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. In addition to the most recent official release the latter also hosts the beta version of the next one, which you can download or play online.
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
2009-10-15
Stone Soup switched to git for version control a while back. If you've been following the subversion tracker, and wondered why the activity suddenly seems to have stopped - that's why. :) We haven't really made noise about the change outside the mailing list and ##crawl IRC channel - thanks to people on the latter for pointing this out!
Darshan wrote a fine quickstart guide to using git on the mailing list; check it out here. --Eino
2009-10-10
We now have a DOS build of 0.5.2, courtesy of Rugxulo of BTTR Software.
2009-10-09
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup 0.5.2 is out, with many bugfixes and better Mac OS X support. The source should also now build with ease on FreeBSD.
2009-09-18
It's been three years since Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup was first
presented to the world. Well, the announcement
was only made a day later.
Either way, happy birthday, Stone Soup!
2009-09-15
Here are the promised
survey results!
The distinction between ASCII and Tiles use it particularly
interesting. Thanks, everyone, for your vocal participation!
2009-09-02
I never knew Crawl had a DS port: information and download. There's even a Wii port for Stonesoup! (Yes, really!)
2009-08-20
We're doing a survey!
Out of a whim we started a poll on the IRC channel ##crawl. Lots
of players already replied and it would be nice to have input
from other channels as well.
12 questions, please send replies to
crawlpoll@gmail.com. Evaluation will be anonymous and statistics
will be posted here. Thank you!
2009-08-16
The 0.5.1 binaries for DOS and Mac OS X are now available for download.
2009-07-30
Stone Soup 0.5.1 has been released, fixing an abundance of bugs. The source code and Windows binaries are already available for download, but Mac and DOS might still take a while.
2009-07-17
Like last year, the annual Stonesoup tournament will take place between August, 1 and 31. See here for a discussion on the scoring, and this page for last year's tournament description. We are planning to release 0.5.1 before the beginning of the tournament so you'll be able to play with a number of bugs fixed.
In other news, the DOS version has long been available for download from the Sourceforge site. And for Mac users facing problems when installing 0.5 we've added some documentation to hopefully help with that.
2009-06-20
The 0.5 Mac binaries for both console and tiles are now available for download.
2009-06-12
Stone Soup 0.5 is out!
It took us an entire year but it's finally here! The Shoals are still not included but 0.5 does contain:
* Four new portal vaults
* A new species and occupation
* Several new uniques and monsters
* More convenient transformations
... and much more.
The Mac builds are not yet available for download but it won't be
long until they too can be downloaded from Sourceforge.
2009-01-15
Stone Soup 0.4.5 is out, fixing the infamous "invalid god gift" bug.
2008-12-20
Stone Soup 0.4.4 has been released, finally officially fixing
bugs that have long since been put to rest on CAO and CDO.
For a list of changes, click here.
2008-08-01
Stone Soup 0.4.3 is out, mainly to
fix a bad Tiles bug.
Yes, I know this makes four releases in three weeks - it's
not something to be proud of. At least we're fast in fixing
the bugs. :)
In other news, the
first Crawl Stone Soup tournament has begun and will continue throughout August.
To join you have to register on
CAO or
CDO, both reachable
via ssh. (For a guide on how to use ssh and play online,
click here.)
Once you've got an account you can use it to play
Crawl online and compete against other players in a number
of different categories.
2008-07-30
Stone Soup 0.4.2 is out, fixing a number of bugs in time for the tournament.
2008-07-27
This upcoming August a highly exciting event will take place:
the first tournament involving Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
will be hosted on CAO
and CDO.
Experienced as well as new players will have a chance of
winning in one of the many categories. You can even form
"clans" and play as a team!
For more information click here.
In other news, Stone Soup now has a FreeBSD port.
2008-07-18
Stone Soup 0.4.1 is out, fixing various serious bugs diligently reported by a number of players. Thank you!
2008-07-14
Stone Soup 0.4 is out!
Main features:
* Greatly improved interface
* Greatly improved Tiles version
* Overhauled the good gods
* Added Vampire species
* Enabled all sensible species/class combinations
* Smarter monsters
For a full list of changes, click here.
2008-01-30
Tiles port and Mac OS X 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.
In the beginning it was expected that Brent would soon take up working on Crawl 4.1 again, so that Stone Soup was only meant to bridge the time until then, and the initial version of 0.1 reflected that belief.
By now it has become clear that Stone Soup is a proper branch of Dungeon Crawl of its own, but for historic reasons we will continue with the versioning system of 0.x. This can be a bit confusing since it's not at all obvious that for example Stone Soup 0.4 is more recent and better maintained than Dungeon Crawl 4.0, but if we switched now it would be confusing as well.
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, Paul Du Bois, Eino Keskitalo, Nat Lanza, Haran Pilpel, David Ploog, Johanna Ploog, David Lawrence Ramsey, and Enne Walker.