Explore mode

Version 0.34: This article is up to date for the latest stable release of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.

Explore mode is a mode that allows the player to come back to life without limit. Explore mode games are not scored and do not count as 'proper' games. Explore mode can be entered by using the + key, then confirming by typing "explore", unless it has been disabled.

By default, explore mode is available on both offline games and online servers. The configuration option explore_mode can be used to start new games in explore mode, or disallow entering the mode at all.

See Also

• Wizard mode, a more robust cheating/debug mode.

History

• Prior to a version between 0.30-0.34, the confirmation to enter explore mode was 'yes' instead of 'explore'.
• Prior to 0.30, players (without admin access) couldn't use explore mode on online servers.
• Explore mode was added to Crawl in 0.16.
• Explore mode is also included in a few other roguelikes, most notably NetHack. Its purpose was to give players some form of cheating mode without having to use wizmode. Wizmode requires admin access on certain UNIX systems, and in Crawl, it could be used to crash online servers.