andrewjlm / nostalgia_mud

A Rust tribute to Diku/Merc/ROM style muds of yore

nostalgia_mud

Motivation

When I was in middle school, I spent countless hours in front of a Telnet terminal playing MUDs. This project is a love-letter to this style of game, in particular the Diku/Merc/ROM style MUDs such as Fatal Dimensions.

The core of the server uses tokio to handle Telnet connections and the game loop.

Features

Current implemented features include:

• Handling of multiple simultaneous Telnet connections
• A partial implementation of a ROM area file format parser. Currently, only rooms, mobiles and mobile reset commands are implemented.
• Chat via gossip and say commands.
• Colored output.
• Movement throughout the world with NSEWUD and look commands.

There is still a ton of work to do such as implementing deeper interaction with the world, objects, combat, etc.

Getting Started

If you want to try this out:

1. Clone the report.
2. Write a settings file in TOML. For example, you could create a file settings.toml using the following template:

port = 4073
# Some sample areas sourced from the classic ROM distribution
areas = ["areas/midgaard.are", "areas/school.are"]
recall_vnum = 3001

3. Run the server with the configuration file using cargo run -- --config-file settings.toml. This will start a server locally on port 4073.
4. Connect to the server and explore using telnet localhost 4073.