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This is space. It's sometimes called the final frontier. (Except that of course you can't have a final frontier, because there'ld be nothing for it to be a frontier to, but as frontiers go, it's pretty penultimate...)
...Great A'Tuin, star turtle, swims onward through the void.
On its back, four giant elephants. On their shoulders, rimmed with water, glittering under its tiny orbiting sunlet, spinning majestically around the mountains at its frozen Hub, lies the Discworld, world and mirror of worlds.
—Moving Pictures (1990)
Welcome to Discworld MUD
Discworld MUD is a multiplayer, text-based, online game (a MUD, or text MMORPG) based on the Discworld books by Terry Pratchett. On Discworld you will meet many of the characters from those books. Terry's books are humorous fantasy and the game retains the comical, fun feel of the books.
We are a fully-featured and well-established MUD with many possibilities for player interaction: diverse areas totalling over a million rooms, the opportunity to become a member of one of seven guilds, a citizen of one of the many city-states on the Disc, run your own shop, own your own house, write for the local newspaper, and much more!
Start Playing
There is no cost to play Discworld MUD, it is developed and maintained entirely by volunteers. You can login and create a character with any javascript/flash-capable web browser simply by clicking on the 'play now' link to the left (an option which uses websockets instead of flash is also available).
The 'playing' menu has links to a number of pages to help you get orientated.
Latest News and Recent Developments
- Aug 9 - A Fresh Coat of Pain
- Jul 19 - Holy Weapon replaced by Divine Ire
- May 26 - Downtime and Maintenance
- Sep 23 - A couple of QoL tweaks to coatings
- Sep 18 - A Blanket Solution
- Sep 10 - Found the thread
- Aug 19 - Youthful Indiscretion
- Aug 12 - Making Everything Groovy
You can also check out our complete recent developments blog for a longer list of recent game changes, and our mud commentary blog for more general developments.
Game Status: Driver rebooted about 22 days ago, 77 people logged in.
Quote of the Moment
'Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to
think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a
cheeseburger.
— (Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett)