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In the latest version, the categories are explained when viewing the details of the Curse Item ability or a cursed item. Seems like an optimal solution to me. I realize the information is available in game. I am asking for it to *also* be printed in the character dump in the item description, just ...

I mean I know how to look it up in the source code. I didn't mean someone please tell me here what they mean, I meant that it should be easier for anyone to tell without looking at code or a spoiler, loading up wizmode and getting god gifts, etc.

Can we please have explanations of what 'cun' 'bglg' etc. mean in terms of specific skills boosted in character dumps? It looks like the correspondence is already printed in in-game item descriptions. It is relevant for understanding the state of a character. Currently it seems (assuming you don't h...

Costs do include things you can reasonably get before the late game: e.g., a handful for fog or fear scrolls, all your piety, weapons or armour you might have been lucky to have drop, and items in shops.

It is an idea to blink next to the teleport trap and then step on it.

You can blink directly into the trap.

On a similar note it would be nice if the status somehow changed when the clock is not actually active. Right now if you grab the orb or are in the abyss it keeps displaying and ticking down (eventually into negative numbers!).

There are several dcss discord servers/channels. I assume people are talking about (IME) the most active one, which is a channel on the r/roguelikes server, and is public: https://discord.gg/t9cVHhj You can search just that channel by adding `in: dcss` to the query while in that server. (As mentione...

If I understand you right, there is an existing option that does this: equip_unequip = false If this is true, selecting an already-equipped piece of equipment via the 'w', 'W' or 'P' menus (for weapons, armour or jewellery respectively) will unequip that item. Is this a request to change the default...

Nice, congrats. Any particular reason you stopped at 7 instead of going for all 15, or were you just ready to be done?

They're merely arches.

The attack and retreat ally commands are currently broken. (I would guess due to recent changes to the direction chooser, but I haven't looked into it in detail.) You can still use t g to make it aggressive.

Yes, IMO it is a good idea for many characters, especially for places like Zot where hitting a teleport trap is potentially a big deal. The contamination is unlikely to do anything unless you go for too high a level spell or you miscast repeatedly without letting it dissipate. Of course if you're in...

For the future: in up-to-date versions you can get temporary -tele by miscasting translocations spells.

The OP assumes that a clock is needed even absent the desire for general forward pressure on "normal" play. I'm not sure I'm convinced by that, but IMO it's hard to know without knowing what the undesirable behavior is a bit more concretely. (I know waiting for gifts with Xom is part of th...

The mechanic should be obscure to most players: even playing a weak background/species combo, resting, luring, and running around, you should never encounter a Zot Specter. I suspect it will be hard to meet this constraint with a per-floor limit without allowing faster players playing stronger comb...

Siegurt, I didn't mean to start a whole argument about what "piety intensive" means. I only wanted to clarify in case someone heard the phrase the way I did and would. If that's not you, that's fine. > With the EV bonus, wu-walking around enemies would grant both increased offence and incr...

I just don't understand your argument from this tidbit (lash is good for literally anyone, as is the heavenly clouds, but they're both fairly piety intensive, so you can't use them super liberally IIUC the code, Serpent's Lash is 2-3 piety. For comparison Heroism, which I often see regarded as pret...

If you're going to do that seems to me you might as well load up the seed in wizmode, freeze time, and explore. You could also use the seed explorer to get a sense for where items, altars, and monsters are. Probably faster and easier than trying to gather information by actually playing and then res...

Re: meat-shields, allies can be good blockers in this case since cyclops and giants tend to have not much ammo and will waste it hitting your buddy, allowing you to deplete their stock. (The projectile can still miss the ally, fly past, and hit you.) If you block line of fire with a hostile the gian...

Assuming you mean this

This weapon's minimum attack delay (1.6) is reached at skill level 28.

IIRC it's not a mistake, but a slightly awkward way to deal with the fact that at 27 skill you swing one speed half the time and another the other half.

Yes, put the line

Code:: auto_butcher = false

in your rcfile.

There are lots of options like this listed in the options guide btw, in case you want to take a look at them more generally https://github.com/crawl/crawl/blob/mas ... _guide.txt

Of course! Fair warning, I wouldn't call this elegant code : { function custom_move_dl() a = {} if safe_move_toggle then a[1] = "CMD_SAFE_MOVE_DOWN_LEFT" else a[1] = "CMD_MOVE_DOWN_LEFT" end crawl.do_commands(a) end function custom_move_l() a = {} if safe_move_toggle then a[1] = ...

I think if you go the route where you put force_mores on messages, you will want to catch it when you discover some monster when it "opens the door" or "opens the gate," too. Another approach is to use the safe moves listed in safe_move_shift.txt. These allow you to move but only...

Both scaling of severity and a threshold under which there is no miscast effect exist already.

What is on the x-axis?

Sorry if I'm just being dense here.

For the future, portal projectile and hailstorm were cheap options you had access to that could have killed the monsters without breaking the grates. Poisonous vapours, the current version of tremorstones, ignition, ozo's refrigeration, and fire storm can all hit behind grates. I'm sure I'm missing ...

You could also make acquirement not look at skills for gnolls. Skills influencing acquirement doesn't make any sense for gnolls. It still makes some sense, since all else equal you can get more use out of something you have higher skill with, even if you did not choose to have that higher skill. Mo...

I'm currently using the Harm amulet because +30% damage is nice but feels like it could become dangerous. If you stick with the harm amulet, keep in mind that you can take it off in 5 auts (half a normal turn). It's one of the fastest things you can do in this game. Taking the amulet off drains you...

If you read carefully, you might notice that there are, in fact, two instance of Zot paralysis in the text above. If you read carefully, you might notice that I did not contest that, in this thread or the linked thread. Show me one player action taken in this sequence after "you slide downward...

I don't like the design of multi-entry into W:2. I was double-paralyzed and killed before getting a move after clearing W:1 hallway and going into a side area of W:2, which is an example of the very rare BS late game death. 100 --> 0 from chain paralysis without getting a move on the floor is very ...

Oh I meant to say: iirc Lua is pretty much designed to be a simple, small, easy-to-pick-up scripting language. Of course you might not want to put that much work into the project. But it's not that scary to pick up the basics of.

Another idea is to look at how CWZ (the Korean server) does its sound module. From what I hear it parses the message log and makes a sound based on that. Based on how far it is from what you want you may be able to simply use it while changing its sound files out. At least it may provide a way forwa...

=flight should give persistent flight while you wear it, if just for the sake of smoother UI. But I don't think that should mean or allow a change in how it interacts with shaft traps. (At least not without further mechanical changes.) If persistent flying with =flight prevents shaft traps from acti...

Remember that you can park monsters to leech off of with your vamp axe. (For that it's actually kind of nice that your vamp axe isn't very good---you're less likely to accidentally kill your bloodbags outright.) This lets you top off your hp in between fights if you're not dangerously low on hp, wit...

A few quibbles about the presentation/UI: 1) the manual describes magenta fail rate as corresponding to "potentially lethal damage," which is a bit misleading since, if I'm understanding correctly, the damage can potentially kill you at lower severities too. The point is that at that sever...

I'm thinking "Your boots of Awesomeness {rEverything+++ Clarity etc.} meld" might come as a nasty surprise... You do autoexplore into water as a merfolk right now, by default. This line seems to disincentivize it somehow, but it does not disallow it. If you want not to autoexplore into sh...

Grey draconians can be put to sleep by dream dust. Whether or not you can sleep appears to depend on your holiness, not whether or not you can breathe. I assume le_nerd was making a joke. You actually can see that you're immune to the sleep spell when you x-v over a monster with it while undead. I i...

The hatches to different locations are distinguishable.

Oh sorry, you are right. It's not noted again in the turn log if you're already paralysed---it looks to me like it was a deliberate decision but as far as I can see the original author didn't record why they decided to do that.

After source diving for a minute, it looks like you are immune to getting paralysed while already paralysed and do get a (potentially very) short period of immunity to paralysis after your paralysis times out---but some sources of paralysis override that immunity. Including, unfortunately, Zot traps...

Like I said, I cleared W:2 ambush, did the W:1 corridors, then went back to W:2. Unless you have shatter, it is impossible to progress in Tomb without doing this. That's not true: you can teleport into the ring on Tomb 1 that leads to the part of Tomb 2 that is meant to be done second, and so total...

I'm assuming a weapon brand of some decent variety for the eveningstar of course. I used flaming, which I think of as a pretty "vanilla" standard brand. So as far as I know, people generally regard vampiric as a pretty good brand, assuming it's on a good base type (demon blade is a good b...

Yeah agreed, Eos does good damage. (Some very quick and dirty fsimming makes me skeptical that you can be confident that "You will do better with +9 eveningstar." I'm sure it's true for some characters and some enemies though.) It seems to outdamage Leech by a solid margin at comparable sk...

I don't know why you're calling me a troll though.

I thought you were commenting in bad faith. I apologize if I was wrong.

Quick blades are actually pretty bad compared to similarly rare one-handed weapons (like demon weapons) Demon weapons have nothing to do with what I said. But it's true that with slaying they're better than short swords. Yes it is true, since it's also true that a quick blade is better than a short...

Oh, sorry. By 'tabbing' I meant attacking by using the autofight command bound to the tab key. If you're using a melee weapon it approaches an enemy and then bump-attacks them (or reaches if you're using a polearm) when they're in range. Really I guess I should have just said bump-attacking (and rea...

If you're just comparing base damage, a short sword looks better than a quickblade. If you omit enough details at some point it moves from "big-picture summary" to "deceptive."

Just an observation: if this happened, I think lots of folks playing melee Wu characters (surely that's the bulk of Wu characters?) who find acrobat amulets will think they ought to whirlwind basically all the time instead of tabbing. Off the cuff that seems to me like it would be a reasonable decis...

> At 10 UC, your punch has a base damage of 19, just one less than a +0 giant club - a pretty good weapon at that point in the game.

These numbers (19 and 20) are used in different ways, so it's a little deceptive to directly compare them against each other like this.

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