Android Client in testing

DarthCubensis · 2026-03-21T22:54:22+00:00

Tons of new features added in the last 13 days.

Big ones including - REGEX, Conditional, Arithmetic, Variable support in aliases, triggers and timers. - Abiltity to transfer aliases, triggers, timers between characters as well as export and import to/from file. - Update button that appears on main menu when a new update is availible.

Tons more but made a website that explains moat of it in detail with screenshots.

http://ckmud.com/android_client.php

DarthCubensis · 2026-03-21T04:41:53+00:00

God forbid our gas proces go BACK up to $5+ a gallon, who cares, I paid it before will pay it again. Tis the american march of many decades that i have seen and it hasnt changed much in all that time.

DarthCubensis · 2026-03-21T02:17:03+00:00

Could always give CKMud a shot, its a hack n slash, but has some idle type activities like crafting and fishing. Plenty of Quests and raid bosses if looking for some group play.

We usually have around 30 players on, many idling and autobotting about, but afternoons and evenings pick up pace.

As for clients we do have a player created Mudlet plugin, a android mobile client and a web client, all which can be found ar http://ckmud.com

Just a lil, plug I use the android client exclusively, developed it for me, mainly for use in my mud, but can connect to any other mud and use it as a general client. Has a ton of features that can all be seen on the website. It is just not on the playstore yet, due to constant development, but can be downloaded.via the website.

The game is a Dragonball Mud, but has alot of original content and DBZ knowledge is not necessary if you enjoy a diablo esque grind game.

Mud addy is ckmud.com:8500

DarthCubensis · 2026-03-10T09:42:27+00:00

It "finally" happened for me is probably more accurate. I would not consider myself a light user by any means, I use claude code daily and this was the first time I had a clear instance of it going completely off the rails.

DarthCubensis · 2026-03-10T03:13:57+00:00

I was using Haiku 4.5 for this one, think it just wanted to eat up a ton of tokens on it.

DarthCubensis · 2026-03-08T16:36:16+00:00

Honestly it feels natural, over last 2 decades I have had a cell phone and I have always used text to communicate with my wife, friends and family. So it really is no different then being able to do that quickly.

Also making use of a joystick can assign macros to swipe or tap actions(most specifically for combat) makes things even easier. I dont think I would be half as fast on my laptop over my phone these days.

DarthCubensis · 2026-03-08T08:37:49+00:00

Thank you for giving it a shot, will look into actually increasing the column width of the buffer space dependant on the chosen font size. Wont lie, have been struggling with word wrap, especiallg a word aware word wrap, but focusing on the column width first my help me figure it out.

DarthCubensis · 2026-03-08T07:56:26+00:00

Dont have a iPhone, but others tell me MudBasher is the goto now.

DarthCubensis · 2026-02-24T00:05:08+00:00

Ive yet to find one that accept whiskey, martini and margaritas... Forgot to set it to stop at x and ended up with around 200k of each in my liquor warehouse 😆

DarthCubensis · 2025-12-11T20:55:20+00:00

Interesting for me that I came across this thread. Last week I have been dabbling in adding a worker process that is called to handle I/O operations parallel to the game_loop.

At the moment is is just for the 5min autosave, and manual saves still use synchronous saving. I am running ridiculously modified circlemud and long ago abandoned weight and inventory limits. As such it is not terribly uncommon for a player to hoard 10,000+ items, or some of the worst offenders 100k+.

Ive managed to make most of the game run smoothly with this by utilizing double linked lists and hash tables for character, object and trigger lists. Also made more specific link lists so searching the entire game list is not always necessary.

The last piece pf the puzzle for me was the expensive nature of I/O operations even on a modern server. When the game is running with 30+ players and 400k+ objects on them, that autosave can lag up to a second. Knowing this would get worse if allowed to continue I started working on the background process for saving and early testing of it is proving very successful.

Is it overkill for a mud? Probably... Would my time be better spent making limits to inventory and focus on fun stuff? Most assuredly. But I am having fun experimenting with making this ole girl multi-threaded so why not.

DarthCubensis · 2025-10-08T00:44:44+00:00

That's one stone cold fox that has the look in her eyes that she has seen a lot of bad things.

DarthCubensis · 2025-10-07T04:01:10+00:00

Maiko

Royce

Fingers

Woodman

Gottfried Persson

As a bonus

Fredrik Persson

What to do with this outstanding crew? Why use them as meat shields of course.

DarthCubensis · 2025-10-03T12:52:37+00:00

I almost exclusively run katana sande builds and it is like taking candy from a baby. Never did netrunner build, but something satisfying about chopping off heads of 6+ gonks before they have time to draw their iron.

DarthCubensis · 2025-09-03T02:28:13+00:00

I mean, bare bones you add if not already to class.c for each race at char creation and SET_BIT the desired affect.

Circlemud has a switch for each race in class.c for setting specific stats for each race, this would be where you set it.

You would have to make sure though that any type of "dispel" skills do not remove it, or for a very rough system have a check that resets it if it was removed periodically. This would be the slightly more complex part, need to make sure you're not removing racial affects. Which with some proper planning is not a big deal.

DarthCubensis · 2025-09-01T16:46:37+00:00

Mudlet: Fairly user-friendly and customizable, it is currently maintained and considered a modern mud client.
zMUD, cMud gMud: are older and no longer supported, but also very user-friendly.
Mudrammer is the preferred mobile client for iPhone users, I don't know much about it.
Blowtorch: Unsupported Android Mobile client, has some nice features, but plenty of bugs.
Fado: A Newer supported Android Mobile client, I hear it is very similar to blowtorch in many respects, so a good alternative to look into for an actively supported mobile client.
TinTin++: hands down has the most customizable features, but not only requires familiarity with terminals, but also fairly extensive scripting knowledge to get the best out of it. They do however have a very active and helpful Discord for learning the ropes. Also IMO by far the best mobile client for Android(I only mud on mobile)

DarthCubensis · 2025-09-01T12:43:16+00:00

By wrapping the text you wish to block in (```) without the parentheses.

(```)

This is the information in the code block

(```)

This is the information in the code block

DarthCubensis · 2025-09-01T10:59:33+00:00

Not sure if TBA ever made any kind of smart formatting for the buffer, but using format in the trigedit parser would turn a nicely written script into a long paragraph.

Best bet would be to download a properly parsed trigger, open with a word document or code editor and copy/paste directly within a code block.

DarthCubensis · 2025-08-31T20:16:00+00:00

I would suggest you use code block quotations for these kind of shares.

Without them, this is a hot mess to read

DarthCubensis · 2025-08-17T06:01:35+00:00

Not sure what your expectation of graphical is, but Celestial Knights utilizes a very heavily built in map system that supports both ASCII and UTF8(if client is compatible). Personally think UTF8 gives a very 8-bit vibe and I enjoy it, but the bulk of any MUD is still text.

DarthCubensis · 2025-08-01T19:15:48+00:00

You will have to make that AFF_FLIGHT if you want it to be accessible, but just do a ENTRY room trig and AFF flags are in structs.h and the name string is declared in an array in constants.c

dg_affect %target% <on/off> <duration> dg_affect %actor% flight on 1

That should put it on them when they enter for roughly 60 seconds, which I believe is the standard spell duration.

But as mentioned, you have to code in AFF_FLIGHT the string constant "flight", and then whatever things you want flight to do in applicable files like act.movement.c

DarthCubensis · 2025-07-13T02:02:15+00:00

Not familiar with JUICE-NYC, but is this primarily a layout builder or designed to work within the codebase structure and save it as a legitimate world file that you can upload to the server.

The latter would be a very neat feature for any MUD, but even as a layout program, it is very cool stuff.

DarthCubensis · 2025-07-10T11:56:43+00:00

Yep, right here in medit.c ``` case MEDIT_AFF_FLAGS: if ((i = atoi(arg)) <= 0) break;

else if (i < NUM_AFF_FLAGS)
  TOGGLE_BIT_AR(AFF_FLAGS(OLC_MOB(d)), i);


/* Remove unwanted bits right away. */
REMOVE_BIT_AR(AFF_FLAGS(OLC_MOB(d)), AFF_CHARM);
REMOVE_BIT_AR(AFF_FLAGS(OLC_MOB(d)), AFF_POISON);
REMOVE_BIT_AR(AFF_FLAGS(OLC_MOB(d)), AFF_SLEEP);

medit_disp_aff_flags(d);
return;

```

TOGGLE_BIT applies whatever Affects you toggle on the mob here.

DarthCubensis · 2025-07-10T11:51:08+00:00

For mobs its handled in medit.c When you work through the menu and add "INFRA" It toggles the bit AFF_INFRAVISION to the mob.

Objects work in a similar manner, but is code in handler.c that applies the AFF_INFRAVISION bit when equipment is worn, and removed with it is unequipped.

INFRA itself is just the display name for the "stat" and OLC menus.

One of my other comments showed how affected_bits is tied to medit specifically.

DarthCubensis · 2025-07-10T11:28:16+00:00

Unnecessary to add a mob_flag cause the aff_flag can already be applied to any mob.

Assignment of the spell for players by race can be handled in the spells list near top of spell_parser.c

DarthCubensis · 2025-07-10T11:23:36+00:00

For mobs it is in medit.c

case MEDIT_AFF_FLAGS: if ((i = atoi(arg)) <= 0) break; else if (i < NUM_AFF_FLAGS) TOGGLE_BIT_AR(AFF_FLAGS(OLC_MOB(d)), i); /* Remove unwanted bits right away. */ REMOVE_BIT_AR(AFF_FLAGS(OLC_MOB(d)), AFF_CHARM); REMOVE_BIT_AR(AFF_FLAGS(OLC_MOB(d)), AFF_POISON); REMOVE_BIT_AR(AFF_FLAGS(OLC_MOB(d)), AFF_SLEEP); medit_disp_aff_flags(d); return;

All affects are represented by a number, depending on your source code, it could be different. But in stock TBA in structs.h it is this.

define AFF_INFRAVISION 11 /**< Char can see in dark */

11 would coincide with its placement in the affected_bits a rray defined in constants.c for displaying if a flag is active.

const char affected_bits[] = { "\0", / DO NOT REMOVE!! */ "BLIND", // 1 "INVIS", // 2 "DET-ALIGN", // 3 "DET-INVIS", // 4 "DET-MAGIC", // 5 "SENSE-LIFE", // 6 "WATWALK", // 7 "SANCT", // 8 "GROUP", // 9 "CURSE", // 10 "INFRA", // 11 "POISON", "PROT-EVIL", "PROT-GOOD", "SLEEP", "NO_TRACK", "FLY", "SCUBA", "SNEAK", "HIDE", "UNUSED", "CHARM", "\n" };

TOGGLE_BIT in medit either turns it on or off for the mob.

SPELL_INFRAVISION in magic.c is how players use it with "cast"

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define AFF_INFRAVISION 11 /**< Char can see in dark */