What's new — PocketZot

3 July 2026

Added a Settings screen: the ⚙ in the HUD in-game, or the Settings link on the login screen. It has the ASCII/tiles switch and the monster-list default, plus the full list of buttons and gestures and the About / What's new pages.
Minimap added: toggle by tapping the place name in the HUD (e.g. "@D:1"). Shows layout, stairs, portals, items, and monsters. The controls stay live while it's up. Tap the map, or the place name again, to dismiss.
The HUD now uses the standard short branch names (D:5, Elf:3, Zot:5) in portrait.
Draconians now show their colour in the HUD, and the piety row now shows penance (in red) and Xom's mood.
Fixed the skill menu sometimes showing a mastered skill's line twice.

Map and monster-list rendering while moving is now ~3.5x faster in ASCII mode and ~25% faster in tiles mode.
Monster markers in tiles mode — status icons (asleep, poisoned, caught…), threat and ally highlights, damage indicators — now display correctly on older DCSS versions, and automatically keep up with future trunk changes.
The lobby's full version list now notes the 0.24 support cutoff, and starting or watching a game on an older version shows a brief heads-up with a way back to the lobby if character creation doesn't appear.

The login screen now shows your recently played characters, as they were last seen. Tap to view the full gallery.
Switching away from the app mid-game no longer lands you back on the login screen: PocketZot now reconnects and resumes your game (or the game you were spectating) automatically when you switch back, even if the app was reloaded.

Added 1.96 trillion new PocketZot logos. Each is procedurally generated from actual ASCII-mode glyphs. At one a day, enough to outlast the Sun.

Stash search (Ctrl-F) and similar text fields now work properly on pre-0.34 DCSS versions.

Spellcasters now get a quick-cast row below the message log, with tappable icons that send z plus the spell's letter.
The message log now floats translucently over the map's bottom edge instead of taking its own band of the screen, so the map shows several more rows.
Tile rendering now fills the map area edge to edge, including partial tiles.
Dimmed the touch controls so they don't outshine the dungeon in darker areas.
Overhauled how description text is rendered. Many kinds of text the game sends (property lists, stat lines, indented notes, prose, etc.) now wrap better for a phone screen.
Fixed an issue with certain text input prompts.
Various other improvements.

A stray "–" no longer appears before entries in the "Items not yet recognised" menu.

The stable and trunk buttons now look distinct.
Stable and trunk now appear as lobby buttons on CPO, where they were previously hidden inside "Show all versions".

Switching the map from ASCII to tiles now works during your own game on servers where it previously only worked while spectating.
Fixed the map shifting downward shortly after loading a game or starting to spectate.
The status bar no longer appears with placeholder values while creating a character.

Info (?) controls now include a $ button (show gold / shopping list), in place of the save-and-exit button.
Map display mode (ASCII or tiles) is now remembered across sessions.
About and What's new pages are now viewable inside the app.

Long character titles no longer wrap to a second line in the HUD; the title is truncated with an ellipsis so piety stars stay visible.
After a game ends, the lobby now shows a dialog with your character summary and a link to the morgue/dump file.
The HUD now shows drained stats alongside their natural maximum (e.g. 12 (15)), plus Contamination and Doom meters when either is active.
Fixed occasional stray specks of color left next to monsters and items in tiles mode.

Optimized map rendering to be ~40% faster during movement-heavy play.
Rewrote message log handling to be an order of magnitude faster when many messages are arriving.
The noise indicator is now a graphical colored bar instead of an ASCII meter.
In tiles mode, HP and MP bars now appear beneath the player tile.
The HUD no longer briefly flashes empty bars and stat captions before the first game update arrives.

Acquirement now shows a dedicated ⎋ / ! control row.
y/N confirmation buttons now appear during any open menu, not just shops.
The floating monster list can now be collapsed to a one-row summary. Collapsed state is remembered across sessions.

Skill-menu hotkey buttons no longer drop right-column skills whose partner skill has a training manual.
Add inline buttons for more prompts (e.g. * to list on the cast-spell confirmation).

The Gods list under ?/ no longer renders each entry with a duplicated hotkey letter.
Allies and neutral monsters no longer show threat highlight in the monster list.
Use correct d-pad mode in the Ctrl-F result preview.

Tapping a shop item to view its description no longer swaps the shop's bottom control bar for the d-pad.
Improve shop shift-tapping behavior.
The HUD now displays an offhand weapon on its own row when dual-wielding.
Guest spectate remembers the last server you picked.
Polished the lobby and spectator header styling.

Improved search (Ctrl-F) handling.
Setting an exclusion zone with radius (R#) in X mode now pops up the on-screen numpad to pick the radius value.
Shift-tapping a shop row to add an item to your shopping list no longer highlights an unrelated row.
X mode now zooms out in tiles mode, matching existing ASCII mode behavior.
In tiles mode, a monster re-entering FoV at a memorized location no longer renders as a bare floor tile in the monster list.

Fixed a brief flicker when opening the message log (Ctrl-P) and other long in-game popups.
Fixed a jump-back when scrolling those popups to the bottom on phone-width screens.
In tiles mode, the highlight marking cells you can Rampage to now shows.
In tiles mode, mangroves rooted in water now show the water through their bases.

Fixed a black screen that could appear when resuming a game on experimental or trunk servers after the server had been updated.
In describe menus, very long monster descriptions now stay a single tappable entry instead of splitting into separate rows.
Menu highlight follows the d-pad immediately on up/down, instead of after a server round-trip.
D-pad diagonals page through long menus and jump to top/bottom.
Fixed a visible jump-back after paging on phone-width menus with tall description rows.

Initial public release. PocketZot is an unofficial, mobile-first WebTiles client for Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup: the full standard ASCII map on a phone in portrait mode, on-screen touch controls, multi-account login, spectating with an expanded map view, and installable as a Progressive Web App.