Thanks to Gource it’s now possible to enjoy the history of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup’s source code in a nice and futuristic visualized way. Also available in 480p and up to 720p on YouTube! Or grab the original file as MP4 or MKV (572MB!).
Do you remember?
We have updated the Development Builds page to also host Mac OSX builds and we intent to keep them updated on a regular basis.
Enjoy! And please keep the suggestions and bug reports coming! :)
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup 0.6.0 has been finally released after 4 months of the most active development ever! The switch to git, the new wiki, the new bug-tracking system, this wordpress (350k hits last month!) seem to have attracted a lot of new players and developers. Only the constant stream of new ideas and permanent testing of new features made this shiny release possible! A big Thank You to all participants – players and developers!
The new files are available on our download page. There are binaries of Tiles & Console for Windows & Mac OSX and, of course, the source! If you are new to the game, head over to the preliminary screenshots section to decide. The release notes can be found here.
The online servers (CAO & CDO) are hosting 0.6.0 too now and CDO is back to also hosting early 0.7.0 versions (unreleased, unstable, may cause your computer to explode, etc, etc…).
And a special thanks to doy for handling and coordinating this fine release :)
Update #1: CAO is now hosting 0.6.0 games.
Update #2: SourceForge now has Mac OSX builds uploaded.
Update #3: CDO & Trunk builds updated.
We were quite surprised when the unexpected announcement for Dungeon Sprint showed up on our mailing list a few days ago! It got installed on CDO early and it was extremely well-received! It sends you off into the dungeon and the big show starts immediately – no waiting, no resting – immediate death or victory in an intriguing level map! But, let’s see what the author himself has to say about it:
“Dungeon Sprint” is a twist on Dungeon Crawl: only one dungeon level is generated, but it’s..
Players, who have joined us in ##crawl or ##crawl-dev on Freenode, already know there are two additional sources of information about Stone Soup available in IRC: Henzell & Gretell!
Our bots – willing to answer all kinds of questions you may have about monster, uniques, items, even about skills and branches and strategies.
All those gory details are now available via this website, too! Head over to the Knowledge Bots and check it out for yourself.
Note: During this weekend the queries should become considerably faster – after remote access to the great LearnDB has been simplified.
Update: LearnDB is now mirrored and parsing the entries is done locally. Much faster! Links in Henzell entries are now clickable. Colors have been slightly adjusted and screenshot of Sigmund added :) Enjoy!
Stone Soup’s speed of development has become really hard to keep up with.
I remember installing a new development version on CDO every week or two. Suddenly I’m being asked to update almost every day! Awesome! :-D
For that reason I have changed the way of installing. A new version will no longer overwrite data or save-games of an old one. This means your character will no longer be lost or broken when an update is done.
Even more: Every save-game has an internal version number. When you load your character and there is a newer version of Stone Soup installed, which can also handle your save-game, you will be presented with an option to move your character and enjoy the bug-fixes and new features!
As always – if you run into any trouble or if transferring your save-game fails, let me know. Cheers!
This vote ran for 7 days. Thank you for participating! I think it shows that the switch was generally well accepted and even appreciated :)
Was the switch to git worth it?
Total Voters: 40
Loading ...The dubious person that voted no was a random visitor.
He came, read one article, voted and was never seen again!
I have setup a new Bug Tracker System and integrated a Wiki into it:
http://crawl.develz.org/mantis/
The software used is called “Mantis” in Version 1.1.8.
Once you log in and your level is set by anyone from the admin group (currently jpeg, dpeg, evktalo or me) you automatically also have the appropriate access to the Wiki. Either follow the big Wiki link in the top bar, the link presented at every “Issue” or go here directly:
The software used is called “DokuWiki” in Version 2009-02-14b.
Anonymous read-only access is enabled for now.
Evktalo has started configuring the BTS and created a Wiki entry open for discussing the settings here.
Eronarn volunteered to structure the Wiki but wants to wait until all the decisions have been made.
I’d like to invite all of you to register and have a look and voice your opinions here or there, please :)
Important note:
We are still testing and adjusting these 2 pieces of software and haven’t decided yet.
So for the time being I suggest to stick to our bug tracker at Sourceforge.
More important note:
We have finished migrating from SourceForge to Mantis and DokuWiki!
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup 0.5.2 is out, with many bugfixes and better Mac OS X support. The source should also now build with ease on FreeBSD.
Disclaimer: These are merely the highlights, not an exhaustive list of changes.
* Fixed tiles crashes with certain resolutions.
* Fixed Mac build sometimes not finding the graphics files.
* Fixed NSLayoutManager crash with OSX.
* OSX executables no longer require installation of fink.
* DCSS now builds on FreeBSD straight out of the box.
* DCSS now uses git for version control.
More: Read the rest of this entry…
First of all, thank you to everyone who participated in this year’s Crawl Tournament, and special thanks to greensnark, Onia, and eredien for all of their help with tournament logistics and prizes. We had more than 700 players this year — edging up on NetHack tournament territory!
Our first place prize, a custom-skinned 9″ Asus eee netbook, goes to 78291, who scored over 4000 individual points in our tournament scoring system. Close behind him was mikee, with 3879; until an unfortunate drowning death near the end of the month, it was pretty much neck and neck. 78291 also scored the fastest real-time win (2:21:28), the top score (a 50K turn all-runer DDCK), the first victory of the tournament (a sub 3-hour SpCK of Lugonu), a decaying rune fetched at XL 8, the two wins with the fewest kills, and a streak of seven consecutive wins. Basically what we’re saying here is: Stabwound, watch out.
Stone Soup 0.5.1 has been released, fixing an abundance of bugs. The source code and Windows binaries are already available for download, but Mac and DOS might still take a while.
0.5 Highlights
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* New species and job: Deep Dwarf, Artificer.
* Removed three species: Gnome, Grey Elf, Ogre-Mage.
* Several cool new uniques and other monsters.
* Several great new portal vaults.
* Zombies and skeletons can no longer use stairs.
* Transformations meld equipment instead of removing it.
* Many spell ranges shortened.
* Much more useful monster descriptions.
* More convenient tiles version.
Yesterday a shiny new version of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup was released. Head over to the project website and grab your copy now!
0.4 Highlights
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* Many interface improvements.
* Greatly improved Tiles.
* Allow all sensible species/class combinations.
* Added Vampire species.
* Overhaul of the good gods.
* Smarter monsters.
Read about almost all changes here.
Today Keskitalo stepped up and has compiled Windows binaries of the upcoming release of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup v0.4. Head over to his website and grab your copy now:
Please report any bugs you run across. Visit the main project website for further info.
Thanks a lot, Keskitalo!
A new server to test the upcoming release of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup v0.3 has been set up and is waiting for you!
Try now:
- telnet crawl.develz.org 345
- ssh -C crawl@crawl.develz.org
Please report any bugs you run across. Visit the main project website for further info.
If you are looking for a stable version to play online, be sure to visit crawl.akrasiac.org.
Note: To be able to use ssh join ##crawl on the Freenode IRC Network or email me your public ssh key.
Note: There is no need anymore to send me your key. Please read How to play Online.
I’d like to thank all who helped me set up this server! A special thanks goes out to the developers of this fantastic game!