MUDQOL Feature Reference

See every stat that matters in one screen. Buffed values are highlighted so you know exactly what your spells are doing. Cast Nature Tap? Check INSIGHT immediately — no more waiting 30 seconds to see if the roll was good.

See exactly what each buff is doing for you — which abilities it grants, how much, and how many ticks remain. No more guessing which spell gave you that AC boost.

Where does each ability point come from? Race, class, equipment, spells, or quest rewards — all broken down by source. Drill into any single ability to see the full picture.

Quick-reference for all 188 abilities in the game. Two pages, four columns. Look up any ability by number.

Your alignment at a glance: current evil points, tier name (Saint through FIEND), lawful protection status, and how your alignment has shifted this session.

Room details: where you are, how bright it is, what spawns here, and what's nearby.

In-game encyclopedia. Look up any item or spell by number — full stats, abilities, class restrictions, and more. CODEX I42 or CODEX S18.

Breadcrumb trail of your last 10 rooms. Retrace your steps when you get lost.

Your session at a glance: XP earned, XP per hour, kills, deaths, time played, and your biggest hits this session.

Sysop health check: is everything running? One command shows hook status, database health, active patches, and operating mode.

Automated self-check. Verifies every subsystem is working and reports pass/fail. Run it after install to confirm everything is good.

Every death is automatically recorded — who killed you, where it happened, and when. Persists across logoffs and server restarts.

What conditions are active on you right now? Sneaking, paralyzed, blinded, slowed, quickened, feared — all decoded and labelled clearly.

Everything about your class — including the hidden melee power rating that the game never shows you. HP ranges, magic type, weapon restrictions, innate abilities.

Full race breakdown — including the hidden HP bonus per level that affects every character. Stat ranges, creation points, XP modifier, racial abilities.

See all 50 keys on your key ring with names and remaining uses. Finally know which keys you're carrying.

Deep intel on any monster you've encountered: HP, defenses, XP value, all attack types, spells it can cast, item drops with names, currency drops, and special abilities.

Look up items and spells by name instead of memorizing numbers. CODEX GAVEL OF JUSTICE just works. Partial names supported.

Your death history — last 20 deaths with date, who killed you, and where. Survives server restarts and disconnects.

Sysop tool: export game data (races, classes, items, monsters, spells, players) to text files for offline analysis.

Press up-arrow to recall previous commands. 50-command memory per session.

Buy, sell, drop, or get multiple items at once. BUY 5 TORCH. SELL 3 FINE. Up to 50 at a time.

GET ALL picks up everything on the floor. DROP ALL drops all unequipped items. Won't drop cursed or equipped gear.

Equip your weapon and all armor from inventory in one command. Quick re-gear after death.

Removes stock limits on monster, class, race, map, and shop counts. Required for servers with expanded content.

Fixes a stock bug where certain ability data is lost on server restart. Your abilities stay intact.

Changes "(Two handed)" to "(Weapon Hand)" so everything is consistent.

Stability fix for the NEWLIMITED command when running with expanded content databases.

Automatically counts your kills each session. Feeds CHRONICLE and RANK.

What does +1 STR actually do at your level? See the exact per-point impact of every stat on dodge, stealth, accuracy, crit chance, and more.

Is this drop better than what you have? Side-by-side comparison with color-coded upgrades and downgrades. Compare any two items or any two monsters.

Personal bests and server-wide hall of records. Highest damage, biggest crit, most kills — tracked across sessions and server restarts.

Allow character names with spaces, hyphens, apostrophes, and digits. No more alpha-only restriction.

Removes the registration key requirement and raises the maximum user limit. Sysop opt-in.

Adds energy display to your statline prompt. Sysops can configure it — players see current and max energy at a glance.

See how close you are to the next alignment tier and how fast your EP is decaying. Coming soon.

Unlocks 8 hidden sysop diagnostic commands that are built into the game but normally inaccessible.

Two modes. SCAN assesses your current room; SCAN <dir> scouts down a corridor. Monster names are colour-coded by alignment (cyan = neutral, white = your alignment, bright magenta = aggressive or opposed).

Current room. Every monster and its HP, with the rounds it'd take you to kill each — then a combined line: total rounds to clear the room, the HP you'd lose doing it, and an overall Danger rating (None / Low / Medium / High / Deadly).

Corridor recon (SCAN <dir>). Follows that direction room by room — the way look does, through bends and junctions — naming each room and the monsters in it, without you walking in:

Mechanic	Effect
Perception	Sets your range — everyone sees a few rooms ahead; a dedicated scout reaches up to ten.
Light	Bright rooms read easily; dim ones eat into your range; pitch-black rooms can only be glimpsed (name only).
Bends	Cost range, so a winding passage fades sooner. The scan stops at a sharp turn, a closed door, a dead end, or the edge of sight — and tells you why.
Hidden exits	Never followed or revealed — secret passages stay secret.

Your full combat profile: accuracy, defense, damage ranges, dodge chance, crit chance, and hit probability — all the numbers the game uses behind the scenes.

The combat-assessment companion to SCAN's recon — three forms:

Form	What it tells you
THREAT <monster> id or name	A full matchup: the monster's HP, AC, DR, MR, AV, regen and follow%, its attack list, and a combat breakdown — your hit% and theirs, your dodge and crit, damage before and after armor, average damage per round each way, rounds for you to kill it, the Danger rating, and your dodge→AC equivalence.
THREAT *pattern*	Searches monsters by name and lists the matches with their ids, so you can pick one.
THREAT <dir>	The combat view of the adjacent room — the same per-monster HP / rounds-to-kill and combined-Danger panel SCAN shows for your current room. "Can I take what's through there?"

Monster names are colour-coded by alignment, as in SCAN.

Automatically tracks what you hide and retrieve from your stash rooms. Know what's where without checking manually.

Save up to 9 equipment loadouts. One command to save your current gear, one command to re-equip it. Swap builds instantly.

Use a special item to automatically roll up loose coins into higher denominations. No more carrying 500 copper farthings.

Monster speech, emotes, and actions are already in MajorMUD — but only about 25 creatures were ever given the textblocks to use it. This makes that built-in behavior easy to extend to far more monsters, so occupied rooms come alive. A natural extension of what's already there, fully configurable.

Chat across realms. Gossip, broadcast, and GOD TELL messages reach players in all MajorMUD worlds on your BBS.

Activates MajorMUD's vestigial hunger/thirst counters — they already tick on every player but nothing reads them, so values drift wild. Attaches gentle, fully-optional consequences (warnings, regen penalty, starvation damage), off by default. Faithful countdown + opt-in enhancement.

Mark up to 9 rooms as personal stash locations, see all your loadouts and stashes in one overview, and check a stash room's contents remotely without being there — higher perception reveals more detail.

Sysop tool: trigger invasion events on demand. Undead, orcs, demons, dragons, or custom events. Great for live GM sessions.

Sysop tool: find which room an item is in. Searches the entire world. Off by default.

Adds damage variance to combat — swings now range from weak to powerful with descriptive flavor text. Makes every fight feel different.

Sysop-tunable combat formulas. Choose between stock hit calculations or rebalanced alternatives. Adjust crit rates, dodge mechanics, and attack type scaling.

Mystic class enhancement: hidden kick and jumpkick attacks deal bonus damage with unique combat messages. Rewards sneaky play.

Reworked combat flow: instead of all players swinging then all monsters, each swing is interleaved. Fairer, more tactical, more tense.

Monster names that mean something. Stock MajorMUD picks from a handful of generic adjectives — “nasty thug,” “big thug,” “fierce thug” — but they all fight identically. Moniker replaces that with names drawn from the monster's zone, alignment, and power tier, and the name is real. A “massive cave troll” genuinely has more HP, gives more XP, hits harder on every swing, and carries better loot than a plain cave troll. A “small” one is the quick kill it sounds like.

Monsters can earn both a prefix and a suffix — “savage thug the cruel” — and those double-named creatures are the toughest fights in the room with the best drops. Sewer monsters draw from sewer vocabulary; crypt monsters sound like crypt monsters; a Lawful Good guardsman gets words that fit. Every name is unique to that spawn and stays with it until it dies. Loot is decided at spawn, not at death — so what a monster carries is set the moment it appears. Sysops can add or tune affixes, set per-zone vocabulary, exclude specific monsters, test changes live, and flip one switch to restore stock behavior.

Completes MajorMUD's alignment system. The game has always let you commit to permanent Lawful — lock in good and never watch your evil points drift you off it. Miscreant finally adds the mirror that was always missing: permanent Evil. Plus alignment tags in the WHO list and the option to choose your alignment at character creation.

Add custom rooms, monsters, items, spells, and more to your game world. Author content in a database, and it loads automatically on BBS boot.

Run your whole realm on a single portable SQLite file instead of Btrieve — full parity with the original storage, with trivial backups and moves.

An in-game Quest Codex that knows what you've done and what's left. Type QUEST and it reads your character's granted abilities live to show every MajorMUD quest — whether you've completed it, whether you're high enough level to attempt it, where to go, what to do, and what you'll earn. Quests that don't apply to your class or race are hidden so the list stays relevant. A completion count at the bottom tracks your progress across the full quest line.

Run a whole library of classic MajorMUD versions on one BBS — players pick the version they want (v1.11m, v1.11i, v1.1w, …) from a menu and drop right into it. Each version loads on demand behind a theatrical ANSI splash while it spins up; versions nobody's playing stay dormant, so the BBS boots fast and doesn't waste memory hosting ~15 games at once.

Universal auto-updater for Worldgroup modules. Loads before all other modules at BBS startup, silently checks GitHub for a newer DLL, verifies integrity with fail-closed SHA-256, backs up the old version, and atomically installs the replacement — all before the target module loads. If anything fails (bad hash, network error, fault), a SEH firewall catches it and boot continues uninterrupted. Manifest-driven with per-module configs; sysop toggle via WGSCNF. MUDQOL is the first consumer.

Tracks every meaningful game state change in real-time. Powers the analytics API: leaderboards, progression tracking, and combat statistics.

Browser-based admin dashboard. Live player status, monster tracking, boss timers, combat feed, and a browser-based telnet client. No software install required.

~50 new rooms expanding west from Newhaven into the old woods and Old Haven, a long-abandoned settlement. Custom monsters, items, spells, and ambient speech. The first MUDQOL map expansion for MajorMUD.

Leaderboards, farming guides, combat simulator, and build optimizer — all accessible through a web API.

How hard you've been living sets how fast you get hungry — a week swinging a battleaxe burns through your sustenance, a week loitering at the bank barely touches it. Idle and you coast; grind and you'd better pack food.

Carry weight becomes a smooth curve for movement instead of stock's sudden cliff — every extra encumbrance point nudges your step a little slower, rather than one item flipping you from fine to sluggish at the 66% line. Fully tunable.

Play MajorMUD on a remote BBS without leaving your home server. Persistent identity, auto-reconnect, seamless transitions.

Sysop tool: spawn automated test players to stress-test your server. Useful for capacity planning and finding edge cases.

Die and your gear, keys, and coin gather into your own corpse where you fell — instead of scattering across the floor. Race back and RECOVER it before it decays. Sysop-tunable loot rules (solo / group / open) and decay timers.

Run your realm's data on PostgreSQL — a networked, production-grade database, drop-in compatible with the original Btrieve storage.

The same smoothing reaches combat and sneaking: your multi-hit edge, accuracy bonus, and stealth penalty all change gradually with load instead of snapping at the 33%/66% tier lines. Adds a precise carry-weight and move-delay readout to EQUIP. Fully tunable.

Drink for a buzz — sweeter prices while it lasts. Lean on it and a dependency quietly builds; sober up and you ride out a gentle hangover. No damage, no death — a risk/reward you choose to manage.

What Are Pets?

Pets are class-themed monster companions that fight alongside players. Each of MajorMUD's 15 character classes has its own pet family — from a Warrior's war hounds and battle bears, to a Mage's elemental constructs, to a Ninja's shadow creatures. Pets use the same monster system as every other creature in the game — they spawn, fight, and take and deal damage — but the whole point is the bond: a pet is charmed to you and follows you around as your loyal companion.

150 pets exist across 15 classes and 10 power tiers, scaled to match player progression from level 1 through level 50.

The 15 Pet Classes

The 10 Power Tiers

Each class has 10 tiers of increasing power, matched to player level ranges:

Tier	Levels	HP	Damage	AC	DR	MR	Accuracy	HP Regen
0	1–3	15–30	2–6	0–1	0–1	0–2	10–11	1
1	4–9	34–50	4–12	1–3	0–1	1–5	14–15	2
2	10–14	65–85	8–20	3–6	1–3	2–8	20–22	3
3	15–20	118–150	15–35	6–9	2–4	4–12	25–26	4
4	21–25	200–240	25–55	9–12	3–5	6–16	30–31	5
5	26–30	300–350	40–80	12–16	5–7	10–20	35–36	6
6	31–35	430–500	55–110	16–20	7–10	14–26	40–41	7
7	36–40	600–680	75–150	20–24	9–12	20–32	47–48	8
8	41–45	800–900	100–200	24–28	11–14	28–36	53–54	9
9	46–50	1100–1300	130–260	30	15	40	60	10

Stat ranges reflect class flavor. Druids have the highest tier-9 HP (1300) and DR. Priests and Mages have the lowest HP but highest MR. Martial classes (Warrior, Ranger, Thief) have the lowest MR at low tiers but strong physical stats.

Attack Types

Every pet uses a single melee attack per round, thematic to the creature:

Type	Used By
Slash	Cats, phantoms, tigers, serpents, elementals, imps
Crush	Bears, horses, oxen, treants, gorillas, mules
Pierce	Hawks, eagles, vipers, spiders, ravens
Bite	Hounds, wolves, rats, jackals, dragons, foxes

Attack energy cost is 100 for all pets. Attack frequency is 100% — one attack per round, every round.

Class Stat Identity

Class	Identity
Druid	Tankiest pets. Highest HP ceiling (1300 at tier 9), highest DR. Nature spirits that absorb punishment.
Paladin / Warlock	High HP (1250 at tier 9). Heavy hitters with strong defenses.
Warrior / Ranger	Balanced physical stats, moderate MR. Straightforward damage dealers.
Priest	Lowest HP (1100 at tier 9), highest MR at low tiers. Glass cannons that resist magic.
Mage	Low HP (1120), very high MR. Elementals that shrug off spells but fold to physical attacks.
Ninja	High AC (up to 28 at tier 8), moderate everything else. Evasive shadow creatures.
Gypsy / Mystic	High MR, moderate physical stats. Mystically attuned.
Bard	Balanced across the board. Jack-of-all-trades performing animals.

Example Roster: Warrior — War Beasts

One of fifteen complete pet lines. Each tier scales statistically and thematically:

Tier	Name	Levels	HP	Damage	Attack
0	Scrappy War Pup	1–3	22	2–6	Bite
1	Iron-Jawed Hound	4–9	45	4–12	Bite
2	Grey Battle Wolf	10–14	80	8–20	Bite
3	Scarred Dire Wolf	15–20	140	15–35	Bite
4	Warbred Mastiff	21–25	230	25–55	Bite
5	Black War Bear	26–30	340	40–80	Crush
6	Ironhide Grizzly	31–35	475	55–110	Crush
7	Bloodfang Alpha	36–40	650	75–150	Bite
8	Siege Bear	41–45	875	100–200	Crush
9	Dreadmaw Warbeast	46–50	1200	130–260	Bite

Bonded to You

This is the whole idea: a pet is charmed to you and follows you everywhere. Bind a creature with the game's Enslave magic and it becomes your companion — it travels room to room at your heels, fights at your side, and stays loyal to you.

Your companion…
Follows you	Trails you from room to room across the realm and won't lose your trail.
Fights for you	Attacks enemies that threaten you, and acts as a bodyguard — watching the room for anyone who attacks you.
Stays yours	The bond holds. Your pet remains charmed to you — it doesn't simply wander off when a timer runs out.
Comes and goes with you	Your companion leaves the realm when you log off and returns to your side when you come back.
Knows its master	Friendly to you — it will never turn on its owner.

Commanding Your Pet

A handful of PET commands manage your companion:

Command	What it does
PET CHARM	Bind the monster in your room as your pet.
PET SUMMON <id>	Call up one of the 150 class-themed companion pets.
PET RELEASE	Let your pet go.
PET	Check on your current companion.

Overview

The opening epic of the Bloodgold economy. In stock MajorMUD, gold flows in one direction: from monsters to players, then into shop registers where it ceases to exist. Tolls vanish. Training fees vanish. Healing fees vanish. The world has no economy — only a sink.

1.1.0 changes that. Every transaction now has a source and a destination. Shops accumulate real treasuries from sales. Cities collect sales tax. Temples receive training and healing revenue. Tolls flow into the city coffers. And the wealth that accumulates funds something new: stipends and subsidies for low-level players, paid for by the taxes higher-level players generate.

Gold no longer vanishes. It circulates.

Configuration

Every rate, threshold, and subsidy percentage is sysop-configurable per realm. A hardcore server can crank tolls high and stipends low. A welcoming server can do the inverse. The economy is a knob, not a fixed system.

Setting	Default	Range
Sales tax rate	5%	0–25%
Loan interest (weekly)	3%	0–20%
City stipend (per login, lvl 1)	50 gold	configurable curve
Training subsidy	40%	0–100%
Stipend cutoff level	10	1–50

What 1.1.0 Does NOT Include

The 1.1.0 release is deliberately scoped. The economy wakes up, but consequences come later:

Feature	Ships in
Reputation system + debt seizure	1.1.1 — The Economy Bites
Death tax + monster loot tax + XP tax	1.1.1
Dynamic shop pricing based on treasury	1.1.1
Casino revenue routing + new games	1.1.2 — The Economy Entertains
Lottery system	1.1.2
Bounty system + faction rates	1.1.3 — The Economy Divides
Gang treasuries + heists	1.1.4 — The Economy Deepens
Player market stalls + crowdfunding	1.1.5 — The Economy Builds

Persistence & Control

Every coin is accounted for. Balances, loans, and treasuries are saved like any other character data — they survive server restarts, and a full ledger of where gold moves is kept so a sysop can always see what's happening. The whole economy can be reset or backed up at any time, and none of it turns on unless the sysop chooses.

Food becomes a real (small) economy: tiered meals from snacks to feasts, cooked dishes that grant short well-fed buffs, and variety that beats eating the same ration forever. A gold sink with flavor.

Consequences arrive. Reputation, debt seizure, death tax, dynamic pricing, and progressive tax rates.

Full detail page coming in a future update.

Games of chance. Casino revenue routing, blackjack, monster arena betting, treasure vault, and lottery.

Full detail page coming in a future update.

Lawful vs. Miscreant. Bounties, the corruption arc, faction-based rates, and PvE bounty boards.

Grubb's Corruption Arc is detailed below. Bounties, faction rates, and PvE boards: more detail soon.

Grubb runs a criminal enterprise out of the Coinlender's Den at the slum gates, quietly siphoning gold from Silvermere's city treasury through a network of corrupt officials. It's a real drain — the city's coffers bleed into Grubb's vault every day, and you feel it: shrinking stipends, stalled public works, creeping fees, a city visibly going to seed.

Two sides of the same coin

Path	What you do	You become
Root Out the Corruption Lawful	Investigate the missing gold, track down a crooked guardsman, follow Grubb's trail to his den, then raise the guard and raid the counting house to shut it all down — restoring the city's wealth.	Champion of Silvermere
Grubb's Enterprise Miscreant	Take a bribe job, forge trade papers, knock over a supply caravan, expand the network abroad, then pull off the Big Score against the Bank of Godfrey — fattening the underworld's purse.	Shadow of Silvermere

How it unfolds

First, the story. A one-time guided questline for each side teaches you the ropes and reveals Grubb — Lawful players learn to investigate and hunt, Miscreants learn to bribe.

Then it goes live. Once anyone finishes the intro, the city's officials become a living battlefield for everyone. Each one is either clean or corrupt: Miscreants bribe clean officials to turn them; Lawful players hunt and kill corrupt ones to take them off the board (they return clean after a cooldown). The final quest stages become repeatable boss events.

Not all officials are equal

Official	Sway over the city
Guardsman	a nudge
Elite guard	noticeable
Templar	serious
Mayor of Silvermere	a full-blown crisis

Higher-ranked officials swing the city far more, cost a fortune to bribe, and stay off the board much longer once jailed — so a single corrupted Mayor matters more than a dozen bought guardsmen.

You can watch it happen

Check the city ledger any time to see Silvermere's treasury balance, the current corruption level, and how many officials have been turned. Clean the whole network out and the realm hears about your victory; a daring heist makes headlines too. It's self-correcting — clear every corrupt official and the city settles back to calm, until the next bribe.

Organized crime. Gang treasuries, membership dues, ganghouse rent, and shop heists.

Full detail page coming in a future update.

Player-driven commerce. Market stalls with offline sales, public works crowdfunding, and the sysop economy dashboard.

Full detail page coming in a future update.