https://crawl.project357.org/morgue/Wizard1ke/morgue-Wizard1ke-20260413-010047.txt
By Wizard1ke. More than double the standing high score. 114 turns total. 439 vanquished creatures (almost 4 per turn!).
No god. Inventory at the end is Warper starting gear. The action table lists only unarmed combat, punch, and unarmed/punch on sleeping and distracted monsters. No evocables, scrolls, potions, or forms. No defense (armour or dodge) shown.
Dungeon → Depths → 2 Pan runes → Abyss rune → Zot → win. No Lair, Orc, Vaults, etc.
This seems incredible. For starters, was there a bug in the turn counter? (I think there’s an option in wizmode to stop the counter.) It was trunk, but I don’t see anything in the commits on GitHub.
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There was a bit of discussion of this on Discord a few weeks ago, and it seems to be an exploit related to Lua or something where certain actions can be made instant. Here’s something Wizard1ke said on a dev channel that got crossposted to the main DCSS channel:
No this isn’t fixed and it likely affects every version of webtiles with mouse support. Its way more frustrating to exploit in 0.34 and later as you can’t move with your turn over anymore
AFAIK, the exploit still isn’t fixed, and its discovery led to increased dev support for resetting the leaderboard when hellpan roulette is released.
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Sometimes people do buggy games for amusement. Clearly in the “doesn’t count” realm of highscores IMO
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I agree with excluding that clearly bugged game from the leaderboards. I’m guessing the devs are waiting for the bug to be fixed before doing this, though I also get the sense it’s existed for many versions, so they may want to figure out a way to exclude the bug more generally than playing whack-a-mole.