The MudNet Team

What is MudNet?

MudNet is a program (known as a robot, or bot) that relays information between text-based MUSH servers such as PennMUSH, TinyMUX, TinyMUSH, and RhostMUSH. We run one central server that logs in as MudNet on about 100 MU*es and allows people in those virtual worlds to communicate with each other.

What can you do with MudNet?

Query the bot

With mnworlds and mnlist, you can get a list of worlds and their status information from the server.

Query other worlds

Use mninfo to read a world's description. With mnwho you can see a WHO listing (DOING, actually). Similar commands are mnpwho (for +who), mncwho (comsys channel who), mnfinger (+finger), mnstaff (+staff), and mnsearch (find a player by name).

Communicate

Use the Mudnet channel system to send messages to several people. Use mnpage to reach a specific player, or mnmail if they're not around.

Set blocks

If you don't want to be disturbed, you can set your mnlock to selectively block MudNet commands.

Read documentation

For more information about these commands, use mnhelp.

What can't you do with MudNet?

Well, spamming is right out. There's more stuff in the policy. You also can't walk from one world into another. We're providing a communication service here, and while you may be able to manipulate objects in another world by poking at them with MudNet commands, we'd prefer that you not build any large systems around that idea, for bandwidth reasons.

As for missing features that we'll probably work on eventually, let's see, at present you can't mnpage more than one person at a time, and you can't own Mudnet channels. We don't have a web interface yet, either. But we do have plans, and we'll make announcements as things get done.