Welcome to Discworld MUD

Discworld MUD is a multiplayer, text-based, online game (a MUD, or text MMORPG) based on the Discworld books by Terry Pratchett. On Discworld you will meet many of the characters from those books. Terry's books are humorous fantasy and the game retains the comical, fun feel of the books.

We are a fully-featured and well-established MUD with many possibilities for player interaction: 14 areas (domains) totalling over a million rooms, the opportunity to become a member of one of 6 guilds, a citizen of one of the many city-states on the Disc, run your own shop, own your own house, write for the local newspaper, and much more!

Start Playing

There is no cost to play Discworld MUD, it is developed and maintained entirely by volunteers. You can login and create a character with any java-capable web browser simply by clicking on the 'play now' link to the left.

The 'playing' menu has links to a number of pages to help you get orientated.

Latest News

• Mar 9 - playerhouse changes
• Mar 9 - Memory Upgrade - reschedule
• Mar 6 - Advance Warning of Outage
• Feb 8 - Lightning Spells
• Feb 7 - Building Works

You can also check out our recent developments blog for more game changes!

Game Status: Driver rebooted about 1 day ago, 116 people logged in.

The Discworld was formed, drifting onwards through space atop four elephants on the shell of the giant turtle, Great A'Tuin.

Possibly, as it moves, it gets tangled like a blind man in a cobwebbed house in those highly specialized little space-time strands that try to breed in every history they encounter, stretching them and breaking them and tugging them into new shapes.

Or possibly not, of course. The philosopher Didactylos has summed up an alternative hypothesis as 'Things just happen. What the hell.'

—Hogfather (1996)

Latest Poll

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Past polls

1. Discworld Polls
2. MUD Voting
3. Exposing Ourselves in Public
4. EL PEA SEA
5. Polling about Polls
6. Pulling Them In
7. CTF

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Quote of the Moment

"I'm not going to ride on a magic carpet!" he hissed.
"I'm afraid of grounds."
"You mean heights," said Conina. "And stop being silly."
"I know what I mean! It's the grounds that kill you!"
— (Terry Pratchett, Sourcery)