Caves of Qud Daily 2026-06-15 by @oblivioncubed on 3Speak
We're playing cavesofqud daily! Today's Daily build is another True Kin; we get some good Mind's Compass skills to keep us (theoretically) from getting lost as much. We also find the lair of a lege...
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Hello and welcome back. We are again playing some Caves of Cud, and today is Day 166 of 2026. We're going to see what the daily has for us. We have a Child of the Deep, Trukin with dermal insulation on his head, 17 ego, 16 willpower, really good agility, pretty decent toughness, and pretty decent intelligence. Strength is a little low. So is our willpower, but I think we can make up for that. That's probably not that big of a deal. So let's pop on in and get to auto-exploring. Same as always, we've got the mod that blows our head off in an hour. So, hey, Jappa, sweet. Okay, serrated, bronze, two-handed sword. Yeah, I'll take all that. Why not? They're just going to give it to me for free. It looks like we've got a structural scanner on. I will probably get rid of that. I don't believe I need it. Okay, so this one's really easy. It's always Memet. We are going to press the wrong button, apparently. There we go. Let's take a look at him and just see he's disliked by other villagers, hated by wing mammals, and disliked by the seekers of the Sileless Way. We don't care about that. Let's get some village ramble. Perfect. And let's pop on over here. We're going to talk to Tam, and we're going to get rid of this. And, oh, what kind of weapon are we using right now? A nanomatic jackhammer. So that's really good, but it does weigh. It does weigh a ton. I'm not sure if we're going to keep that or not. Also, this, we're going to remove the combustion cell, and we're going to remove this. We will auto-collect oil if we come across it. But, yeah, the structural scanning bracelet is kind of useless to me. I don't find it a great option. If there is a good reason to have it, let me know, but I've never seen one. Okay, let's go here. We're going to drop, not drop, but sell all of this stuff, so we've got 29 drams outgoing. Let's see. What might you want? I don't know, I think maybe we can wear that, can we? Let's give it a go. Because having a buckler of any kind, we'll just help us a little bit. I did notice there, right, we do start with a headlamp. This is a big win right there. What are our attributes? So we've got shake it off. Strapping shoulders in a tank, make camp, we get hills and mountains and canyons for free. Big deal right there, awesome. We don't have any cudgel. We've got the biggest dang cudgel ever, and we're not, we have no skills in it. Okay, cool, that's fine. We're going to talk to this dude gets rep when we go to, not rep. get some extra expe when we go to the stilt. No, let's talk to Argyve. You know what, we could have probably given away that nignac to Argyve, but you know what, we have grenades that we don't need. So we're going to give those away because they don't matter to us right now. We will fetch wire. Now we're going to come up here and we're going to explore this crack. All right, none of those are mad at me, so I don't care about that. We'll take that. Oh, right, so... I really don't want to be grabbed right now. Yeah, because we've got the pneumatic hammer on, I forgot this was a thing, we can't reasonably hit this guy, because we're smashing the wall below him, which is kind of a pain. Let's just rest for a minute here. Those guys take a hounding. Got impaled, not a big deal. Alright, we're going to go up, and we're going to talk to Tam again, and we're going to see if there's a better weapon than this thing. It's great to get through walls and stuff like that. I don't know that I actually need it, though. So... Yeah, so we're not going to do that. Let's see here. I would like this battle axe. I can barely afford it, hey? Let's do that, though, because I think that's going to be better. So let's get this off, and let's take... What was I... I want to look at this trinket. Box of crayons. Come. Yeah, we want that, we don't want this, and that's going to be good enough for us, I believe. There we go. Yep. Okay. All right, so let's look at our, oh yeah, of course, our quest locations are Red Rock, and the Rustwells, because we've got the standard start right now. So, we are close to level 3. Let's pop to the Rust Wells, if we get to do that without being lost. Let's see if we can get a crocodile here. Wait until morning, and now go ahead. Yeah, nothing. Okay. Alright, we've regained our bearings. There is a crocodile down there, though. We're going to go try and kill him. Yep. Perfect. All right, we're so close to a, we're so close to a level. Let's, oh, there we go, a legendary crock area here. That's, Pretty decent. If we aggro any of these salamanders, it's going to be not great for us, as there's just so many of them. But we'll just do a little auto-explore here and see, let's see what we can get. Get back here. Uh-oh, yeah, now we're in for it. When we kill this guy, yeah, all of the salinevers are just going to turn red. So we're going to come up a map and just rest. We're going to rest, he says. We're actually doing quite well here. Nope, not Maycamp, that's not what I want to do. Although I should probably eat. Let's do that. Now we're going to come into Axe proficiency, and we're going to get that. We are also going to pop over here, increase our strength, because we definitely eat that. We're still too weak for any of the good axe skills, but... That's okay. I think we'll be all right. Let's come down here, we'll pass a turn or two. Okay, there's a salamander that can see us, we're just going to sit here, pop back down. Oh, that's a lot of them. Okay, come up and see if we can kite them a couple at a time is better than what we were getting. Okay. There we go. Now we can head back down here. Take out this guy who's kind of by himself now. Is he not, oh, he's no longer agro to us, okay. But he's about to be again. Oh, there's two of them. Nope, come on up. Okay. Where's that second, there he is? Okay. We're going to kite him up. At least we're going to try to kite him up. Yeah, there we go. Alright, so this guy is mad at us, but that's all right. There's only the two of them. It is turning nighttime now, so our headlamp is not giving us a ton of light, but it is doing something for us, so that's good. Let's auto explore. Oh, this is not a great place to be. Getting hit extra just because I'm dumb. A shotgun shell, cool. A weird artifact, is that a... Nope, not a shotgun. That's not great. It's expressed here for a minute. Kill this guy. Alright. Yeah, the jump that lever doesn't matter. Okay, well, I think we've cleared everything that's above ground, except for, you know, these last couple of stragglers, which is pretty good, actually. Right, there's one more up there. I am tempted to try and fight this legendary crog. Let's pop down just to see. Just to see how bad it is. Okay. Pass a turn or two. This isn't the... Okay. We're going to come here so that they're blocked. We can filter them. Are you? That's me, obviously. Okay, we'll wait. at, okay, we're level 5 now. Let's see. 45 minutes left. Okay, there's another downward stair, okay. Yeah, so probably we won't see the... Let's empty. We're gonna just skip that entirely. We probably won't see the legendary one up here. Where are you graffitied? It's just a normal crocodile. Normal salamander, where are you? Yep, a little crog. Okay, just do a little bit of auto -exploring. Ah, now they've got me trapped. Well, not really trapped, per se, but... Got me pinned between them, which I don't like. whip up a meal since we're standing right here. Okay. Uh, no, not up. Down. Further down. Centipede. We're gonna just stand on the stair here. We'll go up and rest a little bit. I think we're okay here. Yeah. No, no. Down. The giant centipede there. There must be an egg here. They must be hatching from something. I'm a little bit nervous being this far away from the stair. I'm not going to lie. Yeah, we'll grab that. We'll pick those up. Mostly because I don't know what's over here, and I don't want to get... Yeah, okay, I think we're all right. I will come back over here and just do an auto explorer. Let's see if we can find anything interesting. Yeah, I'm gonna pop back over here. We're just gonna wait a couple turns. No, that's not what I meant to do. That's what I meant to do. I'll kill that thing entirely. and manually hack that down. So many bones. So many bones here. Cool, a weapon rack. And a gersling. Where'd you go? There you are. Yeah, okay. It is, that's dangerously close to not good. We're going to eat a witchwood, of course, and yep, that's okay. You know it's right below us. We're not too concerned here. Now let's try and wait. Alright, here we go. Okay, let's go downstairs again. Can't figure out how to get there, hey? Come over here. Oh, you can't figure out how to get there either. Yeah, that's all right. Uh, you know what, this is probably easier to get through, isn't it? Shouldn't I? Shouldn't have thrown away that, uh... What is going to be... Okay, sorry, it's going to be a little bit noisy. Just a second. Now we go down. There we go. What is... What's over here? Uh, there is something over here. You guys, come over here, please. Yeah, no, it's just going to keep sealing itself off. Fine. That's okay. I don't want to go there. Okay, now, there's the legendary. It is only average, so we'll pass one turn, we'll go up, come here. Let's try to take him down. Let's look first, though, as well. Okay, okay, let's just try and take him down. Oh, boy, he hits like a dump truck. Yeah, okay, cool. So let's not do that. Let's get out of here. I think we'll apply our self-injector. Yep. And then we're just going to run away. Discretion being the better part of valor and all that. out of here. Are you serious? I was just going back to the village, and I'm stuck. That's ridiculous. I should recognize this, yeah. Foolish. Okay, let's trade. Get rid of these, and basically nothing else. I don't think we had anything. Refresh, hey? Nope. Uh, yeah, I think we'll just take the, let's just take the water. Oh, geez, with the getting lost. Uh, let's see here. Saltains, jungles, marshes. Let's just get that right now, because... Um, what did I just get? Yes, I want to, I want to buy that, thank you. Okay. Come up, head on over, head down, and now somewhere here, for you, you're just a ray cat, okay. Somewhere here, we're going to have all kinds of... wonderful wire we can get. Where's the stairway down? Keep going. It's up here. Okay. See how much of this I can just avoid. and not have to hit. Somebody's dying. Is that an unburnt torch? Let go. Yeah, okay. Alright, we might die here. I'm going to try and eat at which would not at whole what I meant to do. But this is not a great place for us to be. Okay, let's try and... and rest some. Oh, I fell down. I did not mean to do that. Okay, now we're in trouble, as far as early game goes. You can, of course, very rapidly get down and then just, you know, fight your way back up. But that's not always the best option when it comes to getting wire. You'll probably find your 250 or whatever feet of wire that you need. This guy's engaged in hand-to-hand. Okay, you've got nothing to trade. Okay. Well. Is that... Are you kidding me? A glowmoth up here? Oh, we're in trouble. Yeah. Let's see. Eat another witchwood. Hopefully, manage to kill this guy. I don't, I'm not confident about where these things are. There's so many of the dang things. Yeah, segmented worm got us. Level 6, 13,000 points, killed by segmented worms. Those guys are nasty. That was a good run. But, yeah, we fell down that hole, and then there was no going back for us. Let's take a quick look at today's leaderboard. 12th, yeah, you know, that's kind of what I expect to be. Yep. Cool. Okay, well, hey, thanks for hanging out, thanks for watching. As always, happy gaming. Until next time.