Based on Dracula’s association with rats, Vlad’s Tower should have a horde of r monsters somewhere in it, and/or increase the spawn rate for r monsters.

Proposals to address the situation where all the candles needed for the invocation are guaranteed in Vlad’s Tower. The current situation removes frustration but many players feel that it’s trivialized, whereas the system in 3.4.3 was frustrating because it was a common occurrence to have to backtrack to the Mines for candles after forgetting they needed to be collected, or worse, having to wish for them because the game didn’t generate 7 of them.

• Make the Candelabrum come prefilled with 7 candles; this doesn’t address the trivialization concerns but does make it slightly less blatant.
• Put Izchak’s store on a bones-ineligible level and guarantee at least 7 candles in the shop.
• Rely on gnomes in the Mines being generated with candles, with a certain minimum amount of candles guaranteed.
• Candles generate randomly on the floor of Gehennom levels, zero or one stacks per level.
• Monsters in Gehennom sometimes generate with candles (though this would be difficult to tune and would not be as discoverable via object detection).
• Make bees occasionally drop beeswax, which you can craft into candles; or they just rarely drop wax candles, or wax candles appear in beehives.

Items that fall into the abyss beneath Vlad’s Tower disappear from the game, and go into a swapchest-like system where they can be shared between different games. Players in other games may find those items showing up somewhere randomly in a demon lord’s lair when it gets generated.

Create a procedural level generation algorithm for tower levels, particularly Vlad’s tower. Vlad’s tower should also be larger on the bottom than it is on the higher levels.

The top level of Vlad’s Tower is now an open level with Vlad and his throne, and the vampires and their chests are moved to lower floors.

A compass item, which when applied points up or down depending on where the stairs to Vlad’s Tower are. It spins around if you’re on the level itself or inside the tower.

Level sounds on every level with a branch stairs. For spoiled players, the main benefit of this is to help locate the stairs to Vlad’s Tower.