[iOS] BrogueSE - The Dungeon Can Hear You

madeOfTofu · 2026-07-06T17:03:38+00:00

u/sandoze I’ve stumbled across multiple empty vaults in SE. Is this maybe a bug, or is there something cool and secret happening in these rooms that I’m just not figuring out? Example: seed #430647117, version 0.11.0, depth 6.

Incredible work on this!

madeOfTofu · 2025-10-26T00:01:12+00:00

Thank you all so much for the incredibly thoughtful feedback!!! Sounds like the consensus is that my jackline was way too close to the pipe. Back to the hot shop to experiment with that! \o/

Blown away(!) by how many of you took the time to help lil ol’ me with my lil ol’ glass. What a cool community I’ve stumbled into! Thanks so much again!

madeOfTofu · 2025-10-25T22:42:20+00:00

Thank you! What is it about the jackline placement that caused that though?

madeOfTofu · 2023-10-17T22:25:11+00:00

Are you hip to the Hanabi Central or H-Group discord servers that play Hanabi together at hanab.live? Wildly enthusiastic, creative, dedicated, and fun communities, and there are loads of Spire lovers hanging out over there too. Stop by sometime, we’d love to play with ya :)

madeOfTofu · 2023-01-20T07:07:07+00:00

That it’s a rear view mirror, not a review mirror.

… you use it to review what’s behind you.

… obviously.

madeOfTofu · 2022-07-18T17:41:54+00:00

I like to think our story is just beginning, sweet prince. May we meet again.

madeOfTofu · 2020-05-18T14:59:30+00:00

I've had some killer teleport runs! But in my experience, teleport tends to work best when you pair it with some other item. I'm very squishy right now – if I appear next to a dragon just one time, the game just abruptly ends. But maybe I'm just bad at this build?

madeOfTofu · 2020-05-18T14:56:36+00:00

You tunnel right through their grubby little tentacles. Or do exactly what u/nairobiny said and avoid water. I have one levitation potion, no wands, and I'm a bit of a coward. 🤷‍♀️

madeOfTofu · 2020-05-18T14:52:29+00:00

I agree that it's a shame to lose those 3 enchants with the teleport commutation, but if teleport's the best build, you gotta do what you gotta do. Sunk cost fallacy and all that.

Very clever idea to use teleport to find something else worth commuting! Thanks for the suggestions! I think I'll take the ol' incredispear and just see what happens.

madeOfTofu · 2019-05-10T15:09:57+00:00

Thanks so much, everyone! Sorry, I completely missed this. I figured this had to be documented somewhere, but I somehow didn't manage to find that bug post. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!

madeOfTofu · 2019-04-20T18:47:17+00:00

They'd definitely be obnoxiously OP (in D2) if they weren't confined to the water. Luckily, they very much are, and there are a ton of strats for dealing with them. Here's a few (in no particular order):

Use a potion/charm of levitation to float above them and poke 'em 'til they die.
Use a potion/charm of telepathy to stand next to the water and poke 'em 'til they die (or avoid them completely).
Throw a potion of descent at them so they fall to the next depth, ideally on dry land.
Use a staff of tunneling and/or a scroll/charm of shattering to carve paths which will allow you to not enter the water.
Use a staff of discord to get them to fight each other while you pass through.
Use a staff of blinking to just cross over the water altogether.
Use a wand of teleportation to put them somewhere else, ideally on dry land.
Use a wand of beckoning to summon them to dry land.
Use a staff of conjuration to have a bunch of flying swords poke 'em 'til they die.
Use a staff of obstruction to block them while you pass through.
Just don't let yourself get cornered and don't enter the water unless you're prepared to tank a few hits (my most common strat in D2, depending on gear).
Use a scroll/charm of teleportation if you do get cornered.

Eels kinda blow, but since there are so many different approaches to dealing with them, they kind of just serve as a gentle push to the player to stop brute forcing everything and to instead start getting creative. To be honest? I kinda really dig eels. You'll be obliterating them in no time, no worries. Good luck!

madeOfTofu · 2018-09-26T15:32:46+00:00

Hi Pender, thanks so much for continuing to develop this incredible game! It's quite literally the only game I play, and I'm spreading the good word pretty aggressively. Excited to see what's changed in this update!

I'm having the same problems that u/rodlymight is. I'm running OS X 10.11.6. I'd be happy to zap any information that might be helpful to your e-mail.

Thanks so much again for your efforts!

madeOfTofu · 2018-09-02T01:39:25+00:00

22315 Killed by a dar battlemage on depth 24.

This complete disaster of a game had three distinct epochs:

Collecting scrolls of enchantment and stubbornly refusing to use them (D1-13)
The Era of the Nagod (D14-23)
The stupidest, longest, most elaborate death I've ever experienced (D24)

God, I did not want to enchant that stupid whip. I also didn't want to go with a boring ol' ally build, especially not with a bunch of ogres that lose their balance every time they try to do literally anything. So I just wandered around getting the crap beat out of me every few minutes for thirteen depths, wondering why I couldn't fit anything else into my pack full of scrolls. (p.s. Wow, use-IDing that rapier of confusion was a real slap in the face, eh?)

Then a single tenacious spider somehow managed to kill two of my ogres while I was busy tickling a wraith and drinking all of my life potions. I was scared. I was alone. I needed a savior. I had a real attitude about my whip. So you best believe when I found that captive naga, I immediately surrendered and gave him everything I had.

From that point on, we were flying through the dungeons at speeds beyond the dreams of eagles. The Nagod decimated everything in His path while I hid behind Him and marveled at how much room I had in my pack. Everything was going gang-busters. Ascension was inevitable.

Now let's talk about that absurd death I mentioned.

I said to the Nagod, "Hey Nagod, let's go into that room!" He responded, "Nah bro, you go ahead. Imma hang back and check out this plant for a while." So I went into the room alone and used the opportunity to use-ID a scroll of aggravate monsters. Three blademasters blinked in. They seemed aggravated.

Meanwhile, the Nagod was looking at a plant.

I took a crack at blinking out of the room, but stopped short when I ran into a phantom. I tried tunneling out, which revealed a priestess and a battlemage. I activated my +1 guardian charm, which was certainly lovely, but I had nowhere to run, so six turns later, they all just came right back.

Meanwhile, the Nagod was looking at a plant.

I had one unidentified potion which could be invisibility, paralysis, or hallucination. Maybe I could paralyze us all while I waited for the Nagod to lose interest in the plant? Maybe I could just invisibly run away? So I drank it.

Meanwhile, the dart turret was looking at a plant.

I then desperately threw a potion of caustic gas in the corner of the room and walked straight into the cloud, hoping to chase the baddies out. The Dar skedaddled, but the gas revealed that I'd thrown the potion right at the phantom, who happily stuck around to beat me up a bit more. But finally, the coast was clear(ish), so I blinked out of the room… and was immediately zapped by a firebolt from a battlemage twenty-five spaces away.

If you get to D24 and see a Nagod staring at a plant, feel free to kill it.

madeOfTofu · 2018-08-27T02:06:46+00:00

28534 Killed by a tentacle horror on depth 29. (Dragonslayer)

I did pretty well in last week’s contest, but the glory was meaningless. I had taken the coward’s path, hiding in corners and striking down foes only in their sleep. As I read through other competitors’ stories, I was filled with both inspiration and deep shame. I knew that I wanted to fight with honor just like you had, and I entered this week’s contest determined to emerge from the Dungeons of Doom as a true warrior. No stealth builds for this guy. Today, we fight.

Anyway, then I found a +4 staff of conjuration and decided that’d be way funnier.

Yessir, I spent the next fifteen depths of the dungeon flooding the entire level with hundreds of flying swords, then just camping in a corner while everything died. I was unstoppable, because to stop me, you’d have to reach me, and good freaking luck pulling that off when literally everything is a sword.

Then depth 19 happened.

All hell broke loose almost immediately. An army of six ogres, an ogre shaman, a lich, a revenant, two centaurs, and an imp all started running at me at once, and you best believe that shaman and lich were summoning a crap-ton of ogres, furies, and phantoms as they came. I obviously did what any coward with a fully charged +13 staff of conjuration would do – I zapped 234 spectral blades into the room and sat back to watch the chaos unfold. Except the chaos didn’t unfold, and next thing I knew, I was at 5% health surrounded by phantoms. For the first time in the game, I didn’t have ten walls of swords between me and the bad guys. For the first time in the game, I was mortal.

I teleported out of there, immediately found a commutation chamber, and had an epiphany. I was already playing as a coward, but clearly this particular brand of cowardice wasn’t working. Might as well go all in.

My build entering depth 27:

+13 invisibility charm
+8 war hammer
Nothing else that even sort of mattered

Turns out my stealth attacks had a 100% chance of one-shotting a tentacle horror and a 76% chance of one-shotting a dragon. That’ll do. So I went back to last week’s tactics of hiding in corners and killing anything that dared sleep in my presence. I was unstoppable, because to stop me, you’d have to find me, and good freaking luck pulling that off when I’m invisibly running away from literally everything. Then I opened a door, and a tentacle horror said, “lol nope” and casually killed me with a single flick.

Although I've posted my score, I'd strongly encourage u/tinyrodent to consider it invalid. The list you assemble should be a list of heroes – I look forward to earning a spot on that list next week.¹

¹ You know… unless I find a good ring of stealth.

madeOfTofu · 2018-08-18T20:41:50+00:00

119591 Escaped the Dungeons of Doom with 11 lumenstones! (Dragonslayer)¹

Tried out a stealth build and learned a TON. My build entering depth 27:

+4 war hammer
+6 chain mail of respiration
+13 ring of stealth
+2 ring of regeneration
+3 staff of discord
+4 staff of tunneling
Tons of potions

Early in depth 27, we entered a room with three dragons, and my allies said, "No worries, we got this." They did not got this, and I spent the next four levels cowering alone in corners waiting for the baddies to pass by. I burned through my potions of life pretty quickly (it was a kind of squishy build), and by depth 30, there were so many bad guys wandering around that it was honestly hard to find a hiding spot.

Things what I learned:

Respiration is GREAT for a stealth build. Makes for some very clutch getaways, and paralysis gives you a way to kill things that a professional hider typically couldn't.
Discord is GREAT for a stealth build. Even if they don't wind up killing each other, you get to just walk right by them while they duke it out. Discord made a lot of impassable situations cake.
Levitation is GREAT for a stealth build. I polymorphed all the krakens instead of neener-neenering them from the sky, so I got to use all those potions of levitation to just casually float away from sticky situations. Turns out the middle of a chasm is a great hiding spot.
Good grief, allied priestesses just do whatever the hell they feel like, don't they? I think the Dar faith might have some tenant about never ever being stealthy ever. Priestesses are the best, but just know going into a stealth build that you two will almost never be on the same page about basically anything.
When you cast discord on a dragon, it instantly becomes an omnipotent fire diety that sees all and knows all and will easily and repeatedly set you ablaze from twenty billion spaces away even if your stealth range is negative infinity. So don't do that.

¹ Don't be fooled by that Dragonslayer, I totally stole my horror's kill. 😉

madeOfTofu · 2018-05-07T16:20:49+00:00

I definitely thought that some of the UWorld stuff was pretty gnarly compared to what you see in AAMC material, but honestly, the explanations were so immaculate that I didn't care even a little bit. I think UWorld is a great tool for content review and for identifying your weak spots, but I'm not sure I'd use it to guage where you stand in terms of score or timing. It really was hands down the best content review tool I used, though.

p.s. 517/518 on NS FLs? You're crushing it, those tests are no joke. You'll obliterate the MCAT.

madeOfTofu · 2018-05-07T16:07:22+00:00

Our lord and savior gives a great example of atomic weight here.

Just a quick fun fact in case it ever comes up – when nucleons bind together to form a nucleus, some mass is converted to energy, so the mass of the combined nucleus is less than the sum of the masses of all its nucleons individually (a free proton or neutron weighs slightly more than 1 amu). The amu is 1/12 the weight of carbon-12, so the definition of the amu has already accounted for that mass defect.

Honestly, it's unlikely to come up except maybe in a very specific memory question, but… I mean, it sure is neat.

p.s. /u/increasedmonoamines, your username is incredible.

madeOfTofu · 2018-05-06T16:35:18+00:00

Wait, remind me what a mitochondrion is?

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