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THE BURNING EYE [unclaimed]
telnet mud.burning-eye.net 4000

Players now: 3  (declared, 30m)
Reachable: 100.0% of the last 90 days
Longest outage: 10m

Where to find this game
  WEBSITE    https://burning-eye.net/  (declared, 30m)
  CONTACT    [email protected]  (declared, 30m)

When people are on (UTC)
Busiest Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 16:00–17:59. 49 hours across the week
have no measurement yet.

  Mon — peak 4 at 19:00
  Tue — peak 6 at 20:00, 3 hours not measured
  Wed — peak 4 at 04:00, 12 hours not measured
  Thu — peak 4 at 14:00, 12 hours not measured
  Fri — peak 4 at 14:00, 12 hours not measured
  Sat — peak 4 at 19:00, nobody on 06:00–06:59, 10 hours not measured
  Sun — peak 3 at 00:00

  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 (2 Jun 2026 – 30 Aug 2026, UTC)
Typically 2 on, peaking at 6, over 16 of 90 days. Down about 23% from the start
of the range to the end.

  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 2, peak 6, 3 days counted, 4 days not measured
  18 Aug–24 Aug: typically 2, peak 5, 7 days counted
  25 Aug–30 Aug: typically 2, peak 4, 6 days counted

  earlier: ?from=2026-03-04&to=2026-06-01&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 16 days we have measured. 1 day unreachable. Longest
outage 10m (connection refused). 74 days predate anything we measured.

  2 Jun – 14 Aug: 74 days not measured
  30 Aug: 1 day unreachable (connection refused)

Capabilities (0 of 12 disagree)
  GMCP       measured: yes     declared: yes
  MSDP       measured: yes     declared: yes
  MSSP       measured: yes     declared: -
  MXP        measured: yes     declared: yes
  ANSI       measured: -       declared: yes
  MCCP       measured: -       declared: NO
  MCP        measured: -       declared: NO
  MSP        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
  location   United States of America  (declared, 30m)
  crawl delay -1  (declared, 30m)
  port       4000  (declared, 30m)
  contact    [email protected]  (declared, 30m)
  language   English  (declared, 30m)
  minimum age 0  (declared, 30m)
  name       The Burning Eye  (declared, 30m)
  hostname   mud.burning-eye.net  (declared, 30m)
  codebase   ROM Derivative  (declared, 30m)
  created    1997  (declared, 30m)
  pay to play 0  (declared, 30m)
  family     DikuMUD  (declared, 30m)
  subgenre   Tolkien  (declared, 30m)
  genre      Fantasy  (declared, 30m)
  gameplay   Hack and Slash  (declared, 30m)
  status     Live  (declared, 30m)
  website    https://burning-eye.net/  (declared, 30m)
  pay for perks 0  (declared, 30m)

Connect screen
  [connect screen: 22 lines, text only]

  
              The Burning Eye                    /----------------------------\
                                                 |   Burn 2.0 by Eru & Aule   |
                                                 |----------------------------|
                                                 |    Based on Burn 1.7 by    |
                                                 |    Melkor, Orome, Mandos   |
                                      /* |\      |  Nienna, Tulkas, and Manwe |
                                      |  ## *|   \----------------------------/
                                       X. , #|    |     Based on Rom2.4b4    |
  ___   _  _  __                    _ |..__.*|    |  Copyright (c) 1993-1996 |
  ] I---I\/I--I\   /#  x           X ||_|  |_||   |        Russ Taylor       |
  ]_____________[ \ x. []|         \--\-|-|--/-/  |--------------------------|
   \_\| |_| |/_/  /_   _ \ _   _   _|      ' *|  /    Based on MERC 2.1 by    \
    |  .     |'-'-` '-` '-` '-` '-` | []    /#|  |   Hatchet, Furey and Kahn  |
     \    '  |=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-|      []/|  |----------------------------|
     /|  ` []\      _-_-_-_-_  '     \-      #|  |    Original DikuMUD by     |
    | '  `  '|   [] | / | | |  []`   /  []   \   |Hans Staerfeldt, Katja Nyboe|
    |      - |    ` | |   \ | `     | ;  '   #|  |Tom Madsen, Michael Seifert |
   /_'_-_-___-\__,__|_\_ _/_|_______|   `  , *|  |    and Sebastion Hammer    |
               _,--'    __,-'      /,_,_v_Y_,_v\ \----------------------------/
  
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What changed
  2026-08-24  capability.gmcp.declared changed from false to true (mssp)
  2026-08-15  WEBSITE changed from http://burning-eye.net/ to https://burning-eye.net/ (mssp)
  2026-07-31  endpoint recorded as mud.burning-eye.net 4000 (handshake)