Dungeons of Dredmor

• Get in the habit of opening double doors from the sides rather than the center so you can immediately close them again in case you run into a boss, monster zoo, or any other dangerous situation that you might want to get away from. This is also useful for being able to throw a bomb or a spell into a room and shutting the door so that trapped enemies can more effectively suffer damage over time effects

• Some walls can be broken to reveal hidden areas. These areas are usually indicated by having jagged lines along the edges of their fog of war. You can break walls with bombs, explosive traps, and even certain skills

• You must complete a monster zoo without changing floors or entering your Pocket Dimension in order to get the reward for clearing it. If you have cleared a monster zoo and find that the counter is stuck at 1 enemy remaining but can't find them, search adjacent rooms or leave the zoo room and re-enter after some time. There are a lot of enemies that can turn invisible, teleport, or burrow which can make it sometimes frustratingly hard to track down stragglers

• High enough trap affinity will allow you to not only disarm traps but recover them for your own use

• Holding shift will drop an item at your feet. This is helpful for laying down traps while running away instead of placing them manually onto a tile which would take up a turn

• The Horadric Lutefisk Cube is a useful tool for getting rid of junk. The hotkey that automatically sends items to the cube is a lifesaver for inventory management

• You can spend roughly 120 lutefisk at shrines to the Lutefisk God for an artifact-grade item with random enchantments. Holding ALT while clicking on a stack of items lets you split stacks so you don't have to sacrifice all your lutefisk at once

• The Elven Ingot Grinder is another useful inventory management tool. It is able to turn meats and cheeses into one consolidated type that you can stack more efficiently in your inventory, or to create higher amounts of items to convert into lutefisk with the Horadric Lutefisk Cube

• If Brax is blocking off an area of his shop that you want to explore, you can pick up an item without purchasing it so he moves to the entrance of the store, thus allowing you to access the rest of his store to buy more goods. Just return the item you've picked up to its shelf to move Brax back to his normal position. There is one such store configuration that requires this technique

• The Pocket Dimension operates as a base where you can drop off items that you don't immediately need in your inventory at all times such as crafting materials or spare equipment

• Wizardlands dimensions will be populated by enemies of the same type and level as the floor from which the Wizardlands code was found, so you can feel free to enter them if you're already capable of beating those existing enemies

• The caveat to the above tip is to be careful about pulling any levers while in the Wizardlands. There are some room configurations that summon 2 clones when you pull a lever that can have dramatically higher stats than other enemies you've faced previously and can easily kill you if you encounter them early enough. These rooms will usually have a lever directly at their center which you can proceed through without activating, making them an optional fight if your character is strong enough to face the challenge

• Mysterious Portals are a lot more dangerous, being one-way dimensions that have a random assortment of enemies that can be higher level than you. They also generally offer high-level loot so can be worth the risk if you have the resources to go through them

• The blessings from the diggle gods can be overwritten, so don't be worried that you are committing to a particular bonus since you can replace it with a different blessing if you later on find another diggle god shrine that you like better

• You can cook any steak variant on a grill and it will turn it into a Grilled Steak which gives more health

• Two very efficient food recipes you can craft with the Disposable Ingot Press without any crafting skills are the Cheesy Omelette (1 Diggle Egg + 3 Grated Cheese) and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich (Cheese + Sliced Bread). They provide more healing than their discrete components which are fairly common

• Crossbows will impart their damage-specific bonus to bolts but not melee attacks or thrown weapons. Thrown weapons get a bonus from melee power.