I have trouble running CAO Crawl game within GNU screen. On picture below you can see what's wrong - the left window is outside screen, the right one is within screen. Any idea how to get correct display in screen? Looks to me like you're using Gnome Terminal and that your terminal background color...

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If you know the vault item syntax, you may find it easier to use &% instead of &o to create an item in wizmode:

&% race:elven robe

creates an elven robe. Vault item syntax is described in http://gitorious.org/crawl/crawl/blobs/ ... xt#line484

From docs/develop/levels/introduction.txt: "If you do not want a vault to be randomly generated, do not assign it a DEPTH. If the vault is in a des file with a default-depth set, you can force it to have no DEPTH setting with an empty DEPTH: line." So you'd give the parent vault a valid DE...