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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
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
July 2026
- <inventory> and <equip> now have <setcolor [type] [color]> options
- Salves now show as consumables in <inventory> command
- Clean up a lot of dead code in the quest system
- Many various optimizations to improve performance
- Launch new Cabeiri Mountain zone
- Fix Fenris and surrounding area dragon fly coordinates
- Improvements to GMCP spec
- Converted some stragglers to cooldown system
June 2026
- Extract day/night cycle from Events daemon to new Almanac daemon
- Combat code optimizations
- Merentha has a new server!
- Various fixes for the new server
- New backup and restore system setup for player and game data!
- New HTTP API server built into the MUD to serve data to new website
- Fixed some Emote daemon problems
- Added secure and websocket ports to the MUD server and a <ports> command
- Passwords upgraded to use SHA512 encryption upon next login
- Added ~90 more emojis to the supported <emoji> list
- Standardize many climbs across the world
- Removed a lot of dead/unused code