Archive for May, 2025:

0.33 Tournament Results

The 0.33 tournament is over. On behalf of the Dev Team, many thanks to all the server admins, outside contributors, bug reporters, and to the many DCSS players who made the 0.33 release and tournament possible! For 16 days, players could compete for tournament points and banners by playing 0.33 games on the public servers.

Congratulations to EnegeticOcto (aka Lici the Crawler) for taking first place in the individual competition, with 112,658 points and 17 wins! Lici won the lowest turncount win (AtCj won in 11,106 turns), the fastest realtime win (a MiFi won in 25:47), had the second highest scoring game in the tournament (a GrEE with 84M points), and had the second most pacific run of the tournament (a SpEn with just 570 kills). Additionally, Lici took 2nd in the Combo Score category with species high scores for Gr and Dj, class high scores for EE, Ne, and Wn, and 8 combo high scores. Finally, and although this isn’t in a tournament category, it’s still impressive: Lici had the first win of the tournament, a MiFi of Gozag won 54 minutes, 17 seconds after tournament start.

Other big winners:

  • Flugkiller: 2nd place overall with 98,012 points and 15 wins. Flugkiller had the second fastest realtime win of the tournament (a MiFi won in 26:12) and the third highest scoring game of the tournament (a HuAl with 69M points).
  • tswn: 3rd place overall with 97,898 and 16 wins. tswn was first in the combo high score category with 4 species high scores (At, Mi, Ko, Tr), 5 class high scores (Br, CA, CK, Fi, Wr), and 13 combo high scores. They also had the 3rd lowest turncount win, a MiFi won in 12,013 turns, and got the second win of the tournament, a MiFi won 59 minutes, 46 seconds after tournament start.
  • questionabletactics: The longest win streak with 17 wins.
  • Sapher: Highest scoring win at 89M points with an ReSu that also set the all-time Revenant species high score.
  • Draconius: The player with the highest adjusted winrate of 91.67% and a true winrate of 100% with 11 GnIE wins.
  • WizardIke: The only player to collect all 24 tier 3 banners.
  • bookman: 1st place in the Nemelex’ choice category by winning 36 Nemelex’ Choice combos.
  • shadowrider38: Most pacific win, a SpEn with only 454 kills.

The clan competition was won by The Knights of B O (captained by EnegeticOcto) with 130,028 points and 1st in the clan high score, banner collection, fastest realtime win, and low turncount win categories. They also took 2nd in the clan combo high scores, win streak, and the most pacific win categories. In 2nd place was Cigotuvi’s Clown Car (captained by TheMeInTeam) with 127,455 points, 1st place in the Nemelex’ choice, win streak, and most pacific win categories, 2nd place in the banner collection, fastest realtime win, and low turncount win categories, and 3rd place in the combo high scores category. In 3rd place was The 27 Club (captained by particleface) with 116,732 points, 1st place in the combo high scores category, 2nd place in the Nemelex’ choice category, and 3rd place in the low turncount win and banner collection categories.

To close out, here are some overall tournament statistics (with the 0.32 numbers in brackets for comparison). 2944 non-bot players started a game at some point during the tournament; of those 2870 completed a game without quitting or leaving the dungeon sadly orbless. This definition of “player” (players who completed a non-boring game) is used for subsequent calculations and was used for the 0.32 statistics.

  • Players: 2,870 (0.32: 2,838)
  • Total player time: 32,484 hrs (0.32: 29,114 hrs)
  • Average player time: 11.32 hrs (0.32: 10.26 hrs)
  • Games played: 89,582 (0.32: 76,121)
  • Players who got a rune: 890 (0.32: 871)
  • 421 winners and 1428 wins (0.32: 421 winners and 1319 wins)
  • Win rate: 1.59% (0.32: 1.73%)
  • WebTiles win rate: 1.52% (0.32: 1.63%) / Console win rate: 4.06% (0.32: 5.43%)

Thanks to you all for playing! Many thanks as well to server admins, developers, and contributors who made the 0.33 release and tournament possible! The 0.34 season has begun, and a trickle of tweaks and bugfixes have already landed in trunk, with many more changes to come for this version. Also look for an important 0.33.1 bugfix release to made soon. That’s all for now, and until next time, happy crawling!

0.33 “Reforge Yourself”

We are pleased to announce the release of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup: 0.33 “Reforge Yourself”!

DCSS 0.33 features a new magic school, two new playable species, twelve new talisman items, a new portal level, and many new and revamped monsters! For the complete list of these and the many other changes included in this version, see the release page here.

Packages of DCSS 0.33 for Windows, OS X, and Linux are all available from the download page. You can also play it online on one of many servers across the world!

The tournament starts today on Friday May 2nd, 8pm UTC and runs through Sunday May 18th, 8pm UTC, with all online 0.33 games counting towards your score. See the tournament page for more details, including how to join or setup a clan. Clans membership can be changed until Friday May 9th, 8pm UTC.

Many thanks to all those who have contributed to DCSS over the years. Thanks especially to the DCSS development team, whose contributions made 0.33 possible, and to the admins who run and maintain the official servers. A special thanks to the following community members who contributed to 0.33 and a warm welcome to the first-time contributors.

Alejandro Ramirez, Alex Beloi, Alex Jurkiewicz, Aliscans, Antern, bobross419, Brian Faires, Brian Power, cadi, Charlie Gettys, CipHuK, croikle, Flugkiller, geekosaur, guillaume, Heinrich Ody, jjjingleheimer, Lexi Hattaway, LiciTheCrawler, Matthew Granstrom, mgdelmonte, MikeJHeg, Monkooky, NormalPerson7, Paperbell, perci, person50605, pyy156941, radio-gra, Robert J. Redelmeier, RypoFalem, Samantha Tobias, sdynet, Sean Dewar, SentientSupper, tianmaster, tuohy, William S., WizardIke, Yi Yang, yrdzrfxndfvh, Zen Liu