Events

No Potion Deathmatch

Players are teleported to an arena where potions cannot be drank.

Elimination Deathmatch

Players are teleported to the deadly Elimination Room.

Death Wheel

Players are teleported to the Death Wheel, a one-way circular arena filled with many dangers.

Low-Level Deathmatch

This deathmatch can only be entered if your level is 10 or lower.

Class-Specific Deathmatch

Those deathmatches can only be entered by specific classes; in the "no potion" arena.

• • Warrior Deathmatch: for fighters, barbarians and knights.

  • Priest Deathmatch: for paladins, anti-paladins, blackguards, fallen paladins and clerics.

• Druid Deathmatch: for rangers and druids—in the survival arena.

• Monk Deathmatch: for monks and ninjas.

• Rogue Deathmatch: for thieves (including kits).

• Scholar Deathmatch: for bards and scholars.

• Mage Deathmatch: for sorcerers and wizards (including specialists).

• Psionic Deathmatch: for psychic warriors, soulknives and psions.

Deathmatch Variants

Survival

Players are teleported to a jungle arena filled with dangerous monsters.

Pickpocket War

The player who has the most gold after 5 minutes wins (killing everyone is still an option).

Assassination

A player is designed at random as the "mark". If they survive for 20 minutes, they win the event. It's otherwise a regular deathmatch.

Skill Challenges

Those events feature the use of skills instead of PvP fighting.

Bard's Challenge

Use one of your Perform skills to seduce a priestess of Beleva. The player with the worst skill roll must beat a beautiful creature or get disqualified.

• • Command: perform {category}

Ranger's Challenge

Test your ranger skills against others. The player with the worst skill roll must beat a feral beast or get disqualified.

• • Command: skill {skill name}

Scholar's Challenge

Note: by default, English only. But you make your own quiz file (min. 500 questions).

Test your knowledge of the game world against others. In Phase 1, you must fill the missing word in room descriptions. In Phase 2, you must unscramble game-related words. In Phase 3, you must answer general questions about the world.

• • A correct answer yields 5 points

  • A wrong answers makes you lose 1 point

  • A score of -10 gets you disqualified

  • Command: answer {answer}

In Phase 3, your character's knowledge skill can help you to find the right answers. Note that Knowledge (Bardic) doesn't work.

• • Using a knowledge skill makes you lose 2 points

  • Command: know {field of knowledge}, e.g. know nature

Ninja's Challenge

Test your ninja skills against other players. The player with the worst skill roll must run through the Thief's Gauntlet in under a certain time which is decreasing each turn (from 100 to 20 seconds).

• • Command: skill {skill name}

Thief's Challenge

Run as fast as you can through the deadly challenges of the Thief's Gauntlet. The player with the lowest time wins. You can't stay inside the gauntlet for more than 2 minutes.

Guild War

Guild War starts every Saturday at 8 PM. It is a regular deathmatch where the last standing guild wins.

Prize: 4 mithral ores, 1 adamantine ore.

Poetry Contest

Note: this event is only suitable for English language MUDs.

Poetry contests are ran weekly. The results are published every Sunday at 4 PM at the "master bard" NPC, and entries can be submitted to the master bard at any time. It is thus required that you add the master bard somewhere in your MUD for it to work.

• • Only bards can enter. Minimum character level 10.

  • No profanity.

  • No out-of-character or real-world references, e.g. don't talk about your cell phone.

  • If you submit a poem from another author, you will be disqualified and your character will get deleted.

Prize is one of the following:

• • mithral ore

  • adamantine ore

  • +1 or +2 weapon, with or without a flaming, shock or frost buff

  • +1, +2 or +3 armour, with or without a shadow or silence buff

  • minor ring of energy resistance

  • amulet of natural armour +1

  • masterwork lute

An archive of winning entries is accessible from the libraries. Command: readbook poetry_archive

Widowmaker

The Widowmaker is the biggest event of Dungeon Seeder. It's ran on the 13th of every month, at midnight, when the game is haunted by evil ghosts. The Widowmaker is a team event: you need to form a party, with at max one character from each of the following categories. Your team loses if the leader dies, or if the leader is left alone in the team.

• • STR category: fighters, barbarians, knights, paladins, rangers, multiclassed fighters (except bards), soldiers

  • DEX category: thieves (including kits), multiclassed thieves (except fighters), infiltrators

  • CON category: monks, ninjas, daredevils

  • INT category: wizards (including specialists), mages

  • WIS category: druids, fighter-druids, clerics, clerics-mages, acolytes

  • CHA category: psionic classes, bards, sorcerers, multiclassed bards, telepaths

The Widowmaker has three phases, each with its own rewards (one for each party member). You can quit the event at the end of any phase, but you only get the reward for that phase.

• • Phase 1: The first two teams to enter must duel each other to death. Heals and spells are allowed, but not potions. Prize: a random potion.

  • Phase 2: Battle a spider boss. Prize: a mithral ore.

  • Phase 3: Battle a strong spider boss. Prize: two mithral ores.

  • Phase 4: Battle the Widowmaker, Queen of all spiders. Prize: an unique item from the table below.