Frequently Asked Questions

This article lists unofficial frequently asked questions for DCSS from 0.13. It is extremely outdated. There may be some advice on this page that is completely irrelevant to the latest version of Crawl, although this page is currently retained as some parts of it and some of its ideas remain useful in 0.22. For more detailed and accurate information about a given monster, spell or item, please look the article for that item up on this Wiki rather than relying on this page.

Version 0.13: This article may not be up to date for the latest stable release of Crawl.

This page lists a series of questions that players frequently ask. Crawl also has its own official frequently asked questions, which can be found in-game through the command ?Q or on the official website here, which are also worth reading as a new player.

To ask someone for advice or talk to someone about your game, you can:

• Head to ##crawl on Freenode, where there will be people around to help you out;
• Join one of Crawl's many Discord servers, in particular the roguelikes Discord's channel dedicated to Dungeon Crawl;
• Post information about your game on the Tavern forum.

In all three of these places it will be helpful to others if you post screenshots and/or a character dump, so that other players can offer specific advice about your game and answer specific questions. If you're playing offline, you'll find your character dump in the morgue directory of your Crawl folder. If you're playing online, you can press # while in-game, which will print a link to your character dump in the chat window.

There's this awesome looking sword that's surrounded by crystal/stone walls, how do I get it?

A: The sword in stone vault has the weapon resting on a teleport trap, so to get it you'll need LRD or Shatter to break through the wall, then stasis, teleport control, or Apportation to reach the sword. Lugonu followers can corrupt the level to clear the walls and the trap.

How do you get a character dump/CIP for an online character?

A: Use the # key to dump the character file. A link to the file will then appear in your chat window.

What do the different text colors on items mean?

A: See item.