Realms of Despair
Unclaimed — everything here was measured. Claim this game
realmsofdespair.com 4000answering since 16 Aug 2026
92 connected
declared
Connect screen
( )( )( ) ( )( )( ) /===( )( )( )============================================( )( )( )===\ || \/ \/ \/ Alas ... you have entered the \/ \/ \/ || || R E A L M S O F D E S P A I R ! || || Endless Medieval Enjoyment || || || || Written, maintained and modified by Thoric || || Connection provided by BlueGenesis.com || || Gameplay governed by the Council of Elders || || (email all concerns to [email protected]) || || || || Home of SMAUG based on Merc2.1 code by Hatchet, Furey, Kahn || || in turn based on DikuMUD code (Hans Staerfeldt, Katja Nyboe || || Tom Madsen, Michael Seifert and Sebastian Hammer) || || || || Realms: www.realmsofdespair.com Code by Thoric || || Smaug: www.smaug.org (Derek Snider, [email protected]) || || FTP: realmsofdespair.com (port 21) with Altrag/Blodkai/Haus/Narn/ || || Scryn/Swordbearer/Tricops/Gorog/|| || Rennard/Grishnakh/Fireblade/ || || Version: SMAUG 2.6 Nivek/Edmond/Conran/Meekon/Lina/|| || Dies lunae MMVIII Belkira. || \==========================================================================/ By what name are you known (or "new" to create a new character):
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( )( )( ) ( )( )( ) /===( )( )( )============================================( )( )( )===\ || \/ \/ \/ Alas ... you have entered the \/ \/ \/ || || R E A L M S O F D E S P A I R ! || || Endless Medieval Enjoyment || || || || Written, maintained and modified by Thoric || || Connection provided by BlueGenesis.com || || Gameplay governed by the Council of Elders || || (email all concerns to [email protected]) || || || || Home of SMAUG based on Merc2.1 code by Hatchet, Furey, Kahn || || in turn based on DikuMUD code (Hans Staerfeldt, Katja Nyboe || || Tom Madsen, Michael Seifert and Sebastian Hammer) || || || || Realms: www.realmsofdespair.com Code by Thoric || || Smaug: www.smaug.org (Derek Snider, [email protected]) || || FTP: realmsofdespair.com (port 21) with Altrag/Blodkai/Haus/Narn/ || || Scryn/Swordbearer/Tricops/Gorog/|| || Rennard/Grishnakh/Fireblade/ || || Version: SMAUG 2.6 Nivek/Edmond/Conran/Meekon/Lina/|| || Dies lunae MMVIII Belkira. || \==========================================================================/ By what name are you known (or "new" to create a new character):
Connections by hour
Busiest every day, 12:00–23:59. 39 hours across the week have no measurement yet.
times in UTC · 8-week rolling average
read as text — 7 rows
| day | quietest | busiest | at | not measured | no count |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon | 72 | 112 | 01:00 | 10 | – |
| Tue | 46 | 117 | 00:00 | – | – |
| Wed | 39 | 101 | 17:00 | – | – |
| Thu | 62 | 97 | 22:00 | – | – |
| Fri | 57 | 105 | 00:00 | 5 | – |
| Sat | 74 | 100 | 01:00 | 12 | – |
| Sun | 68 | 104 | 23:00 | 12 | – |
How many, over time
Typically 84 on, peaking at 124, over 15 of 90 days. Steady across the range.
days in UTC · 2 Jun 2026 – 30 Aug 2026
124 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
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- 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 85, peak 117, 2 days counted, 5 days not measured
- 18 Aug–24 Aug: typically 87, peak 124, 7 days counted
- 25 Aug–30 Aug: typically 84, peak 102, 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
read as text
- 2 Jun – 15 Aug: 75 days not measured
What changed
- 16 Aug 2026 endpoint recorded as realmsofdespair.com 4000 (handshake)
Capabilities
| capability | measured | declared | age |
|---|---|---|---|
| MSDP | ● offered | ◇ claimed | |
| MSSP | ● offered | – silent | |
| ANSI | – silent | ◇ claimed | |
| ATCP | – silent | ◇ claimed | |
| GMCP | – silent | ✕ denied | |
| MCCP | – silent | ✕ denied | |
| MCP | – silent | ✕ denied | |
| MSP | – silent | ◇ claimed | |
| MXP | – silent | ◇ claimed | |
| PUEBLO | – silent | ✕ denied | |
| TLS | – silent | ✕ denied | |
| UTF-8 | – silent | ◇ claimed | |
| VT100 | – silent | ✕ denied | |
| XTERM 256 COLORS | – silent | ◇ claimed | |
| ZMP | – silent | ✕ denied |
Declared by the game
- hostname
- realmsofdespair.com
- hiring builders
- 0
- player clans
- 1
- quest system
- Immortal Run
- port
- 4000
- ip
- 216.251.47.10
- genre
- Fantasy
- areas
- 200
- pay to play
- 0
- crawl delay
- -1
- icon
- https://www.topmudsites.com/images/ROD_ICON.gif
- training system
- Level
- subgenre
- Medieval Fantasy
- player guilds
- 1
- codebase
- SMAUG
- gamesystem
- Custom
- adult material
- 0
- name
- Realms of Despair
- created
- 1994
- website
- http://www.realmsofdespair.com
- contact
- kali(at)realmsofdespair.com
- language
- English
- gameplay
- Hack and Slash
- levels
- 50
- multiclassing
- 1
- equipment system
- Level
- world originality
- Mostly Original
- hiring coders
- 0
- status
- Live
- races
- 16
- pay for perks
- 0
- family
- DikuMUD
- location
- Canada
- helpfiles
- 2500
- player cities
- 0
- player crafting
- 0
- playerkilling
- Restricted
- roleplaying
- Encouraged
- newbie friendly
- 1
- classes
- 13
- multiplaying
- Restricted