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Resistances do not alter item loss (except for corrosion). Here are the things you can do to prevent consumable loss from elemental attacks: 1) Amulet of conversation/Cloak of preservation 2) Not have them in your inventory The chance for destruction is rolled once per item in your inventory, and th...

All of this is stuff crawl can already tell you, under screens such as %, ctrl+f, ctrl+O, \, \- and your dump.

njvack wrote:
minmay wrote:Chei is also ridiculous in zigsprint.

Haven't played zigsprint yet; why is Chei awesome there?

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Your axes is reaally high and your long blades/shield not so much. Stick with the axe - it'll rip and tear enemies apart in no time. Since you're using an exec axe, get your axes to 26 for min delay (or 27 for the awesome title). Also, get traps & doors to 10 if you're worried about zot traps. 3...

Elf:5 is insanely dangerous. It's like the whole dungeon -> orc -> elf 'natural' progression is designed to kill off the unknowing.

If you wear one sustain abilities, summon horrible things can only drain 1 int. If you wear two, it will never drain int. And it will be regained over time, regardless. The only thing you need to use mummy restoration for is 'I am about to die of stat loss' or to cure rot or just for convenience's s...

Is a point of SH worse than a point in EV? Because str will raise your SH while dex raises your EV, so I hear

Has the secret cheibriados teleport trick been posted, yet? Basically, once your teleport status is up, it checks if it's time for you to teleport or not after your move speed is calculated but BEFORE any monsters get to act on their newfound moves. So if you do one move that takes a really long tim...

"Pretty much uniformly bad at reading" - patashu

Tired of tabbing things in a doorway, accidentally moving onto the doorway and now you're meleeing three things at once? Just put a one tile exclusion down!

If you want an easy caster win, try SpVM/SpWz. You're faster than everything until anacondas and black mambas, can run away from orc bands the instant you catch sight of a priest and can kite indefinitely with any kind of ranged attack, spell or polearm. The only caveats are that you have to abuse y...

Does this let you stab a sleeping monster from a distance? If so, spriggan's wet dream.

Wow. Troll Monk is REALLY overpowered (At least early game). This is easily my best run so far. Orc Mines scared the piss out of me there were 26 orcs, 5 orc warriors, and 3 orc wizards right there when I entered. I hope I can get at least one rune on this run. All your hints are very helpful EDIT:...

That entrance might be a mimic.

The other disadvantage of worshipping chei is not being able to worship any other god - for example, you're not worshipping kiku, nor are you worshipping tso, or makhleb or veh or sif or nemelex or... when you worship chei.

How about taking felid's 'extra life' mechanic, and adding it to every race, and calling that easy mode? You're still playing the same game, up until you die, then you get another shot.

Just curious how useful this ability is. I am trying to get a ghoul kiku follower and eventually use the corpse sacrifice to torment depending on how powerful it is. Any tips on tormenting like who is vulnerable and who isn't is appreciated, thanks in advance! Demons, undead and nonliving things ar...

rchandra wrote:would the regexes support this?

force_more_message = .*[A-Z].* comes? into view

When I can't remember how to make a regex work, I go to http://www.regular-expressions.info/reference.html

That looks like it would work

I just realized that there is no version of Crawl for ios. I don't know about android, but on the ipad and Iphone webtiles only partially works -- I can watch but not play, because I get stuck at the species selection screen; it won't let me select any of the choices. Huh. Is there something that I...

The buckler looks like a limp pancake, but it's great otherwise

Can't wait to see more!

Well, considering you're at XL2 with a MiBe, you honestly aren't losing anything. You will be back to XL2 in what, 45 seconds? Like they said, read all your scrolls. I suppose you've thought about that already, so meh. Considering you're probably a better/more experienced crawl player then me, I th...

I like to edit my init.txt and add a line like this: force_more_message = .*comes? into view I just add that line in anywhere? This sounds incredibly useful You can add it anywhere, but you should add it near the other force_more_message entries to be organized. f_m_m uses regexes, so you can make ...

I like to edit my init.txt and add a line like this: force_more_message = .*comes? into view This forces you to press enter acknowledging when anything comes into view. While it gets tedious when you're fighting easy things, if it's anything remotely hard (and orc priests can start smiting you the i...

I don't mean it makes their weapon chaos - I mean it inflicts a random chaos effect on them. Then it sounds cool but no player will use it unless you make it a cursed item or add some amazing bonuses to the armor. The latter option appeals more to me. Are you sure? People willingly use Yiuf's staff...

Fedman wrote:
Patashu wrote:How about leather armour that inflicts the chaos brand on anyone who melees you and damages you?

Abusable by the amount of chaos weapons that you will be able to get.

I don't mean it makes their weapon chaos - I mean it inflicts a random chaos effect on them.

How about a cross between the obsidian axe and the boots of running? Boosts your movement speed by a huge amount, but mesmerizes you whenever an enemy comes into view, so you can only run toward things. How about a hat that makes you uncontrollably blink whenever damaged? (Or starts a teleport?) How...

I can't seem to find the logic behind this -let's say- riddle. Here's my train of thought... I hope I might not come off as a complete retard, here it goes; If you take the word "Zin" and shift its letters by one to the right (meaning their next ones in the alphabet), you get "Ajo&qu...

I thought this question was too small to need its own thread but I am obliged to start one for it. I'm playing an XL2 MiBe, I'm on DL1, and I've just put on a cursed -6 ring of intelligence. I know Crawl doesn't have many totally unavoidable deaths, and of course you might suggest I don't ID jewell...

Are you allowed to throw corpses in the necro challenge? What about luring monsters through traps?

Never train UC unless you actually are unarmed when you fight.

As a spriggan, you're so fast (faster than centaurs, even) that you can often retreat from LOS, cast ewpwl missiles then start casting meph.

This isn't strictly a keybinding setting, but I have these options in my config: force_more_message = You kill the force_more_message = You destroy the force_more_message = into view It's not foolproof, but it'll let you hold tab without printing "No target in sight (x15,000)" or getting ...

Antimagic has a longer duration the more damage you inflict with it, so you probably want it on a big weapon

Just curious what a good invoc levels for sif muna is. I have 9 right now and the mana return is only like 1-2. Is there any sort of list with the returns per level anywhere? On average you get 0.5 more sp per channel per 4 invo levels, so the return on investment is really low. Get invo to like 4 ...

Lobber wrote:Is my ability to walk on water innate to a Hill Orc Priest? It's pretty damn cool if it is.

You get it at ****** beogh piety, so watch out whenever you're using up piety and over deep water!

sirprim wrote:The Kobold started 2 squares away from me, maybe I should've run ...

If you worshipped ash instead of lucy you'd know it had draining and run! Ash reasons

When I get tired of crawl, I play brogue
When I get tired of brogue, I play crawl
THE CYCLE REPEATS

Surrounded by blink frogs? NO PROBLEM

Hey tasonir, you should play an ogak and 3 rune win. It's really hard

-You could have been wielding the buckler if you weren't using two handed weaponry. -If you didn't take a multi-turn action with an enemy in sight, you could have zapped heal wounds at yourself, read blinking, read fog and backed away (though that one is unreliable in an open area, only do it if you...

I tried the crystal ball and hated it. So much more reliable to go upstairs and hit 5. But then, I do play Spriggans, and I haven't gone into Pandamonium or Hell or Abyss yet, so my perspective is probably skewed. You can't 'go upstairs and hit 5' in pandemonium, hell or the abyss. So, you've picke...

With slow 1, you'll only get hit about 1 in 10 steps (or 10% more from ranged attackers) when retreating. That's not that big of a deal late game when you have lots of resources available to you.

I make macros for buffs and put channeling on . when I play a spellcaster, that's about it so far

I find labyrinths very easy to navigate - once I can see the roundness of the second type of wall, I know exactly where on the map it is and I just have to circle the perimeter looking for paths that could feasibly get into it. The minotaur himself hits quite hard - but this only a problem if you're...

chaos wrote:YASD... killed by... a cat.
The universe doesn't want me to win.

It's OK, we know you pasted a character dump into putty.

EDIT: Alternatively the cat pushed the right mouse button for you, which is possible

My most pathetic death is as a spriggan venom mage in tartarus, getting cornered in a small loop of hallway within the radius of a silent spectre. I hadn't trained any melee skill or brought anything that could have been useful to me while silenced (wands of digging, disint, tele, damage wands, evok...

Three bugs related to levitation (two of which contributed to the death) have now been fixed

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