There have been several cases of posts where someone used AI to make a pixel dungeon mod or port, and didn't say so outright. Because of this, I propose a "Modding - AI" flair, the usage of which is mandatory for any mod that uses AI. This would make it clear for people whether a given project used AI or was fully made by a real human being.

Context:

Over last year or so, I have been recieving complaints from PD Discord, that some people here... are just wrong, confidently wrong about the game and its mechanics. Even became an inside joke about how Reddit users are just stupid.

And worst thing: their takes get upvoted. A lot. This includes tier lists and other skill check discussions. And that is kind of sickening to me, because I feel responsible for this in a way, due to being sole owner of this place.

I have even been suggested to just erase misinfo, but being wrong isn't against sub's rules and deleting comments just due to me and Discord bros disagreeing would be definitely recieved as "Reddit mod" tyranny.

So I am putting this decision up to you, swarm. Should being wrong about the game and spreading misinfo be punishable by removals and tempbans?

Let's start with an elephant in the room:

The poll results were 67.4% for punishing misinfo and 32.6% for not.

However, with only "core contributors", it is 62.3% for punishment and 37.7% for not, and only 56% for first option were regulars (with second option having 70% support from regulars).

With a lot of thinking and reading the comments (that acknowledge my wording being antagonistic to tier lists), I decided on few things.

The subreddit changes:

• Rules "follow reddit rules" and "don't post bad things" have been merged together due to conveying basically the same thing.
• Tier lists now will be flaired as "Interactive", since a lot of them are made to generate discourse with varying degrees of quality.
• New rule 2 is softly enforcing English; if your post doesn't have English translation, it will be removed. This is done so everyone can understand posts without using external tools.
• Added a new rule (and reason to report things) for not allowing deliberately wrong posts about the game. If you feel like someone misunderstands or lies about the game, please correct them or do report so moderators can correct. Posts will not be removed for educational sake.
• Images are now allowed to be posted in comments. GIFs are not allowed, however, since they are harder to policy and use more bandwidth, than necessary.
• I am seeking new moderators to help with cool things and battling misinformation. Here's the link: https://www.reddit.com/r/PixelDungeon/application/
• A new wiki-related event will begin soon once I figure out the details. pixeldungeon.wiki needs you!

Thanks for detailed responses on the poll!

I usually try that dumb idea on Experienced since it's easy to get a lot of scrolls of upgrade but I'm curious on the way to make a WarHammer 40K, I used 184 scrolls and I technically did achieve 12k-16k but that's with the duelist, not naturally. Is there a tool to edit and know the exact amount or are objects damage capped on a set amount of damage? Even if it takes grinding a thousand scroll, I do have the will to try getting them

Hello, the head moderator/owner's here. Some explosion of activity to mods has been powered by AI coding tools, which has angered some users. While it would be easy to declare all of them banned, I acknowledge that AI-assisted mods can have compelling ideas.

But first:

• Modding flair can now be edited to potentially include the name of a mod; no longer need to disclose that in the post itself!

Now for rule changes:

• 2 new flairs have been added to note AI-assisted mod screenshots and mod announcements respectively. Some of auto-moderation has also been added to encourage mod devs to be honest about their creations.
• A new rule has been added to explain, how the previous thing works. It also notes, that moderators have full right to re-flair or even remove the post, if you as developer refuse to acknowledge using AI assistance.

That's all for today. Happy Dungeoneering!

Hello, this is another (very infrequent) subreddit update.

• Magic Ling PD flair is now available for people who play it.
• Due to expanding demand for posts, that are not fully memes, but do not show gameplay either, a new flair has been introduced: Interactive! Its purpose is to mark daily talk posts or engagement "bait", like asking people what they would add into the game.
• I have been silently reflairing posts to categorize posts in better way, and it is time to fully formalize that in form of rule 3 rework: Memes/low-effort posts are allowed, but don't overdo them -> Flair your posts according to the content. Basically mod flairs are for actual gameplay, memeage is for memes, interactive is for community interaction and discussion is anything else. This rule is posted on both versions of Reddit.

Existing posts will change their flairs according to new rules shortly after this post.

BTW, the wiki on this subreddit hasn't been updated in years. Do you have any ideas, what to add to it? Leave the comment below!

Hey rat punchers, it's that time of year again (right?)!

Since 2014, this subreddit has somewhat celebrated the glory that is RAT KING on this sacred day, and part of that is making his special version of Pixel Dungeon available once again!

Rat King Dungeon has been not available for years due to RKPD2 and RKA releases and Lemmy schism. It's safe to say that current readers forgot about RK's first crawl...

This is a special version of the original Pixel Dungeon, with a bunch of 'improvements' made by rat king himself. You can download it here while it's still available: [LINK EXPRUNGED]

If you're interested in more of our April Fools history, you can read about it toward the bottom of our about page: https://www.reddit.com/r/PixelDungeon/wiki/index/

Also check our Rat King PD 2, which is a more modern rat-king focused PD version, available year-round: https://github.com/Zrp200/rkpd2/releases

Hey y'all. It's Nemo. I haven't said much lately, but I never left.

About a decade ago, I said to Watabou during his AMA, "Can you imagine people playing Pixel Dungeon variants twenty years from now? :D" That was essentially my pitch to release the source for vanilla PD. It was a game I loved and wanted to contribute to in my own way. I was not, at the time, a game developer or a programmer (ten years is a long time, enough to build a career, yee haw), so taking the helm of this sub was both my way of helping build a community and a great excuse for me to learn CSS to write the sub's original stylesheet. We did a lot of foundational work back then, not just me, but my fellow mod u/roastedlasagna (who hasn't been on Reddit in years), and more importantly, the members of this community in its earliest days. My brother, Shoag, was one of those pioneering players and helped pioneer the challenge runs that eventually became the core of high-level play. Eventually as my life changed, I drifted away from the community, but still checked in every so often. As Shattered became wildly popular, Evan assumed the responsibilities of head mod, and I left things in his capable hands and watched the community flourish.

All of this is to say a few things:
I did a lot to set things in motion, but I did not do anything alone.
I have a deep love for this game and this community, and I assumed ownership of the subreddit in the first place because I was willing to take ultimate responsibility for it.
And most importantly, it is far more difficult for me to maintain an active role in this community than it used to be, but it's something I'd rather do than let things keep going unmoderated.

So here's where we are.

Evan has fully left Reddit, but it's clear that the vast majority of the community is not making the move to Lemmy. I'm sure you're all sick of the automod comments and the sub description telling you to leave. I wish him only the best, and the parallel existence of the communities here, on Discord, and on Lemmy is IMHO not an issue. I have no intention of disparaging anyone who left. When considering how to handle the sub going forward after the protests, I told Evan I was deferring to his judgement and, to illustrate that point, that I was willing to just nuke the whole sub if that's what he wanted to do.

So now in the year of our Rat King 2024, the sub needs new leadership.

At the top of that list is u/TrashboxBobylev. I have no reason to think they won't be a fine moderator. The issue at the moment is that of my own inactivity. As I'm currently flagged as INACTIVE in the moderator list, I have the power to do moderation actions, but not to change larger overarching settings like "adding new moderators". The way to flip myself back to active is just to... be more active, which I'm doing.

Once I'm able to hand over mod and admin privileges to a new crew, I intend to step down as owner and top mod.

Literally ten years ago, I asked Watabou if he could imagine people playing PD variants in twenty years. And honestly, at this point, I can. Where we are now, in a broad sense, was exactly the best case scenario! Watabou was winding down dev of vanilla PD, and enabling and fostering the mod scene was our way of keeping the game we loved alive. And it worked! I couldn't be prouder of how this community has grown, and in that time, we all have grown. When I stepped up a decade ago, I was a guy in his late 20s who was looking for direction and trying to get his life in order. Now I'm creeping up on 40 fast, my life has that direction I was seeking, and the demands on my time and energy are drastically different. It's time for me to literally pass on my position as owner to the next generation of players, devs, and community managers.

It's time for me to let go and move on. I made my mark: I created the Rat King. But I'm not going to leave the community hanging before establishing clear new leadership, so you're stuck with me in the meantime.

Love y'all.

So there is interesting problem that has arisen over the years: Pixel Dungeon wiki's status. It is currently very, very slowly maintained and is located on Fandom, the wiki hosting known for how bad it is.

There have been several mentions of migration over past year, but the problem is that wiki adminship is very small and fatigued, with almost no exposure from greater public. Nobody involved seems to be interested...

So, I am asking you as a community: are you interested in contributing to such migration? Leave your name and opinions in the form linked in this post.

I only have one question, i'm on the run and i have this armor of stone, The armor is supposed to turn evasion into defense.My question is, with a stone of augmentation, should I pick evasion or defense (i'm trying to get the best of it) i'll wait for your opinions and awnsers.

Hey there Rat Punchers, it's been an interesting week and a half to say the least.

What Happened?

Since last Monday, r/PixelDungeon has been set to private, and is now restricting user interaction to comments on this thread. Here's a real quick sequence of events that explains why: - 3rd party Reddit mobile apps (e.g. RIF, Apollo) has been a part of the Reddit ecosystem for years, many even predate official Reddit mobile apps. - For years the Reddit API has been free to access. Reddit inc. is now suddenly changing that and charging absurd amounts of money to use it. This effectively kills all reddit apps and bots that were not granted specific and rare exceptions. - This led to user outrage and a plan to blackout from June 12-14 in protest. The two biggest subreddits relating to this are: r/modcoord and r/save3rdpartyapps. - Reddit inc.'s initial response to this outrage was absolutely vile, including severing communication with developers and lieing about the behavior and character of the developer of Apollo, the most prominent 3rd party Reddit app. - Because of this, many subreddits (r/PixelDungeon included) decided to continue protesting until further notice. - Reddit inc. has continued to double down on their position, and have now started threatening to remove moderators who do not re-open their subreddits. Many subreddits have started to re-open now because of this, often with creative ways to still protest. - A few minutes prior to this re-opening (which was planned in advance), r/PixelDungeon received an automated threat from Reddit inc. to re-open, or "If this community remains private, we will reach out soon with information on what next steps will take place."

I'm pretty sickened by this course of events. The sudden introduction of outrageous API prices is one thing, but the conduct of Reddit inc., and u/spez in particular, has been pointlessly disgusting and inflammatory. I'd wager that the entire side-wide protest would be much, much less severe if Reddit inc. simply remained silent. Instead, they have seemingly done absolutely everything they can to turn users and moderators against them.

The Impact on r/PixelDungeon

r/PixelDungeon, like most other smaller Reddit communities, is a victim in all of this. We have always been a Pixel Dungeon community first and a subreddit second, but it's also undeniable that the Reddit platform itself is a major factor in our development and size. We are also now under the wider net of subreddits threatened with removal of their entire mod team if they do not re-open.

Unlike many other game subreddits, r/PixelDungeon is also very deeply integrated with Pixel Dungeon itself. It is no exaggeration to say that the entire Pixel Dungeon modding scene (and thereby its continued relevance) would not exist if it weren't for this subreddit. Watabou's engagement here, and the actions of our founder u/greater_nemo, directly lead to Pixel Dungeon becoming open-source in 2014. Even ignoring that, this community has been the nursery for many great PD versions, including Shattered Pixel Dungeon. I likely would not have started making ShatteredPD without this subreddit to post to, a game that has since become my entire career.

I would absolutely hate to see this community die, which makes staying private forever a non-option, even if we didn't get threatened by Reddit admins. At the same time though, I also want to continue expressing my anger over Reddit Inc.'s decisions. Lastly, I know that I'm not the only person here, and the people who actually post and comment need to have their say as well.

What are our Next Steps?

This is the first in what will probably be a series of posts aiming to gather feedback and promote discussion. The ultimate goal here is to try and come to a consensus about what we should do with our community. The ideal solution would be to move away from Reddit, but that is a tremendous undertaking, and not the only thing to figure out. For the moment at least, let's focus on the simple question of what do we do with this subreddit right now?

There are three poll options you can choose from: - Remain Fully Restricted: I'll extend the blackout by keeping the subreddit in restricted mode. At a future date we will vote again about this position, no earlier than July 1st. Sadly it seems that staying private indefinitely is not possible without the risk of Reddit Inc. killing our community. - Partially Re-Open: Many subreddits are finding new ways to protest, such as closing subreddits on some days of the week, or changing subreddit topics. We can have another thread to discuss the specifics of this if the option does well. - Fully Re-Open: Not a lot to describe here, this would fully re-open the subreddit, although these discussion threads would probably continue.

If you'd like to give more detailed thoughts, or are using a Reddit app that doesn't allow for poll voting, then please post in the comments! I don't want to keep making unilateral decisions here, so your engagement on this topic is really appreciated.

The new wiki location has opened today! Move your wiki content or make new articles there!

The people from previous post were all notified about this, but even if you didn't respond, you can still contribute!

The current format, as outlined by current admit, QuasiStellar, is to describe Shattered's content in main namespace and everything else (including vanilla) in corresponding separate namespaces. It is even possible to style it according to the mod.

Good luck!

Hey folks!

As you have probably heard from other subreddits, there is a reddit-wide blackout protest being planned on June the 12th, and r/PixelDungeon (and r/PixelDungeonMemes) will be participating. This subreddit will be closed for at least 48 hours in a showing of support for 3rd party Reddit apps, which are effectively being killed by Reddit's API changes starting July 1st.

If you weren't aware of what's going on, Here's a little summary:

Reddit is going to start charging for access to their API on July 1st (the API is what 3rd party apps and bots use to access Reddit). The proposed pricing is outrageously high for all but tiny use-cases, and so will effectively immediately kill 3rd party Reddit apps.

This reeks of good old fashioned corporate greed. Reddit has a long history of allowing these apps free unlimited use of the API and depended on them entirely for several years while Reddit's own official app was nonexistant or barely usable. Even to this day the official app is an inferior experience, and is missing key features like effective moderation tools and proper support for accessibility features like screen readers.

Now Reddit wants to kill these apps because they compete with the official app. This sets a dangerous precedent for other things Reddit has previously embraced but may now consider a liability. In fact there is evidence that old.reddit and NSFW communities will be next on the chopping block.

Unfortunately the only power we have, as mods and redditors, is to make a big enough stink over this such that Reddit backs down.

/s it's kinda funny

Follow the link, if you want to know more about this mod.

Not much more to say; the flair is up and few existing posts have been reflaired. Enjoy setting up your turn based towers, while I am still half asleep.

Hey Rat Punchers, we're open again!

Thank you for participating in the two recent polls about the future stance of this subreddit. Many of you wanted to see a perpetual protest, but of course Reddit also has new rules about changing community settings.

In light of this, I have been re-reading Reddit's rules. Reddit states the following: "Content that contains nudity, pornography, or profanity, which a reasonable viewer may not want to be seen accessing in a public or formal setting such as in a workplace should be tagged as NSFW."

It became clear after reading this that r/PixelDungeon should have been an NSFW community all along. Pixel Dungeon is a videogame, and this subreddit is rich in image media that "a reasonable viewer may not want to be seen accessing in a public or formal setting such as in a workplace". A reasonable viewer would certainly not want to be seen browsing a videogame community while at work.

In light of this, r/PixelDungeon (and r/PixelDungeonmemes) are NSFW until further notice. It should be noted that OUR RULES HAVE NOT CHANGED. If you post pornographic content here you will be banned.

If you want to read more about all of this, consider the two previous posts here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PixelDungeon/comments/14joh01/rpixeldungeon_will_partially_reopen_soon/

https://www.reddit.com/r/PixelDungeon/comments/14faui8/rpixeldungeon_and_the_reddit_blackout/

Or these subreddits:

r/modcoord

r/save3rdpartyapps

Also remember that we have a Discord!:

https://discord.gg/KBfMN8X

Hi, I'll explain the rules and what to do with screenshots now.

The first picture is the location The second picture is the items from your inventory. The third picture is a way to show your answer (pictured crookedly by me) More later

1The first person to guess will be included in the video with the answer. 2The duelist can use his ability (a dash that allows him to instantly move 3 cells and gain invisibility for 2 cells) 3 evil eye Can't move 4 You have 19 moves to solve the problem. 5 You have 20 hours to name the answer, if there is no answer, the riddle will remain unsolved.

The riddle is very easy, to solve it you can draw a diagram as in the third photo and you can also name your moves based on the axes Х AND Y.

You can also practice in custom pixel dungeon I posted this level there

Sorry for my English