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Welcome to Merentha
A free, text-based online roleplaying adventure. Explore the lands of Cardania. Battle monsters, join guilds, master spells, and forge your legend. Running continuously since 1997.
Recent Updates
October 2026
- Continued progress on the new area REDACTED
- Rimaga has been refreshed: rooms, monsters, items, quest caves and apothecary
- Rimaga's paths have been straightened so exits lead where you expect
- The Zalaria drow assassin is now a legendary ambush mob
- 256-colour support for clients that report it
- Chat channels support *bold*, /italics/ and ~strike~
- Prompt has more options, including newlines
- Fixed emoji/UTF-8 input crashes and Blightmud login issues
- New global <read> command
- Expand GMCP with pet and tame condition (Char.Companions)
- Fixed the Cabeiri quest only working once per reboot
- Progress on ABILITY v5: conjuring, slash, acid, thrust and psidart
- Beeth's birthday and anniversary shouts have been cleaned up
- Groundwork for the upcoming titan level tier
- FluffOS driver updated
- <hp> and <report> take numbers or percents, and <hp lines> draws status bars
- Shops list identical items once with a quantity
- Stronger Shanadan potions now replace weaker potion bonuses
- Cabeiri arena bets are refunded when a fight is called off, plus betting fixes
- Chat adds =underline= and @wave@ styles; italics now use `backticks`
- <colorpalette> shows the full 216-colour cube and grayscale ramp
- Fixed <forget> starting its cooldown with nothing remembered
September 2026
- Lots of progress on the new area REDACTED
- Quest system / command has been refreshed
- Hardcore mode has been disabled
- Fixes to the Sunken City arena
- Fixes to Kraken
- Fly command now supports Atheria Mudforest coordinates
August 2026
- Updated <armour> command, with <armour values> for more detailed info
- Optimizations to various game systems
- Cleanups and rebalancing to the Last Tyr (Ghost Ship)
- Expand GMCP with Char.Stats
- Progress on ABILITY v5 Magic Defense spells
- Melee combat specials have been refreshed
- Neuter gender has returned