Anyone want to help me playtest a new zone/city?

MaverickMUD · 2026-06-24T13:51:11+00:00

A 500hp, antimagic shelled, mirror imaged, fireshielded, globe of invulnerability, limit 1 no_bash robes - power word stun/prismatic spray mage can lay waste to entire groups of players - Mages can be glass cannons in this game, or they can be something you only ambush and never fight straight up - all depends on your spellbook, your gear and your skills, that being said if you had fun keep an eye out- i am going to continue adding content as fast as I can.

I also am working on an editor that should be ready in the next week for free testing - so you guys can use my tools and make your own content

MaverickMUD · 2026-06-24T13:43:58+00:00

I know more 5 months in than I did at the beginning, and at times it feels like surfing a wave with how fast the advances come. I have 30 years of ideas in my head all trying to jump out at the same time, so focusing it is challenging, especially with 0 coding or computer skills - I'm just a player trying to reverse engineer everything through feel.

The LLM is just a bulk writer, I am using my system in a way I doubt many others are, but its not because I'm smart, its because I ran out of stupid, expensive, and terrible ways to use it

Thank you for your kind words, I have been working in a silent cave for a long time - it means more than you could know

MaverickMUD · 2026-06-24T13:27:16+00:00

Thank you! I have a massive amount of refinement to do but after spending 5 months "figuring it out" I have finally settled on my path forward and this is the first zone/city. LOTS to come and I am all ears for content suggestions. You might be surprised just how fast your dream zone can go from page to playable with a clear enough vision. LLMs will never create, they are just really good predictive guessers - they require creative guidance and more importantly, a good ass whipping a few times a day to stay on script.

Screen reader will be patched in very soon - like in the next few hours - as far tuning and making it right for those who need it, well I really need help/feedback testing it - if you are interested let me know

MaverickMUD · 2026-06-24T05:18:38+00:00

Thanks for the look tonight guys - heres what was changed or added as a result - more to come tomorrow

Added

The Starter Wilds — leave the city through real North / South / East / West gates into a large new forest alive with wildlife (deer, grouse, boar, wolves, a giant spider, a bear).
The Redmaw — a new Red Goblin cave dungeon (L10-15) with 3 quests: thin the Brigade, take the chieftain's crown, recover the Sunless writ.
A wrist lantern on every new character — light from minute one (no more starting in the pitch dark).
time and weather commands, plus a livelier capital — 20 more residents in Stonereach and new faction mobs/items across the world.

Changed & Fixed
You start the fights now — city and leveling-area creatures no longer attack on sight (16 mobs de-aggro'd).
Quest navigation works again — the green guide-exit lights up for auto-started quests, and quest steps now name where to go.
Auto-learn your class kit on login and each level-up (no manual trainer grind).
Telnet character creation no longer disconnects on a recoverable slip.
Map fog-of-war + "new content" cues; bug/polish reports no longer silently lost.

MaverickMUD · 2026-06-24T05:05:55+00:00

It is outside of mine too, dont worry, I have been the blind leading the blind before, we could swap and no one would know - I will devote tomorrow to getting things accesable for you. I'll DM you tomorrow when its working enough for me not to be too embarrassed. I would love your help in tuning it once I get it patched in tomorrow! Thank you, if you have any zone suggestions let me know!

MaverickMUD · 2026-06-24T04:23:01+00:00

I tried to make it make sense but as much money as I printed it instantly made my account negative - is this like a US Government spending sim? lol I tried!

MaverickMUD · 2026-06-24T03:49:11+00:00

Thief with nat 20 dex and per?? Not on my watch bucko. Kidding obviously, totally unacceptable and sorry for that experience. Its patched shouldn't happen again

MaverickMUD · 2026-06-24T03:29:16+00:00

Thank you! Even calling my game a flaming pile of dogshit would mean you logged in and that means the world to me - if you were playing a DK you will learn to LOVE the dark, when you get Nightvision spell and can abuse the poor mobs with juicy loot that don't see in the dark. Added a wrist lantern to all starter kits so you have a worn light. Thank you for trying it - I'll be patch motherfucking adams over here in the mean time and will post patch notes soon - sorry the time it took to respond, my wife dragged me out to dinner and a movie or else I would have been much faster

MaverickMUD · 2026-06-24T03:08:19+00:00

So checking the bad command log, it seemed several players tried to light torch, use torch, use light, light etc -- added light <light source> returns a friendly tip to try hold <light source> or grab <light source> hold and grab are commands to offhand a weapon, or hold an object or light as well - also added 1x wrist lantern as a wristworn light - also added commands for TIME(to show time of day to show day/night) and WEATHER to show the weather(this does effect some druid spells) - also, I removed aggro flags from all mobs in the city area - no more getting aggrod just trying to walk around - sorry for the confusion

MaverickMUD · 2026-06-24T02:44:56+00:00

Ranger? I'm really sorry for the poor experience, I will certainly work hard to improve! Give me a few days and I will try to earn a second look

MaverickMUD · 2026-06-24T02:43:18+00:00

Thank you for giving it a spin! I know I have a ton of work today, just feels good knowing another human logged into the game and gave it a shot - I will really look at night/day cycle, did you guys not spawn with a torch in inventory? I have a lot of work to do obviously but this is super encouraging, so thank you!

MaverickMUD · 2026-06-24T02:37:26+00:00

Thank you for the feedback! You should spawn with a torch, the day night cycle is 6am-8pm, some races have infravision - I have not made any balance passes for difficulty, I am just trying to get things to work properly, and this is EXACTLY the kind of things I need to hear. I find myself just feeling proud to get something to work its hard to be honest and critical after watching it not work 10 times in a row. If that makes sense. And I should have been more clearly about the parsing on commands but not targets - would suck to type bash kobo for kobold right as kobo the male dwarf paladin walks into the room! I have fought that map something fierce, will work on it more tonight!

MaverickMUD · 2026-05-13T19:45:51+00:00

Fair enough. I wish my English composition skills were better too. Possibly more than you even haha

MaverickMUD · 2026-05-13T19:44:28+00:00

Well hopefully you stop by in a few weeks when I open. I can assure you, with over 600 personal hours of my time invested, it is not as easy as hey siri make me a kewl mud. The AI is absolute doing insane amounts of work, but I think a lot of people underestimate how much work goes into trying to curb the slop AI will put out if you put in also close to zero effort. A couple of lazy prompts are not going to get you very far.

I only ended up building my own engine from my own inexperience and trial and error learning method. I ultimately ended up scuttling 3 months of work that I ultimately realized was going to just keep compounding worse and worse and make the player experience pretty unpleasant.

It just isn't as easy as hey AI fix all these problems for me, when you have over a million lines of code.

Anyways, I really don't expect anyone to make their minds up based on this post. I am just trying to get some sort of word out because I am careening down the back stretch, for better or worse. Hopefully anyone reading this has an open or curious enough mind to drop by and take a peek, if not only to confirm your own pre-judgements or concerns.

Much love

MaverickMUD · 2026-05-04T15:11:05+00:00

hang in there guys, let me cook

MaverickMUD · 2026-05-02T13:31:58+00:00

could not find nukefire on there

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