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You might also like [awesome-shell](https://github.com/alebcay/awesome-shell) and [awesome-cli-apps](https://github.com/agarrharr/awesome-cli-apps), which both support text-based living!*\n\nWant to add your awesome MUD resource? Make the change and [open a pull request](https://opensource.guide/how-to-contribute/#opening-a-pull-request)!\n\n## Contents\n\n- [Clients](#clients)\n- [Codebases](#codebases)\n- [Hosting](#hosting)\n- [Communities](#communities)\n\n## Clients\n\n_Log in and play._\n\n- [axmud](https://axmud.sourceforge.io/) - A modern Multi-User Dungeon (MUD) client written in Perl 5 / Gtk3\n- [Blightmud](https://github.com/LiquidityC/Blightmud) -  A mud client for the terminal\n- [BlowTorch](https://bt.happygoatstudios.com/) - A MUD client for Android.\n- JMC - Jaba MUD Client forks: [by conelav](https://github.com/konelav/jmc) and [by nerevar](https://nerevar.github.io/jmc/)\n- [KBtin](https://github.com/kilobyte/kbtin) - TinTin++-style MUD client\n- [mmc](https://sourceforge.net/projects/mmc-kerd/) - the MUD client for UNIX and Win32\n- [muddle](https://github.com/gvanderest/muddle) - Electron-Based MUD Client \n- [Mudlet](https://github.com/Mudlet/Mudlet) - A cross-platform, MUD client with scripting in Lua.\n- [MUDRammer](https://github.com/splinesoft/MUDRammer) - Modern MUD client for the iPhone and iPad.\n- [powwow](https://github.com/MUME/powwow)\n- [TinTin++](http://tintin.sourceforge.net/) - Cross-platform, command line MUD client.\n- [Tortilla](https://github.com/tmud/tortilla)\n\n## Codebases\n\n_Active and retired MUD codebases._\n\n- [ArchaicQuest](https://github.com/LiamKenneth/ArchaicQuest) - C# web based MUD engine.\n- [AwakeMUD](https://github.com/luciensadi/AwakeMUD) - Community fork of Awakened Worlds written in C++.\n- [BRus MUD Engine](https://github.com/bylins/mud) - Russian MUD engine in C++.\n- [CoffeMud](https://github.com/bozimmerman/CoffeeMud) - Java-based MUD engine.\n- [CurryMUD](https://github.com/jasonstolaruk/CurryMUD) - Textual Multi-User Dungeon server in Haskell.\n- [DikuMUD3](https://github.com/Seifert69/DikuMUD3) - Latest DikuMID release with HTML and websockets support.\n- [DUM](https://github.com/wowpin/dumserver) - A modern Python MU* engine.\n- [DragonMUD](https://github.com/bbuck/dragon-mud) - MUD engine in GO.\n- [EmpireMUD](https://github.com/EmpireMUD/EmpireMUD-2.0-Beta) - EmpireMUD is a MUD server with a persistent world map. It is a derivative of CircleMUD and DikuMUD. \n- [Evennia](https://github.com/evennia/evennia) - Python MUD/MUX/MUSH/MU* development system.\n- [ExVenture](https://github.com/oestrich/ex_venture) - Elixir based MUD engine.\n- [FluffOS](https://github.com/fluffos/fluffos) - actively maintained LPMUD driver, based on the last release of MudOS.\n- [HellCore](https://github.com/necanthrope/HellCore) - HellCore fork of LambdaMOO.\n- [Kalevala](https://github.com/oestrich/kalevala) - World building toolkit for text based games, written in Elixir.\n- [Legends of Future Past](https://github.com/jonradoff/lofp) - 1992 commercial MUD resurrected from original script files using AI. Go backend, React frontend, WebSocket multiplayer. MIT license. [Play free](https://lofp.metavert.io).\n- [ldmud](https://github.com/ldmud/ldmud) - LDMud game driver for LPMuds.\n- [Ranvier](https://github.com/shawncplus/ranviermud) - Node.js-based MUD engine.\n- [RockMUD](https://github.com/MoreOutput/RockMUD) - Node.js-based WebSockets-capable MUD server.\n- [room.js](https://github.com/doughsay/room.js) - Node.js-based MUD/MOO engine.\n- [Tale](https://github.com/irmen/Tale) - Mud, mudlib \u0026 interactive fiction framework.\n- [tbaMUD](https://github.com/tbamud/tbamud) - tbaMUD is the continued development of the codebase formerly known as CircleMUD\n\n## Protocols\n\n_Specifications of various MUD-related protocols_\n\n- [GMCP](https://tintin.mudhalla.net/protocols/gmcp/) - Generic Mud Communication Protocol.\n- [MCCP](https://tintin.mudhalla.net/protocols/mccp/) - Mud Client Compression Protocol.\n- [MSP](https://www.zuggsoft.com/zmud/msp.htm) - Mud Sound Protocol.\n- [MSSP](https://tintin.mudhalla.net/protocols/mssp/) - Mud Server Status Protocol.\n- [MTTS](https://tintin.mudhalla.net/protocols/mtts/) - Mud Terminal Type Standard.\t\n- [Ironrealms GMCP](https://nexus.ironrealms.com/GMCP) - Specification of GMCP used by Iron Realms Nexus Client.\n- [Protocols supported by Mudlet](https://wiki.mudlet.org/w/Manual:Supported_Protocols#MSP) - Docs about protocols supported by Mudlet.\n\n## Hosting\n\n_Places to put a MUD._\n\n- [DigitalOcean](https://www.digitalocean.com/) - Cloud-computing provider offering affordable virtual private servers.\n\n## Communities\n\n_Connect with other MUD enthusiasts._\n\n- [The MUD Coders Guild](https://mudcoders.com) - Slack community for text-based game developers.\n- [r/MUD](https://www.reddit.com/r/MUD) - Reddit's official MUD community.\n- [Titans of Text](https://www.titansoftext.com/) - MUD related podcast\n","projects_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/lists/mudcoders%2Fawesome-mud/projects"}