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{{flavour|A spring-loaded one-way escape hatch set in the ceiling.}}
{{flavour|A spring-loaded one-way escape hatch set in the dungeon floor, allowing the adventurer beset by adversaries to exchange the perils of this level for the perils of the next.}}

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[[File:Escape hatch up.png]] [[File:Escape hatch down.png]] '''Escape hatches''' are features found on many floors. They are similar to [[stairs]] in that they allow the player to travel from one floor to another, but different in that they are all one-way. Using one will take you to a specific spot on the floor above or below. If you keep track of where an escape hatch goes, it can be useful for travelling quickly, but be careful; there is no going back, and your destination may be hazardous.

==Tips & Tricks==
*If you take escape hatches whenever you see them, it may provide you with a shorter route to certain destinations (like [[shop]]s or a [[stash]]). Autotravel will take them into account, meaning you don't have to remember the most efficient route to where you're going.
*Generally, avoid taking an escape hatch to a floor when there's a chance it'll spit you out someplace hazardous with no way to get back safely. Good examples of this are floors you haven't explored yet or floors with dangerous [[vault]]s, including (but not limited to) the various branch endings. Nothing ruins your day more than losing a promising end-game character because you took an escape hatch down to [[Zot:5]] and landed in the middle of the Orb chamber.
**Note that escape hatches '''can''' drop you inside a [[transporter]] vault, so be careful.

==History==
*In earlier versions of ''Crawl'', escape hatches could prove lethal when used in the [[Orcish Mines]] or the [[Slime Pits]]. Players would find themselves suddenly trapped in small chambers with no escape routes unless they brought in their own source of [[teleportation]] or [[dig]]ging.
*In very early versions of DCSS, escape hatches were referred to as ''rock staircases'', as distinguished from the normal stone staircases.

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