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Revision as of 08:49, 20 May 2026
Version 0.28: This article may not be up to date for the latest stable release of Crawl.
| An arcane textbook containing magical spells of unknown origin. |
Spell books are items that allow player to memorise spells.
There are two types of spell books: standard ones with a set name and list of spells, and randomly generated (randart) books that contain multiple random, but often thematically linked, spells.
Contents
General
Spell books are identified automatically on sight. Reading a spell book destroys the book and adds new spells to your spell library. Djinn are unable to learn spells from spellbooks but destroy the book anyway.
Besides just finding them on the dungeon floor or in shops, spell books can be obtained by using acquirement or as gifts from Sif Muna.
Strategy
Spell books are not exactly rare, but there are so many different ones out there that finding a specific spell book may be difficult or even impossible in a given game. While book shops provide a large, random assortment to choose from, spell books are also generally on the expensive side. Thus, obtaining a specific spell book that you want can be a hassle, but you can alleviate this by worshiping the right god.
Sif Muna grants spell books as gifts, which are more likely to be in for a school you've trained in. Regardless, each book will have at least one new spell, so followers will eventually have access to every spell in the game. Gozag's Call Merchant may create a bookstore, which have a large number of books (~8 each). So by sheer numbers, you are likely to receive a useful book. Bookstores can, of course, spawn in the regular dungeon, where Gozag's funds at least help buy them.
Kikubaaqudgha and Vehumet both provide spells directly instead of via book; specializing in Necromancy or offensive spells, respectively.
Standard books
- See also: List of spells by book
- Book of Air: Shock, Swiftness, Airstrike
- Book of Annihilations: Chain Lightning, Fire Storm, Shatter
- Book of Armaments: Stone Arrow, Rending Blade, Lehudib's Crystal Spear
- Book of Battle: Fugue of the Fallen, Ozocubu's Armour, Detonation Catalyst, Manifold Assault
- Book of Beasts: Summon Ice Beast, Summon Seismosaurus Egg, Summon Mana Viper, Sphinx Sisters
- Book of Blasting: Volatile Blastmotes, Fulminant Prism, Iskenderun's Mystic Blast, Forge Monarch Bomb
- Book of Blood: Sublimation of Blood, Ignite Poison, Summon Hydra
- Book of Burglary: Ensorcelled Hibernation, Swiftness, Passwall
- Book of Callings: Summon Small Mammal, Call Imp, Call Canine Familiar, Eringya's Surprising Crocodile
- Book of Cantrips: Poisonous Vapours, Kinetic Grapnel, Summon Small Mammal, Apportation
- Book of Chaos: Conjure Ball Lightning, Disjunction, Discord
- Book of Conjurations: Magic Dart, Searing Ray, Fulminant Prism
- Book of Contraptions: Alistair's Walking Alembic, Forge Monarch Bomb, Diamond Sawblades
- Book of Cryoformation: Hoarfrost Cannonade, Sculpt Simulacrum, Splinterfrost Shell
- Book of Dangerous Friends: Forge Blazeheart Golem, Orb of Destruction, Spellspark Servitor
- Book of Death: Animate Dead, Haunt, Infestation
- Book of Debilitation: Slow, Confusing Touch, Cigotuvi's Putrefaction
- Book of Decay: Cigotuvi's Putrefaction, Dispel Undead, Martyr's Knell
- Book of Displacement: Lesser Beckoning, Teleport Other, Maxwell's Portable Piledriver
- Book of Dreams: Ensorcelled Hibernation, Fugue of the Fallen, Anguish
- Book of Duality: Vampiric Draining, Iskenderun's Mystic Blast, Nazja's Percussive Tempering, Splinterfrost Shell
- Book of Fire: Foxfire, Plasma Beam, Starburst
- Book of Flames: Inner Flame, Sticky Flame, Flame Wave
- Book of Frost: Freeze, Frozen Ramparts, Hailstorm
- Book of Geomancy: Sandblast, Stone Arrow, Passwall
- Book of Hexes: Anguish, Cause Fear, Enfeeble
- Book of Ice: Freezing Cloud, Ozocubu's Refrigeration, Polar Vortex
- Book of Iron: Awaken Armour, Lee's Rapid Deconstruction, Magnavolt
- Book of Lightning: Vhi's Electric Charge, Arcjolt, Plasma Beam
- Book of Maladies: Sublimation of Blood, Curse of Agony, Rimeblight
- Book of Metalworking: Nazja's Percussive Tempering, Alistair's Walking Alembic, Forge Phalanx Beetle
- Book of Minor Magic: Magic Dart, Blink, Call Imp
- Book of Misfortune: Jinxbite, Yara's Violent Unravelling, Enfeeble, Sphinx Sisters
- Book of Movement: Volatile Blastmotes, Vhi's Electric Charge, Gell's Gavotte
- Book of Necromancy: Soul Splinter, Grave Claw, Vampiric Draining
- Book of Party Tricks: Apportation, Jinxbite, Alistair's Intoxication
- Book of Power: Iskenderun's Battlesphere, Bombard, Fortress Blast, Spellspark Servitor
- Book of Scorching: Scorch, Flame Wave, Summon Cactus Giant
- Book of Sloth: Leda's Liquefaction, Petrify, Metabolic Englaciation
- Book of Spatial Translocations: Blink, Momentum Strike, Lesser Beckoning
- Book of Spectacle: Starburst, Fulsome Fusillade, Gloom
- Book of Spontaneous Combustion: Inner Flame, Detonation Catalyst, Irradiate, Ignition
- Book of Storms: Static Discharge, Airstrike, Forge Lightning Spire
- Book of Touch: Kiss of Death, Confusing Touch, Dispel Undead
- Book of Transmutation: Petrify, Irradiate, Fulsome Fusillade
- Book of Unlife: Soul Splinter, Martyr's Knell, Death Channel
- Book of Weapons: Tukima's Dance, Dimensional Bullseye, Rending Blade, Platinum Paragon
- Book of Wicked Creation: Sculpt Simulacrum, Death Channel, Rimeblight
- Book of Winter: Frozen Ramparts, Ozocubu's Armour, Metabolic Englaciation
- Book of the Dragon: Cause Fear, Fireball, Dragon's Call
- Book of the Earth: Leda's Liquefaction, Lee's Rapid Deconstruction, Permafrost Eruption
- Book of the Fortress: Awaken Armour, Forge Phalanx Beetle, Fortress Blast
- Book of the Grave: Grave Claw, Animate Dead, Borgnjor's Vile Clutch
- Book of the Hunter: Sigil of Binding, Call Canine Familiar, Dimensional Bullseye
- Book of the Moon: Passage of Golubria, Silence, Lehudib's Crystal Spear
- Book of the Senses: Mephitic Cloud, Silence, Curse of Agony, Gloom
- Book of the Spheres: Brom's Barrelling Boulder, Iskenderun's Battlesphere, Fireball, Conjure Ball Lightning, Orb of Destruction
- Book of the Tundra: Hailstorm, Summon Ice Beast, Permafrost Eruption
- Book of the Warp: Dispersal, Manifold Assault, Disjunction
- Book of the Wilderness: Summon Seismosaurus Egg, Summon Forest, Summon Mana Viper, Summon Cactus Giant
- Codex of Conductivity: Forge Lightning Spire, Arcjolt, Maxwell's Capacitive Coupling
- Compendium of Siegecraft: Brom's Barrelling Boulder, Hoarfrost Cannonade, Bombard, Hellfire Mortar
- Everburning Encyclopedia: Ignite Poison, Sticky Flame, Ignition
- Fen Folio: Summon Forest, Eringya's Noxious Bog, Summon Hydra
- Grand Grimoire: Malign Gateway, Summon Horrible Things
- Great Wizards, Vol. II: Alistair's Intoxication, Borgnjor's Vile Clutch, Eringya's Noxious Bog
- Great Wizards, Vol. VII: Tukima's Dance, Passage of Golubria, Yara's Violent Unravelling
- Handbook of Applied Construction: Construct Spike Launcher, Launch Clockwork Bee, Forge Blazeheart Golem
- Maxwell's Memoranda: Maxwell's Portable Piledriver, Magnavolt, Maxwell's Capacitive Coupling
- My Sojourn through Swampland: Mercury Arrow, Launch Clockwork Bee, Eringya's Surprising Crocodile
- Necronomicon: Haunt, Borgnjor's Revivification, Death's Door
- The Unrestrained Analects: Olgreb's Toxic Radiance, Ozocubu's Refrigeration, Discord
- There-And-Back Book: Teleport Other, Gell's Gavotte, Dispersal
- Treatise on Traps: Construct Spike Launcher, Sigil of Binding, Diamond Sawblades
- Trismegistus Codex: Mephitic Cloud, Freezing Cloud, Hellfire Mortar
- Young Poisoner's Handbook: Poisonous Vapours, Mercury Arrow, Olgreb's Toxic Radiance
History
- 0.29
- Removed Book of Pain.
- 0.28
- Removed Book of Stone.
- 0.27
- Fixed books now only have 2-4 spells each (down from 4-6 each). Randomly generated spellbooks also have fewer spells.
- Spellbooks generate more frequently and are always identified.
- 30 new types of fixed book are added.
- Mage and Warrior-Mage classes start with spells already in their library, rather than a specific spellbook.
- 0.25
- Reworked Book of Enchantments into Book of Hexes.
- 0.22
- Spell library was introduced.
- Spells from books are automatically added to a global library upon pickup.
- Library spells can be memorized from anywhere through the M screen.
- Spellbooks are destroyed after their spells are added to the library.
- Followers of Trog lost the ability to burn spell books on the floor to produce clouds of flame.
- Spell library was introduced.
- 0.19
- Removed books: Akashic Record, Book of Envenomations
- Books no longer have to be picked up to be identified
- Removed the ability to forget a spell by destroying a spell book
- 0.17
- Removed book: Book of Control
- High level spell books no longer restrict learning from them based on skill levels
- 0.16
- Added books: Akashic Record, Fen Folio
- Removed book: Book of Wizardry
- 0.15
- Removed book: Book of War Chants
- 0.13
- Added books: Book of Battle
- 0.12
- Removed books: Book of Morphology, Book of Stalking
- Earlier:
