Muds from Wild Web Rides 1996. Compiled by J Tarin Towers, Ken Badertscher, Wayne Cunningham, and Laura Buskirk.
Most of these were on interplay.com's "The MUD List January 1996 Edition".
Some of these are not up anymore (?). If I've found a current URL for a MUD I've written it in the "Additional notes" column.
| Mud name | Old URL | Book notes from 1996 | Additional notes |
| Apocalypse V | telnet://sapphire.geo.wvu.edu:4000 157.182.168.20 4000 |
Has Tritons and Uldras | Now at https://apocalypsemud.org. Requires joining discord. |
| AustinMUD | telnet://Ragnarok.imv.aau.dk:4000 130.225.2.6 4000 http://www.imv.aau.dk/~diku |
The game assigns you your description instead of letting you write it. | Website is https://www.austinmud.dk/. Mud is at mud.austinmud.dk:4000 |
| Cocteau | telnet://xnet.com:8888 198.147.221.33 8888 |
Has dampeels from vampire hunter d as playable races. Makes you level up to 5 to see your own attributes. |
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| DarkPowers | telnet://cbb090.lubb.ttuhsc.edu:6666 | 198.123.104.14 6666 Based on Rolemaster. |
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| Duris: Land of Bloodlust | telnet://duris.mi.org:6666 198.109.161.120 6666 http://www.duris.mi.org |
Spun off from a game called Sojourn which was based on Forgotten Realms. PK-heavy. |
New site is https://www.durismud.com/. Haven't seen any FR trademarks. |
| Empire | telnet://einstein.physics.drexel.edu:4000 144.118.44.120 4000 |
? | New website is https://empiremud.net/. Source is at https://github.com/EmpireMUD/EmpireMUD-2.0-Beta |
| Genocide | telnet://genocide.shsu.edu:2222 192.92.114.145 2222 http://shsu.edu:80/~genlpc |
All-PK MUD. Has war events that only end when there's a single player surviving. (Which I guess used to be tastefully called "race wars"). | https://www.geno.org/ |
| GrungeMUD | telnet://bigbrother.tele.iastate.edu:4000 129.186.98.18 4000 http://www.public.iastate.edu/~stoked/grunge.html |
Has playable kobolds and ninjas. | |
| Lost Souls | telnet://lostsouls.org:3000 198.102.68.243 3000 http://www.lostsouls.org/html2/ |
In 1996 had four sexes, playable skavens and muls. Locational damage. | https://www.lostsouls.org/ |
| Luminous Horizons | telnet://usagi.tronco.com:4000 206.139.201.4 4000 |
Playable illithids. Kensai character class. | https://www.torilmud.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=753 says there's an old copy that can be reached at luminous.host888.com 4000 |
| Medievia | telnet://medievia.netaxs.com:4000 198.69.186.36 4000 http://medievia.netaxs.com:8080 |
Has dragon mounts and in-game casinos. Has a death-run undead mode for newbies. | New site is at https://www.medievia.com/ |
| Mid-Point Void II: Visions Past | telnet://mud.inna.net:4321 206.151.66.11 |
Sides player characters on good vs evil based on character backstories. | Mentioned at https://github.com/h3rb/webmudlister/blob/master/import/other/tmc_searchgrab/nohup.out as http://www.incubbus.com/vor/ from https://mud.fandom.com/wiki/EmlenMUD: Mortal Conquest is where everything started in 1994-1995 with Orin (Owen Emlen) and Smack (Greg Richardson), Drakk, and two others who's names have been lost to history. Owen set up a mechanism to be able to detect all bootups of the game, and the perpetrator was caught -- Mortal Conquest 2 (1996), about 8 playerwipes of Void of Reality (1996), Mid Point Void 2 (1996), FateMud (1996), Altross (1998), Methods of Destruction (1997), Aturion Dynasty (1995) (AD), Rites of Passage (1995) -- this mud is the philosophical enemy of Lands of Chaos, featuring low character power and a large, safe map --, Fate, and some other dutch variant, who's name escapes the editor at this time. |
| MUD: The Quickening | telnet://prometheus.digital-rain.com:4000 206.87.85.1 4000 |
Based on Highlander. | |
| New Moon | telnet://eclipse.cs.pdx.edu:7680 204.203.64.89 7680 http://eclipse.cs.pdx.edu |
Has different planets with different time-period settings. |
https://old.reddit.com/r/MUD/comments/1hip40p/current_status_of_new_moon/ "A certain dev decided to make some pretty massive changes to how the game operated, which sent most of the player base searching for greener pastures, as it were." |
| PhoenixMUD | telnet://mud.token.net:4000 206.115.32.16 4000 http://www.token.net/~ribak/ |
Lets you run 3 characters simultaneously. | https://phoenixmud.net/ currently up |
| RealmsMUD | telnet://realms.dorsai.org:1501 206.127.32.200 1501 http://www.dorsai.org/~james/ |
Opt-in PK. | Placeholder www site at http://realmsmud.org ; source at https://github.com/realms-mud/core-lib |
| StickMUD | telnet://stick.jyu.fi:7680 130.234.16.21 7680 http://www.jyu.fi/~np/stickmud.html |
Guild vs guild PK. Player mentor "liege" mechanic. | https://www.stickmud.com/ |
| Toril: The Journey Continues | telnet://mud.sojourn.com:9999 199.177.127.88 9999 http://www.torilmud.com |
Based on Forgotten Realms. Requires room rental to keep inventory. | https://www.torilmud.com/ |
| ChaosMUD | telnet://mordor.bio.uci.edu:5150 128.200.21.105 5150 http://mordor.bio.uci.edu/chaos.html |
Lawless PVP MUD. | |
| Isengard | telnet://mordor.bio.uci.edu:4040 128.200.21.105 4040 http://mordor.bio.uci.edu/ |
Takes names from Tolkien novels but not similar in character / plot dynamics. | http://isengard.nazgul.com/ |
| Defiance | telnet://ra2.randomc.com:3011 205.160.16.21 3011 http://www.randomc.com/defiance |
MUD areas are taken from real-world cities (e.g. Shanghai). | Now known as Ancient Empires https://ancientempires.net/ |
| LegendMUD | telnet://mud.aus.sig.net:9999 199.1.78.16 9999 http://mud.aus.sig.net |
Travel one character through history. | https://www.legendmud.org/index.php/Welcome_to_Legend |
| Core 2696 | telnet://core.aa.net:4000 204.157.220.240 4000 http://core.aa.net |
Has romulans, klingons, vaurgch, artris, and "nymphos". Classes/guilds are called "unions". | |
| Ground Zero | telnet://insanity.dorm.edu:6666 129.2.154.11 6666 http://ns1.ntrnet.net/~irving/gz |
Red soldier vs Blue soldier deathmatch to push the nuke button. | https://github.com/gastamper/groundzero2 |
| HoloMUD | telnet://holo.fc.net:7777 198.6.198.6 7777 http://www.fc.net:80/~infoteq |
Character races are "beleigh", "darvak", "aldurian", "cyborg", and "human". You can always "recall" to the holodeck. | |
| KoBra | telnet://kobra.et.tudelft.nl:23 130.161.38.161 23 http://www.latech.edu/~hcr/mud |
Star Wars-based. MUD areas are planets that are travelled to by transporter ship. Playerkillers are sent terminators (which are killable). | https://kobramud.org/ |
| MULTIMUD | telnet://multi.mud.circlemud.org:4242 132.230.36.55 4242 http://uhura.biologie.uni-freiburg.de/multi.html |
Has jedi and also vampires. | May still be reachable by telnet at http://multimud.net/, dunno. circlemud.org is still up. |
| Nuclear War | telnet://nuclearwar.astrakan.hgs.se:4080 130.238.206.14 4080 http://www.astrakan.hgs.se/nuke |
Gamma World-based. Healing items are addictive. | http://wiki.nuclearwarmud.com/wiki/Main_Page https://public.websites.umich.edu/~comm464/virtcomm/chuckyd/ |
More from https://www.zuggsoft.com/page.php?file=zugg/mud.htm
| Mud name | Old URL | Additional notes |
| Realms of Despair | http://realms.game.org/ realms.game.org:4000 (207.136.80.35) |
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| Highlands II | http://www.highlands.org/ 206.78.42.155:9001 (206.78.42.155) |
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| Mirkwood | http://monet.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~gbaxter/Mirkwood/mirkwood.html mirkwood.bplanet.com:4000 (204.83.132.94) |
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| HoloMUD hosted at 63.147.94.247:7777 (199.222.42.173) | ||
| Three Kingdoms | telnet marble.confusion.net:5000 (206.240.130.5) | |
| Mortal Realms | telnet 204.162.115.56:4321 (204.162.115.56) | |
| Dark Castle |
jitter.rahul.net:6666 (192.160.13.8) |
New telnet address is dcastle.org:23 |