Mucks are a form of multi-user-dungeon, however, mucks allow extensions to the standard server by programming from within the muck, rather than having to mess with the server's code, the coding language is called MUF - (no jokes please) and is not too bad to work with except it runs in reverse polish notation - this gets kind of confusing sometimes where you are struggling with why it doesn't work. There is another language which is really usefull for building more interesting enviroments, this is called MPI.

Differences between a MUCK and a MUD are primarily that you fight your way up in a MUD, in a MUCK fighting isnt the norm, and everyone generally cannot die unless they really upset the people in charge, at which point you would have probably violated the AUP.

Brief terminology

• Players - that's you
• Exits - this is the direction or command you type to go somewhere or do something
• Thing - an item, ie a stick, a rock, 5 spears (pretty much anything which isnt in one of the other categories)
• Room - when you look you are in an area, this area is called a room, a room can be a small cupboard to a huge mountain, generally its an area that the designer has wanted to talk about.. After all, I have made a forest, but I didn't stop and design every tree, but then one room wasn't really enough, so there are differences, but similar rooms can be used to make the area seem bigger by meaning you have to go through more exits to move around.

Every player owns themselves, they may create other items, such as another room, commands, programs etc. Often these things are used to express your character or create areas for others.

When you log in, if you struggle for a way around, type 'help' without the quotes, all the standard commands have help, any which I have added (see 'globals') may not as yet, but I am working on it.

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