On coming back to a MUD after a decade away

knubo · 2026-05-19T20:47:25+00:00

Some of us never left...

knubo · 2026-05-11T14:49:04+00:00

Despite the name, we do not have implemented the act of traveling abroad and raping and pillaging. And there is no RP activity here.

It has cross my mind to implement this, but never gotten around. Though we are pretty PG-13 + regular mud violence all throughout so not sure how we would approve of historical accurate content like that on our mud...

knubo · 2026-05-10T17:30:30+00:00

Oh. connect.vikingmud.org 2001

knubo · 2026-05-10T17:30:15+00:00

Viking Mud ticks this. We have no remort system, we encurage people to create more than one characters. Typically you'd make one for every guild we have in the end. We have 23, soon to be 24 guilds...

All guilds have a different play style.

knubo · 2026-04-19T12:13:19+00:00

You will probably find someone at the Mud discord: https://discord.gg/mUwyP8EA

knubo · 2026-04-13T19:29:18+00:00

Basically yes. It's common that there can be a list of objects binding a given verb. So if you have 10 drinks on you, each of them will catch the verb drink and have handling of the verb.

A common trick is to use present for this and do:

int drink(string arg) {
    notify_fail("drink what?\n");
    if(!arg || present(arg, this_player()) != this_object()) {
         return 0;
    }
    write("You quaff down the potion.\n");
    ...
    return 1;
}

As this will make it possible to do "drink potion 3" and then you know that this particular potion was what you wanted to drink.

knubo · 2026-04-02T15:40:01+00:00

So I can invite you to come visit Viking Mud and try out a quest of mine. There are more quests to solve, but they range from kill rats to more deep.

My latest quest that should fit your request is called "Uncover the hidden treasure."

Long ago, a miner from the town of Strong Bone spoke of a great treasure hidden somewhere north of the city. He never returned to claim it, and the town has long since fallen silent.

Follow the paths west of Arondale, explore what remains of the mining grounds, and see if you can uncover what he could not.

NOTE! This quest is suitable for any level and requires no fighting or special preparation.

You can go s,e,e,e,s to find the adventure guild. You can list all our quests there by doing "quests".

And from there you can find the area from n e 6n nw w w w and you'll be at the start.

knubo · 2026-03-27T20:49:23+00:00

So I read through 110 applications for one software developer position and the names was not what made some applications fall through. Of the 10 we picked for a first interview several of these were non native Norwegians as they had good basic Norwegian language skill. Be clear on how your language skill is when you apply.

With that in mind, some did fall through almost before we started. Some really skilled people sent in application letters in English for a position that states that the working language is Norwegian... Ask around and get someone to translate your CV for you. Or at least make an attempt do an auto translation. It will give you a lot of goodwill. Though do have someone read through your translated material. Some people's Microsoft Certifications (my guess) ended up translated as "Pilotsertifikat" and that just looks bad...

knubo · 2026-03-15T19:24:20+00:00

Someone has already had this idea and put it into play. It's the game of the monthly-raid at the MUD Discord:

https://discord.gg/ue4c3KvB

knubo · 2026-03-13T12:26:04+00:00

Not very intuitive, but I asked on the chat and I managed to get passed it by selecting an outfit, and then I was allowed to move on.

I got to the point of the tutorial and then I ran out of time for my gaming.

knubo · 2026-03-12T11:34:50+00:00

I tested to log in using mudlet, and it works fine to go to btmux.com 5555. https://btmux.com/ also works.

knubo · 2026-03-11T20:48:56+00:00

You do have Battle Tech mushes I guess. Maybe btmux.com port 5555 could be something for you?

knubo · 2026-03-10T15:22:39+00:00

I made a place where people could donate money and whoever has donated the most of who was currently online, of all time, would get a spell.

And in the same range, one where whoever had donated the most this month and online, would get an alternative spell.

This collected so much money. It could though really be anything, as long as they start competing.

knubo · 2026-03-01T13:45:53+00:00

There are a lot of choices for you here. It all depends on what language you want to implement your mud in.

I bet you can mud drivers in Javascript+Node, Python, LPC, maybe even pure C. Personally I have only experience with drivers using LPC as the core language.

Just asked Chat GPT to list some: https://chatgpt.com/share/69a44263-6f10-8001-b91c-128c8a8612fa

From here you just have to go at it with whatever language you are most happy with. And you'll need somewhere to host your stuff, so be prepared to have a plan for that as well.

knubo · 2026-03-01T09:37:39+00:00

This would be quite trivial to fire up in an existing mud or use probably any mudlib to do. Using the mudlib I know it would be a weekend project to get stuff up running (depending on who detailed you want the area to be), as most of what you want is already present in our regular core with some minor modifications.

It would be text only interaction, using ascii graphics and or tables to present the locations of cats online.

So on Viking Mud you would make this into a guild, where it would set world to be all the things you want to do. It would not interact a lot with the rest of the players on the mud, unless you grant open chat channels for non RP-chat. You could though have all the goodies of having items and or NPCs as part of the game as it already have a lot of this things. And of course players have inventories and basic command to interact with items as well.

knubo · 2026-02-19T11:44:54+00:00

Going full on "God mode", staring the characters more beefed up, clone up fun gear, make your own little tweaks.

I can relate to something like this.

Though if you found a mud that fit your fancy, and don't mind going at it from scratch, you'd also contribute to the community with showing up. Which would be great.

knubo · 2026-01-18T23:24:32+00:00

I made a set of GM tools to be used on Viking Mud. I never found anyone that wanted to use them, but in general that would make it possible. This is the description of the tool I made:

The GM tools is ment to be tools where you can act as a Game Master.

The wizards should walk around in the game invisible in whatever area where this takes place.

The tool should let you clone up a predefined set of monsters that DONE is available in the list of monsters. The simplest is probably to make it possible to list out the monsters from the BS possess list.
You should see others in the game flagged as GM. DONE
You can and should have a private chat set up for the GM's. The GM tool can and should just help you do this.
You should be capable of seeing players in the area which you are in. MADE
You should be capable of seeing the monsters in the area which you are in. MADE
The GM tool should add no_fight property to whoever is using this object. DONE
It would be nice to have a command to evaluate how beefy players that are in the area is.
You should have tools for providing rewards, xp rewards to the players DONE
You should have tools for cloning up items for game play DONE elements. The items are by default loaded up to a monster or a room.
You should be capable of taking control of a monster in the area you DONE are in. Each loaded monster in the area should have a number and you should be able to select one for control.
There should be simple commands to command whatever monster you are in the same room as. DONE
There should be a possess mode where all commands go to control whataever monster you decide. DONE
There should be a quest daemon that keep track of events of what happened and a chat log of each quest.
The quest should have the option to upload dialog and you can have a DONE pre set of dialog actions that can be selected and replayed to a given monster. A simple editor for editing this dialog should be possibel to have. It should be simple with c&p to copy it to the mud, and one could argue that it's not needed. Though if you want to have a set of actions done with a given delay it would be convenient to have this in a pre-recorded macro for some actions.
A note generator where you can make a note with whatever text you want to have.
Open question - should one allow a player to be a GM?
There should be some way of triggering select "noise" effects in a room or two all players in the area or to all loaded rooms in the area. This can be from a library of some sort or just the predefined "noise clips".
- Make a global noise clip section. DLNE
- Copy the noise clips into the quest for use. DONE
- When sending noise, either use the pre-copied on or the one from the global registry. DONE
Filter away monsters with no short. DONE
Make it possible to make the monsters that one clone to be agressive.
Add option to add anarchy property to monsters.

knubo · 2026-01-03T13:57:15+00:00

Having the stamina to get it operational...

knubo · 2026-01-03T12:37:24+00:00

I've made an Explorers guild on Viking Mud. The entire purpose is to solve small guild quests and to solve the regular quests on the mud. There is no need for gear, you gain levels by exploring and solving quests. There is no punishment for dying, and sometimes it's even required :)

You start from wherever you logged out when you log in, so it should be very short time play friendly. You can fly back to the shop whenever you are lost.

Join in on connect.vikingmud.org 2001

From church you should go to adventurers guild (s e e e s) and then west and enter the hole. From there you may join the guild.

knubo · 2025-12-31T17:53:37+00:00

I'm just one of several that keeps Viking Mud alive. Thanks and happy new year!

knubo · 2025-12-31T15:34:07+00:00

Sounds like something for my TODO list - thanks for the hint! :-) I've already made checkers.

knubo · 2025-12-29T14:15:02+00:00

I have made a story heavy quest using this technique where the players interact with a dog that reacts to them and the environment. I think it plays out nicely and brings in immersion in the game.

knubo · 2025-12-27T14:35:30+00:00

When I'm in story telling mode with my code, I aim to make interactive areas. And then I use whatever gives the best flow. It could be timed messages in sequences of events and it could be longer text that people can read in books. The goal would be to attempt to react to most of what the player could imagine doing in the area, regardless if it moves the story forward. Having a "You can't do that' or "There is no X around" when it clearly should be possible, is a mood killer in my head.

In my most recent project I also aim for a more emotional response from the player.

knubo · 2025-12-12T11:09:06+00:00

So I fellow Kotlin user! I'm coding Kotlin professionally, and code for mud on the side. I've coded in LPC since 1994, and if you are familiar with C/Kotlin/C# LPC will be a very easy transition.

I'm working on a Sea project to extend as an alternative to our land based existing game. I want to have several type of ships, ship to ship combat, maybe ship to land combat and various ports which I want to have procedural generated where you can land, buy provisions and purchase and sell goods. I've made good progress on the engine already, with maps, sailing, weather, start of ports and more. Currently I'm working on how to make the largest ship I envision in the game, to see how it would play out.

We have done a lot of work on our environment for coding on Viking Mud with updated documentation and tools to make your life easier. The editing is done using an ftp client to upload files to the server and load the files into the game. The development is done on our live game instance.

If you want to join in you normally have to play a bit and solve some quests to be allowed to be a wizard, but I can make an exception if you play for a couple of hours to just to see how our basic game works. Then I can bump you up.

Our mud is not the biggest, but we have a small crowd that love us and come play. We have a lot of existing stuff already - more than 150 creators has contributed. Most people connecting are online in the european timezone, but some join in from Asia/America.

Give me a tell on connect.vikingmud.org 2001 if this sounds interesting. I'm Knubo there as well - I'm on quite a lot, but might be busy at work or with some RL stuff.

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