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What is Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup? Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup is a popular, free roguelike game focusing on tactics, balance, variety and a lasting challenge. A roguelike is generally a turn-based RPG, with an emphasis on randomly generated worlds, a high depth of play, huge menageries of monsters, and some MacGuffin you have to dig up and escape with. Most roguelikes use ASCII characters for graphics, though an increasing number utilize graphical tiles, like Crawl. Roguelikes are usually very tough to beat, and death is often permanent: once you're dead, you're dead. Crawl is unique in its design philosophy, with a focus on eliminating a lot of the annoyances of the genre, while focusing on the strengths. Major design goals:
What's new in 0.15?
Screenshots! WebTiles (on CSZO): ASCII (again on CSZO): Android Tiles! (yes, there's an official Android tiles version now) How do I play Crawl? You can download the offline builds here. The offline versions of Crawl are available in ASCII and graphical tiles formats for Windows, Mac OS X, Debian/Ubuntu, and there is also a (new!) official Android Tiles port. The development builds (Android port is located here) can also be downloaded which allow you to play the most recent experimental beta releases and test out the new additions being considered for the next stable release. However, one of Crawl's biggest selling points is the ability to play online through various methods - read on! Why and how to play online If you use either an SSH client or the WebTiles interface, you can connect to one of the Crawl servers and play along with dozens of other people, or watch those who are playing. Here are some of the perks of online play:
Places to play Crawl online CAO: crawl.akrasiac.org - long-serving Crawl server located in Tucson, Arizona. Offers console and WebTiles. The website which tracks player wins and statistics is now back online at crawl.akrasiac.org/scoring CDO: crawl.develz.org - Germany-based server for the Europeans among us, supports console only. CSZO: crawl.s-z.org - Pennsylvania-based server, supports console and WebTiles as well as cross-interface spectating and chat. The most popular server among online players at present. CLAN: European (German) server - MAINTAINED BY GOON TZer0 (Give him props, he rules.) If you play online, you can see information about your games at http://crawl.akrasiac.org/scoring/players/<yourname>.html - e.g. http://crawl.akrasiac.org/scoring/players/zermako.html . It's neat! There are a couple of new servers! CBRO: crawl.beRotato.org Georgia, US. CKR: kr.dobrazupa.org Korea. Webtiles-only. This game is very hard. Where can I get help? In keeping with roguelike tradition, Crawl is indeed an excruciatingly difficult game at times. Fortunately, there are many resources available to assist you (some considerably more reliable than others!): ##crawl - the official Dungeon Crawl IRC channel. Has a pair of bots (Sequell and Cheiabrios) that can be queried for up-to-date info on monsters & other crawl info. ##gooncrawl - the SA Crawl IRC channel. LearnDB - a searchable repository of Crawl lore. Almost always up to date & accurate, but sometimes its terseness does it no favors. The Tavern - the official Dungeon Crawl forum. Not a very good place to go for help, but still better than... Beyond learning the basic mechanics of the game, probably the best way to improve is to talk about and play the game online. Online play allows other people to give you pointers on mistakes you may be making without realising, and there are usually friendly goons around in IRC who will be happy to advise you. You can also check out the LP thread, which has writeups of completed games (won & lost) to learn from. Threads from previous versions Crawl 0.14: You feel energized by your suffering! Crawl 0.13: FoIE GrAs: You are engorged. Crawl 0.12 Erolcha banished me and gave me apocalypse crabs Crawl 0.11 Eight legs and it's not an Octopode: Welcome to Spider Crawl 0.10: Your tentacles turn into razor-sharp scythe blades Crawl 0.9: A meow rips itself from your throat Crawl 0.8: Mennas II Society Crawl 0.7: The Dying Game Crawl 0.6: Slouching towards The Abyss Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup 0.5.0: Now with less Oklob! Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup 0.4.0 Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup 0.3.0 PleasingFungus fucked around with this message at 05:25 on Sep 29, 2014 |
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We hardly had time to come up with dumb thread names at all!
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# ? Aug 28, 2014 05:43 |
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What the hell circumstance results in that message? Is that just something pan lords can generate with?
cheetah7071 fucked around with this message at 05:48 on Aug 28, 2014 |
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Reposting from the last thread because I'm vain and want to share Xom joy;quote:Xom thought this was hilarious! By the way, whoever decided that Ancient Liches should be able to spawn in Tomb is a huge jerk. cheetah7071 posted:What the hell circumstance results in that message? Is that just somethign pan lord can generate with? I think its from the torpor snail description. VVV Though despite having poisonous corpses, they are not immune to poison. So feel free to stick them full of needles. Internet Kraken fucked around with this message at 05:55 on Aug 28, 2014 |
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I want everyone to know that the worst thing about death yaks is that they have poison corpses so you can't even eat them after they've finished kicking the poo poo out of you unless you have rPois.
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# ? Aug 28, 2014 05:55 |
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kaschei posted:We hardly had time to come up with dumb thread names at all! It's hosed up as hell, and I apologize. I felt rushed by the early release! (Arguably this makes no sense.) Internet Kraken posted:I think its from the torpor snail description. Yep!
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# ? Aug 28, 2014 05:55 |
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Alright, so! I've been doing decent with this character so far, and I'd like to know what I should be doing better. Skills I should be training (currently I'm doing Conjurations and Evocations), spells I should be memorizing or forgetting, items I should dump, etc. (I also left a Young Poisoner's Handbook, Book of Ice, Maledictions, and Burglary lying around, to give an idea of of what spells're available to me. Plus there're a book of Air, Hindrances, Warp, and Grand Grimorie I can save for in the book store I found.) Also, where I should go next now that I've cleared Orc and Lair. ...Yeah, I've been whacking things with the long sword without any skill in Long Blades. I probably should stop that, even if most things were only tickling me. Also, contamination is bad, I guess, but its abilities just looked so good. I'll just have to eat it whenever I find a better weapon. And I'm kinda regeretting wear IDing that amulet of faith. When should I rip off the bandage and take it off? When I find a better amulet? Kaja Rainbow fucked around with this message at 06:12 on Aug 28, 2014 |
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Speaking of terrible names I need a better one for the abyss-lovers' tournament team, currently "Wish You Were Here." Other ideas of mine (and so probably bad): - Schadenfreude the Abyss - Abysmal Performers - Schadenfuck the Abyss - Lurking Horrors - Infinite Players of the Abyss - some other stuff I'll edit in and pretend was my idea to look cleverer and accuse other people of stealing
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# ? Aug 28, 2014 06:12 |
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Rollcall for my tournament team, Mutaholics Anonymous.code:
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(Tournament teams finalize mid-day Sept 6, hence the cutoff. The tournament itself starts tomorrow afternoon. )
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# ? Aug 28, 2014 06:13 |
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kaschei posted:Speaking of terrible names I need a better one for the abyss-lovers' tournament team, currently "Wish You Were Here." Other ideas of mine (and so probably bad): Infinite Players of the Abyss is the best of those. Abysmal Performers is runner-up
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# ? Aug 28, 2014 06:15 |
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kaschei posted:Speaking of terrible names I need a better one for the abyss-lovers' tournament team, currently "Wish You Were Here." Other ideas of mine (and so probably bad): Lucy in the sky with Distortion? MR checks you can't cash? (kashei?) The Ed Harris fan club? Jefferson Starspawn? Zyme of the Ancient Mariner?
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# ? Aug 28, 2014 06:32 |
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LP thread link in the OP is the first thread. The new thread is here.
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# ? Aug 28, 2014 06:34 |
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nucleicmaxid posted:Lucy in the sky with Distortion?
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Panic! at Nabisco posted:Louise/Psyche in the sky with Distortion Lucy is Lugonou's nickname.
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nucleicmaxid posted:Jefferson Starspawn? These pleased me more than they should have.
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# ? Aug 28, 2014 07:01 |
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UncertainKitten posted:LP thread link in the OP is the first thread. The new thread is here. Fixed, thanks!
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# ? Aug 28, 2014 07:09 |
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So since 0.14, I've been noticing a thing: I either have to really fight through the mid-game (a good thing) and squeak by and win maybe 30/70, or I just blaze through the midgame because I found some early enough bolt + OoD/weapon of killing everything/unreal ring of slaying and I just collect an almost certain win (probably not a good thing). I feel like since the change to 15 floor main dungeon from 27, it really feels like the power of those items and spells and circumstances that obliterate the mid-game are exaggerated a great deal. Maybe it's just because what I at least mentally classify as 'mid game' is significantly shorter now and it's not so much that they are being exaggerated, but more that the realize their potential much more rapidly inside a smaller window. Either way, I dunno if it's better or worse, but it does feel significantly different. The end result is that my win rate is actually almost completely unchanged, so take that for what it's worth.
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# ? Aug 28, 2014 07:23 |
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Should have gone with Crawl 0.15: Improving your Quality-of-Death Experience Oh well. Also hi, alive for my team. (Logic, Kekekela, we'll get the band back together for .16, I promise)
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# ? Aug 28, 2014 07:50 |
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As this Minotaur right here:code:
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World Famous W fucked around with this message at 07:57 on Aug 28, 2014 |
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Definitely hold on to the wand if you're not planning on getting spells castable. At the very least use a charge, but I would hold on to the wand until you found a duplicate...and possibly a scroll of recharging. If you've seen the wand it is half as likely for acquirement to give another.
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kaschei posted:Definitely hold on to the wand if you're not planning on getting spells castable. At the very least use a charge, but I would hold on to the wand until you found a duplicate...and possibly a scroll of recharging. If you've seen the wand it is half as likely for acquirement to give another. I will be wise and wait though. Really, really want to ascend again finally.
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# ? Aug 28, 2014 07:59 |
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I mean, I would totally redeem that for a MYSTERY BOX (ANYTHING could be in there!!), but I'm convinced that that is a poor trade on average.
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Nice duplicate amulet of Clarity Oh wait it was amulet of the Four Winds on a non-casting minotaur, along with {EV+6 Slay+5} ring? I guess technically you may have won this round of Trove Lottery. I hope you "learn your lesson" and dive the abyss at XL13 next time a D:9 trove asks for the abyssal rune.
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The secret to treasure troves is there is never anything good inside them.
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As you can probably guess, I lied. Rewards were alot of jewelery:code:
World Famous W fucked around with this message at 08:57 on Aug 28, 2014 |
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Miracon, in the last thread, posted:As of clearing Orc, I have 7 AC 22 EV and 21 SH, and I'm wearing an amulet of guardian spirit with 3 rings of magical power, one of which is the ring of Qazlal's Wrath {rF+ rC++ MP+9 Dex+1}. I'm looking forward to finding out what can monster can punch through through defenses and 103 HP + 53 MP. I found the answer, and it turns out it's loving nothing can! And somehow I got the high score for the whole octopode species out of it! http://dobrazupa.org/morgue/magicpoints/morgue-magicpoints-20140828-070222.txt code:
I'm still in shock that I didn't die on Vaults:5. Nothing quite like seeing the message "You block the orb of destruction." while at 16 HP next to an ancient lich.
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# ? Aug 28, 2014 08:38 |
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First thread made since I became an ascension-haver. Time to splat 100 casters because they are hard
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# ? Aug 28, 2014 09:16 |
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Speaking of Ever-Gnashing Radulae, being a cheibro + statue form + torpor snail has you moving 1 space every 4 auts or something.
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Haifisch posted:Rollcall for my tournament team, Mutaholics Anonymous. I'm here.
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Miracon posted:I found the answer, and it turns out it's loving nothing can! And somehow I got the high score for the whole octopode species out of it!
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# ? Aug 28, 2014 10:18 |
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i figured out why i wasn't showing up on my team list, fixed now
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# ? Aug 28, 2014 10:23 |
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Haifisch posted:Rollcall for my tournament team, Mutaholics Anonymous. Hey, I'm still alive and I will probably do real runs during the tournament instead of always going for 15-rune multiple-zig invocations-title affairs like a dork.
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World Famous Whore posted:As you can probably guess, I lied. Rewards were alot of jewelery: Four Winds and Megapig are pretty decent for your guy; I reckon you actually came out ahead with that trove.
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# ? Aug 28, 2014 11:06 |
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I went and read Haifisch's LP. Didn't risk the run with potions of mutation, but nevertheless: http://crawl.lantea.net/crawl/morgue/Starve/morgue-Starve-20140826-150416.txt code:
Regarding the tournament, I'd like to join a team here. Any free spots left in local teams?
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Since gods tend to join trunk after a tournament (to avoid distracting the players?), will this be the case with Ru?apple posted:Speaking of Ever-Gnashing Radulae, being a cheibro + statue form + torpor snail has you moving 1 space every 4 auts or something. ... that's faster than a centaur. I think you meant 40 AUT.
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TZer0 posted:Since gods tend to join trunk after a tournament (to avoid distracting the players?), will this be the case with Ru? d'oh, I figured whatever appears on "Time" in the top right are auts. But yeah, you get my point
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# ? Aug 28, 2014 12:48 |
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Anyone got space for one more? I don't have many wins.
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# ? Aug 28, 2014 13:11 |
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Man, I should get back into this game...So anyone have any advice on what characters are good for this new god? I'd like to give him a try, and I don't want to just make a minotaur fighter and slap on a god on top of him.
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Cactus posted:Anyone got space for one more? I don't have many wins. Seconding this. I've got some 3-runers under my belt, but that's about it. Badplayers team, anyone?
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Just made an Octopode Assassin and holy poo poo this rules. I ended up going with Ashenzari for no particular reason, but is there a better choice? I probably won't switch now, but I'll undoubtedly do something dumb and die so I wanna know what might be best for this race/class for when I try again.
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