Preface

Crawl Localization Mod. It currently supports Chinese, Russian and Spanish.

The Russian and Spanish translations were generated directly by AI and haven’t been reviewed (I don’t speak these languages, my apologies). Anyone with relevant language knowledge can edit the corresponding translations in the TSV file to improve them.

This mod also supports creating localizations for many other languages. You can find me on Crawl’s Discord to get the localization package with the AI skill. It lets an AI produce an initial translation draft, which you can refine afterward.

Crawl Localization

Local display translation for Crawl, with optional CrawlOnline UI support. This package includes the available non-Chinese language packs and crawl-multilingual.bundle (Latin/Cyrillic). The Chinese translation pack is distributed separately.

Manual Install

Requires Crawl for Windows and BepInEx 5 (32-bit). Close the game and extract this package into:

Crawl/BepInEx/plugins/CrawlLocalization/

Keep CrawlLocalization.dll, Languages/ and Fonts/ together, including the font license and notice files. Back up your edited language files before updating.

Select a language

The plugin creates Crawl/BepInEx/config/crawl.localization.cfg on its first normal launch. Set the language to a folder included under Languages/:

[General]
Language = es
ReloadKey = F8

Use es for Spanish, ru for Russian, or en for original game text. Select your language explicitly; installing the package does not change an existing configuration. Missing packs or translations keep the original English.

Press F8 after editing the configuration or translations. Restart after installing or replacing font files. No system font installation or Unity Editor is needed. Text baked into images is not translated by these language tables. For mixed Chinese/Latin/Cyrillic player names, install the separate optional -CombinedFonts.zip addon and restart. Remove its crawl-combined.bundle to restore normal fonts. Player names remain unchanged.

Create another language

Use the separate -Translator.zip package. It contains an original-English catalog, template/checking scripts, the multilingual font bundle and an AI skill. Read its README or ask your AI to read crawl-language-pack/SKILL.md.

Diagnostic log: Crawl/BepInEx/LogOutput.log.