REALMS OF DESPAIR [unclaimed]
telnet realmsofdespair.com 4000
Players now: 88 (declared, 63m)
Reachable: 100.0% of the last 90 days
Where to find this game
WEBSITE http://www.realmsofdespair.com (declared, 63m)
When people are on (UTC)
Busiest Monday, Tuesday and Sunday 12:00–23:59.
Mon — peak 118 at 16:00
Tue — peak 112 at 00:00
Wed — peak 101 at 17:00
Thu — peak 99 at 00:00
Fri — peak 100 at 00:00
Sat — peak 100 at 01:00
Sun — peak 112 at 18:00
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 (12 Jun 2026 – 9 Sep 2026, UTC)
Typically 84 on, peaking at 125, over 25 of 90 days. Steady across the range.
12 Jun–18 Jun: not measured
19 Jun–25 Jun: not measured
26 Jun–2 Jul: not measured
3 Jul–9 Jul: not measured
10 Jul–16 Jul: not measured
17 Jul–23 Jul: not measured
24 Jul–30 Jul: not measured
31 Jul–6 Aug: not measured
7 Aug–13 Aug: not measured
14 Aug–20 Aug: typically 80, peak 117, 5 days counted, 2 days not measured
21 Aug–27 Aug: typically 87, peak 124, 7 days counted
28 Aug–3 Sep: typically 81, peak 102, 7 days counted
4 Sep–9 Sep: typically 97, peak 125, 6 days counted
earlier: ?from=2026-03-14&to=2026-06-11&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 25 days we have measured. No day we measured was
unreachable. 65 days predate anything we measured.
12 Jun – 15 Aug: 65 days not measured
Capabilities (0 of 15 disagree)
MSDP measured: yes declared: yes
MSSP measured: yes declared: -
ANSI measured: - declared: yes
ATCP measured: - declared: yes
GMCP measured: - declared: NO
MCCP measured: - declared: NO
MCP measured: - declared: NO
MSP measured: - declared: yes
MXP measured: - declared: yes
PUEBLO measured: - declared: NO
TLS measured: - declared: NO
UTF-8 measured: - declared: yes
VT100 measured: - declared: NO
XTERM 256 COLORS measured: - declared: yes
ZMP measured: - declared: NO
Declared by the game
hostname realmsofdespair.com (declared, 63m)
hiring builders 0 (declared, 63m)
player clans 1 (declared, 63m)
quest system Immortal Run (declared, 63m)
port 4000 (declared, 63m)
ip 216.251.47.10 (declared, 63m)
genre Fantasy (declared, 63m)
areas 200 (declared, 63m)
pay to play 0 (declared, 63m)
crawl delay -1 (declared, 63m)
icon https://www.topmudsites.com/images/ROD_ICON.gif (declared, 63m)
training system Level (declared, 63m)
subgenre Medieval Fantasy (declared, 63m)
player guilds 1 (declared, 63m)
codebase SMAUG (declared, 63m)
gamesystem Custom (declared, 63m)
adult material 0 (declared, 63m)
name Realms of Despair (declared, 63m)
created 1994 (declared, 63m)
website http://www.realmsofdespair.com (declared, 63m)
contact kali(at)realmsofdespair.com (declared, 63m)
language English (declared, 63m)
gameplay Hack and Slash (declared, 63m)
levels 50 (declared, 63m)
multiclassing 1 (declared, 63m)
equipment system Level (declared, 63m)
world originality Mostly Original (declared, 63m)
hiring coders 0 (declared, 63m)
status Live (declared, 63m)
races 16 (declared, 63m)
pay for perks 0 (declared, 63m)
family DikuMUD (declared, 63m)
location Canada (declared, 63m)
helpfiles 2500 (declared, 63m)
player cities 0 (declared, 63m)
player crafting 0 (declared, 63m)
playerkilling Restricted (declared, 63m)
roleplaying Encouraged (declared, 63m)
newbie friendly 1 (declared, 63m)
classes 13 (declared, 63m)
multiplaying Restricted (declared, 63m)
Connect screen
[connect screen: 25 lines, text only]
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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. ||
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What changed
2026-08-16 endpoint recorded as realmsofdespair.com 4000 (handshake)