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Between this and the previous MUD post about LLM MUDs I'd love to see a comeback.

A few months ago I tried out my old (1999-2004) hang, wocmud.org

Some of the quests were still sometimes broken. auto attacking mobs were still unfairly strong. But, there were a couple people more than willing to help me get my gear back from my corpse. They helped me remember the areas, quests, syntax, etc that I had BURNED into my memory when I was 14. We chatted and got caught up in the 20 years of updates. Oh, and I didn't get banned for being out-of-character. overall a 10/10 nostalgic experience

I started working on my own with Evennia and claude. I was hoping to hook up an LLM for MOBs but had to put it down when life got busy again.

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I'm sure you mean wotmud.org, and I always look for someone to mention this one in MUD threads, but rarely see it.

Man I was hooked on that game in high school. Joined the Lion Wardens, multiple high level characters, knew the zones. Nothing has come close since then.

That feeling of leveling in a safe zone when your screen fills with red names of opposing faction characters and you just get deleted and lose all your gear and a level... so good.

nope! wocmud, worlds of carnage. `telnet wocmud.org 4000` or https://www.wocmud.org/welcome.php

I think wocmud is one of the smaller muds out there but for whatever reason my brother and I were obsessed!

I learned about Wheel of Time much later in life so I missed out on WoTMUD

Ah! Well, enjoying a MUD is still a great shared experience haha. Nothing like them since. I still gravitate to punishing games with obscure mechanics and steep learning curves, and I imagine I'm still chasing that MUD high.

I think what made them special was that they were populated by others that put in that effort, and so the community felt invested. And you'd see the same names every time you logged on cause there was a single server, and reputation mattered. Ah man, what a time of life haha.

Wotmud is still going strong. Come join the discord!

Wotmud taught me to type fast.

My first character was a Lion Warden too. :)

I always get a kick out of running into another wotmud alumni in the wild.

I'm glad it sparked something. Really cool to see not just the nostalgia, but the active projects/games, and the feature requests. Original Post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49008538

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