I've advanced quite a bit, and now I'm unsure of where to go

I'm cleared Dungeon, Lair, Orc and Slime so far, here is my morgue too : https://pastebin.com/pmD8KN4A

Should I attempt the snake level ? Swamp ? Or Depths ?

Also is my build alright ?

Were the new shapeshifter backgrounds removed from trunk? Someone made a post about the a week or so ago but I don't see them on trunk.

ive always wanted to get some of my art on a dcss loading screen but ive always been kind of a middling artist. i dont think that should stop anyone so i started doing little pieces when my contract at a big tech company started slowing down and i've been playing dcss again. hope you think they're funny

i put them in order of how much i like them, so some of the more recent ones that turned out better are first

i really like some of the situations the game throws at you and what it forces you to imagine

no ai, you can see wips on my bluesky and i have a bunch of sketches where i draw it out in black marker on my drafting desk before i do it in digital

So this is probably an "I wish I had your choices" post, but ... I picked up Arga from the Oka gift, but I also have the consecrated labrys on offer in an acquirement scroll. What do people think about the relative merits of these high-end weapons in a 3-rune game? I usually do try to do Crypt, so the labrys is obviously a plus there. I'd take the labrys just for Crypt if it didn't come with ^Fragile. Character is MiFi^Oka.

My other options in the scroll are manual of evocations, a pretty good amulet, and cash that would allow me to by the slick slippers. I have no boots at present, so the +2 would be good, but the wiki seems to think these are more trouble than they are worth. The amulet is this:

I am running DCSS on a Linux Mint Laptop and installed it via the software manager. Every time I start DCSS, it opens in full window mode on my laptop screen. I have an external monitor and would like to move the window to the other screen but can't seem to un-maximize the window.

I'm sure it's an easy thing, but I have searched and not found an answer. Maybe it's an OS issue?

2 runes so far (Shoal and Snake), just finished Vault 4 and I'm scared of delving further.

I'm not sure what to do, I think my build's really solid besides the fact I've got a -rC and zero negative resistance. I've got like 6 potions of mutation so I can go gambling if I want to but any recommendations?

FYI, I got two stealth books by chance. This was a really lucky seed in which I think I got about 7 acq (no this isn't some dcss_seed that I pulled out I just found it by accident)

I o-tabbed my ass through ALL of Vault 1-4, Snake and Elf somehow. Didn't even realize I was at Elf Layer 3 until I hit 30% health and panic invis potted (worked somehow)

I play really recklessly because I rely mainly on muscle memory and I'm really not serious when It comes to playing this game but I really haven't gotten this far and would like some help, should I swap out anything, should I just go for that Vault 5?

Though seriously, if you haven’t watched it, you are missing out! As a newbie, it made me want to try so many different character combos.

Link to video

Hey everyone! I’m a beginner, but I’m really enjoying this game so far.
I’ve been doing one game of MiFi as part of my morning routine, and this is what I found when I opened a door on D:6.
All I could do was press S → Y to save and quit. 😂
My gear:
+5 war axe
Okawaru as my god
1 scroll of teleportation
1 healing potion
So, experienced DCSS players, what would you do in this situation?
Please teach this little noob your ways!

First win ever! Started playing a little over two years ago. Many octopi splatted across the dungeon floors of Zot across multiple versions of dcss.

Shapeshifter progression:
Quill > Maw > Dragon > Storm

The exit was much less stressful than the descent. Living on the edge with two pips of Will and only a few Enlightenment potions.

Feedback is welcome!

Morgue:
https://pastebin.com/2hpiqpqe

Hello!

Fairly strong mino this run, 2 runes. Cleared dungeon, depths, Shoals, spider, orc, lair. Worshipping elyvilon which has been great so far but is starting to struggle now.

Problems: no gold dragon armor so far, resistances require ring swapping (green draconian almost killed me when not wearing rpois), broad axe brand isn't great (found the of flame axe later on).

I don't have an elyvilon win yet, but I think swapping to TSO would be safer. Im scared of new slime, and with no regen or stealth abyss doesn't seem great. Vault 5 seems like the best option for rune 3.

Anything I'm missing to help fix some of the weaknesses?

https://crawl.dcss.io/crawl/morgue/lyndar/lyndar.txt

https://pastebin.com/vd3g1G7e

So Oka blessed me with hood of the Assassin which allows stabbing with any weapon.

And it offers me this stealth broad axe and a quick blade. I was initially planning going with standard demon blade and DEX stacking in mid - endgame, what to do?

Do I take the axe and pivot to Str build? Do I take quick blade and try to override the brand with something better? Or just ignore hoods upside?

Unless I'm wrong, Jiyva's altar will always spawn along with the entrance to the slime area, which can be found on the final floor of Lair.

The altar can also spawn as a faded altar, or randomly on floors 9+ (not sure about the minimum floor for that one).

And the way to get piety for Jiyva is to explore floors.

So what I'm asking is how can I get to Jiyva's altar, while not exploring too much, in order to be able to build up piety on the higher floors easily

Morgue: https://pastebin.com/2s3UXFFP

Background:

I got into DCSS last month, around 29th Oct I think? I have been playing it basically daily since then and finally got a win today around roughly 50 or so runs later (49th run if i don't include random runs on mobile that i tried for a bit or checking out DCSS on the web). I think I should be around 38 hours in or so in total as well.

I play mostly with ascii graphics on local because I think it looks neat and the web servers are like quite far from me so I haven't played them.

Previous runs:

The best I had gotten previously was a run that had just about cleared Vault 1-4 and Elves with 2 runes from Swa. I hadn't yet learned that vault 5 comes later so I stupidly tried to fight it out and died with my hubris and belief in the power of Ru's apocalypse by stair dancing and spamming them. I died after escaping to V4 far from enemies with a tele scroll, I had run out of curing pots and the poison from a golden dragon lethally poisoned me with around 340k score.

Besides this, the other runs died before I even got a single rune with only 2 runs making it near the S branches with around 109k scores.

This run:

I had picked up Yred for no other reason than that he showed up early and I really do like being accompanied by a hoard of undead.

I had made it to the end of Orcish Mines (where one of my runs 0 rune but further in runs died) quite smoothly before I had decided to get a bunch of help from the #dcss channel in the roguelikes discord in terms of which branch to go to first and gearing and they had continued to help throughout whenever I went to a new area in addition to also witnessing my final Zot:5 fight and orb run.

I had done Spider Nest and Swamp for my first two rune in that order and I'd say they went really well and easy without much danger, the resistances weren't too bad and the undead horde from Yred helped both areas quite massively tbh.

Next up I had decided to deal with Vault: 1-4 first (definitely not going into V:5 this time before preparation) and with some slow play and my horde, it wasn't a big issue at all clearing.

Then I had done entirety of Elves and I had nearly died a few times in Elves:3, having to use tele scrolls, sacrificing unique bound souls etc and being low hp, mostly because of well that instead of luring enemies, I was kinda just mostly fighting face to face this time. It wasn't a complete open brawl but it was pretty messy.

I had then done depths which were quite risky as well with me being close to death a couple times in Depths:4 I think? I had done necropolis before this which had gotten me that neat rF rC ring which was quite crucial because I absolutely lacked those earlier.

Then it was finally time for Vault:5, I had used a shaft and landed in the upper right room of the vault where I had summoned my initial undead and slowly fought my way to the top right which allowed me to gradually clear the room without much issue really and I got my 3rd rune.

I had then finally went down into Zot where my silver javelins and throwing showed its use in facing down some orb of fire in Zot:1, I had then only faced them later in Zot:5. Overall tho, Zot 1-4 weren't too bad.

Zot:5, I had been going through this area really slowly and it was overall going pretty steady with me being able to easily get to a prism and kill it wthout much issue from the right side of the hall of zot.

It had all sort of become a shitshow when I finally picked up the Orb Of Zot tho, I had to use a telescroll, tele-trap to barely escape Zot-5 before then beginning the Orb run.

The orb run was just so clutch like at every moment, I hate torment symbol, that thing caused so many issues for me.

I was facing pandemonium lords at like 50-60 hp a couple of times and only barely escaping with Yred's shackle, tele-scrolls and so on while gradually also using a bunch of my evocable, specifically my wand of warping to gradually make it up.

I was also using potion of ambrosia to heal or invisible whenever a enemy didn't see invisible before gradually making it to D:1 where I had to face Pios Cuq at sub 60 hp I think? It might have been lower alongside a few other enemies.

Since Yred was picked up later, I could still light the torch at this floor and the summons he gave me were enough distraction to sneak over and leave with the orb.

The escape was genuinely like a horror game, I was so scared of these random enemies that kept showing up while I was in red hp and I didn't have any blinking scrolls, healing wound, hast e and other things.

Speaking of drops, I think my armor drops were really bad? I only ever found +0 Plate armor with no branding armor drops. I had 16 mutation potions and 7 or so brand weapon scrolls? I don't really think my equipment was that insane except the shield and ring maybe.

TLDR: Easy until S-Branches, Smooth and Steady until Orb of Zot and a panicked shishow for the orb run escape.

Pretty solid run so far: https://pastebin.com/LeibGJJh

Got full rN, checked all the other resistances, and some solid mutations.

Have never beaten Hell and Tombs since they were made more punishing however many versions ago. They seem very scary. Full rN is nice but Torment/Smiting still a concern.

Abyss seems def doable, and maybe even Pan?

I picked up a decent randart shortsword with devious really early, and then had a random potion of experience that I used to get it to min delay and up stealth, but I'm realizing I have no idea how to build this type of character and would love any assistance. I also don't have the best god for the situation, I got Nemelex Xobeh before I picked up the sword and potion, from an unknown altar where I would've preferred either of the other options but figured Xobeh is of generic enough benefit that it wouldn't be too bad either way, but now I'm regretting not having the option to go for Dimenthos or something. What should I do next in this situation, and how do you build a stealth/shortsword character in the first place?

morgue link - https://underhound.eu/crawl/morgue/zdzicho121/morgue-zdzicho121-20261011-175010.txt

my first run after not playing for 1 year, pretty lucky run

AI-generated personal project for my own pleasure, sharing just in case someone finds it interesting. I suck at recording, and it did something funky to the HDR that's not completely representative of how it looks -- I swear it looks better on my display.

• CRT filter
• Glow effect
• Revamped stat and map display
• Splash text for effects
• Glow for light sources
• Line of sight lighting
• Cloud effects
• Blink and telerpot effects
• Confusion effects
• Soft sound effects for noise

My guess: The "looks more healthy" message always displays after the final tick of poison damage, even if that final tick kills them.

Hello! Recently got into the game, and I'm having some trouble with one particular QoL feature.

I'm playing on Android and like Nagas, which means the Quick-Select feature is very useful for all their venom-spitting. However, it sometimes seems to change to a 'more suitable' quick-select than the Ability quick-select contextually, which means that if I pick up situational magic (e.g currently I have a Shapeshifter who usually likes Naga Form but would prefer Scarab Form for fire magic against undead), it defaults to letting me select spells instead of selecting abilities, and I have about three more button-presses to spit at somebody successfully.

What's this thing called, and what's the command to set it manually? I haven't been able to identify a name in any of the manuals or in-game options, which means I haven't been able to find controls to change it with. Thank you!

Pretty much the title. I really want to play the original game but no one is saying how to set it up on the pc or which version do I start with. can someone please help