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BlackMUD

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blackmud.com 2000answering since 31 Jul 2026

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                  BlackMUD: The Age of Discovery

                      Based on a creation of
         Staerfeldt, Nyboe, Madsen, Seifert, and Hammer

If you are just starting you will have to create an user account.
Your user account name is NOT a character name.
Your account can have multiple characters, which you will create later.
Your user account name must be 5 to 20 characters in length,
can be any combination of letters and/or numbers (no symbols),
and cannot begin with a number.

Enter your account name:
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Connections by hour

No hour of the week has produced a player count. 140 hours across the week have no measurement yet. 28 hours across the week answered but produced no count.

times in UTC · 8-week rolling average

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Players on by day, in UTC. 8-week rolling average.
day quietest busiest at not measured no count
Monno count in any hour20 4
Tueno count in any hour20 4
Wedno count in any hour20 4
Thuno count in any hour20 4
Frino count in any hour20 4
Satno count in any hour20 4
Sunno count in any hour20 4

How many, over time

Probed in this range, and no player count could be read from any of it.

days in UTC · 2 Jun 2026 – 30 Aug 2026

Nothing counted in this range.

Reachable

reachable · last 90 days

Reachable 96.7% of the 17 days we have measured. 2 days unreachable. 1 day degraded — we got in and could not finish. Longest outage 12h (timed out). 59 days predate anything we measured. 14 days went unmeasured — we were not watching.

90 days ago today
reachable
96.7%
longest outage
12h
last cause
timed out
  • 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 unreachable (timed out)

What changed

  1. 16 Aug 2026 capability.mssp.measured changed from true to false (handshake)
  2. 31 Jul 2026 endpoint recorded as blackmud.com 2000 (handshake)

Capabilities

None of the 12 disagree.
capability measured declared age
MSSP ✕ absent – silent
ANSI – silent ◇ claimed
GMCP – silent ◇ claimed
MCCP – silent ✕ denied
MCP – silent ✕ denied
MSDP – silent ◇ claimed
MSP – silent ◇ claimed
MXP – silent ◇ claimed
PUEBLO – silent ✕ denied
UTF-8 – silent ◇ claimed
VT100 – silent ✕ denied
XTERM 256 COLORS – silent ◇ claimed

Declared by the game

player clans
0
player guilds
1
quest system
None
crawl delay
-1
codebase
Custom Silly/Diku
created
1993
minimum age
13
pay to play
0
multiclassing
0
name
BlackMUD
port
2000
contact
[email protected]
location
USA
pay for perks
0
newbie friendly
1
player crafting
1
playerkilling
Opt-In
world originality
Yes
hostname
kal.dev.blackmud.net
language
English
website
www.blackmud.com
adult material
0
player cities
0
multiplaying
None
roleplaying
Optional

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