E2M6: The Labyrinth (Heretic + Hexen)
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| Heretic re-release maps |
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| The City of the Damned |
| The Dome of D'Sparil |
| The Ossuary |
| The Stagnant Demesne |
| Fate's Path (deathmatch only levels) |
| This level has an original version |
E2M6: The Labyrinth is the sixth map of the Hell's Maw episode in the enhanced Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders re-release, included with Heretic + Hexen. It uses the music track "Onyx" by Kevin Schilder.
Contents
Walkthrough[edit]
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Essentials[edit]
Open the door in front of you and kill any gargoyles and weredragons waiting outside, then follow the ice path north between two lava pools to reach the entrance to the labyrinth room. Destroy any sabreclaws waiting outside the labyrinth along with some more gargoyles inside it, then go into the labyrinth through any of its entrances and follow the path to the center to get the yellow key. Exit the labyrinth and go to the north-east corner of the room to find a yellow door.
Open the yellow door and kill any gargoyles waiting behind it, then proceed west or north through another door to get on to a walkway which runs around a large ice pit containing more gargoyles as well as sabreclaws. Step over any of the low walls around the catwalk to drop into the pit, then go to the large tree near the center and blow up the pods on the east side of the trunk to clear your path to a door. Open the door to find the green key being guarded by another sabreclaw, then enter the neighboring teleporter to land on a dragon claw next to the yellow key door, then go back through that door to return to the labyrinth room. Go to the south-west corner of the room to find a green door.
Go through the green door and turn right to see a path with one or more approaching weredragons, then follow that path until you see an opening in the wall on your left leading to a Tome of Power. Go down the south staircase and follow the hallway east and north past some gargoyles until you reach a wide door in the west wall, then open it to fire more gargoyles guarding the blue key. Return to the labyrinth room and go to the south-east corner to find a blue door, open it to face some golems and nitrogolems, then go to the north end of the room to find one or two disciples of D'Sparil guarding a switch. Press the switch to open the stained-glass window in the east wall and reveal an iron lich, then go past it to enter a maze of columns. Take the mystic urn behind the lich to open the column to your right and collect the phoenix rod just behind it, then go north to a brightly-lit square on the floor to open a third column behind you. Step on another brightly-lit square in the center of the maze to open a path to the exit door at the north end of the room, then press the switch behind the door to open the exit teleporter behind you.
Other points of interest[edit]
A firemace can be found in the south-east corner of the labyrinth.
After getting the blue key, head east through a door then look north to see that a wall has lowered revealing a second door to the east. Go up the steps, which hold stacks of mace spheres and a pile of mace spheres (two of the stacks are replaced with flame orbs on smite-meister skill level or higher), to reach a hallway with a map scroll.
Secrets[edit]
- Go through the north-west door to the labyrinth chamber then step east on to the ice. You will hear a mural open behind you—step through it before it shuts to find Gauntlets of the Necromancer. (sector 242)
- Open the mural with the chained man on the east wall of the labyrinth room to find a Morph Ovum and a silver shield. (sector 151)
- As you walk through the yellow key door you will hear a mural open behind you. Step through it before it shuts to get a Bag of Holding. (sector 233)
- As you walk through the green key door you will hear a mural open behind you. Step through it before it shuts to get a Tome of Power. (sector 37)
- Enter the teleporter next to the blue key to go to the neighboring chamber with weredragons and a hellstaff, then open the gray and orange wall behind the hellstaff to get out. Return to the green door and go south to see that a doorway has opened in the west wall, leading to a tunnel with three crystal vials (two on bringest them oneth or higher), two mace spheres, and a pile of mace spheres (or flame orb on smite-meister or higher). (sector 416) A second cavern to the north holds a flame orb and an enchanted shield.
- In secret #5, walk into the west wall which is slightly brighter than the surrounding walls. The wall will open to reveal one or two disciples guarding a phoenix rod. (sector 30)
- As you walk through the blue key door you will hear a mural open behind you. Step through it before it shuts to get a Ring of Invincibility. (sector 65)
Bugs[edit]
Demo files[edit]
Comparison of versions[edit]
Room design[edit]
- Additional sectors were added throughout the map to create more realistic lighting.
- An ice wall was placed in front of the north-west entrance to the labyrinth room, which melts away as the player approaches it.
- Roots were added to the wooden column with the green key, making it look more like a tree.
- The exit room was changed to a maze of columns.
Texture changes[edit]
- The ice path near the start is bordered by icy castle walls.
- Chain murals (CHAINED1 and CHAINED2) were added to the labyrinth room.
- Orange and gray triangle walls (TRISTON3 and TRISTON4) were added at the entrance to the green key area, and in the blue key room.
- The walls around the green key area were changed to moss.
- The large stone platform above the green key was changed to a moss texture, making it look more like a tree.
- Two missing upper textures above the Tome of Power in the blue key area (sidedefs 1099 and 1121) were fixed.
- A missing upper texture behind the blue door (linedef 238) was fixed.
- The rooms behind the blue door were changed to ice floors.
- The penultimate room uses cracked sandstone walls instead of orange triangles.
Thing placement[edit]
- Three of the firemaces in this level were changed to only appear in multiplayer. The firemace inside the labyrinth, which will always appear, was not changed.
- A chandelier was added to the starting room.
- A second wall torch was added to the chamber south-east of the blue key.
- A torch was added to the corridor north-east of the blue key.
- Two wall torches were added in secret #5.
- The serpent torches in the penultimate room were replaced with two chandeliers.
- Comparison of maps
E2M6 (original)
E2M6 (Heretic + Hexen)
Areas / screenshots[edit]
Speedrunning[edit]
Routes and tricks[edit]
Current records[edit]
The records for the map at the Doom Speed Demo Archive are:
| Run | Time | Player | Date | File | Notes |
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The (absence of) data was last verified in its entirety on August 10, 2025.
Deathmatch[edit]
Player spawns[edit]
This level contains four spawn points:
- facing east. (thing 4)
- facing north. (thing 5)
- facing west. (thing 6)
- facing south-west. (thing 19)
Statistics[edit]
Map data[edit]
| Things | 507 |
| Vertices | 1962* |
| Linedefs | 2321 |
| Sidedefs | 3367 |
| Sectors | 502 |
Things[edit]
This level contains the following numbers of things per skill level:
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