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Abysmal Realms MUD

Unclaimed — everything here was measured. Claim this game

realms.reichel.net 4000answering since 31 Jul 2026

1 connected

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Connect screen

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     | |__| || |__   _  _  _____ _____ _____ | |
     |  __  ||  _ \ | || |/ ___/|     |\___ || |
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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 00:00–09:59. 24 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 2 00:0012
Wed1 3 00:002
Thu1 2 00:00
Fri1 3 04:00
Sat1 3 19:00
Sun1 3 03:00

How many, over time

No measurement in this range.

days in UTC · 4 Mar 2026 – 1 Jun 2026

Nothing counted in this range.

Reachable

reachable · last 90 days

Reachable 68.8% of the 28 days we have measured. 13 days unreachable. 3 days degraded — we got in and could not finish. Longest outage 3d 18h (dns did not resolve). 48 days predate anything we measured. 14 days went unmeasured — we were not watching.

90 days ago today
reachable
68.8%
longest outage
3d 18h
last cause
dns did not resolve
  • reachable
  • degraded — answered, could not finish
  • unreachable
  • not measured
read as text
  • 13 Jun – 30 Jul: 48 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)
  • 3 Sep – 8 Sep: 6 days unreachable (dns did not resolve)
  • 10 Sep: 1 day 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
areas
187
status
Live
discord
https://discord.gg/hmy8m3zm
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