The First Estonian Multi User Dungeon
A text world of ancient and mythological Estonia, Nordic legend and Tolkien, first put to sea at Tallinn Technical University in 1993 - and afloat again: a ROM 2.4 rebuild of the original Stonia code and areas.
Telnet or any MUD client - JMC, powwow, Mudlet, TinTin++. New here? Read First steps.
Põhi, Ida, Lõuna, Lääs - north, east, south, west
Sailing directions
“Stonia MUD kujutab endast muistset- või muinasjutulist aega, kus elasid inimeste kõrval ka veel paljud teised rassid; nagu näiteks haldjad, päkapikud, kääbikud, mäekollid, deemonid, hiiglased ja veel paljud teised.”
A multi user dungeon is a shared world you read and type your way through. You make a character, choose a people and a class, and walk out into a land where - as the old intro warns - “all races aren't good friends here and you must very carefully take care yourself.”
"Stonia is like a synonym of Ancient and Mythological Estonia," as its founder RalfII put it. Lindanise, Dorpat, Oesel and Lake Peipus sit on the same chart as Moria, Barad-dur and the Shire.
Stonia keeps its old pace and arithmetic: a combat round every 2 seconds, experience counted as in Stonia (a hero sits at 282 million exp), and heroes from level 51 climbing on with warpoints. Player killing is allowed between different skins.
Legend
Every race belongs to a skin, and the skin decides friend and foe. The port is where a new character first wakes.
White skin. Enemies of the blackies; never help ghosts.
Black skin. Enemies of the whities; all four start in Moria.
Brown skin, neutral. May help anyone but ghosts.
Always invisible, burnt by sunlight and fire. Helps no other skin.
Trolls are warrior-only brutes that wield two weapons; ghosts and hobbits move unseen. All eleven races, stat by stat.
Tide table · live
Read from the game itself, in Stonia's own words - the same as typing count in the game.
Notices to mariners
LogStation
Gazetteer
Today's world holds 96 areas and 8,850 rooms. The original held 94 areas and 6,801 rooms, 80% of them new zones.
Plate III · a navigator's handbook
Ship's log
Before Stonia there was VUM, the Virtual Universe of University. Then RalfII started something new at Tallinn Technical University, and players have been meeting in it - and in saunas and town halls - ever since.
The first version runs on MERC code at Tallinn Technical University.
The second version, on ROM 2.3, about 80% recoded, runs 24/7 on a Sun Sparcstation-20.
The first gathering, in a sauna in the woods near Puka.
The second gathering at Tartu Maja: about 50 people and 7 immortals.
Stonia, running again, kept by Sarka at smud.sinilumi.ee 4000.
The crew
The game is shaped by the people who play it. Accounts here are by invitation - ask an immortal in the game.
Vote on what the game should do next, and say why in the comments.
Vote →Sign a character up, follow the draw, read the logs of every fight.
To the arena →File an idea or a bug report. Report a crash bug and you may earn a level.
Open the desk →WARNING: The Surgeon General has determined that Mudding can cause ... Forgetfulness, Geekiness, ... Boredom ...