hurt Me Plenty|HMP]]||[[Ultra-Violence|UV]] and [[Nightmare!|NM]]
+|-
+!Monsters!!1-2!!3!!4-5
+|-
+|style="text-align: left;"|Shotgun guy||3||4||4
+|-
+|style="text-align: left;"|Imp||40||41||46
+|-
+|style="text-align: left;"|Demon||18||26||33
+|-
+|style="text-align: left;"|Spectre||0||1||5
+|-
+|style="text-align: left;"|Cacodemon||2||5||5
+|-
+|style="text-align: left;"|Baron of Hell||1||1||2
 |-
-|[[Sergeant]]s||3||4||4
+!Weapons!!1-2!!3!!4-5
 |-
-|[[Spectre]]s||0||1||5
+|style="text-align: left;"|Chainsaw||colspan="3"|1
 |-
-|[[Imp]]s||40||41||46
+|style="text-align: left;"|[[Shotgun]]||colspan="3"|1
 |-
-|[[Demon]]s||18||26||33
+|style="text-align: left;"|Chaingun||colspan="3"|1
 |-
-|[[Baron of Hell|Barons of Hell]]||1||1||2
+|style="text-align: left;"|Rocket launcher||colspan="3"|2
 |-
-|[[Cacodemon]]s||2||5||5
+|style="text-align: left;"|Plasma gun||colspan="3"|2
 |-
-!Powerups||ITYTD and HNTR||HMP||UV and NM
+!Ammunition!!1-2!!3!!4-5
 |-
-|[[Backpack]]s||1||1||1
+|style="text-align: left;"|Clip||colspan="3"|16
 |-
-|[[Stim pack]]s||16||16||16
+|style="text-align: left;"|Box of bullets||colspan="3"|3
 |-
-|[[Medikit]]s||5||5||5
+|style="text-align: left;"|4 shotgun shells||colspan="3"|6
 |-
-|[[Soul sphere]]s||1||1||1
+|style="text-align: left;"|Box of shotgun shells||colspan="3"|6
 |-
-|[[Health bonus]]es||9||9||9
+|style="text-align: left;"|Rocket||colspan="3"|2
 |-
-|[[Armor bonus]]es||12||12||12
+|style="text-align: left;"|Energy cell||colspan="3"|3
 |-
-|[[Green armor]]s||1||1||1
+|style="text-align: left;"|Energy cell pack||colspan="3"|2
 |-
-|[[Blue armor]]s||1||1||1
+!Health & Armor!!1-2!!3!!4-5
 |-
-|[[Invulnerability|Invulnerabilities]]||2||2||2
+|style="text-align: left;"|Stimpack||colspan="3"|16
 |-
-|[[Berserk]]s||1||1||1
+|style="text-align: left;"|Medikit||colspan="3"|5
 |-
-|[[Partial invisibility|Invisibilities]]||1||1||1
+|style="text-align: left;"|Armor||colspan="3"|1
 |-
-|[[Automap]]s||1||1||1
+|style="text-align: left;"|Megaarmor||colspan="3"|1
 |-
-!Weapons||ITYTD and HNTR||HMP||UV and NM
+!Items!!1-2!!3!!4-5
 |-
-|[[Chaingun]]s||1||1||1
+|style="text-align: left;"|Armor bonus||colspan="3"|12
 |-
-|[[Rocket launcher]]s||1||1||1
+|style="text-align: left;"|Health bonus||colspan="3"|9
 |-
-|[[Plasma gun]]s||1||1||1
+|style="text-align: left;"|Supercharge||colspan="3"|1
 |-
-|[[Chainsaw]]s||1||1||1
+|style="text-align: left;"|Backpack||colspan="3"|1
 |-
-!Ammunition||ITYTD and HNTR||HMP||UV and NM
+|style="text-align: left;"|Berserk||colspan="3"|1
 |-
-|[[Bulk Cell]]s||2||2||2
+|style="text-align: left;"|Computer area map||colspan="3"|1
 |-
-|[[Ammo clip]]s||16||16||16
+|style="text-align: left;"|Invulnerability||colspan="3"|2
 |-
-|[[Shell]]s||6||6||6
+|style="text-align: left;"|Partial invisibility||colspan="3"|1
 |-
-|[[Rocket]]s||2||2||2
+!Keys!!1-2!!3!!4-5
 |-
-|[[Energy cell]]s||3||3||3
+|style="text-align: left;"|Blue keycard||colspan="3"|1
 |-
-|[[Box of ammo|Ammo boxes]]||3||3||3
+|style="text-align: left;"|Red keycard||colspan="3"|1
 |-
-|[[Box of shells|Shell boxes]]||6||6||6
+|style="text-align: left;"|Yellow keycard||colspan="3"|1
 |-
-!Keys||ITYTD and HNTR||HMP||UV and NM
+!Miscellaneous!!1-2!!3!!4-5
 |-
-|[[Blue card]]s||1||1||1
+|style="text-align: left;"|[[Multiplayer#Cooperative|Cooperative start]]||colspan="3"|4
 |-
-|[[Yellow card]]s||1||1||1
+|style="text-align: left;"|[[Deathmatch start]]||colspan="3"|5
 |-
-|[[Red card]]s||1||1||1
+|style="text-align: left;"|Exploding barrel||colspan="3"|1
 |-
+|style="text-align: left;"|Teleport landing||colspan="3"|2
 |}
+{{col-end}}
+== Inspiration and development ==
+E2M7 was the first level started for Doom, and early versions appear as E1M1 of [[Doom 0.3]], E1M1 of [[Doom 0.4]], and E1M11 of [[Doom 0.5]]. Originally conceived to be the Hangar 2 building described in the [[Doom Bible]], the starting room in the alpha versions of Doom takes the form of a control room where marines gather to play cards. Doom 0.3 features the setting described originally with the marines playing cards on top of a crate, but alphas 0.4 and 0.5 change this to a control desk. This starting room would eventually become home to a single [[cacodemon]] in the released version, and the player's starting point would be moved to a room with columns that originally had no particular purpose.
+The room that in the released version contains the [[Key|blue keycard]] was originally the hangar bay area, with alphas 0.3 and 0.4 having the characteristic "number two" signs on the floor that the Doom Bible describes. Doom 0.5 changed the numbered flats to a generic [[UAC]] insignia.
+The warehouse room originally featured an exit that was meant to connect to [[E2M2: Containment Area (Doom)|Supply Depot 2]], but it was removed in the released version, and instead, a new exit was added south of the map.
+=== Gallery ===
+==== Level map ====
+<gallery mode=nolines widths=160px>
+Doom v0.3 e1m1.png|E1M1 in Doom 0.3
+Doom 0.4 e1m1.png|E1M1 in Doom 0.4
+Doom 0.5 e1m11.png|E1M11 in Doom 0.5
+E2M7 map.png|E2M7 in the released version
+</gallery>
+==== Cards room ====
+<gallery mode=nolines widths=160px>
+A3 E1M1 card room.png|Doom 0.3
+A4 E1M1 card room.png|Doom 0.4
+A5 E1M11 card room.png|Doom 0.5
+E2M7 card room.png|Released version
+</gallery>
+==== Silver structure room ====
+<gallery mode=nolines widths=160px>
+A3 E1M1 silver room.png|Doom 0.3
+A4 E1M1 silver room.png|Doom 0.4
+A5 E1M11 silver room.png|Doom 0.5
+E2M7 silver room.png|Released version
+</gallery>
+==== Column room ====
+<gallery mode=nolines widths=160px>
+A3 E1M1 column room.png|Doom 0.3
+A4 E1M1 column room.png|Doom 0.4
+A5 E1M11 column room.png|Doom 0.5
+E2M7 start room.png|Released version
+</gallery>
+==== Warehouse ====
+<gallery mode=nolines widths=160px>
+A3 E1M1 warehouse.png|Doom 0.3
+A4 E1M1 warehouse.png|Doom 0.4
+A5 E1M11 warehouse.png|Doom 0.5
+E2M7 warehouse.png|Released version
+</gallery>
+==== Hangar bay ====
+<gallery mode=nolines widths=160px>
+A3 E1M1 hangar bay.png|Doom 0.3
+A4 E1M1 hangar bay.png|Doom 0.4
+A5 E1M11 hangar bay.png|Doom 0.5
+E2M7 blue key room.png|Released version
+</gallery>
 == Trivia ==
+* Spawning Vats is the next-to-last level in the [[Sega 32X]] version of Doom.
+* This level contains one of the rare instances in official Doom levels of a non-animated [[damaging floor]], a row of blue lights in a trench.
+* The [[PlayStation]] and [[Sega Saturn]] version of Spawning Vats contains a secret exit to [[E2M9: Fortress of Mystery]] .
+* {{French level name|Cuves de reproduction}}
-*Spawning Vats is the final level for the [[Sega_32X|32X]] version of [[Doom]].
+== External links ==
-*Spawning Vats contains one of the rare instances in official Doom levels of a non-animated [[damaging floor]], a row of blue lights in a trench.
+* {{competnmap|1|128|E2M7}}
-*Spawning Vats was originally designed to be a hangar, as the alpha versions of the map are based on the "Hangar 2" area in the [[Doom Bible]].
+* {{dsda|id=947|mapid=127|title=E2M7 demos}}
+* [http://ian-albert.com/games/doom_maps/ Top-down perspective view of all Doom levels] by Ian Albert
-==External links==
-* [http://www.doom2.net/~compet-n/database/cn.cgi?map:udoom:27 E2M7 demos from the Compet-n database]
-* [http://ian-albert.com/misc/doommaps.php Top-down perspective view of all Doom levels] by Ian Albert
-[[Category:Levels by name|Spawning Vats (Doom)]]
 [[Category:Sandy Petersen levels]]
 [[Category:Tom Hall levels]]
+[[Category:Levels with extra equipment in co-op]]