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

• Feb 8 - Lightning Spells
• Feb 7 - Building Works
• Jan 19 - Slight revision of the rules
• Jan 5 - Puppies Are Banned
• Dec 25 - Happy Hogswatch

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

Game Status: Driver rebooted about 4 hours ago, 92 people logged in.

Against the stars a turtle passes, carrying four elephants on its shell.

Both turtle and elephants are bigger than people might expect, but out between the stars the difference between huge and tiny is, comparatively speaking, very small.

But this turtle and these elephants are, by turtle and elephant standards, big. They carry the Discworld, with its vast lands, cloudscapes, and oceans.

People don't live on the Disc any more than, in less hand-crafted parts of the multiverse, they live on balls. Oh, planets may be the place where their body eats its tea, but they live elsewhere, in worlds of their own which orbit very handily around the centre of their heads.

—The Last Continent (1998)

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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

"Seems I can't get me 'ead down these days without rescuin' people or
foilin' robbers or sunnink."
— It's a wonder dog's life
(Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures)