Krishnak is now stable enough to open for play. Connect to krishnak.org port 4000 from your favorite mud client, or use the simple web-based client Missing Pieces About half of the game is unrecoverable, so I’ve been patching things up as best I can and making sure you can at least walk to all of the remaining areas. Many of the scripted functions no longer work, so I am in the process of rewriting the scripts to function in a simple scripting language I’ve added to the codebase. ...

In today’s world, it makes sense to allow playing a MUD directly from a web browser. But when you are faced with a legacy MUD that hasn’t been updated since the turn of the millenium, it can be difficult to update it sufficiently to support websockets. Instead, this post will discuss using a simple proxy service written in Go which will handle the conversion between websockets and the MUD’s innate telnet capabilities. ...

Happy 20th, Krishnak! While searching for information about Krishnak to try to fill in some of the missing pieces, I discovered that the game was opened for early play-testing on February 13, 1996. That means that Krishnak is 20 years old this year. Happy 20th, Krishnak! It also looks like Krishnak officially opened to the public on November 11, 1996, which means the 20th anniversary of the official opening arrives in just over 2 months! ...

Elder Gods -* Supreme Councillors *- Lord Teutates Alcadizaar Lord Lascelles -* Gods of Implementation *- Sabra Drazak -* Pantheon Gods *- Marquis Krypsyn Evil Mojo -* Greater Gods *- Magus Makeveli -* Lesser Gods *- -* Demi-Gods *- Anakha Lunna -* Watchmen *- Lady Unna Jesse Ogro Damonix -* Immortals of Creation *- Benthos Lord Rodness Xcadrion Olorin Ravenwing GodFather Bremen -* Immortals *- Elder Avatars -* Grand Avatars *- Lady Ferenna Grand Marquise Krysina Atticus VanAtlas Grand Czar Xylor -* High Avatars *- -* Noble Avatars *- -* Master Avatars *- -* Champion Avatars *- Aleidys -* Tenth Avatars *- Lanfear Beduin Baron Von Asop -* Ninth Avatars *- -* Eighth Avatars *- Sammael -* Seventh Avatars *- -* Sixth Avatars *- Rylia God Fearing Cilo -* Fifth Avatars *- -* Fourth Avatars *- -* Third Avatars *- Kuric Kai Nemesis -* Second Avatars *- Friedrich the King Ricimer Milo -* First Avatars *- Lord Jodax Sykle Lady Akabu R. ...

It’s really amazing how much better C/C++ compilers are at static analysis during compilation. I found a note from Feyr mentioning that as of July 22, 1998, the code would compile without error using the compiler flags “-Wall -Werror”. Sadly, that’s no longer the case. Compiling with “-Weverything” now results in 7,773 warnings, all of which I intend to fix. Most are pretty trivial, but some of the game’s never-fixed bugs might just be related to these correctness issues. ...

I’ve managed to update the database to the point that it will load into a modern MySQL version and managed to get a partial server up and running. There are a lot of remaining issues to fix: The game is littered with 32-bit assumptions throughout and will need to be updated for 64-bit. The game has 4 different scripting engines, none of for which I have any code. This means about 1⁄3 of the game won’t have any special behavior. ...

In the beginning was the World of Krishnak. For a time, the immortals reigned over a world of life and order. But the agents of Chaos slowly sapped the energies of the immortals and slowly the World died out. Chaos ruled and the world was ripped asunder, to drift endlessly in darkness. Then one day, a portal opened from another realm and a being of great ordinariness and immense lack of skill entered the realm of Chaos and began setting the world aright again. ...