Welcome to PowerMud
PowerMud is a text-based multiplayer role-playing world, a classic LPmud first built in the 1990s. Explore a huge world of cities, dungeons and wilderness, join one of two dozen guilds, master professions and magic, and fight, trade and quest with other players.
No download needed: any MUD client can connect (we explain how on the Play page). Color works best.
Top players
| # | Name | Guild | Experience | Age |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wybie | Melee-magthere | 21149 | 1.61 days |
| 2 | Zurker | Assassin | 11764 | 1.31 days |
| 3 | Swedemcgee | Monk | 3259 | 0.60 days |
| 4 | Cricket | Monk | 2455 | 0.55 days |
| 5 | Fiz | Church | 1378 | 1.33 days |
Latest news
10/31/2026, Sassman
Top ten list – The Top Ten list is now kept up to date automatically. It is rebuilt at midnight and noon, Central time, from the experience rankings, and it still shows when each player entered the list and whether they moved up or down. Before this it was edited by hand, and the last update was in 2010.
Strongholds and shops – Player strongholds and player shops are switched off for now. Their areas are no longer loaded when the game starts, and the extra "dock" exit off the sea near Deepwater is gone. Nothing was deleted. If they come back, the news will say so.
More lists – New help pages: 'help richlist', 'help dragonlist', 'help pkscore', 'help pkkills' and 'help pkdeath'. 'help lists' shows them all. 'help hometownlist' now points to the live 'help townlist'. Lists are rebuilt at midnight and noon, Central time, and the creators' characters are no longer on any of them.
10/30/2026, Sassman
Leaderboards – The creators' characters no longer appear on the leaderboards (richest, top experience, PK, dragon killers and the rest), so the lists now show only players. They refresh at midnight and noon, Central time.
New website – powermud.com has a new look that works on phones and uses the full width of your screen. It has live leaderboards, a who's-online list, a Play page that explains how to connect, site search, and these release notes. Visit https://powermud.com
10/25/2026, Sassman
A fresh start – To give everyone an equal start, all of the old player characters and accounts were moved into an archive (they were not deleted). Only the creators' characters were kept. Everyone else begins new: make an account, create a character, and come explore. Welcome back, and welcome to the new players!