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BLACKMUD [unclaimed]
telnet blackmud.com 2000

Players now: no count (nothing here says why)
Reachable: 96.7% of the last 90 days
Longest outage: 12h

Where to find this game
  CONTACT    [email protected]  (declared, 4w)

When people are on (UTC)
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.

  Mon — no count in any hour, 20 hours not measured, 4 hours probed but
  uncountable
  Tue — no count in any hour, 20 hours not measured, 4 hours probed but
  uncountable
  Wed — no count in any hour, 20 hours not measured, 4 hours probed but
  uncountable
  Thu — no count in any hour, 20 hours not measured, 4 hours probed but
  uncountable
  Fri — no count in any hour, 20 hours not measured, 4 hours probed but
  uncountable
  Sat — no count in any hour, 20 hours not measured, 4 hours probed but
  uncountable
  Sun — no count in any hour, 20 hours not measured, 4 hours probed but
  uncountable

  counted = we got in and read a number, including a measured zero
  uncounted = we got in and no number could be read
  not measured = we have no measurement for that hour

How many, over time (2 Jun 2026 – 30 Aug 2026, UTC)
Probed in this range, and no player count could be read from any of it.

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.

  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)

Capabilities (0 of 12 disagree)
  MSSP       measured: NO      declared: -
  ANSI       measured: -       declared: yes
  GMCP       measured: -       declared: yes
  MCCP       measured: -       declared: NO
  MCP        measured: -       declared: NO
  MSDP       measured: -       declared: yes
  MSP        measured: -       declared: yes
  MXP        measured: -       declared: yes
  PUEBLO     measured: -       declared: NO
  UTF-8      measured: -       declared: yes
  VT100      measured: -       declared: NO
  XTERM 256 COLORS measured: -       declared: yes

Declared by the game
  player clans 0  (declared, 4w)
  player guilds 1  (declared, 4w)
  quest system None  (declared, 4w)
  crawl delay -1  (declared, 4w, stale)
  codebase   Custom Silly/Diku  (declared, 4w, stale)
  created    1993  (declared, 4w)
  minimum age 13  (declared, 4w)
  pay to play 0  (declared, 4w)
  multiclassing 0  (declared, 4w)
  name       BlackMUD  (declared, 4w, stale)
  port       2000  (declared, 4w, stale)
  contact    [email protected]  (declared, 4w)
  location   USA  (declared, 4w)
  pay for perks 0  (declared, 4w)
  newbie friendly 1  (declared, 4w)
  player crafting 1  (declared, 4w)
  playerkilling Opt-In  (declared, 4w)
  world originality Yes  (declared, 4w)
  hostname   kal.dev.blackmud.net  (declared, 4w, stale)
  language   English  (declared, 4w)
  website    www.blackmud.com  (declared, 4w)
  adult material 0  (declared, 4w)
  player cities 0  (declared, 4w)
  multiplaying None  (declared, 4w)
  roleplaying Optional  (declared, 4w)

Connect screen
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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:

What changed
  2026-08-16  capability.mssp.measured changed from true to false (handshake)
  2026-07-31  endpoint recorded as blackmud.com 2000 (handshake)