PHOENIXMUD [unclaimed]
telnet phoenixmud.net 4000
Players now: no count (nothing here says why)
Reachable: 100.0% of the last 90 days
Longest outage: 10m
Where to find this game
WEBSITE https://phoenixmud.net (declared, 5h)
DISCORD https://discord.gg/dUE3Nm2rEE (declared, 5h)
When people are on (UTC)
Busiest Friday and Saturday small hours, 00:00–04:59.
Mon — peak 8 at 22:00
Tue — peak 7 at 01:00, nobody on 06:00–07:59
Wed — peak 9 at 00:00
Thu — peak 11 at 01:00, nobody on 20:00–20:59
Fri — peak 13 at 03:00
Sat — peak 13 at 02:00
Sun — peak 7 at 12:00
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 (24 Jul 2026 – 21 Oct 2026, UTC)
Typically 3 on, peaking at 21, over 68 of 90 days. Down about 31% from the start
of the range to the end.
24 Jul–30 Jul: not measured
31 Jul–6 Aug: not measured
7 Aug–13 Aug: not measured
14 Aug–20 Aug: typically 2, peak 8, 6 days counted, 1 day not measured
21 Aug–27 Aug: typically 4, peak 12, 7 days counted
28 Aug–3 Sep: typically 6, peak 17, 7 days counted
4 Sep–10 Sep: typically 4, peak 21, 7 days counted
11 Sep–17 Sep: typically 8, peak 19, 7 days counted
18 Sep–24 Sep: typically 2, peak 17, 7 days counted
25 Sep–1 Oct: typically 1, peak 9, 7 days counted
2 Oct–8 Oct: typically 3, peak 12, 7 days counted
9 Oct–15 Oct: typically 4, peak 14, 7 days counted
16 Oct–21 Oct: typically 2, peak 9, 6 days counted
earlier: ?from=2026-04-25&to=2026-07-23&plain=1
a week is summarised over the days in it we counted; a week with none says so
Reachable (last 90 days)
Reachable 100.0% of the 68 days we have measured. 1 day unreachable. Longest
outage 10m (connection refused). 22 days predate anything we measured.
24 Jul – 14 Aug: 22 days not measured
3 Sep: 1 day unreachable (connection refused)
Capabilities (0 of 2 disagree)
MSSP measured: yes declared: -
ANSI measured: - declared: yes
Declared by the game
name PhoenixMud (declared, 5h)
created 1996 (declared, 5h)
port 4000 (declared, 5h)
genre Fantasy (declared, 5h)
races 15 (declared, 5h)
helpfiles 701 (declared, 5h)
rooms 20685 (declared, 5h)
classes 15 (declared, 5h)
levels 410 (declared, 5h)
hostname phoenixmud.net (declared, 5h)
family AberMUD (declared, 5h)
areas 276 (declared, 5h)
status Live (declared, 5h)
skills 220 (declared, 5h)
objects 8143 (declared, 5h)
mobiles 6217 (declared, 5h)
codebase CircleMUD (measured, 5h)
website https://phoenixmud.net (declared, 5h)
discord https://discord.gg/dUE3Nm2rEE (declared, 5h)
Connect screen
[connect screen: 28 lines, text only]
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Brought to you by:
Opie, Aleksandr, Cymynedd, Masque
PhoenixMUD is made possible by Vineyard.haus
Based on CircleMUD created by Jeremy Elson
A derivative of DikuMUD, created by
Hans Henrik Staerfeldt, Katja Nyboe,
Tom Madsen, Michael Seifert, and Sebastian Hammer
By what name dost thou wish to be known?
What changed
2026-10-13 HELPFILES changed from 700 to 701 (mssp)
2026-10-10 OBJECTS changed from 8165 to 8143 (mssp)
2026-10-10 OBJECTS changed from 8127 to 8165 (mssp)
2026-10-10 HELPFILES changed from 696 to 700 (mssp)
2026-10-09 HELPFILES changed from 675 to 696 (mssp)
2026-10-03 OBJECTS changed from 8103 to 8127 (mssp)
2026-09-07 ROOMS changed from 20686 to 20685 (mssp)
2026-09-07 ROOMS changed from 20685 to 20686 (mssp)
2026-08-15 SKILLS changed from 206 to 220 (mssp)
2026-07-31 endpoint recorded as phoenixmud.net 4000 (handshake)