We are pleased to announce the release of Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup 0.24 “Plants vs. Vampires”!
DCSS 0.24 features an overhaul of gods Fedhas and Sif Muna, a new and improved version of Vampires, and a streamlined throwing system, not to mention UI improvements, many smaller changes, and all sorts of bugfixes. For players interested in seeding, you’ll be pleased to hear that stable seeding no longer requires full generation of the dungeon in advance, hopefully paving the way to seeded games online. For a full list of significant changes, please see the changelog for the 0.24 branch.
Download DCSS 0.24 here, or play it online on one of many servers across the world! Packages for Windows, OS X, and Linux are all available now. (Debs coming very soon.)
The tournament starts tomorrow, 20:00 UTC Friday 25 October with all online 0.24 games counting towards your score. See the tournament page for more details, including how to join or set-up a clan. Clan membership changes remain open until 20:00 UTC Friday 1 November.
Many thanks to all those who have contributed to DCSS over the years. A special thanks to the following community members who contributed to DCSS 0.24 and a warm welcome to the first-time contributors, listed in italics. (Let us know if someone is missing, this data is tricky to collect in bulk!)
G. Bailey, Josh Braden, achuah, argonaut, CollinJ, cut1less, Doesnt, dplusplus, Higor EurÃpedes, Joshua Gelbard, Koen De Groote, Quinten Konyn, Nikolai Lavsky, Gabriel Marks, mgdelmonte, Byrel Mitchell, mwvdev, neofelis, NormalPerson7, Michael Nowack, Andrew O’Neill, s.panicho, Ashley Elizabeth Raine, Chris Rendle-Short, rmcneive, runrin, shelmazad, sdynet, Umer Shaikh, John Stilley, Sean VanMeter, Richard Wardin, wjchen
Happy Crawling!
P.S. by gammafunk. Sorry we couldn’t get that Trunk Update for 0.24! I’ll try to make it up to you all with a more detailed write-up of 0.24 changes in the style of a Trunk Update, along with some details about future directions for 0.25. Best of luck to you all in the tournament!
1. Comment by KamikaTze
25/Oct/2019 at 13:33
“The tournament starts tomorrow, 20:00 UTC Friday 24 October ” you mean “Friday 25 of October”?
2. Comment by advil
25/Oct/2019 at 15:13
@KamikaTze thanks, fixed.
3. Comment by kitchen_ace
25/Oct/2019 at 17:20
I’m in the contrib list twice, once with my real name, and once as kitchen-ace, which can be deleted.
I certainly didn’t make enough contributions to warrant two names in there! :p
4. Comment by User
25/Oct/2019 at 23:34
Thanks for the release!
Would you please tell how to use seed_explorer.lua?
5. Comment by Rat
26/Oct/2019 at 23:33
I was very skeptic about the new vampire but it really showcases what was cool about the race! Thanks for all the fish!