Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is a fun, free rogue-like game of exploration and treasure-hunting in dungeons filled with dangerous and unfriendly monsters in a quest for the mystifyingly fabulous Orb of Zot.
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is a variant of Linley's Dungeon Crawl that's openly developed and invites participation from the Crawl community.
Dungeon Crawl has superb, deep tactical gameplay, innovative magic and religion systems, and a grand variety of monsters to fight. Crawl is also one of the hardest roguelikes to beat. When you finally beat the game and write your victory post on rec.games.roguelike.misc, you know you've achieved something.
You can also play Crawl online on a public telnet server thanks to the good folks at crawl.akrasiac.org and crawl.develz.org. These public servers allow you to meet other players' ghosts, watch other people playing, and, in general, have a blast.
Crawl discussion usually happens in ##crawl on Freenode IRC, the rec.games.roguelike.misc newsgroup, and the SourceForge mailing list crawl-ref-discuss.
Submitting Bugs and Feature Requests
If you've found a bug or would like to propose a new feature, please use the SourceForge tracker pages to do so.When filing bugs, please provide sufficient information to help us reproduce the problem. We need this information as a minimum:
- The version of Crawl you're playing. You can get this information by hitting V in-game.
- Whether you're playing the tile port or the tty (console) port.
- Steps to reproduce the problem, if you can reproduce it consistently. If the problem occurs at random, please mention this and describe what you were doing as best as you can remember. If you were playing on a public telnet server, please provide links to the ttyrecs.
- Your saved game, if available.
Use the 'Submit New' link to file a new bug/feature request. Before filing a new bug report please check that the bug/feature request isn't already in the tracker.
News
2008-01-30
Tiles port and Mac OS binaries for 0.3.4 are available now.
2008-01-29
Stone Soup 0.3.4 is out, starring various bugfixes and cuter quokkas. Tile and Mac binaries are not up yet, but they're Coming Soon to a Web Site Near You. This web site, to be precise.
2007-12-02
0.3.3 Mac binary and tiles port now available, happy day!
2007-12-02
Stone Soup 0.3.3 is released with fixes for several crash bugs, balance issues, and squeaky hinges. See the list of fixes. Mac and tile ports are not available yet, but this deplorable state of affairs should be corrected shortly, so hang in there.
2007-11-10
Stone Soup 0.3.2 is out with a fix for a crash bug (tiles) and balance fixes.
2007-11-04
Stone Soup 0.3.1 tiles source and Windows binary are available on the Sourceforge download page (thanks, Enne).
2007-11-03
Stone Soup 0.3.1 is out with fixes for two critical bugs.
2007-10-31
Enne Walker has been working on a graphical tile port of Stone Soup. You can find sources and Windows binaries there. Tiles are not (yet) part of the official Stone Soup builds.
2007-10-31
Stone Soup 0.3 is released! Read the list of changes for 0.3.
The Origins of Crawl and Stone Soup
Dungeon Crawl was created in 1995 by Linley Henzell. Crawl rapidly gained popularity because of Linley's many innovative gameplay concepts.
After releasing version 3.3, Linley eventually retired from Crawl development, leaving Crawl in the hands of a development team; this development team continued developing Crawl until early 2003 when version 4.0.0 beta 26 was released. After that, Crawl development went into something close to hibernation with only Brent Ross working on it, and development largely invisible to the public.
The Dungeon Crawl Reference project was formed to pull Crawl out of ensorcelled hibernation. Dungeon Crawl Reference is a reference version of Crawl 4.0 beta 26; Stone Soup is a branch of Dungeon Crawl Reference.
Stone Soup combines ideas from the Stone Soup team, the Crawl 4.1 alphas released by Brent Ross, and the Crawl community.
The Stone Soup Team
Peter Berger, Matthew Cline, Nat Lanza, Haran Pilpel, David Ploog, Johanna Ploog, David Lawrence Ramsey, Darshan Shaligram and Enne Walker.