Hi everyone! Thanks again for your support! I just returned from Lucca Comics and Games, and it was a great time. My time in Italy had no bearing whatsoever on the following chapters. My last event of the year is coming up soon. DragonSteel Nexus in SLC, where I'll be hanging with Brandon Sanderson and Pierce Brown and many other awesome authors. Pierce has challenged me to Street Fighter II, and I'm going to kick his ass with Blanka.
I wanted to thank all of you are keeping the Backe...
2025-11-08 00:59:19 +0000 UTC
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Hey all! I'm about to head to Lucca, Italy for a few days to hang out with the awesome Italian publisher of DCC, but I thought I'd drop a few more chapters. We are chuggin'.
Here's a post I just made on Reddit:
So a bit of an update on my last enthusiastic post about the release dates of book 8. I had said simultaneous, which caused a minor case of "Yo, Matt, STFU, we didn't confirm nothing yet. Smack" amongst my friends at Penguin Random House and Audible. I'm pretty...
2025-10-25 00:53:42 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 25
Rend giggled as he rose from the dead.
Mordecai had fled back to the crafting room while we gathered around the deceased, idiot Tummy Acher. Mongo stood over him, waving his wings, crying drunkenly in concern.
“Carl, your pet dying has upset Mongo! It’s okay, Mongo. Rend is just taking a time out because he didn’t do as we say.”
Your Pet has resurrected! As this was the sixth death, your pet will retain his memories and ide...
2025-10-22 01:52:46 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
Reminder! We have the kickstarter for volumes 2 & 3 of DCC going. Thank you for all so much for your support. We are out of the signed and numbered book 1s, but you can still get the Quest Failed Bitchmeat edition of book 1. It's an add-on. If you've already backed and you want that edition, you...
2025-10-16 01:01:14 +0000 UTC
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Campaign goes live at 9 AM Pacific Time.
There are lots of neat little add-ons for this one. The pins are cool. The cards will be cool. The extra art is going to be epic. The fact you will (you BETTER) receive this in a timely manner this time is just divine. Also, miss out on book 1? We have some left and w...
2025-10-14 15:25:38 +0000 UTC
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Dungeon Crawler Carl book 8 is officially going to be titled A Parade of Horribles: Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 8. It is slated for release on Tuesday, May 12, 2026. That release date is very tentative.
Patrons who read the following chapters will know where the title comes from.
I will be at NYCC this coming weekend! All the pre-reserved signings are already sold out, unfortunately, but the PRH booth, the Vault booth, and the webtoons...
2025-10-05 01:53:24 +0000 UTC
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Hey all! The Crocodile graphic novel backerkit campaign kicks off officially in about an hour, and I figured I'd give you guys at the top tier early access. This is a live link.
The only super duper extreme limited tier is the Matt box, which includes a tuckerization. AKA you die in a future DCC book. There is only one of these available. The upcoming kickstarter for books 2 and 3 will have six more for even more $. (October 15. I know, I know, two at the same time? WTF are you think...
2025-10-01 15:02:12 +0000 UTC
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Hi all! I hope to see you tomorrow night in LA or this friday in Tucson! Also, we had some UK dates pop up, but I fear those are selling out fast. We STILL have tickets for LA tomorrow night, so please come if you haven't signed up already!
Los Angeles Septermber 22nd and 23rd: Tickets Here!
Tucson: Sold Out!
UK Multiple...
2025-09-22 05:44:14 +0000 UTC
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Hey folks. We interrupt your regularly* scheduled DCC chapter posts to bring you an announcement. As previously mentioned, my standalone novel Operation Bounce House comes out February 10, 2026. It is now available to preorder wherever fine books are sold.
If you are a reviewer with a 2025-08-19 23:52:17 +0000 UTC
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Hope to see you guys at WorldCon this weekend!
Heat 2 of 8
Chapter 16.
“What does this button do?” Bucket Boy the crocodilian asked nervously as he sat behind the steering wheel. We’d just both come from the saferoom, and the moment he sat in the driver seat, he started touching things. He reached to press the red, big button.
“Stop,” I called. “Don’t touch that unless I say so. That engages the sp...
2025-08-12 04:15:35 +0000 UTC
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Hey folks. Thanks to everyone who came out to see me this past weekend at SDCC. Next up is WorldCon in Seattle where I'll have a packed schedule. Stay tuned for details with a trio of events surrounding the release of This Inevitable Ruin hardcover, namely in Seattle, Los Angeles, and Tucson. And of course we have DragonCon, NYCC, and DragonSteel coming up as well.
Chapter 15
Entering the Lollipop.
Saferoom rules apply to this establishment.
2025-07-31 23:53:23 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone! The Webtoon comes out today. I don't have a direct link, and it drops at 5 PM Pacific. I am currently in Denver for Litrpg Con and will be at SDCC next weekend. Please let me know if you're there to say hello!
Chapter 13
The door to garage number three opened, and two creatures strolled out. We just gawked.
“Carl, what am I looking at?” Donut asked.
“Uh,” I said.
The female version of these mantaur things were.....
2025-07-17 22:45:22 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 11
<Entry from Carl’s Book of Boom.>
Philomene H. Crawler #12,850,361.
Race: Human.
Class: Agojie.
Final level: 62.
I feel ashamed that I am leaving the dungeon, like I am abandoning the fight, like I am giving up, being a coward. But I have no choice, I think. Orou is dead. Moussa is dead. I entered the dungeon with such a strong faith. But how can it be real? Ho...
2025-06-19 01:23:27 +0000 UTC
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We're back!
Chapter 9
Donut fell hard to the floor with a yelp as we all jumped back. She hunched, like she was going to leap to my shoulder but then caught herself. She stopped on the floor and held up her right front claw in amazement. The cleaner bot let out a scream at the destruction of the kitchen table. I hadn’t realized we could even hurt the furniture inside the saferoom like this. When Donut extended her claws, the four front claws—but not her fift...
2025-05-25 03:20:12 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 6
<entry book="" boom.="" carl="" from="" of=""></entry>
Bjorn Lag. Crawler #10,754,418.
Race: Human.
Class: Pulp Mage.
Final level: 60.
Carl. You don’t know who I am, but I have been watching your progress this whole time. I am taking a deal on the 10th. I feel guilty about it, about abandoning all of you who have pushed to get here, but I ...
2025-04-12 13:58:40 +0000 UTC
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Hey all! No major retcons, though I did learn how to count between this chapter drop and the previous one.
Chapter 4
The Trauco Triplets have been eliminated due to the expiration of their mount. Eight teams remain in the current heat.
Our truck skidded on the road as I leaned on the brakes. Behind me, the sound of pots and pans spilling from a cabinet rattled. The truck stopped just short of the crashed, on-fire minivan, which was comp...
2025-03-19 00:39:06 +0000 UTC
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Heat 1 of 8
Chapter 1
Welcome, Crawler. Welcome to the tenth floor.
Time to Level Collapse: Level timer has been temporarily suspended for this floor. Please wait for the announcement from that inebriated fish if we can manage to wake her up for the details.
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2025-02-22 03:49:42 +0000 UTC
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Hey, first off I wanted to apologize for not having the first few chapters ready yet. I know it's been a minute. I had a due date of January 15th with Penguin Random House for the standalone novel, Operation: Bounce House, and I'm still fiddling with the climax of that book. I have been writing my ass off, but in typical Matt fashion, I made the book a lot less linear than it should be. Once that is done (and it IS done, I'm just tweaking now), my writing attention is 100% fo...
2025-01-30 23:38:49 +0000 UTC
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Apologies ahead of time. We don't yet get into book 8 just yet. I'm working on it, but it's not quite ready. I want to start this one with a bit of a bang which requires going straight to action before slowing down like we usually do, and I gotta frame it correctly. In the meantime, here's the prologue.
Also, the title "Carl's Book of Boom" is just the working title for now. We'll see.
Carl’s Book of Boom
Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 8
&n...
2024-12-19 02:34:16 +0000 UTC
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This entire post is book 7 spoiler free.
Hey everyone. If you're paid, you've already seen this inside the book file, but since we opened the poll up to the public I figured I'd make this bit public as well. This is the recap of book 6 that appears in the very, very beginning of book 7.
If you'd rather have Jeff Hays read it to you and hear a little more about the poll:
https://ww...
2024-11-06 02:07:34 +0000 UTC
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There are no spoilers in this post.
Get it while you can. This post includes an epub and a pdf ahead of the November 11 release. Please don't share this. And if you do download it, please consider leaving an honest review on release day on Amazon as that will be very helpful to the DCC cause.
This is NOT the final final version, but it is significantly closer than what was before, and it IS the final version to be sent out on Patreon. It is minus many thousand words and minus ...
2024-11-02 00:59:05 +0000 UTC
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STOP. This is part 3 of a 3-part chapter dump. The current stickied chapter is part 1. This is part 3 of 3.
Part 1 https://www.patreon.com/posts/114655482
Part 2 https://www.patreon.com/posts/book-7-finale-2-114658584
Okay folks, this is it.
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2024-10-25 01:12:30 +0000 UTC
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STOP!
This is part 2 of a 3-part post. Have you read part 1 yet?
https://www.patreon.com/posts/114655482
Make sure you're reading it in order. Part 1 is the stickied one.
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Chapter 83
“Okay everyone. We have about an hour left to figure out the issue with Louis before the soldiers take the Dream castle,” Edgar...
2024-10-24 23:37:51 +0000 UTC
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START HERE
Okay, so I promised you the next dump would be the last. Good news bad news that's really all good news.
Bad News: This ain't gonna all fit into one post. It ain't gonna fit in two posts. It's a lot of words.
Good News: I am posting it all tonight with an hour or two between dumps. Chapter 87 is the last chapter, but there are multiple Epilogue segments as well.
Here we go, bitches!
Chapter 80
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2024-10-24 22:35:43 +0000 UTC
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We have a lot of free members on here, so I thought I’d make this one public to all. The book 5 recap in book 6 was written by Donut who wasn’t privy to some info, and there was a bit of unreliable narration in there. With that in mind, who should write the recap of book 6?
I will go with the top choice. Multiple choices allowed. The choice may have major implications in the future.
2024-10-20 18:16:22 +0000 UTC
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This will be the second-to-last chapter dump for book 7, This Inevitable Ruin.
Retcon wise, not much to report. There was an earlier conversation with Ferdinand that now needs to be changed. I'm going to seed a significant amount of conversation throughout the book about two different things. One is the rules about how Celestial Attendants and NPCs in general are protected from the gods on the 12th floor, at least until the Ascendency actually starts, and the other may be a t...
2024-10-18 19:46:44 +0000 UTC
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Just a few light chapters before the real climax of the book.
Oh, I forgot. A minor retcon. As several of you pointed out, I can't name the spell Heel because of audio. It is now called Bijanbi
Chapter 75
Donut didn’t even look at the tattoo on her ass. She stared forward with quiet dignity as Mongo screeched with concern. The moment it was done, Edgar stepped back.
The tortoise dropped his tattoo stick. “Did it work?...
2024-10-15 22:18:00 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone. Only one retcon you need to be aware of. Previous mentions of the War Crime spell described it a little. Throw all that out the window.
Chapter 73
<Note added by Crawler Carl, 25th Edition>
There’s a dictionary sitting here in the main room of the guildhall. It’s a large, old book. It’s from the 1800’s, which is a long time ago. Florin, of all people, had it in his inventory. There’s a bullet hole right in...
2024-10-11 21:21:10 +0000 UTC
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I am deep, deep in editing of the book which is why some of these chapters are a little slow. Sorry about that. Several little changes, mostly to game rules, timing of spells, etc, to fit the narrative.
The end is nigh. When it happens, it's gonna come quick.
Chapter 71
Over the past few months, I’d experienced so many moments of pure, unadulterated terror, I’d lost count. I’d become pretty good at examining a situation and imm...
2024-10-02 01:41:46 +0000 UTC
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Coming hard and fast now. Lots of a little retcons you probably don't need to know about. Minor one... Team retribution still has changelings in the Dream throne room. Like always at the end, this is an asshole tier cliffhanger.
Chapter 69
Remaining Teams:
The Princess Posse
Team Retribution (castle occupied by War Mage Rebellion forces)
The D...
2024-09-18 01:50:23 +0000 UTC
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