We are pleased to announce the release of Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup 0.23 “Nemelex Needs Traps Badly!”

DCSS 0.23 features an overhaul of the trap system, a new Gauntlet portal thrown down to replace Labyrinths, a complete revision of Nemelex Xobeh, nine certified-pre-owned refreshed unrandarts plus one new unrandart, and support for seeded dungeon play. This is all in addition to dozens of new fatal vaults, some refreshed monsters, UI improvements, and many more smaller changes. For a full list of significant changes, please see the changelog.

Download DCSS 0.23 here, or play it online on one of many servers across the world! Packages for Windows, OS X, and Linux are all available now.

The tournament starts 20:00 UTC Friday 8 February with all online 0.23 games counting towards your score. See the tournament page for more details, including how to join or set-up a clan.

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 0.23 and a warm welcome to the first-time contributors, listed in italics.

Brent Adams, AndSDev, Beargit, biasface, bjobae, Matthew Boeh, David Candido, cws, Doesnt, Erich Erstu, Floodkiller, floraline, freepotion, Ge0ff, GenericPseudonym, Aaron Golden, Max ‘Ploomutoo’ Hon-Anderson, ICC, johnstein, Alex Jurkiewicz, Nikolai Lavsky, Jean Martel, Johannes Maier, Jacob Meigs, mgdelmonte, Muffindrake, NormalPerson7, Aaron Olowin, palyth, psywombats, RealzHS, Sandman25, Umer Shaikh, Stenella, WanderingBlade, ximxim

Happy Crawling!

Hello fellow Gauntlet runners! I have a quick update about the 0.23 release and tournament. Please bookmark the official 0.23 tournament page and use this page to track your progress throughout the tournament. The tournament is scheduled from 20:00 UTC Friday 8 February through 20:00 UTC Sunday 24 February. The 0.23 release will likely happen beforehand on February 6th or 7th.

The 0.23 branch is available and already installed on CKO, CUE, CXC, and LLD. For other servers, you’ll see the 0.23 game links appear on the server lobby at some point before the tournament starts. Once 0.23 is available on your server, you can follow the instructions on the tournament page to define/join clans via your 0.23 RC file. Clans can be formed and changed until one week into the tournament on 20:00 UTC Friday 15 February. See the Clans section of the tournament page for details.

There are currently no rule changes relative to the 0.22 tournament, but check the tournament page for any final rule changes before the tournament begins. Once the tournament has started, the leaderboard will display the current standings. You may see the leaderboard, player, and clan pages populated with test data from 0.23 games. Don’t worry, the test pages and data will be wiped before the tournament begins. If you’re looking for people to play with, you can find them in the Tavern, reddit, or our IRC channel ##crawl on Freenode.

As you may have noticed, we’re now hosting the tournament on crawl.develz.org, also known as CDO. Special thanks to Napkin for making CDO available to run the tournament scripts and database! Due to this change, there may be some issues with scoring updates early on this tournament. So please bear with us; we’ll try minimize any interruptions as best we can. Also many thanks to |amethyst for making dobrazupa.org available for every tournament from versions 0.12 to 0.22!

See you all on Lair:3, making away with the Minotaur’s loot!