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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
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!
May 2026
- Various fresh MUD fixes (missing save files or blank data)
- Various driver config changes and optimizations
- Add SQLite3 support via a Database daemon
- Add Explorer daemon: tracking rooms and monsters
- Launched Explorer event: list displayed with top 20 explorers
- Add a unit test system into Merentha
- Various code optimizations to a lot of things
- Cleanup 'climb' exits to be more like regular exits
- Start of new Cabeiri Mountains zone
April 2026
- Launched cleaned up and consolidated stat and vital tiers
- Launched new commands <classsheet> and <racesheet> to view stat and vital tiers
- Fixed a bug causing some monsters to attack with abilities too frequently
- Started work on refreshed Cabeiri Mountain area
- Progress on ABILITY v5
- Standardized all Spiders in the world to "arachnid" body types
- Merentha server went offline 4/30/2026 after 64 months
- Merentha on Fire server brought online during downtime