What, FUN!? That sounds like a misfeature in need of removal!
>changelog for latest DCSS v0.21
>Removed wands of confusion and lightning.
>Removed scrolls of recharging.
>Removed mutagenic chunks.
>Removed control Undead.
>Removed Cigotuvi's Embrace.
>Rations are now the only type of permanent food, replacing bread and meat rations, fruit, and royal jelly.
>Ration item generation and well as the herbivore and carnivore mutations have been balanced to keep available nutrition the same as before.
>Fedhas abilities that formerly required a piece of fruit instead require two rations.
>Zin no longer has a mutation removal one-time ability at 6* piety.
>Zin blocks 100% of mutations at 6* piety. At that piety level, potions of mutation now only remove mutations and don't cause piety loss.
>Wands of the same type merge charges upon pickup and wands have no cap on charges.
>Wands identify charges upon pickup and are destroyed when their last charge is used.
>changelog for latest DCSS v0.21
>Removed Trog's Burn Spellbook ability.
>Player ghost vaults:
>Ghosts now only appear in vaults sealed by runed doors or transporters.
>The ghost is always visible from outside the vault through clear walls.
>The player can use wands in all forms.
>Spell Library:
>Spells from books are automatically added to a global library upon pickup.
>Library spells can be memorized from anywhere through the 'M' screen.
>Spellbooks are destroyed after their spells are added to the library.
>Lee's Rapid Deconstruction can no longer destroy walls.
>Borgnjor's Vile Clutch constriction damage is reduced by 25% and the spell
is no longer in the Necromancer starting book (the Book of Necromancy)
>>15184964
>0.14
>not 0.9
No dorf, no deal. Still, here's an old unmaintained feature restoration fork of 0.14 that restores all the features cut in the interim:
https://github.com/tmhedberg/dcss-ehe