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Abysmal Realms MUD

Unclaimed — everything here was measured. Claim this game

realms.reichel.net 4000answering since 31 Jul 2026

2 connected

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        Microcosm Fidonet BBS    |  _  / | __ \\___ || |   |     |/ ___/
      http://realms.reichel.net  | | \ \ | ___/| __ || |__ | |_| |\___ \
        -=Visit us Today!=-      |_|  \_\|____|\____||____||_| |_||____/

                    This MUD is based on ROM Version 2.4 beta
                Original DikuMUD by Hans Staerfeldt, Katja Nyboe,
                Tom Madsen, Michael Seifert, and Sebastian Hammer
               Based on MERC 2.1 code by Hatchet, Furey, and Kahn.
                  ROM 2.4 copyright (c) 1993-1996 Russ Taylor
                                                       <ascii by Zamiel>

By what name do you wish to be known?
as sent by the server 72×22 no colour captured

Connections by hour

Busiest Friday and Sunday mornings, 07:00–09:59. 55 hours across the week have no measurement yet.

times in UTC · 8-week rolling average

read as text — 7 rows
Players on by day, in UTC. 8-week rolling average.
day quietest busiest at not measured no count
Mon1 2 03:0010
Tue1 3 12:0018
Wed1 3 00:0015
Thu1 3 02:0012
Fri1 3 00:00
Sat1 3 03:00
Sun1 3 03:00

How many, over time

Typically 1 on, peaking at 3, over 12 of 90 days. Down about 21% from the start of the range to the end.

days in UTC · 2 Jun 2026 – 30 Aug 2026

2 Jun 2026 — no measurement3 Jun 2026 — no measurement4 Jun 2026 — no measurement5 Jun 2026 — no measurement6 Jun 2026 — no measurement7 Jun 2026 — no measurement8 Jun 2026 — no measurement9 Jun 2026 — no measurement10 Jun 2026 — no measurement11 Jun 2026 — no measurement12 Jun 2026 — no measurement13 Jun 2026 — no measurement14 Jun 2026 — no measurement15 Jun 2026 — no measurement16 Jun 2026 — no measurement17 Jun 2026 — no measurement18 Jun 2026 — no measurement19 Jun 2026 — no measurement20 Jun 2026 — no measurement21 Jun 2026 — no measurement22 Jun 2026 — no measurement23 Jun 2026 — no measurement24 Jun 2026 — no measurement25 Jun 2026 — no measurement26 Jun 2026 — no measurement27 Jun 2026 — no measurement28 Jun 2026 — no measurement29 Jun 2026 — no measurement30 Jun 2026 — no measurement1 Jul 2026 — no measurement2 Jul 2026 — no measurement3 Jul 2026 — no measurement4 Jul 2026 — no measurement5 Jul 2026 — no measurement6 Jul 2026 — no measurement7 Jul 2026 — no measurement8 Jul 2026 — no measurement9 Jul 2026 — no measurement10 Jul 2026 — no measurement11 Jul 2026 — no measurement12 Jul 2026 — no measurement13 Jul 2026 — no measurement14 Jul 2026 — no measurement15 Jul 2026 — no measurement16 Jul 2026 — no measurement17 Jul 2026 — no measurement18 Jul 2026 — no measurement19 Jul 2026 — no measurement20 Jul 2026 — no measurement21 Jul 2026 — no measurement22 Jul 2026 — no measurement23 Jul 2026 — no measurement24 Jul 2026 — no measurement25 Jul 2026 — no measurement26 Jul 2026 — no measurement27 Jul 2026 — no measurement28 Jul 2026 — no measurement29 Jul 2026 — no measurement30 Jul 2026 — no measurement31 Jul 2026 — no measurement1 Aug 2026 — no measurement2 Aug 2026 — no measurement3 Aug 2026 — no measurement4 Aug 2026 — no measurement5 Aug 2026 — no measurement6 Aug 2026 — no measurement7 Aug 2026 — no measurement8 Aug 2026 — no measurement9 Aug 2026 — no measurement10 Aug 2026 — no measurement11 Aug 2026 — no measurement12 Aug 2026 — no measurement13 Aug 2026 — no measurement14 Aug 2026 — no measurement15 Aug 2026 — no measurement16 Aug 2026 — 1 on average, 1–2 across 7 probes17 Aug 2026 — 2 on average, 1–3 across 6 probes18 Aug 2026 — 1 on average, 1–3 across 9 probes19 Aug 2026 — 2 on average, 1–3 across 13 probes20 Aug 2026 — 2 on average, 2–3 across 12 probes21 Aug 2026 — 2 on average, 2–3 across 12 probes22 Aug 2026 — 1 on average, 1–3 across 12 probes23 Aug 2026 — 1 on average, 1–2 across 2 probes24 Aug 2026 — no measurement25 Aug 2026 — no measurement26 Aug 2026 — no measurement27 Aug 2026 — 1 on average, 1–3 across 12 probes28 Aug 2026 — 1 on average, 1–2 across 12 probes29 Aug 2026 — 1 on average, 1–2 across 12 probes30 Aug 2026 — 1 on average, 1–2 across 11 probes
3 at the top 12 of 90 days counted
  • mean of the counts we read that day
  • lowest to highest count that day
  • probed, no count could be read
  • not measured — a break in the line
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  • 2 Jun–8 Jun: not measured
  • 9 Jun–15 Jun: not measured
  • 16 Jun–22 Jun: not measured
  • 23 Jun–29 Jun: not measured
  • 30 Jun–6 Jul: not measured
  • 7 Jul–13 Jul: not measured
  • 14 Jul–20 Jul: not measured
  • 21 Jul–27 Jul: not measured
  • 28 Jul–3 Aug: not measured
  • 4 Aug–10 Aug: not measured
  • 11 Aug–17 Aug: typically 2, peak 3, 2 days counted, 5 days not measured
  • 18 Aug–24 Aug: typically 2, peak 3, 6 days counted, 1 day not measured
  • 25 Aug–30 Aug: typically 1, peak 3, 4 days counted, 2 days not measured

Reachable

reachable · last 90 days

Reachable 72.7% of the 17 days we have measured. 6 days unreachable. 3 days degraded — we got in and could not finish. Longest outage 3d 18h (dns did not resolve). 59 days predate anything we measured. 14 days went unmeasured — we were not watching.

90 days ago today
reachable
72.7%
longest outage
3d 18h
last cause
dns did not resolve
  • reachable
  • degraded — answered, could not finish
  • unreachable
  • not measured
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  • 2 Jun – 30 Jul: 59 days not measured
  • 31 Jul: 1 day degraded (handshake stalled)
  • 1 Aug – 14 Aug: 14 days not measured
  • 15 Aug – 16 Aug: 2 days degraded (handshake stalled)
  • 22 Aug – 27 Aug: 6 days unreachable (dns did not resolve)

What changed

  1. 31 Jul 2026 endpoint recorded as realms.reichel.net 4000 (handshake)

Capabilities

1 of 13 disagrees with what the game declares.
capability measured declared age
UTF-8disagrees ● offered ✕ denied
CHARSET ● offered – silent
MCCP ● offered ◇ claimed
MSSP ● offered – silent
ANSI – silent ◇ claimed
MCP – silent ✕ denied
MSDP – silent ◇ claimed
MSP – silent ✕ denied
MXP – silent ✕ denied
PUEBLO – silent ✕ denied
TLS – silent ✕ denied
VT100 – silent ✕ denied
XTERM 256 COLORS – silent ✕ denied
where they disagree (1)

UTF-8 — the server offers it, and the game's own record says it does not.

Usually a stale hand-typed field, not a lie. Shown because a client should not rely on what the two disagree about.

Declared by the game

hostname
realms.reichel.net
charset
utf-8
name
Abysmal Realms MUD
discord
https://discord.gg/hmy8m3zm
areas
187
status
Live
pay for perks
0
codebase
ROM
crawl delay
-1
icon
http://www.realms.reichel.net/images/ar_icon.png
pay to play
0
website
http://www.realms.reichel.net
hiring coders
0
xterm true colors
0
location
United States of America
subgenre
Post-Apocalyptic
port
4000
contact
msocorcim (at) gmail (dot) com
created
1997
language
English
minimum age
13
family
DikuMUD
gameplay
Hack and Slash
rooms
13198
helpfiles
922
mobiles
4618
objects
8321
classes
8
races
17
skills
199
genre
Fantasy
gamesystem
Custom
hiring builders
1
levels
100