Cloak

Version 0.32: This article is up to date for the latest stable release of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.

Name	Cloak
Size to wear	Any
Armour Class	1
Encumbrance rating	+0
Maximum Enchantment	+2
Grants	nothing
Time to Wear	5

A cloth cloak. "O Bell my wife, why dost thou flyte? Now is now, and then was then: Seek now all the world throughout, Thou kens not clowns from gentlemen: They are clad in black, green, yellow and blue, So far above their own degree. Once in my life I'll take a view; For I'll have a new cloak about me." -Anonymous, "The Old Cloak". 16th Century.

Cloaks are pieces of armour that fill the cloak slot. They take 5 turns to equip or remove, and can be enchanted up to +2. Scarves take the same slot and have useful properties, but provide less physical protection than a cloak; see their article for more details.

Egos

Cloaks can normally have the following egos:

• Poison resistance: Grants poison resistance
• Willpower: Grants +40 willpower
• Stealth: Grants +50 stealth
• Preservation: Grants corrosion resistance

These are only found in Ice Caves and Volcanoes, respectively:

• Cold resistance: Grants cold resistance
• Fire resistance: Grants fire resistance

Strategy

Looking for a cloak early on? If you come across (and can kill) Crazy Yiuf, he's guaranteed to come with a cloak. It might even have an ego! Other uniques, including Maurice and Nikola, are also guaranteed to wear cloaks.

If you still need a good cloak in the late game, the Realm of Zot can be a good place to search. Many draconians will generate with cloaks, increasing your chances of finding one with a decent ego and enchantment. Tiamat will always have the +4 dragonskin cloak, if you can take her down.

History

• Prior to 0.25, cloaks could generate with invisibility, but not with stealth or preservation.
• Scarves were added in 0.20.
• Prior to 0.17, all cloaks provided some protection against acid.
• Prior to 0.16, the invisibility ego was called the Darkness ego.
• Prior to 0.15, the preservation ego could be found on cloaks. This ego was removed along with item destruction and permanent corrosion effects.
• Prior to 0.14, racial variant cloaks existed. Also, wearing a cloak meant you had to take it off in order to change body armour; among other things, this meant that wearing a cursed cloak prevented you from taking off your body armour.

	Image
Mundane
Magical	or
Artifact
	Unrandart Cloaks
Cloak of the Thief
Cloak of Starlight
Dragonskin cloak
Ratskin cloak