DuneMUD

Dune MUD is a multiplayer text adventure set in Frank Herbert's Dune universe. It has run since 1992 and is a classic LP-MUD: you gain experience and raise your levels and stats mainly by fighting monsters, most of them human enemies.

Character creation is short. You pick a name, gender and handedness, and specialize later. There are no mages, clerics or dragons here. Everything draws on the Dune universe.

World and features:

- Ten guilds, each with its own powers, abilities, drawbacks and advantages

- Eight planets with different climates, looks and feel

- Over 30,000 rooms in hundreds of areas

- 2,600+ armours and 2,700+ weapons

- Levels 1 to 1000

- Many in-game quests

- A broad channel system for talking with other players

- Opt-in player killing, so you only fight players who agree to it

- Free to play and low bandwidth, with players from North America, Europe and elsewhere

- An active wizard staff that keeps updating the game, and a Discord community

Dune MUD runs on a custom library written in LPC and built on the LD Mud Driver. The library has been in development since the early 1990s.

How to connect:

- In your browser: play.mudvault.org, no download needed

- Telnet: dunemud.net port 6789

- Secure (TLS): dunemud.net port 6788

- Clients: Mudlet (free, multi-platform) and BeipMU (free, Windows) are recommended. MUSHclient, zMUD, CMUD and TinyFugue also work.

New players are welcome. Log in, make a character and ask on the channels if you get stuck.