Basics

Character Creation

• Beginner: You get a pre-generated human soulknife. That character particularly suits beginners with its free weapon (mind blade).

• Roleplay: You are asked a few basic questions to generate your character. There are no numbers involved!

• Advanced: This is the creation method to fully customise your character. It's difficult to use so it's not recommended to beginners.

• Play as yourself: This is to create you, the player, as a character. It's basically a chance to see how you would fare in an adventure world. Please be honest when you respond to the questions, or it's no fun.

Account Settings

Use the settings menu instead if you are using the Java client.

• • MXP: client windows, clickable links, menus (enabled by default).

  • Colours: ANSI colours (enabled by default).

  • Word wrap: server-sided word wrap (disabled by default).

  • OOC channel: display the OOC conversation channel (enabled by default).

  • Blind support: make the MUD more screen reader friendly (disabled by default).

Blind Support

Let us know how we can make MUD Seeder more screen reader friendly.

Current support includes:

• • Textual Account Settings.

  • Full room descriptions shown only if you press ENTER.

  • Filter out ==, >, < symbols.

  • Free /recall command if you get lost.

Live Broadcasts

This feature allows you to broadcast everything that you see on your MUD screen to other players. Available broadcasts can be found in the account menu.

Commands:

• • /cast: to start/stop broadcasting

  • /cc {message}: to chat with the viewers

Ability Scores

Read about the 6 ability scores here.

Abilities and Spellcasters

The ability that governs spellcasting depends on what type of spellcaster your character is: Intelligence for wizards and psions; Wisdom for clerics, druids, and rangers; or Charisma for bards, paladins and sorcerers.

Combat

Read how the combat mechanics work here (technical article).

Alignment

A creature’s general moral and personal attitudes are represented by its alignment: lawful good, neutral good, chaotic good, lawful neutral, neutral, chaotic neutral, lawful evil, neutral evil, or chaotic evil.

Alignment is a tool for developing your character’s identity. It is not a straitjacket for restricting your character. Each alignment represents a broad range of personality types or personal philosophies, so two characters of the same alignment can still be quite different from each other. In addition, few people are completely consistent.

The Nine Alignments

Read here.

Spellcasting

• /get a scroll (or a psionic stone).

• /use the scroll. You now know the spell.

• Go to a tavern, and /memorize the spell (as many times as you want).

• Each time you cast a spell, you expand a memory slot. Memory is regenerated when you rest.

• See a list of commands here.

Coins

• 1 copper = 1/100 gold

• 1 silver = 1/10 gold

• 1 mithral = 200 gold

• 1 adamantine = 1400 gold

• 1 USD = 1/20 gold (conversion calculated from leather armour price)

The average humanoid usually drops 6x its HD of copper.

Mithral ore is rewarded from games. Adamantine ore is rewarded from quests. Use the ore to obtain a coin.

Morph

You can morph if you are under the effect of the spells Polymorph or Metamorphosis. You can also morph a certain amount of times per day if you are a druid.

In order to morph into a creature, you must possess a knowledge rank equal to the creature's HD in the knowledge skill associated with the type of the creature e.g. Knowledge (nature) if you want to morph into an animal. View here which Knowledge skill is associated with what creature type. View here all the creatures listed by their type.

Commands: /morph {creature name} and /unmorph

Some animals that a druid can morph into at level 1:

• cat

• small viper snake

• dire rat

• owl

• monkey

• hawk

• eagle

• dog

• badger

• baboon

Random Worlds and Dungeons

[This feature has been disabled until the Coordinate System is implemented.]

The World Portal leads to 1,000,000 random worlds, each with a city and a dungeon.

Each world is different. If you explore enough, you will find one that contains any creature that you wish to fight. But be wary that many are also very dangerous.

Each dungeon is guarded by a dragon. Dragons keep many riches and their scales are very valuable to craft powerful armours. They provide resistance to a certain type of element and druids can wear them because they are not made of metal.

Not all dragons are the same. Most dragons will only be vanquished by the most experienced adventurers.

If you find a village (inhabited area) on the map, you can use your Knowledge (Local) skill to gather information about where to find the city or the dungeon.

Command: /gather

Housing

[This feature has been disabled until the Coordinate System is implemented.]

Some apartments are available from certain cities. Moreover, each random world contains many dwellings that players can buy from the city landlord to make it their home.

The same home will be used for all the characters on your account. You can store your items safely in your house vault.

Party

Invite other players to your party to make them follow you.

• • Area spells don't target party members.

  • XP is shared between party members if within 1 level of each other (except at lvl 1).

• Party commands

Guilds

Find the guild master in the Commerce District of Nalamil to create a guild.

• • Area spells don't target guild members.

  • It's required to have a guild to join the weekly event Guild War.

  • Guilds can purchase their own house (with a vault to store items).

• Guild commands

Casino and Auctions

In the casino (Port District of Nalamil), you will find the auction room and NPCs to play tabletop games.

Items are auctioned for three days. If the item has not been sold during those three days, it is then sold for the minimum bit set by the seller.

Games currently available:

• • blackjack (solo)

  • checkers variant (2 players)

Bounty Hunter

You can put a bounty on other players in the Assassin's Guild of the City of Brass.

Dreamland

[This feature has been disabled until the Dimension System is implemented.]

When you are dreaming, you don't have your regular, physical gear anymore. If you want new gear, you must collect items made of dreamstuff inside of the dreamland.

Rebirth

Visit a priest of Jasha to reincarnate (custom variant of the spell). Their spell resets your character to level 1 and makes it harder to gain experience. However, you gain 5 supplementary points to increase your ability scores, and new feats (one on first rebirth, two on the next ones).

• • It costs 3 points to increase an ability score ≥ 16

  • 2 points for a score ≥ 12

  • 1 point otherwise

You are still considered a high level for the Poetry Contest.

On third rebirth, you can gain either the celestial or fiendish template.

Wizards

The Wizards are the players who run the game. Each MUD creator starts with a rank of 7, and is given local power over their own MUD. The Wizards at rank 8 and above have global powers over all MUDs.