Tutorial

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The tutorial is a helpful introduction for new players to Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. Featured in both offline and offline versions of Crawl, it is a text and gameplay integrated mode designed to teach you the controls and basic gameplay functions. You play as a Human, with fixed rooms, items, and tasks for each lesson. Once you have finished the tutorial, you may go into hints mode for a guided, but complete and randomized experience.

There are 5 tutorial lessons available:

• Movement and Exploration
• Monsters and Combat
• Items and Inventory
• Magic and Spellcasting
• Gods and Divine Abilities

A summation of each tutorial is detailed below, for viewing convinence. Note that commands are case sensitive.

Movement and Exploration

• You can move around with the numpad (try numlock on and off), vi-keys, or clicking with the mouse. Arrow keys work, though you can't move diagonally with them. Pressing Shift and a direction will move until you see/hit something.
• Pressing > will take you down a staircase, and < to go up a staircase.
• You can open doors by walking into them, and close them with C.
• You can autoexplore by pressing o.

Monsters and Combat

• You can pick up items with , or g.
• Wield weapons with w. Weapons have different stats.
• Attack monsters in melee by walking in their direction (or with ctrl-v)
• You can wait with . or s, passing your turn - such as to get monsters into a corridor with you.
• You can rest with 5, waiting until you are fully healed, or something noteworthy happens.
• Either mouseover and rightclick, or use x then v on the monster to examine monsters. Monsters with a red border are 'dangerous'.
• You can fire ranged weapons manually with f, or auto-target your quiver with p or shift-tab. Throwing weapons can be held, while launchers (like bows) need to be wielded first.

Items and Inventory

• You can wear armour with W; armor gives AC.
• Autoexplore will automatically pick up useful items, such as potions and scrolls, if you aren't in danger.
• You can read scrolls with r and drink potions with q.
• Item may have brands, with special properties. Branded equipment is blue when unidentified.
• Items may be artefacts, often with unique properties, and are unmodifiable. They are written in white.
• You can evoke wands with V, wear jewellery with P.
• Gold is used in shops, which can be interracted with by either < or >.