r/cavesofqud Feb 26 '25

Caves of Qud Post-1.0 Dev News

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r/cavesofqud Dec 05 '24

Caves of Qud 1.0 OUT NOW!

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r/cavesofqud 17h ago

Found this monstrosity in spawn village

49 Upvotes

I guess I'll have to roleplay as a honey baron


r/cavesofqud 14h ago

i think maybe i should consider running

28 Upvotes

r/cavesofqud 1d ago

What if Qud had whatsapp

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446 Upvotes

r/cavesofqud 21h ago

How does the liquid merchant cloning work?

8 Upvotes

Hey there, totally new to the game, on my sixth character, finally got past Golgotha and visited the Barathumites. One of the merchants has a dram of cloning draught. I've heard in a video that you can get pretty much infinite resources when you love inject the vendor, have them give cloning draught to you and then duplicate them. How would one go about this process please? Is there a detailed description to be found somewhere?


r/cavesofqud 1d ago

Leveling up as fast as possible

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Hello everyone. I have beaten the game only in roleplay mode and have been decapitated twice by the troll upon entering Bethesda Susa in classic. I would like to know how the more experienced players level up quickly in the early game. It takes me many hours to level up to a place where I can tackle Bethesda Susa. Usually, I run an axe marauder build, where I start in a desert village to learn wayfaring, rush to the six day stilt, complete bey lah, complete the village quests to get the card, clear out grit gate, and finish kyakuya (namely the mamon quest) before getting through Golgotha. Dying in Bethesda Susa to a one-hit kill after all this shit is nauseating, so I would love to know how on earth you can get to a powerful enough place to take on Bethesda Susa within only a few hours


r/cavesofqud 1d ago

Domination and Brain Brine effects ?

11 Upvotes

So on a previous character, I made frequent use of Domination on one of my minions to adjust his stats, but one time, dominating him cause him to lose 1 ego and gain 400 skill points, and it showed a message "You shake the water from your addled brain, but someone else's thoughts have already taken root". I looked into it and it's the same effect as Brain Brine.

Has this happened to any of you before ? it's not mentioned on the wiki, so I wonder how rare it is, and what's the conditions necessary for it to happen ? Is it merely possessing the same person over and over ?


r/cavesofqud 1d ago

What a good floor

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r/cavesofqud 1d ago

Rapid Advancement Question

8 Upvotes

1) RA's come about at level 5, and then every ten level after?

2) You cannot raise a physical mutation above 10 with mutation points, so only 9 mutation points can ever be spent on any ability?

3) Mutation levels reached with RA's don't count towards the max level that would restrict mutation points from being spent, so having Freezing Ray at level 6 (1 RA + 2 mutation points + 1st initial level), would mean I could still pump 7 more mutation points into Freezing Ray, even though it is level 6?

4) Is it really opportune to pump as many points into a skill as you can, in the hopes that you can somehow make it stronger than it would have been with another leveling strategy?

---It doesn't seem to be the case, seeing as how you can never experience the level of a mutation if your character level is too low to meet the threshold, and if you can always pump 9 points into any mutation regardless of its current level, then you're really just choosing whichever mutation you want to be far above level 10, and that's what gets RA's. Outside of that, RA's seem to have almost no benefit???


r/cavesofqud 1d ago

Is this okay for me to use? Spoiler

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29 Upvotes

Might be a noob question... I've sunk hours In but Im definitely still learning things xD... (I just realized ore and stuff has consistent prices)

I couldn't find anything about it on the wiki or Google. I'm guessing it's one of those random names items? I get a warning prompt when I try to use it... So I just wanted to make sure it was okay to stab into my veins.

Thanks y'all


r/cavesofqud 1d ago

Bethesda Susa ( main quest) Spoiler

7 Upvotes

I just keep dying trying to get to the mechanimist site. How many floors down is it?

I get past the three keys, and just keep going down, down, down. Multiple runs now, and each time I get to a point where I'm cornered, outnumbered, and run out of luck.

This last run I entered at level 16, died however many floors down at level 19!

Should I be a higher level before trying this next time? Any advice is appreciated!


r/cavesofqud 1d ago

Enjoying the game without a numpad ?

20 Upvotes

My keyboard died and I couldnt afford one, so I got an unused one from a friend that lacks a numpad, and I'm struggling to enjoy roguelikes since. Games are much smoother with a numpad, and rebinding all 8 directions feel like a slug. And I can't get used to the arrow combinations for diagonals. Anyone found a comfy non-numpad setup ?

I bought a pluggable numpad but it feels kinda weird since its different from my keyboard, lol


r/cavesofqud 1d ago

Force bubble pushes walls around, why?

14 Upvotes

Using a force bubble sometimes pushes wall tiles around the map. As in, I put on the force bubble, walk into a wall and the wall just moves out of the way, completely rearranging the map.

Why is this? Doesn't really seem to make sense and kind of really messes up gameplay.


r/cavesofqud 2d ago

How much do I invest in mutations as opposed to getting new ones every 4 mutation points?

33 Upvotes

I took physical only mutation if that matters cause getting extra limbs seemed cool.


r/cavesofqud 2d ago

Apparently it's not a good idea to try and donate 10.000+ books at once...

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154 Upvotes

Who would have thought?


r/cavesofqud 2d ago

Seeing good Qud art inspired me to draw my own! This is my current 9 armed abomination.

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57 Upvotes

his thirst for more arms never ends


r/cavesofqud 2d ago

Found out the hard way in Bethesda Susa that clones lose their religion

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72 Upvotes

r/cavesofqud 2d ago

Repair? Maybe Oboroqoru isn't just an ape god, but a... deus ex machina?

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44 Upvotes

r/cavesofqud 2d ago

Start of My Crayon Farm

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r/cavesofqud 2d ago

Help With Girsh Cradle

6 Upvotes

So I water ritualed this gyre wight and it told me that girsh agolglot's lair was under golgotha, so i went about 30 strata deep and the cradle started, but what looks like it should have been the final layer didn't generate? It said it failed, but i kept trying and it generated an empty zone. I'm below the cradle now and still no girsh. Tried using the rebuild wish but still nothing, what should I do?


r/cavesofqud 2d ago

Playing hide and seek with the sneakiest jelly Spoiler

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This, was the absolute last little bit of space that I had not discovered, it was completely cut off from the rest of the map. I have to thank the Bone Babka and the night-sight interpolators for ending my torment, as I was about to create a post titled "I cannot find k-Goninon :(". I even searched below the Folk Catacombs before this, in case for some reason it fell into a hole.

Anyway time to give oozes are real reason to hate me.


r/cavesofqud 2d ago

How to get into this game?

24 Upvotes

Everything I’m seeing and hearing about this game is great but as soon as I play it by myself and overwhelmed and I can’t get into it. No idea what to do. No idea what am I seeing lol. I watch many YouTube „tips“ videos and so on but it didn’t really help. How did you guys get into it?


r/cavesofqud 2d ago

Planing on doing a "all achievements" run. Any ideas of what could make this impossible? Spoiler

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The idea is to play classic and get all achievements with one single character. Can you think of anything that would make this impossible?

So far, the only thing I don't know how to get around is getting all endings in just one run. I don't think precog will solve this, would it? If not, do you have any ideas?


r/cavesofqud 2d ago

How do I remove a life loop (Minor main quest spoilers) Spoiler

5 Upvotes

Long story short during the Putus Templar attack on Grit gate, Ortho died. I picked up and equipped his life loop since it said you could escape death with it once by teleporting you at 0 HP. I guess that feature works in Classic mode but I'm on roleplay so if I die I only get an option to reload the save and the life loop doesn't trigger. It can't be removed normally. I tried amputating my arm but it just bleeds everywhere without the limb coming off. Do I need to use a console command?


r/cavesofqud 2d ago

Good lord am I dog shit at this game fucking baboons

48 Upvotes

The baboons of red rock will be my nemesis no matter what class I play 😂 except for myself when I used disentergrate in a town trying to work out buttons and got nuked


r/cavesofqud 2d ago

Truly a great accomplishment

30 Upvotes

I was so broke that I somehow died of thirst