Newbie Fact Sheet This Fact Sheet is intended to help new players of muds learn the commands and valuable information to help make the mudding experience fun and enjoyable. Mud Terms and Definitions: Mobile, mob = is the computer generated character that you must kill to gain experience points to level PC = player character, which means you are a pc BBL = be back later BRB = be right back AFK = away from keyboard Exp = experience points which you must earn by killing mobiles Guild = the place where you practice your skills and spells Trainer = the place where you may train your attributes Immortal = the highest level players on the mud who set the rules in the mud that you must follow. Implementor = the creators of the mud Diku Staff = creators of the original DikuMud are: Hans Staerfeldt, Katja Nyboe, Tom Madsen, Micheal Seifert, and Sebastian Hammer ROM = creator of the ROM source code is Russ Taylor Merc 2.1 = created by Hatchet, Furey,and Kahn Commands in the Mud: Directions- north or "n" south or "s" west or "w" east or "e" down or "d" up or "u" look = makes you look around the room you are in look "whatever" = will make you look and see the description of the specified target examine, exa "whatever" = makes you get a more detailed description of the specified room or mobile scan = will make you scan around your room and see what may be in a room next to you hitpoints, hp = your life points and if it goes to zero you will die mana = your mana points which allow you to use them to cast a spell or channel movement, mov = your movement points which allow you to be able to move, walk around equ = tells what equipment you are wearing inven = tells what is in your inventory wear "whatever" = takes whatever item is in your inventory and makes you wear it remove "whatever" = takes the item you are wearing and removes it to your inventory get "whatever" = will make you get an item that you see lying around in a room drop "whatever" = will make you drop the specified object in you inventory to the ground consider "name of mobile" = will let you know how powerful a mobile is compared to you kill "name of mobile" = will make you attack a mobile in order to kill it to gain experience points flee = makes you flee from a fight wimpy "a specified number" = will set your wimpy points in order to flee if you have that amount of hitpoints glance "name of mobile" = will tell you what percentage the mobile's health-hp is at You must kill mobiles to gain experience points to get to the next level. Score = your personal datasheet with information on your character Who = will tell you all visible players in the game Whois "name of player" = will tell you more information on the specified player character Where = tells you who is near you and what part of the area they are in Area = tells you all the available areas in the mud which you can explore Train "name of attribute"= allows you to train and increase your attributes such as: strength, intelligence, etc... Practice "name of spell or skill" = allows you to increase you skill or spell percentages Prac = shows what you may practice when typed at a guild Train = shows what you may train when typed at a trainer Talk Channels: You will also need to know how to talk to other players on the mud.... Say "whatever" = will make you say something that can be heard only by those in the room you are in Tell "name of player" = will make you tell something to the specified player which only they can hear Gossip or Chat "whatever" = will gossip or chat whatever you specify to all players on the mud Quit = will make you quit from the mud Save = will make the mud save your character, some muds do not support autosave Remember mudding is fun and should always be fun. Also remember to abide by all the rules of the mud and be considerate of other players when using Talk channels like "tell" or "gossip" Newbie Fact Sheet by Kracus