Change Message Box Location

yeslipoi · October 26, 2026, 11:52am

Hello, new player here, is there a way to change the message box from the bottom of the screen to the top?

If find very hard to pay attention to it there and end up lose important information.

stoatsoup · October 26, 2026, 2:39pm

crawl/crawl/blob/master/crawl-ref/docs/options_guide.txt

Guide to Crawl's options
========================

This document explains all of the options in the latest version of Dungeon
Crawl Stone Soup. If you get stuck or some things don't seem to work properly,
ask for help in any of the community discussion resources described at
http://crawl.develz.org/.

The contents of this text are:

0-  Generalities.
0-a     Standard and additional option files.
0-b     Options on the command line.
0-c     Options and how to set them.
0-d     List options.
0-e     Aliases and variables.
1-  Starting Screen.
                name, type, remember_name, weapon, species, background, combo,
                restart_after_game, restart_after_save, newgame_after_quit,
                name_bypasses_menu, default_manual_training,

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messages_at_top

yeslipoi · October 26, 2026, 2:59pm

Thanks! Tried finding it and couldn’t!