Cling

Version 0.25: This article may not be up to date for the latest stable release of Crawl.

Certain creatures can cling to the walls of the dungeon, allowing them to pass over otherwise impassable terrain as long as they stay orthogonally adjacent to a wall (they cannot cling to only a corner).

Creatures that can cling to walls:

B Giant cockroach

w Dart slug

l Leopard gecko

s Demonic crawler

All spiders

History

• Clinging was removed in 0.25.
• Prior to 0.15, players could cling using Spider Form or boots of the spider.
• Wall-clinging was added in 0.8.