r/cavesofqud • • Jun 26 '26

Caves of Qud original soundtrack on 3LP vinyl! The inner gatefold is a beautiful triptych of Qud's flora & fauna. Preorders open

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Hi all,
I saw another thread about our Steam post with news on the performance update and vinyl, but I wanted to give the vinyl announcement its own thread.

This thing is sick! It's a collaboration between us and indie label Stumpy Frog Records (with help from Kitfox and Lost in Cult's storefront). For the gatefold and sleeve art we worked closely with our good friend saint vulture, an incredible digital sculpture artist (throw his game All Living Things a wishlist if you can). Qud tile artist Sam Wilson did the artwork for the six center labels. Craig Hamilton composed and performed the OST, of course. The triptych poem is written by in-game persona Daughter Erinna, whose writing you might recognize elsewhere in game...

It's a triple LP, just over the two hour mark in total playtime. Pre-orders are open at the Lost in Cult site until July 25: https://www.lostincult.co.uk/shop/p/caves-of-qud

We're quite proud of this, despite most of the team not being vinyl people. Just as a piece of art, it's gorgeous!

Live and drink.


r/cavesofqud • • Mar 01 '26

AMA with the co-creators of Caves of Qud. Monday, March 2nd at 11am PDT

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r/cavesofqud • • 21h ago

One of the designers hints at the next update

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612 Upvotes

r/cavesofqud • • 9h ago

Will eating the cloaca suprise or crystal delight stop me from being gigantic (after perma-swapping to one of the girsh)?

37 Upvotes

I haven't actually swapped to the girsh yet. I'm pretty far into the game and i accidentally fucked up a bit with warm static and i thought getting all mutations would be a good idea but now i have infinite glimmer. So i urgently need to swap to something else. I really like the idea of being Girsh Bethsaida but i don't really like the idea of being restricted to gigantic gear, and apparently all of them are. Is there any way to remove their giant status? Would changing my body by consuming the cloaca/crystal things work?

thanks for the help


r/cavesofqud • • 8h ago

Bows and rifles skills not worth it?

8 Upvotes

So I'm a big follower of qudzoo, and AFFINE in particular, as a truly obsessed saad. (Their hyperfocused analysis on quickness v speed is truly impressive).

Their skills analysis is fairly brutal in its bows and rifles analysis- listing only the base skill and suppressive fire as really worthwhile.

In other words, the only time to use the skill is if you DONT use the skill save for like two things.

Are there any common builds where it IS good to invest heavily in the tree?

Or is AFFINE still right?


r/cavesofqud • • 11h ago

Clones not growing luminous hoarshrooms.

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Title. I have glowcrust all over my body. I cloned myself, which clones the glowcrust. When I domination into my clones bodies, they don't have the "Icy outcrop" slots, and after waiting about 400 turns they haven't grown any luminous hoarshrooms.

Game is literally unplayable. Please devs, allow me to make a massive mushroom farm of clones.


r/cavesofqud • • 9h ago

Crazy Mechanics

8 Upvotes

So im about to crest over my first 100 hours in Qud and I love this game to death, but I haven’t really figured out anything game-breaking! I’ve never been good at breaking games and I’ve been focusing more on story, so are there any mechanics I should master to start my path on being a true CoQ player and destroying reality?


r/cavesofqud • • 8h ago

How do I use Sure Fire?

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I have it learned but I have no activation on it and I marked a target.


r/cavesofqud • • 18h ago

Is there a free COQ demo?

5 Upvotes

The game looks very fun. I've seen plenty of videos on it, but I can't find any demos.


r/cavesofqud • • 22h ago

Can you make a mega Merchant Hub by bringing merchants to one place ?

8 Upvotes

I was playing around with Legendary Merchants and Love Injector and remembered that when you make someone fall in love with you they will follow you and obey your ordrers.

As anyone here tried to make a mega merchant hub by bringing them all to one place (Ex : Grit Gate)
Since they restock, can I bring them to a place and order them to stay here ? Or will they get back to their workshop once the Love Injector effect wears out ?

Making this with multiple Legendary merchants could make commerce way easier since you won't have to move around the whole map to get new items and sell those you have


r/cavesofqud • • 14h ago

mods

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Ive got a lot of good tinker recipes on me but I cannot for the life of me get the mods that im recommended to have on my gun. Whats a good way to farm weapon mods and, whats good for a chain laser gun? The heavy weapon one I dont remember its name cuz mine is a relic


r/cavesofqud • • 1d ago

+40 reputation with the society of WHAT Spoiler

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72 Upvotes

I see why they got the Hugo award now


r/cavesofqud • • 1d ago

I like to play Caves of Qud in my Rp5

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117 Upvotes

Hi guy. I want you show you how I playing now Caves of qud. Like a father I can't play long time and I have steam deck but sometimes it is a bit bulky for play 10 minutes(be father make enjoy even 10 minutes when have time). I can put in standby for playing in any moment.

Someone wants to know I am using droideck, because I used Gamenative but I can't use well with the mods, when you using mis for QoL and for expand the world is difficult back to base game. Maybe the worse when start the game from 0 (not standby) take 3-5 minutes I think because Rp5 is not so powerful and I put a lot mods.

I the photo is my million try be slime mod but always die soon because I eat everything 😂.


r/cavesofqud • • 1d ago

Homeopathy in Qud

46 Upvotes

How closely are the contents of a liquid mixture tracked? I have one dram of cloning draught, and carbide chef. I wish to make an army of me, but I need to know how far I can dilute my me-juice. So far I have successfully turned 1 dram of cloning draught and 63 drams of fresh water into 64 drams of homogenized water, but I'm curious if anyone has gone farther than that (think a dram of cloning draught into 4k fresh water.)

Update on the Homeopathy: I have managed to turn 1 dram of cloning draught into (theoretically) 512 drams of homogenized water. I did this by pouring 1 dram of CD into 63 drams of water, then pouring out half and refilling with water 3 times. After the 4th doubling, the mixture became 64 drams of fresh water. This allows for 512 clones to be made from one dram of cloning draught.

Update on the cloning: Drinking homogenized water does not give the budding (cloning) effect. Cooking with carbide chef inspiration does. Cooking without carbide chef inspiration does. Thank you for coming to my ted talk.


r/cavesofqud • • 1d ago

Wiring advice

9 Upvotes

Live and Drink Water Brethren!

Any Qud electricians out there? I powered off the fusion reactor. I laid out wire between the reactor and the gate. I checked the continuity of the wiring. Powered up the fusion reactor and.... nothing? The capacitor on the gate still read very low.

So I have a few questions.

How will I know if I got it right?

If there are two wiring paths that intersect and one of them has a break in it, will that prevent the other pathway from working?

Any advice?


r/cavesofqud • • 2d ago

What does this mean

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r/cavesofqud • • 2d ago

I've been following these two games called Salt Pilgrim. The dev says it's Qud inspired.One is a text rpg the other is a deck builder

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Some of the sprites look awfully familiar haha. but it looks neat! i haven't played the text one but the card one the combat feels like balatro and slay the spire(?). it's on ios and coming to android and steam


r/cavesofqud • • 2d ago

round three motherfucker

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11 Upvotes

any tips before I continue to trap myself in an unending time-loop until god is defeated?


r/cavesofqud • • 2d ago

Vague, cryptic and generally un-useful hints required

18 Upvotes

I have discovered the nephilim, and I want to hunt and kill all of them, may I have some incredibly esoteric and unhelpful hints as to their locations?


r/cavesofqud • • 2d ago

Esper hunter generation when perma-dominating something with no mutations?

5 Upvotes

The qud wiki Glimmer page says:

Mutations

Hunter mutations are generated based off of the player character's mutations. For every mental mutation that costs more than 1 point, the hunter will randomly get a mental mutation also greater than 1 point that is the same level as that mutation.

And

The glimmer of a dominated creature is based off of the original dominator of the domination chain, usually the player.

I'm just thinking about what the hypothetical hunters coming after a perma-dominated non-esper would look like. Hypothetically, could you have very high glimmer and no mental mutations, meaning your hunters woudn't have mutations either?


r/cavesofqud • • 2d ago

I'm so dead 😂

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r/cavesofqud • • 3d ago

found a big ol cave

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23 Upvotes

idk if its bugged but ima just keep following this pink stuff till I get bored :D


r/cavesofqud • • 3d ago

Nuke

25 Upvotes

...huh? What ITEM is this? Is it reusable? Is it just one parasang? It seems so strong that I think I'll get too afraid of losing it and just never use it


r/cavesofqud • • 3d ago

Wish to get back to sultan mask room

6 Upvotes

just finished tomb of eaters and I cleared out the cherubs only to realize I ONLY PICK ONE MASK SO I RELOADED MY CHECKPOINT AND IM BaCK OOUTSIDE THE DAMN TOMB AND IM NOT DOING ALL THAT SHIT AGAIN SO I SWEAR TO GOD PLEaSE TELL ME THERES A WISH I CAN DO TO GET BACK TO THE TOP ITS 12 AM


r/cavesofqud • • 3d ago

Deathmark Teleportation

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I am trapped in a sort of Sisyphean time loop within the tomb of eaters where I keep walking around the same areas because I can only ever take 300 steps, is there a path I should follow from the mole settlement?