Fifteen-years ago, SlothMUD booted up for the first time. Quickly the little mud, operated by a handful of college students gained recognition across the world – from the United States to Russia to Australia and points in between and beyond. The goal in the beginning was to give people a friendly atmosphere in which to play, and a means with which to interact with friends across the globe.
Five years later, SlothMUDIII was born from the ashes with a new owner, and fresh ideas, and a new direction for the MUD. Since August 13, 1997, this direction has been to make SlothMUDIII one of the best MUDs on the internet. With hundreds of players worldwide, a friendly and robust atmosphere, and hours of enjoyment for everyone, SlothMUDIII has risen to the challenge of maintaining a free-to-play system with no donation system for elite equipment and an open-to-all mentality, all while improving game play by leaps and bounds through the years.
With an administration of helpful, diligent, and intelligent coders, SlothMUDIII now boasts eight regular classes plus an elite Avatar class to choose from in a four class system with hundreds of skills and spells to choose from along with thousands of unique items and equipment to make each character special to its owner. In the past ten-years SlothMUDIII has raised the bar for free-to-play MUDs everywhere by adding:
# 100% Original world
* Over 23,500 unique richly described rooms
* Over 8,400 unique mobs
* Over 7,200 unique objects
# Completely free to play
# Fast character creation - No approval necessary
# A single player base since 1997 with an average of 40+ online encompassing the world
* US, Russia, Malaysia, Ukraine, Latvia, Singapore, UK, South Korea, Netherlands, Sweden, Canada, Lithuania, Italy, Germany, Australia, France, Israel, Estonia, Finland, Spain, Belgium, Mexico, Taiwan, and Brazil.
# MCCP support (Mud Client Compression Protocol
# MXP support (Mud Extension Protocol)
# MSP support (Mud Sound Protocol)
# Astrological event system(complete solar system simulator with 4 other planets)
# Unique and well thought out magic system (Seven layers of Strata- Channeling, Shaping, Summoning, Healing, Enhancement, Necromancy)
# Innovative experience system(exp can be gained in a variety of ways-
leading, tanking, grouping, blasting, exploring, healing, questing, etc)
# Dedicated Immortal Staff
# Continuous Regeneration System
# Customizable prompts-over 25,000 possible prompts to choose from
# Time spawned mobs creating dynamic world resets
# Dynamic World Map-showing real time movement of our players
# Mob lairs and caches(creatures hide and protect their treasures)
# Full ANSI colour support
# Ingame Aliases
# Ingame Auto Quests
# Immortal Run Quests
# Unique Quest Points & Shops
# Full clan support(clan channels, boards, etc)
# Global boards and player mail( ship items to fellow players, write letters,
post news stories for everyone to see, etc)
# Player files and eq saved continuously
# Dynamic map of Newbatia and Newbie school (watch yourself move around town,
or help yourself find your guilds)
# Multi-Classing from 9 diverse classes including a unique and highly coveted Avatar class
# Five Continents & Three Islands
* Newbie only Continent
* High level only Continent
# Over 400 skills and spells
# Unique vault system
# Dynamic Channels
* Newbie Channel
* Auction Channel
* Gossip Channel
* Player created channels
# Extended Socials and Commands list
# Newbie School and Newbie Helpers (called Isatars)
# Combat Arenas for those who enjoy Player vs Player
# Avatar Meta Shop
# Forging, Enchanting, brewing, trading
# Weekly top 20 lists posted on web site including total exp, deaths, and gold
# Live continent boards listing the top 25 most deadly creatures of that continent
# MUDL - A one of a kind internal programming language that allows Immortals to continually create a dynamic and challenging experience.
Along with the ingame features of SlothMUDIII, the online recourses of the player maintained website (www.slothmud.org) provides all players with access to a database of items, equipment, autoquests, area maps, and an open forum to communicate to other players anytime, 24/7. The website is dynamic, with live up-to-the-minute lists showing whose online and whose grouping, along with a
dynamic world map to show where players are at any given moment. Finally, using RSS feeds, SlothMUDIII’s enhanced website offers a self-updating live blog of major events taking place in the game world whenever it happens.
SlothMUDIII continues to enjoy its reign as the premier free-to-play MUD as we celebrate ten (10) years of success in the upcoming week. Please, feel free to come join our family of players, and enjoy our rich, robust atmosphere and environment. We welcome you anytime. Visit our website to connect, or log in using your favorite MUD client at slothmud.org port 6101 or at IP Address 209.139.208.64 port 6101.
We look forward to seeing you.
The Administration of SlothMUDIII
**Posted at 3:00 am on August 14th of 1997 on rec.games.mud.diku
Hello everyone,
After months of work, the new version of SlothMUD [Version III] Has
finally been released.
This game introduces many great new concepts to the game, while
retaining the excellent base it was built upon.
Lots of new concepts have been added...
1. New spells,
2. Multiple towns and continents
3. Spellbooks!
4. Auctioneers will auction items randomly!
5. Automated arena
...and much more!
We have many great new features coming soon as well...
Best of all, it's new!
Join up with lots of players who are just starting out as well.
At the time of writing this post, there are over 60 players currently
on the game! All under level 9!
Hurry though, if you wait too long everyone will be much higher level
than you. Join in now, when the game is most exciting!
Also see the web page at www.slothmud.org, though it is a bit out of
date due to the new changes made to the game, it has some great info
about the mud!
seeya on sloth!
Jake
**Posted at 3:00 am on August 14th of 1997 on rec.games.mud.diku
How can you miss this much fun????
*Wizards of SlothMUD III*
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[ *Creator* ] Jake bugs: mail hayw...@slothmud.org --AFK
[The Goddess] Nia Hmmmm...
[ *Demi-god*] Ming .
[ma cl th wa] Players
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[ 0 0 1 7] Defect will soon be at the top
[ 0 1 0 6] Melkor the IV
[ 0 0 0 6] Blastard <~Kaos Warrior~>
[ 0 0 0 6] Corum Jhaelen Irsei
[ 0 5 1 0] Mirayah silly warriors... kicks are for trids
[ 0 0 1 5] Cthulhu <DoT> the Lightly Titled
[ 0 0 0 5] Desade MULTI me to stats *giggle*
[ 0 1 0 4] Darkeagle leaves for a bit and look what happens!
[ 0 0 1 4] Anger the Untitled
[ 1 4 0 0] Ebony the Untitled
[ 0 1 0 4] Wolverine
{Sea Monster}
[ 0 4 0 1] Kontroar the Untitled
[ 0 1 3 0] Julk I HATE LAG
[ 0 3 1 0] Pez the Untitled
[ 0 3 0 1] God
[ 0 3 0 1] Trian ...
[ 0 0 0 3] Fmh the Untitled
[ 0 3 0 0] Nic will cure and protect you
[ 0 3 0 0] Testament sleep dep ..... brain blubber
[ 0 0 3 0] Gatto ...
[ 0 0 0 3] Fin a lowly wa/th
[ 3 0 0 0] Poohz the Untitled
[ 0 3 0 0] Jesus => The Future's So Bright! <=
[ 0 3 0 0] Ferrus Ferrite
[ 0 0 0 3] Sirrico CHAOS RANGER
[ 0 0 3 0] Zinger the Untitled
[ 0 0 0 3] Hokus pokus
[ 0 3 0 0] Dovi The bear
[ 2 0 0 0] Eos the Untitled
[ 0 2 0 0] Elvin the Friendly Healer.
[ 2 0 0 0] Vorlox the Untitled
[ 0 0 2 0] Nick must be this tall -- to attack the city
[ 0 0 2 0] South the beekeeper
[ 2 0 0 0] Jafar remembers you and ATTACKS!!!!
[ 0 0 0 2] Fiction the Untitled
[ 0 2 0 0] James the Untitled
[ 0 2 0 0] Odo the Untitled
[ 0 2 0 0] Tesa the Untitled
[ 0 2 0 0] Speed has lost his eq
[ 0 2 0 0] Jiriki ponders his existance...
[ 0 0 2 0] Lace the Untitled
[ 0 2 0 0] Bael the Untitled
[ 0 0 2 0] Ripple the Untitled
[ 0 1 0 0] Dutchess the Untitled
[ 1 0 0 0] August the Untitled
[ 1 0 0 0] Gluk the Untitled
[ 0 1 0 0] Kamui the Untitled
[ 0 0 0 1] Sarge the Untitled
[ 0 0 0 1] Jethro the Untitled
[ 1 0 0 0] Doctor the Untitled
[ 0 0 0 1] Murk the Untitled
[ 0 1 0 0] Mute the Untitled
[ 1 0 0 0] Gaffney the Untitled
[ 1 0 0 0] Asgulf the Untitled
[ 0 0 0 1] Cow the Untitled
[ 0 0 0 1] Kirt the Untitled
[ 0 1 0 0] Slip the Untitled
There are 61 visible players.
