The Plot tab covers four Plot Components that you can add or delete from an Adventure: AI Instructions, Story Summary, Plot Essentials, Author’s Note, and Third Person. These components are powerful tools that help guide the AI into generating coherent stories. Gameplay still works when Plot Components aren’t added, but you will have a more consistent experience utilizing these features.

AI Instructions AI Instructions can be used to tell the AI how to generate responses during your game. This text is included at the beginning of the context and gives the AI a list of directions that influence its behavior. You can use instructions to have the AI avoid certain topics or phrases, dictate the first, second, or third-person point of view, or control different aspects of your story. Learn more about using AI Instructions →

Story Summary

Story Summary works with the automatic feature ‘Auto Summarization’ in the Memory System, but you can also edit it yourself to add details that happened in your story, which the AI may have forgotten already. Just be aware that if you have the Auto Summarization feature on, it will update itself over time and possibly erase or change what you wrote.

Plot Essentials Plot Essentials can be used to increase the AI’s accuracy during gameplay. This text is sent to AI on every output to keep it informed about the most important aspects of your game. You should include details about unique and relevant parts of your player character and their immediate companions, the story’s setting, or any other overarching story points that aren’t always mentioned but are always relevant. Learn more about using Plot Essentials →

Author’s Note Author’s Note can be used to give the AI details about the story’s genre(s), your preferred writing style, or overall tone. This text is sent to the AI toward the end of every player input to keep it informed about how it should generate a response. Learn more about using Author’s Note →

Third Person Third Person perspective is primarily used for Multiplayer games where multiple characters are adding Do and Say inputs simultaneously. When this component is enabled, everyone in the Adventure will be prompted to enter a name for their character, and that name will be used for their Do and Say actions during gameplay.

Here is a short breakdown of each Plot Component, plus Story Cards (explained more below):

Information in AI Instructions, Memory, and Author’s Note will always be included in the context. Story Cards are added to the context when keywords are triggered. You can see how many tokens each element takes up through the Context Viewer.

What happened to Banned Words? The Banned Words feature has been deprecated. Many of you have noticed that the banned words system hasn’t worked well (due to issues with token conversion and logit bias not being supported on many modern models). We believe AI Instructions will be more effective at helping you guide the AI away from words and topics you wish to avoid. Read more about this change →

The Story Cards tab lets you add specific character information, locations, factions, or any other world-building information to individual cards that are used by the AI during gameplay to recall important story details when certain keywords are triggered.

When Story Card triggers are used during gameplay, the related entry text is also sent to the AI with the latest input to keep it informed about that aspect of your game. These are used to give the AI a lot of context about recurring characters, common locations, past events, or anything else pertaining to the Adventure’s world. Story Cards are really flexible, so play around with them to figure out how they can best benefit your game! Read more about using Story Cards → Story Cards are the latest version of World Info. Read more about this change →

The Details tab covers additional elements related to your current Adventure.

You can edit the cover image, Title, Description, Tags, Visibility (Private, Unlisted, or Published), and Rating under the Details tab. Story Card Import & Export can also be found here on desktop. Learn more about Story Card Management →

On Adventures, you will also see an option for Download Adventure , which lets you export a backup of your Adventure text as a .zip file.

The AI Models tab covers six areas: Story Generator, Memory System, Model Settings, Safety, Image Generator, and Testing & Feedback.

Story Generator Under Story Generator, you can use the dropdown to switch the AI model powering your gameplay. Each option has different characteristics, so selecting a different model will change AI outputs and affect your experience. Try them out to see which one works best for you! You can also choose a different Version of those models, if one is available. We will often have multiple variations of the same model available to players as we iterate and improve these engines.

Memory System

The memory system has a few areas within it, all to do with better keeping track of what happens in your story.

Context Length is a slider that decides how much of the story (and sometimes plot components) your AI Model actually gets to read. Most models have a certain cap, and others have more than others. Some models may allow you to spend credits for more context.

Auto Summarization automatically creates the Story Summary Plot Component if it does not exist, and fill it in with a summarized version of your story. It also updates itself as you play, so you don’t have to keep track of it yourself, though you may want to check in and make sure it’s focusing on the right things. You can influence it yourself with what you add in the Story Summary box! Learn more about Story Summary here →

The Memory Bank is a complex embedding system which automatically makes little ‘snapshot’ memories of events in your story, saves them to the bank, and then pulls them to be used in your story at relevant times. It’s somewhat like more dynamic Story Cards—but automatic. Your subscription tier determines how many memories you can keep saved per adventure. Learn more about Memory Bank here →

Model Settings

You can access Model Settings from this area to customize and control how AI responses are generated during gameplay. Learn more about Model Settings and how to tune them →

Safety AI Safety settings are available here as well, as well as in account settings above. This option is universal for your account, so changing this setting in-game will also update it under your Account Settings. Learn more about the AI Safety Settings →

Image Generator Under Image Generator, you can choose how pictures are generated through See mode in your stories. In this tab, you’ll be able to select the image model you wish to use, and will also be able to see how many credits it costs to use that model below. All players have access to SDXL for free, but premium players get access to more advanced, newer models. With this feature, you can create custom, one-of-a-kind images of your Adventures while you’re playing. Check it out →

Testing & Feedback

Raw Model Output allows you to see whole, unprocessed outputs from the model, but this may result in incomplete sentences and other issues. This was previously an Advanced Setting only available to premium players, but Raw Model Output can be helpful for debugging purposes, so we’ve relocated this option to a new area for all players to use. You can also find and toggle your Improve the AI setting under this area. Toggling this on means you’re opting in to experiments that aid us in evaluating the performance and quality of AI models and versions, which may involve assessing new models for AI Dungeon. Having Improve the AI on during gameplay also opts you in to our Dataset Publication. Beneath that is the Show Deprecated Models toggle. Whenever AIDungeon removes certain models from the site, which are usually older models that are no longer being used or don’t hold up in quality compared to newer models, there exists a short period of time where they are Deprecated before deletion. These models are hidden by default, but by enabling this toggle, you will be able to see and select them for use. The Context Warning toggle allows you to turn off the red ⚠️ error symbol that pops up whenever you are unable to fit all of your Plot Components in the context. For instance, if you only have 2000 tokens of context available, but the story cards that triggered are over 4000, it will only trigger a few of those cards, and give you the warning indicator that not all of them were used when generating. You can turn that off with this toggle if you find it annoying. You’ll also find Inspect Input here, which shows a popup with the last block of text that was sent to the AI. This includes Memory, Author’s Note, and any Story Cards that were triggered during the last action.

You can also see this menu by clicking on your most recent action and clicking the ‘View Context’ option. It will have to be a new output for this to work, otherwise the button will be greyed out.

The Appearance tab covers three areas: Theme, Accessibility, and Behavior options.

Theme Game screen themes are a great way to customize your AI Dungeon experience. There are several options to choose from under both Default and Styled. Dynamic is the Default experience theme. When the Colorful toggle is on, the background of your game screen will subtly change every Adventure by referencing colors from the content cover image and other images in your story. You can also toggle on High Contrast to modify on-screen colors and enhance readability for those with visual impairments, or anyone who wants a more contrasted game screen display. There are multiple Styled themes that completely change the look of your game screen: Orcish, Atlantis, S'mores, and Cyber (Blue or Green color options). Each one has a unique way of transforming your gameplay and creating a more immersive experience. Try them all out and let us know which one is your favorite! At the bottom of this area, you can also choose a Text Style between Print, Clean, or Hacker.

Accessibility If toggled on, Text Animation will animate new text as it appears during gameplay. If toggled off, new text won’t be animated. You can also adjust the Text Size in the game screen between Default, Large, or Larger from this area.

Behavior

Toggling on Sticky Turn Input keeps the Take a Turn input open in the game screen, even after a turn is completed. This option is not recommended for smaller screens with a software keyboard. Use the Compact Buttons toggle to hide the button labels in the game screen command row (Take a Turn, Continue, Retry, Erase) and reduce those options to their icons. This is useful and recommended for smaller screens.