Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup - New player guide

note, May 25, 2023 on Mitja Felicijan's blog

An amazing game deserves an amazing guide. All this material can be find in some form on another on craw's official repository.

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup

Movement and Exploration

  • You can move around with the numpad (try numlock on and off), vi-keys, or +game
  • DCSS Manual - Extensive manual about the game
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup

Movement and Exploration

  • You can move around with the numpad (try numlock on and off), vi-keys, or clicking with the mouse. Arrow keys work, though you can't move diagonally with them. Pressing Shift and a direction will move until you see/hit something.
  • Pressing > will take you down a staircase, and < to go up a staircase.
  • You can open doors by walking into them, and close them with C.
  • You can autoexplore by pressing o.
  • You can re-view recent messages with Ctrl-p.

Monsters and Combat

  • You can pick up items with , or g.
  • Wield weapons with w. Weapons have different stats.
    • (You may also engage in Unarmed Combat, though it isn't very effective when @@ -38,11 +38,11 @@ actions other than move and melee attack, and runs out very quickly if you aren't attacking. And after berserk ends, you are slowed down and can't berserk again for a short time.
    • In addition, the vast majority of abilities consume piety in the process. Regardless, this ability is very cheap, and the benefits are incredible, so -don't hold back!
    • Pressing ^ will let you view your current god, abilities, and piety.