Ansalon MUD
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8 connected
declared
Connect screen
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| ===== A N S A L O N M U D ===== |
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| Originally by: Jair, Deason and Ahotasu |
/ and currently by: Skol and Bharish, /
| with a huge thanks to Malum, Renli and Demilon |
| _________(( ))__________ |
| /.-------./\\ //\.------.\ |
/ //@@@@@@@//@@\\ ) ( //@@\\@@@@@@@\\ /
| //@@@@@@@//@@@@>>/ \<<@@@@\\@@@@@@@\\ |
\ //O@O@O@O//@O@O// \\O@O@\\O@O@O@O\\ |
///OOOOOOOO//OOOO|| \ / ||OOOO\\OOOOOOOO\\ |
///O%O%O%O%//O%O%O%\\ ))(( //%O%O%O\\%O%O%O%O\\ |
||%%%%%%%%//' `%%%%\\ // \\ //%%%%' `\\%%%%%%%%|||
((%%%%%%%(( %%%%%\\ (( )) //%%%%% ))%%%%%%%))\
|\:::' `::\\ `:::::\\ \)^^(/ //:::::' //::' `:::/ |
{x \ )' `)' (' ` \\ `<@ @>' // ' ') `(' __ `( |
| ( \`\ )/\( / / ) / \ |
/ ______________)_\_\oo/__(______oOo________/_/` '\| /
| / ^^ VVV '|/| |
| | Welcome to Ansalon! ` | |
| | ________________________________________________/ |
| |/ / ,/ \______/ \\ ^\/^ /'/ |
\ ___//^ \_____/\\ /'/ \
| <<<_`\ <____/\\ /''> |
| Learn MORE! ' <____/`- ' _> |
| http://www.Ansalon.net <____/__> |
\ `---' \
\ Credits: (read: where we're from and all that) \
| |
| History: Crowther & Woods "Colossal Cave" Adventure --> |
/ MUD1 (Trubshaw & Bartle, 1978) inspired AberMUD (Alan Cox), |
| CopperMUD (Michael Chadwick), and DikuMUD (DIKU team, 1991) |
\ --> Merc 2.1 --> ROM 2.4b2 --> Ansalon 1.7b \
| |
| AnsalonMUD is derived from ROM with decades of evolution. |
/ Ansalon began as AlphaMUD in 1996, renamed Ansalon in 1997 /
| |
| DikuMUD by Hans Staerfeldt, Katja Nyboe, Tom Madsen, |
| Michael Seifert, and Sebastian Hammer |
/ MERC 2.1 code by Hatchet, Furey, and Kahn. /
| ROM 2.4 copyright (c) 1993-1998 Russ Taylor |
| Ansalon 1.7b (c) 1996-2026 David Leverich & John Patrick |
| |
/ /| /| |\ /
\_/ \_-/\_-/\_-/ \-/\_-__-_/\/\_-/ \-/\_-__\\_-/ \-/\-/ \-_\_\
By what name art thou known?
read as text
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/\--__--__--__--__--__--__--__--__--__--__--__--__--__--__--__--_\
| ===== A N S A L O N M U D ===== |
\ --------------------- \
| |
| Originally by: Jair, Deason and Ahotasu |
/ and currently by: Skol and Bharish, /
| with a huge thanks to Malum, Renli and Demilon |
| _________(( ))__________ |
| /.-------./\\ //\.------.\ |
/ //@@@@@@@//@@\\ ) ( //@@\\@@@@@@@\\ /
| //@@@@@@@//@@@@>>/ \<<@@@@\\@@@@@@@\\ |
\ //O@O@O@O//@O@O// \\O@O@\\O@O@O@O\\ |
///OOOOOOOO//OOOO|| \ / ||OOOO\\OOOOOOOO\\ |
///O%O%O%O%//O%O%O%\\ ))(( //%O%O%O\\%O%O%O%O\\ |
||%%%%%%%%//' `%%%%\\ // \\ //%%%%' `\\%%%%%%%%|||
((%%%%%%%(( %%%%%\\ (( )) //%%%%% ))%%%%%%%))\
|\:::' `::\\ `:::::\\ \)^^(/ //:::::' //::' `:::/ |
{x \ )' `)' (' ` \\ `<@ @>' // ' ') `(' __ `( |
| ( \`\ )/\( / / ) / \ |
/ ______________)_\_\oo/__(______oOo________/_/` '\| /
| / ^^ VVV '|/| |
| | Welcome to Ansalon! ` | |
| | ________________________________________________/ |
| |/ / ,/ \______/ \\ ^\/^ /'/ |
\ ___//^ \_____/\\ /'/ \
| <<<_`\ <____/\\ /''> |
| Learn MORE! ' <____/`- ' _> |
| http://www.Ansalon.net <____/__> |
\ `---' \
\ Credits: (read: where we're from and all that) \
| |
| History: Crowther & Woods "Colossal Cave" Adventure --> |
/ MUD1 (Trubshaw & Bartle, 1978) inspired AberMUD (Alan Cox), |
| CopperMUD (Michael Chadwick), and DikuMUD (DIKU team, 1991) |
\ --> Merc 2.1 --> ROM 2.4b2 --> Ansalon 1.7b \
| |
| AnsalonMUD is derived from ROM with decades of evolution. |
/ Ansalon began as AlphaMUD in 1996, renamed Ansalon in 1997 /
| |
| DikuMUD by Hans Staerfeldt, Katja Nyboe, Tom Madsen, |
| Michael Seifert, and Sebastian Hammer |
/ MERC 2.1 code by Hatchet, Furey, and Kahn. /
| ROM 2.4 copyright (c) 1993-1998 Russ Taylor |
| Ansalon 1.7b (c) 1996-2026 David Leverich & John Patrick |
| |
/ /| /| |\ /
\_/ \_-/\_-/\_-/ \-/\_-__-_/\/\_-/ \-/\_-__\\_-/ \-/\-/ \-_\_\
By what name art thou known?Connections by hour
Busiest Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday 15:00–23:59. 46 hours across the week have no measurement yet.
times in UTC · 8-week rolling average
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| day | quietest | busiest | at | not measured | no count |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon | 7 | 10 | 13:00 | 12 | – |
| Tue | 8 | 13 | 18:00 | 8 | – |
| Wed | 5 | 11 | 02:00 | – | – |
| Thu | 8 | 12 | 01:00 | – | – |
| Fri | 8 | 12 | 03:00 | 2 | – |
| Sat | 8 | 11 | 19:00 | 12 | – |
| Sun | 8 | 10 | 03:00 | 12 | – |
How many, over time
Typically 9 on, peaking at 13, over 15 of 90 days. Steady across the range.
days in UTC · 2 Jun 2026 – 30 Aug 2026
13 at the top
15 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
read as text
- 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 10, peak 13, 2 days counted, 5 days not measured
- 18 Aug–24 Aug: typically 8, peak 12, 7 days counted
- 25 Aug–30 Aug: typically 9, peak 12, 6 days counted
Reachable
reachable · last 90 days
Reachable 100.0% of the 15 days we have measured. No day we measured was unreachable. 75 days predate anything we measured.
90 days ago
today
- reachable
- 100.0%
- longest outage
- none in the window
- last cause
- nothing recorded
- reachable
- degraded — answered, could not finish
- unreachable
- not measured
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- 2 Jun – 15 Aug: 75 days not measured
What changed
- 26 Aug 2026 RESETS changed from 19346 to 19776 (mssp)
- 26 Aug 2026 EXTRA DESCRIPTIONS changed from 6862 to 7380 (mssp)
- 26 Aug 2026 EXITS changed from 44076 to 45725 (mssp)
- 26 Aug 2026 RACES changed from 19 to 21 (mssp)
- 26 Aug 2026 ROOMS changed from 19238 to 19960 (mssp)
- 26 Aug 2026 OBJECTS changed from 7812 to 7962 (mssp)
- 26 Aug 2026 MOBILES changed from 5688 to 5855 (mssp)
- 26 Aug 2026 HELPFILES changed from 942 to 953 (mssp)
- 26 Aug 2026 AREAS changed from 191 to 194 (mssp)
- 16 Aug 2026 endpoint recorded as ansalon.net 8679 (handshake)
Capabilities
| capability | measured | declared | age |
|---|---|---|---|
| MSDP | ● offered | ◇ claimed | |
| MSSP | ● offered | – silent | |
| MXP | ● offered | ◇ claimed | |
| ANSI | – silent | ◇ claimed | |
| GMCP | – silent | ✕ denied | |
| MCCP | – silent | ✕ denied | |
| MCP | – silent | ✕ denied | |
| MSP | – silent | ◇ claimed | |
| PUEBLO | – silent | ✕ denied | |
| UTF-8 | – silent | ◇ claimed | |
| VT100 | – silent | ✕ denied | |
| XTERM 256 COLORS | – silent | ◇ claimed |
Declared by the game
- multiclassing
- 0
- contact
- [email protected]
- family
- DikuMUD
- player guilds
- 1
- objects
- 7962
- exits
- 45725
- name
- Ansalon MUD
- crawl delay
- -1
- language
- English
- subgenre
- Dragonlance
- races
- 21
- areas
- 194
- hostname
- ansalon.net
- location
- United States
- quest system
- 1
- helpfiles
- 953
- port
- 8679
- minimum age
- 0
- roleplaying
- 1
- codebase
- AnsalonMUD - 1.7b2 (Originally Rom 2.4 Actively Improved since 1996)
- world originality
- 1
- created
- 1996
- genre
- Fantasy
- ip
- 66.228.38.196
- player clans
- 1
- levels
- 101
- resets
- 19776
- playerkilling
- 1
- gameplay
- Adventure
- status
- Live
- mudtrigs
- 0
- player cities
- 0
- classes
- 11
- player crafting
- 1
- newbie friendly
- 1
- mudprogs
- 14234
- training system
- 1
- extra descriptions
- 7380
- adult material
- 0
- dbsize
- 0
- website
- http://www.ansalon.net/
- mobiles
- 5855
- icon
- http://www.ansalon.net/ansalonMSSP.png
- rooms
- 19960