HOW TO PLAY


A Multi-User Dungeon like CoffeeMUD is a text based game where you create and guide a heroic fantasy character on daring adventures that will give you the experience to become even more powerful and skilled. Your tasks will include exploring the world, defeating dangerous creatures and enemies, completing quests, and crafting helpful equipment-- all toward gaining levels of experience and power. Along the way you may team up with fellow player adventurers, become wealthy, build a home, join or form your own clans and guilds, and even conquer entire areas to put them under your control.

Your first step in this journey is to create a New character.  You will choose the race and gender of your hero, and settle on your characters basic attributes, which will all influence what kind of heroic archetype (called a Class) your character will be.  If you are just starting out, selecting an Apprentice might be wise, as it lets you play around and learn a little before choosing a permanent class, but Fighter is also considered an easy class to slip into.   Lastly you will choose an Alignment, which lets you choose whether you consider yourself aligned with Good or Evil creatures (or neither/neutral).

Upon entering the world with your new character, you will find yourself in Mud School.  Reading the room descriptions and interacting with the world as instructed will teach you all the basics.  You will learn how to LOOK at and READ things, move around using commands like NORTH, and WEST, interact with objects using GET, DROP, WEAR, REMOVE, WIELD, and HOLD, interact with creatures using SAY or CONSIDER, or engage in combat with them using the  KILL command.   Commands like SCORE, INVENTORY, EQUIPMENT, and ABILITIES will allow you to learn about yourself and your skills.

The most important commands, however, are HELP and OOC.  The former gives you missing details on commands and various topics, such as HELP KILL to learn more about attacking.  The later is for chatting with other players online, and asking questions about good strategies and wise choices.