An Introduction to HoloMuck

HoloMuck is an online multi-user game. It's sort of like a text adventure computer game (like Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy or Zork) except that there are other people who are walking around with you. You may also build parts of the game world yourself. HoloMuck has a history dating back to February, 1992, starting as a closed muck on a DECstation in central Maine, evolving into a public MUCK with a following based on Callahan's, Pern and FluxMUCK, and has now become the largest daemonmuck-based server on the Internet. It is currently hosted on a Dell PowerEdge 1650 server in north central Arkansas.

HoloMuck has players from places as diverse as Russia, Slovenia, Italy, Germany, Sweden, Canada, Australia, South America and the South Pole. Unlike some other online games, which tend to be overly hack-and-slash oriented, HoloMuck's focus is purely social. Although people can and do "role-play," folks are encouraged to just be themselves.

If you know how to use tinyfugue or some other client program, the address is now holomuck.org 5757. If you don't know what to do, you can simply read the file Start Here, which explains the bare essential commands of HoloMuck. Then you can click here to connect using your default telnet client.

If you'd like to connect via your web browser, there is a Java-based client available through this web page. Simply click on the terminal window screen below and enjoy!

Connect to HoloMuck

HoloMuck's Many Attractions

Some of the things you can find on HoloMuck are:

Players Currently Online


Player Name           On For Idle  Doing
 Mouse               2d16:52 2d16  Pondering Rodents of Present and Future
 Goz                 3d09:22 1m59  mudtape.no-ip.org (ppl 1079,wlds 44)
 Jaeger              3d18:59  18m  Am I live? Or am I Memorex? You guess.. :X)
 doomsey             9d12:26 9d12  staring at the ceiling
 PakRat               24d04h 4h14  Being a cute 'lil rat ,-(pq)@>
 Zog                  29d11h  28s  Ferrying
6 players, 1 drowsy, 3 sleeping.

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