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52 dispatches in this category.
- LuminariMUD January 2023 Update: New Spells and Races Galore
Since our last major update in October 2022 we've done a lot of work, both code-side and world-side. The code side has seen a large number of new spel…
- Swiftpaths and Seaports
The Swiftpaths Ancient artifacts constructed before recorded history, the swiftpaths are portals located at various places across Lumi(n)a. Their plac…
- October 2022 Update - Vampires, Liches and Endgame Galore!
We have been busy little beavers the past couple of months, with a great focus on fixing bugs, balancing classes and adding a lot of new end game cont…
- August Update - The Great Hunt Returns + More
A notice has been attached to the door of The Pipe and Ivories Tavern in Hardbuckler: ATTENTION! Fullstaff, Agent of Sanctus, has reported an overpopu…
- March - July 2022 Update
We are excited to announce a new batch of changes to the game... highlights include: Very happy to announce the first player to fully complete the Epi…
- October 2021 - February 2022 Update
We have been quiet for a while, staff was highly busy with other real-life nonsense! Despite that, a lot has been going on 'under the hood' in regards…
- Lich - the Pinnacle of Necromantic Art
Few creatures are more feared than the lich. The pinnacle of necromantic art, who has chosen to shed his life as a method to cheat death by becoming u…
- June 2021 Update - Blackguards
June brings another new base class: the Blackguard. Also known as an AntiPaladin, the blackguard is indeed the anti-thesis of the traditional paladin.…
- May 2021 Update - Shadowdancers
May brings to LuminariMUD a new prestige class: the Shadowdancer. Combining the benefits of rogue skills, shadow magic, their own shadow companion and…
- April 2021 Update - Psionicists & Game Balancing
April sees the result of many weeks of work in the launch of our new base class, the Psionicist. Psionicists are similar to other casters, but instead…
- March 2021 Update - New Prestige Class & Sorcerer Bloodline
Development has been busy over the last month. We've seen both a new prestige class added, as well as a new sorcerer bloodline. The psionicist class i…
- February 2021 Update - New Builder & Sorcerer Bloodline
We're happy to have Janalon join our building staff, and he's been hard at work with his first zone almost ready to go in. Janalon has a teaching back…
- November 2020 Update - Encounters and Hunts
LuminariMUD is proud to announce the launch of our encounters and hunts systems, both of which have been in development now for a couple of months. In…
- September/October 2020 Update
September and October have been busy months, but mainly behind the scenes. We are happy to announce a new prestige class, 'Eldritch Knight' and the in…
- August Update
This has been a very busy and exciting month for the game. It has seen a new advanced race, migration to a new/updated server, and the addition of a n…
- Duergar Advanced Race
Description: Duergar dwell in subterranean caverns far from the touch of light. They detest all races living beneath the sun, but that hatred pales be…
- July Update: Shifter Class, Bug & Typo Fixes
Despite being under-staffed this month, we are happy to announce a new Prestige Class and some fixes. Visit this link to view the overview of the new …
- Shifter Prestige Class
A shifter has no form they call their own. Instead, they clothe themselves in whatever shape is most expedient at the time. While others base their id…
- The Adventurers Guild comes to Ashenport - June update
The Adventurers Guild comes to Ashenport. A heavy set, grizzled man garbed in heavy chainmail strides into the Jade Jug Tavern, slamming his fist down…
- The Great Hunt Returns, Loads of New Features/Fixes
A notice has been attached to the door of The Pipe and Ivories Tavern in Hardbuckler: ATTENTION! Fullstaff, Agent of Sanctus, has reported an overpopu…
- Extended Quest Line, New Prestige Class, World Expansion and Much More!
We have extended the Ashenport Regional Quest line to over 56 quests (19 new quests) that will carry a character to approximately levels 26-28. Happy …
- Gicker Accepted Co-Lead Role, Thanks to Opie Hosting & Dev Update
Greetings friends! Happy to announce that Gicker will be taking over as co-lead (together with Ornir) and Zusuk will be shifting over to a support rol…
- Update 07/24/19
Gicker fixed some bugs and we cleared the empty pages from the website. Join Us on Discord!…
- Event: The Tower of Green Glass
"I will respond to their knives and poisons with fire and ruination. I will not rest till their beloved Tower is ash. I will not relent until every la…
- The Great Hunt
A notice has been attached to the door of The Jade Jug in Ashenport: ATTENTION! Redgar Chag, huntsmaster, has reported an overpopulation of local wild…
- Main Quest Line Extended: The Mosaic
Hello everyone! After a long wait and a great deal of work by our staff, the next stage in the Main Quest Line has been released: The Mosaic Cave has …
- Luminari MUD Development Updates 02/09/2018
Greetings! It has been a very busy time here at Luminari and the entire staff has been very hard at work. Here are some highlights of things we have b…
- Introducing the Luminari GUI Client Script for Mudlet!
We are excited to announce the release of an alpha version of our Mudlet GUI. First if you do not have Mudlet yet, download it here: https://www.mudle…
- Luminari Streamed Tonight on twitch.tv!
Tonight at midnight EDST, Tark from the Stick in the MUD Podcast will be streaming a newbie Luminari experience! Watch at: twitch.tv/mudpodcast…
- Let's MUD! LuminariMUD Game of the Month, a New Race and GUI Development
Thanks to the Reddit community for the recognition! To any new visitors, we highly suggest checking out a short lore article we have setup: http://www…
- Development Updates! 12/04/2017
Long time no update right? Well, this is a combination of inactivity and not remembering to update the website and social network, and for that we apo…
- Spellcasters rejoice, Metamagic is now LIVE!
Spellcasters, both Arcane and Divine, can now twist the arcanic fields to their will through the use of Metamagic! Prepared spellcasters must prepare …
- A New Issue of Imaginary Realities!
Volume 7 issue 1 of the new Imaginary Realities is out now, after a long delay. Imaginary Realities is the only remaining e-magazine dedicated to MUDs…
- LuminariMUD Nominated for "Let's MUD!"
http://www.reddit.com/r/MUD/comments/2jt52g/lets_mud_vote_here_voting_ends_friday_oct_25th_at/ Come show your support by voting for Luminari! http://w…
- Luminari is part of the GameZFestival 2.0!
We at Luminari have had the uncommon pleasure of being selected to be part of an exhibition for GameZFestival.ch 2.0! Luminari will be available to pl…
- Update: 08/27/2014
Actually a lot has happened since the last post, but I'm just going to mention two things in this post: 1) Thanks to Ornir, we now have SOILED set up …
- Tactical Combat: The Attack Queue
Another layer has been added to the Luminari combat system, fostering tactical decision making and planning while maintaining the fast-paced action th…
- The Death of the Wait State
In Luminari, between actions you were put into a 'Wait-State' where you could only perform a very limited set of commands, regardless of the reason yo…
- Changes to the Luminari Combat System
The first step has been made in the implementation of the new Luminari combat system - Combat on Luminari is now event based. What does this mean? Lum…
- New REVISED Worldmap, EAT YOUR HEART OUT!!!
[Update: November 2022, Seaports (see below map)] THE WILDERNESS IS NOW ONLINE! *Note, this is the Surface Map. We also have an Underworld or Underdar…
- Update 08/12/2013
The Official Luminari MUD forums have re-opened! They can be reached via the link at the top of the page or by navigating to http://www.luminarimud.co…
- I Want to Start My Own MUD!
(I saw this posted on mudbytes.net and I liked it -Zusuk) "I am very excited to start a mud. I don't know how to code for muds, but I have a super gre…
- Build Progress 22 Feb. 2013
The following zones have been edited to repair inproper races (humans set as dragons), to place the new classes into the game on appropriate mobiles, …
- Map of LuminariMUD
[caption id="attachment_506" align="alignnone" width="300"] LuminariMUD WorldMap[/caption] When a builder is submitting a proposal for a new zone, thi…
- Scheduled Network Maintenance: 01/31/2013, 1AM to 4AM MST - 45 Minutes Downtime Expected
Scheduled Network Maintenance: 01/31/2013, 1AM to 4AM MST. On Thursday, January 31st our network provider will be conducting a planned maintenance sta…
- Server Maintenance on November 7th, Maximum 3 Hour Downtime
Dear Valued Customers, Out next scheduled maintenance will take place on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 starting at 11:00 p.m. Mountain Standard Time (MS…
- Development Updates, week ending 9/14/12
{DONE} Clan system implemented, (thanks Jamdog, tbamud.com, http://stefancole.com/) ------------- Clan Features ------------- * Zone claim system base…
- D20mud and Luminari Partner Up!
We are extremely excited to announce the partnership in development! Preliminary details include: LuminariMUD is becoming officially "D20Muds Presents…
- The Worldmap of Luminari
The worldmap was revised and moved to this page: http://www.luminarimud.com/new-revised-worldmap-eat-your-heart-out/…
- New Staff Member!
Welcome to the Luminari Staff Bakarus! Bakarus will be taking over as lead development world/admin at this stage.…
- Welcome to LuminariMUD.com
We are open during development, our focus is purely game mechanics at this stage. [button link="http://www.luminarimud.com/hmud/hmud.html" size="large…