MAP15: Ash Mill (Legacy of Rust)

Legacy of Rust maps
The Vulcan Abyss MAP01: Scar Gate MAP02: Sanguine Wastes MAP03: Spirit Drains MAP04: Descending Inferno MAP05: Creeping Hate MAP06: The Coiled City MAP07: Forfeited Salvation MAP15: Ash Mill (secret map)
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This level occupies the map slot MAP15. For other maps which occupy this slot, see Category:MAP15.

MAP15: Ash Mill is the secret level in episode The Vulcan Abyss of Legacy of Rust. It is accessed from MAP02: Sanguine Wastes and leads back to MAP03: Spirit Drains. It was designed by Xaser Acheron and uses the music track "Opening To Hell" by Robert Prince, from Doom II, making it the only map in Legacy of Rust not to use an original composition.

Walkthrough

Map of Ash Mill

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

Head straight forward through the blood to the rocks ahead and climb them to reach the windmill, then go through the entrance door to see two more doors ahead. Open the northern door and go to the shotgun in the next room, then follow the trail of blood around the sawmill until it leads you to the red skull key. Go back to the entrance room, killing a shocktrooper that has been released on the way, then open the red door at the entrance and go down the steps behind it to enter a forest; the large tree trunks in this area will fall down if you shoot them. At the bottom of the steps, kill one to three more shocktroopers that are released from the wall ahead, then head west through the trunks until you see a blood pool containing an incinerator. Take the weapon to open the surrounding doors, kill any shocktroopers waiting behind them, then go through the portal behind the south-east door to end the level; going through any of the other portals will send you to a hallway with crushers.

Secrets

1. From the start, head south past the rock formation, then go east and north to find a chainsaw. (sector 500)
2. After going through the red door, go to the bottom of the steps then head east past a pillar with black strips, going through the trees to find a berserk pack. (sector 422)

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 August 11, 2024.

Statistics

Map data

Things	260
Vertices	3688*
Linedefs	3363
Sidedefs	5829
Sectors	501

* The vertex count without the effect of node building is 2785.

Things

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

Single-player
Monsters	1-2	3	4-5
Shocktrooper	3	7	12
Weapons	1-2	3	4-5
Chainsaw	1
Shotgun	1
Incinerator	1
Ammunition	1-2	3	4-5
4 shotgun shells	4
Fuel can	4
Health & Armor	1-2	3	4-5
Stimpack	14
Medikit	2
Armor	2	2	1
Items	1-2	3	4-5
Health bonus	20
Supercharge	1	0	0
Berserk	1
Keys	1-2	3	4-5
Red skull key	1
Miscellaneous	1-2	3	4-5
Teleport landing	2

Multiplayer
Monsters	1-2	3	4-5
Shocktrooper	3	7	12
Weapons	1-2	3	4-5
Chainsaw	1
Shotgun	1
Incinerator	1
Ammunition	1-2	3	4-5
4 shotgun shells	4
Fuel can	4
Health & Armor	1-2	3	4-5
Stimpack	14
Medikit	2
Armor	2	2	1
Items	1-2	3	4-5
Health bonus	20
Supercharge	1	0	0
Berserk	1
Keys	1-2	3	4-5
Red skull key	1
Miscellaneous	1-2	3	4-5
Cooperative start	4
Teleport landing	2

Trivia

• The level is a reference to the 1992 film Army of Darkness, specifically the scene where the main protagonist, Ash Williams, confronts a doppelganger of himself in an abandoned mill.