#Dungeon crawl stone soup mutations download

Money can be spent in shops, which will typically be found on the lower levels of the dungeon. While exploring the dungeon, you'll soon amass a small treasury of gold coins, provided you don't suffer an exquisitely painful death at your own hands from unknowingly drinking poison first. Items can also be identified through the use of an identify scroll. To identify these items, you can either use them for a prolonged amount of time, and eventually your character will figure out what they do, provided they aren't cursed, in which case you'll instantly know as you're unable to remove the item from your character until you use a remove curse scroll. This however, makes it all the more important to quickly identify these items, so that they won't cause you trouble later. However, playing guinea pig with yourself can be dangerous, since the game features a vast amount of malicious scrolls and potions. Afterwards you'll be able to identify any similar potion/scroll. Identifying magical scrolls and potions is very simple, since you just have to use them. In true roguelike style, none of these items are identified from the get go. These range from potions to magical amulets. This is to ensure that your character develops as you wish, as fast as possible.ĭuring play, the player will find a large arrangement of magic items. Since skills increase through gaining skill points, of which you get a set amount of each level, the game allows you to disable skills from progressing, meaning that you can deny your character from further developing in an unwanted direction. If a fighter finds a book of magic, he is completely capable of learning spells from it, provided he has gained the spell casting skill some other way. As a result, classes are not very important in Crawl, since they only determine your starting values in a skill, as well as which items you start out with. How quickly they improve depends on the character's aptitude with the skill, which is in turn determined by the character's race. However, skill progression follows a system similar to Bethesda's Elder Scrolls series, in where skills only improve when used. The game features a traditional experience and leveling system. Since the game allows you to butcher enemies corpses for meat, your primary food source will be dead enemies. As turns progress your character, depending on race, becomes more hungry, since death from starvation is an unfortunate reality in Crawl, you will always be on the look out for food. After the player takes his turn, all the monsters on the respective dungeon floor take theirs. Taking an action such as moving, equipping/unequipping an item, attacking, etc. The basic gameplay in Crawl is turn-based.

#Dungeon crawl stone soup mutations download

The game is free to download and can be played in the traditional ASCII format (non-graphical console) or in SDL format (graphical tiles). As a result, the entire village ends up cooperating on the 'stone soup project', much like the open source community has with Dungeon Crawl.

The curious residents are now fooled one by one, into giving the stranger an ingredient for his 'stone soup', which is the most remarkably tasty soup, but it just needs a little extra garnish each time a resident asks him what he is up. The name 'Stone Soup' is a reference to the old folk story in which a stranger from out of town tricks the residents into cooking a pot of soup for him, by placing his supposedly magical stone in a pot of boiling water, attracting the attention of the townsfolk. Dungeon Crawl features classic roguelike elements like permadeath, a constant need for food, and randomly generated dungeons. Stone Soup is an open source fork from Dungeon Crawl originally released by Linley Henzell in 1995 and is the only actively developed Crawl left. The stairs lead to the exit of the dungeon.ĭungeon Crawl Stone Soup is a roguelike in which you explore a huge randomly generated dungeon, in a quest for the mystifyingly fabulous Orb of Zot.