E4M12: The Hand of the Wicked (The Joy of Mapping 6)

The Joy of Mapping 6 maps
Ep.1: Tech Gone Bad M1 M2 M3 M4 M5 M6 M7 M8 M9 M10 M11 M12 M13 M14 M15 FINAL SCRT1 SCRT2
Ep.2: Anomaly Reborn M1 M2 M3 M4 M5 M6 M7 M8 M9 M10 M11 M12 M13 M14 M15 M16 FINAL SCRT1
Ep.3: Doom Is Eternal M1 M2 M3 M4 M5 M6 M7 M8 M9 M10 M11 M12 M13 M14 M15 M16 FINAL SCRT1
Ep.4: All That Remains E4M1: False Prophet E4M2: Misguided Directives E4M3: Fleshbrary E4M4: Antediluvian E4M5: Smite the Unholy E4M6: Far Away... E4M7: Slave to Sin E4M8: Misnomer E4M9: Pillar Waggle E4M10: Storming the Stronghold E4M11: Great Is Your Faithfulness E4M12: The Hand of the Wicked E4M13: Vengeance Upon Them E4M14: Violence Follows Violence E4FINAL: Corticide E4SCRT1: Sassafras E4SCRT2: Pure Hatred

This level occupies the map slot E4M12. For other maps which occupy this slot, see Category:E4M12.

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E4M12: The Hand of the Wicked is the twelfth map in the All That Remains episode of The Joy of Mapping 6: Joy Eternal. It was designed by Nirvana and uses the music track "The Rat Chamber" from Secret of Evermore, composed by Jeremy Soule and sequenced to MIDI by The Jade Emperor. The par time defined in MAPINFO is 6:30.

Walkthrough

Map of The Hand of the Wicked

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.

Secrets

1. Behind the starting point, the shotgun counts as a secret. (thing 556)
2. When you get to the east temple, head behind the big tree to the east to find a chaingun, a health bonus, a box of rockets, and an ammo clip. (sector 178)
3. The chaingun in Secret #2 counts as a secret. (thing 236)
4. In the east temple, head west from the plasma gun and jump to the candelabra. Touch it, then drop down and head northwest to get a berserk pack. (thing 86)
5. Drop down south from the yellow key to get a megaarmor. (thing 400)
6. A hanging torso at the northwest end of the main area counts as a secret, but there is no way to trigger this secret. (thing 559)

Speedrunning

Current records

The records for the map at the Doom Speed Demo Archive are:

Run	Time	Player	Date	File	Notes
UV speed
NM speed
UV max
NM 100S
UV -fast
UV -respawn
UV Tyson
UV pacifist

The (absence of) data was last verified in its entirety on February 27, 2023.

Statistics

Map data

Things	561
Vertices	4855
Linedefs	5283
Sidedefs	9435
Sectors	548

Things

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

Single-player
Monsters	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Zombieman	9
Shotgun guy	15	15	15	14	14	15	15	15
Imp	31	31	31	35	35	35	35	35
Lost soul	6
Demon	8	8	8	14	14	14	14	14
Spectre	3	3	3	5	5	5	5	5
Revenant	40	40	39	68	68	71	71	71
Cacodemon	2	2	3	6	6	6	6	6
Pain elemental	1	1	1	2	2	3	3	3
Hell knight	3
Baron of Hell	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2
Arachnotron	2	2	2	3	3	3	3	3
Mancubus	4	4	4	5	5	5	5	5
Arch-vile	1	1	2	8	8	8	8	8
Spiderdemon	1
Weapons	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Shotgun	1
Super shotgun	1
Chaingun	1
Rocket launcher	1
Plasma gun	1
BFG9000	1
Ammunition	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Clip	5
Box of bullets	2
4 shotgun shells	20	20	20	25	25	25	25	25
Box of shotgun shells	4
Rocket	14	14	14	15	15	17	17	17
Box of rockets	23
Energy cell	11	11	11	18	18	18	18	18
Energy cell pack	4
Health & Armor	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Stimpack	23	23	23	21	21	23	23	23
Medikit	12	12	12	14	14	14	14	14
Armor	2
Megaarmor	1
Items	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Armor bonus	6
Health bonus	1	1	1	7	7	7	7	7
Supercharge	1
Backpack	1
Berserk	1
Radiation shielding suit	5	5	5	4	4	5	5	5
Keys	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Blue skull key	1
Yellow skull key	1
Miscellaneous	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Teleport landing	7	7	7	8	8	8	8	8