how to go about making a mock dungeon

Hey guys. I am trying to make a 4x4 (16 room) cave for a mock rpg I am making. What would be the best way to work out the travel mechanism. I am surely going to make every room its own class. I could do it by making a whole bunch of if else statments (if selection.equals("north") run room A3 etc.) I was just wondering if there is a better way to go about doing this. Thanks

No. Don't make every room into a new class. This is not going to scale. Instead, you should think about a way to describe a room in some data format, and then use the description when you create a new instance of the Room class.

Part of this description could be which other room a room passes into in a certain direction. You can make an enum Direction which contains constants like NORTH, EAST, etc. The Room class could have a method that takes a Direction and returns an adjacent Room.

thanks stephan. this was great advice and set me in the right direction

I'm glad it helped. Let me know how the project turns out.