News & Updates

A rebuilt website, a lore wiki, a preserved archive, and a News & Updates section give the realm a clearer public home.…

The Luminari Web Client is now the recommended first session: no install, guided character creation, and live side panels.…

The Luminari Mudlet GUI 2.0 series brings movable windows, a Say tab, optional sound alerts, and fixes for newer Mudlet releases.…

Specproc menus, encounter tiers, new quest objectives, account-experience shops, and a browser wilderness editor give builders more reach.…

A fire-giant invasion of Jotunheim that never ran is finally wired up, and on a rare roll the frost giants' home becomes a war zone.…

A throwable ritual dagger, new craftable finery, dragon materials, better-fitting armor, +2 steel in Ashenport, and seven new drinks.…

Missing perk trees, unreachable capstones, silent toggles, and a do-nothing Spell Recall are repaired, alongside class fixes.…

Sunder, stronger armor spells, sharper Eldritch Blasts, level limits on gear, and stricter magic items tune combat.…

Auto-grouping, buff targets, a configurable character sheet, full-text help search, and clearer maps take friction out of play.…

NPC foes now bring companions and mounts, survey reads the land in depth, and optional AI and Discord features await staff activation.…

An original pantheon, renamed knightly orders, and clans with alliances, wars, and investments give characters more to belong to.…

A ten-level prestige class pairs a seasoned mounted fighter with a bonded dragon, with three bond paths to choose from.…

Languages, role-play dice, targeted emotes, and forged messages give scenes between fights better tools.…

Higher-circle devices, potion brewing, crafting bonuses, and golem progression get a focused Artificer repair pass.…

New ancestry choices, distinctive racial abilities, and a few darker paths broaden the character roster in development.…

Crafting and gathering come together, with clearer tools, quicker node harvests, and an apprenticeship option.…

Useful camps, deliberate searches, offline recovery, and quieter reliability work help the next expedition run more smoothly.…

Readied strikes, deliberate counterspells, and proper thrown weapons add more choices to the next dangerous encounter.…

Companions, familiars, mounts, and summons get clearer limits and more dependable care between adventures.…

Bards find their instruments, spellcasters get overdue fixes, and six more artifacts join the developing collection.…

Classic Realms of Luminari adventures are being rebuilt with their creatures, equipment, quests, and peculiar little surprises intact.…

Ferries, a derelict to investigate, and a better view from the deck move the sailing project closer to its first public voyage.…

A friendlier character creator, quieter screen-reader output, and help that is better at finding what you mean.…

Eleven singular artifacts gained persistent ownership, binding, five-level progression, active powers, weapon procs, spoken invocations, class oaths, …

Safer deployments, database bootstrap, transactional character renames, GNU C23, production-linked tests, protocol fuzzing, and curated upstream fixes…

Ships can now be built, bought, crewed, upgraded, insured, fought, sunk, plundered, and sent across a wilderness-driven economy of cargo and freight.…

Connected quests became visible as storylines while new MSDP data, graphic wilderness maps, and HTML world exports gave modern clients a clearer view …

Fourteen classes gained branching perk trees while crafters earned talent points, critical successes, mote synergies, and new ways to define mastery.…

The Artificer matured into a full class of salvage, brewing, magical devices, supply orders, golem construction, cantrips, and moon-touched arcana.…

Casting gained school imagery, class-specific styles, metamagic signatures, escalating progress, and environmental reactions scaled to a spell’s power…

Configurable introductions made names socially earned, PvP gained mutual-consent protection, boards were rebuilt, and smarter mobs and trap foundation…

A complete, thread-safe Intermud3 client reopened tells, channels, who queries, finger, locate, and mud lists across the wider MUD network.…

Terrain, water, resources, depletion, regional lore, and the Narrative Weaver began composing wilderness descriptions from the actual state of each lo…

A new crafting foundation met landmarks, walk-to travel, climbing, swimming, sheaths, expanded wear slots, and builder-facing item balance guidance.…

Epic feat planning, powerful new treasure affixes, the lastroom recovery command, Gully Dwarves, Bozak Draconians, and the first introduction framewor…

Background archetypes, age, homelands, ideals, bonds, flaws, lore disciplines, factions, and role-play sheets gave characters a life beyond their clas…

Dialogue quests, rebuilt battle magic, activated items, metamagic, smarter companions, and psionic NPCs turned the summer of 2024 into a season of spe…

Six knightly paths, a renewed clan identity, smarter storage, and the Kapak Draconian race brought banners, loyalties, and sharper character choices t…

Krynn gained missions, hunts, random encounters, draconic materials, new races, and a stronger high-level path for Warlocks.…

Necromancers raised persistent undead cohorts, forbidden places learned to hide their maps, and the new reforge command gave old equipment another lif…

Virtual bags, weapon poisons, sea roads, new regions, and converted adventure zones opened a second great frontier while travel and survival became ki…

Summoners arrived with persistent Eidolons, evolution trees, companion-focused feats, and a bond designed to survive every quit, reboot, crash, and co…

The weeks after the Warlock’s arrival brought hidden treasure chests, new martial disciplines, stronger spellcraft, and a long campaign against crashe…

We are proud to announce the release of our newest class - Warlocks. This release is courtesy of biscuitWizard (https://github.com/biscuitWizard) who …

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…

The Swiftpaths Ancient artifacts constructed before recorded history, the swiftpaths are portals located at various places across Lumi(n)a. Their plac…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

After a restful summer, development is back on at LuminariMUD! In addition to a number of game and class improvements, we've also added the Assassin c…

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 brings to LuminariMUD a new prestige class: the Shadowdancer. Combining the benefits of rogue skills, shadow magic, their own shadow companion and…

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…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

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 …

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. A heavy set, grizzled man garbed in heavy chainmail strides into the Jade Jug Tavern, slamming his fist down…

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…

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 …

New Prestige Class - Sacred Fist: Class Name : sacredfist Prestige Class? : Yes Maximum Levels : 10 Unlock Cost : 5000 Account XP BAB Progression : Me…

Related Links: | Worldmap | Underworld or Underdark | The Great Beyond or Planes of Existence | Seaports & Swiftpaths |…

[caption id="attachment_2896" align="aligncenter" width="962"] Planes of Existence[/caption] While endless adventure awaits out in the game—there are …

Happy to announce a new prestige class and a new zone attached to the Ashenport region! Details below. Please join us on discord: https://discord.gg/M…

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…

Whether secreted away in a smoky basement laboratory or gleefully experimenting in a well-respected school of magic, the alchemist is often regarded a…

Gicker fixed some bugs and we cleared the empty pages from the website. Join Us on Discord!…

Zusuk here... I am back! Been extremely busy and sort of out of development for the past 1.5 months. I can not develop as many hours as before, but I …

"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…

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…

In stories and legends, the Archmage Gnarth was renowned for his skill in Artifice and Evocation - He was among those who developed the magical arms a…

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 …

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…

Hello friends! Zusuk here just updating our blog with the complete list of updates since our last comprehensive update post! A more 'view friendly' ve…

"We are not like the others, you and I. They use their books and songs to build their power, but this is false, unnatural! We are the true wielders of…

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…

Tonight at midnight EDST, Tark from the Stick in the MUD Podcast will be streaming a newbie Luminari experience! Watch at: twitch.tv/mudpodcast…

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…

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…

Duelists represent the pinnacle of elegant swordplay. They move with a grace unmatched by most foes, parrying blows and countering attacks with swift …

Apologies for long time periods between website updates! The last actual listing of updates we posted was way back on December 9th 2015! Featured chan…

Spellcasters, both Arcane and Divine, can now twist the arcanic fields to their will through the use of Metamagic! Prepared spellcasters must prepare …

Proud to announce that Luminari was selected as mud of the month on reddit! We haven't been posting a lot on the website, but we have been working on …

It's been nearly a month since our last update! Changes are coming a little slower this month, all the staff is extremely busy right now with real-lif…

Bad news first! Sorry, but if you haven't logged in recently, next time you log in you will have to RESPEC. This is due to a mistake yours truly, Zusu…

It has been about two weeks since we've posted an update to the website, here are some of the highlights from our very large list of changes: Berserke…

Blindbreak Rest is a small underground temple that for centuries was protected by the Luminari. During the war, the Luminari lost hold of the temple a…

Lots of exciting changes, the biggest and baddest are the addition of two unlockable epic races: Crystal Dwarf Trelux And the addition of our first pr…

Lots of changes in the MUD since our last update! You can view the full list below or by typing "news" in-game. Some of the highlights include: More d…

Please welcome Telarious to the staff! [Feb 02 2015] - Zusuk added 'animate dead' feat every feat invested in 'armored spell casting' reduces the arca…

Nobility is an easy concept to understand, but one very difficult to explain. What is the difference between an orc and and Elf that makes one worthy …

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…

Text: Eons ago, before civilization on this world established itself, the world now known as Lumia was adopted by the Luminari, a race of Celestial, E…

What an awesome contribution to LuminariMUD from Enyuu (EvanVolker)! Click on the image to visit his DeviantArt page! [caption id="attachment_2197" al…

Graven Hollow Camp A nomadic group of half orcs have finally settled in the Ashenport Region and have named their camp Graven Hollow. Set in a small v…

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…

Training Halls Hello everyone! I am very proud to announce that LuminariMUD has released its new player tutorial zone, the Training Halls. We have an …

[Oct 07 2014] - Zusuk added enhancement bonus to damage, arbitrarily capped it at 12 changed it so you can get gold from corpses even with full invent…

Audio Version Voiced by Stu Cook Click Here to Join Us on Discord Eons ago, before civilization on this world established itself, the world now known …

I'd like some feedback on this lore, the magic of Luminari MUD: Ossirian, the world of Luminari, is permeated with magical energy that manifests as a …

Long time ago, the races learned how to use the <> to amplify magic, creating artifacts and other objects of wonder. But there was a war, and the powe…

Divine Casting God vivifies the world, giving it energies of healing, fertility and sustenance through varied channels of blessing. These channels, of…

For the world, in general, the idea of fundamental patterns is central. This manifests itself in many areas of culture, although different cultures ma…

My dearest brother, Father was right. I discounted his ravings at first, but now I have reason to believe everything. A few months ago, in one of his …

The Fundamentals: The universe was created from one or more fundamentals - Patterns which, when manipulated through the Aether, the Prime Fundamental,…

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…

Developer Notes: *Luminari System is going to be modeled on the D20 system, but by a factor of 10. What will be visible to the players will be the D20…

Most important of all right now - finally banging our heads (Ornir and Zusuk) about how to get our Armor-Class system set up for the long run. So far …

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 …

Another layer has been added to the Luminari combat system, fostering tactical decision making and planning while maintaining the fast-paced action th…

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…

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…

[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…

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…

[May 02 2013] - Zusuk fixed color bleed in the log message for [ auto zone reset ] [May 01 2013] - Zusuk added jotunheim invasion proc, currently set …

[Apr 26 2013] - Nashak mlist will now display --- for classless mobs [Apr 25 2013] - Zusuk added a new class-based stat-cap system [Apr 24 2013] - Zus…

[Apr 19 2013] - Zusuk added scenario of mobile level 31+ in do_consider, advising to bring friends revamp of auto-statter for mobiles concluded, now m…

(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…

[Apr 12 2013] - Zusuk should be able to use held spellbooks to memorize [Apr 11 2013] - Zusuk charmee's no longer need to be groupped to get xp new sk…

See our new page about Arcana Golem by CLICKING HERE!…

[Apr 04 2013] - Zusuk added a heavy penalty for not off-hand wielding weapons that are a size-class smaller than you if you are lvl_immort or higher, …

[Mar 28 2013] - Zusuk added in spells.h macros to check object weapon category: IS_BLADE(obj) IS_PIERCE(obj) IS_BLUNT(obj) added these attack types as…

LuminariMUD 1.0 Codebase Available for Download http://www.mudbytes.net/file-2880 Please post bugs/comments to this forum: http://tbamud.com/forum/10-…

[Mar 22 2013] - Zusuk Started sorting through code to add new quest system details to various files (act.movement.c) Started sorting through code to a…

[Mar 15 2013] - Zusuk you can't memorize wizard spells without the spell in your spellbook or a scroll the 'spells' command for wizards will now refle…

-added beta goal list of crafting molds/patterns -added a large assortment of new crafting material -created a craft.h file and exported header info f…

A mansion has been discovered deep in the woods to the north of Valcrest. This forest has been well documented and mapped over the years and yet it ha…

Update: The original goal for Beta was March 1st. An underestimate on the amount of work on my part, and a very heavy increase in real-life workload t…

-mobiles now have edittable walkin/walkout messages (Nashak) -capitilization issues with color codes resolved (Nashak) -new channel formatting with ca…

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, …

-'history chat' now works like it should (Nashak) -flee now has a short wait_state (Nashak) -new wizard/sorcerer spells *Spell Circle Level 9 /* evoca…

[caption id="attachment_506" align="alignnone" width="300"] LuminariMUD WorldMap[/caption] When a builder is submitting a proposal for a new zone, thi…

Well super busy work week, so unfortunately, did not get a lot done on the MUD... Here is what we were able to do: -new wizard/sorcerer spells *Spell …

{DONE - this past week} -discovered small bug with memorize in calculating slots -added [stum!] for stumbles to line it up with other rolls -added [cr…

-changed all references in code of mage/magic-user to wizard -changed all references in code of thief to rogue -added some utility functions for check…

It is said that although humankind is older, elvenkind is wiser, for they remember what mankind forgets. The oldest records of the world are Elven, as…

Scheduled Network Maintenance: 01/31/2013, 1AM to 4AM MST. On Thursday, January 31st our network provider will be conducting a planned maintenance sta…

-did even more tweaks with possible memory issues, having record uptimes since initial issues -cleared a couple of small color bleeds -transferred ide…

-SPLIT WORKLIST, old worklist (news and changelog) is archived now -bug in group system fixed (thanks Vatiken) -added sorcedit.c for spells known for …

HAND-PATCHED TBA3.63 Revision 312 -=-> Revision 354 http://tbamud.com/websvn/filedetails.php?repname=tbaMUD&path=%2Fchangelog new mob-flag "classless"…

{DONE - this past week} updated some help files relfecting changes to trigs/scripting: -help saving -help self stunning fist will now interrupt castin…

new updated helpfiles content taken/inspired from neverwinter nights manual: -human -dwarf -elf -gnome -half-elf -half-orc -halfling -warrior -magic u…

New Epic Race: Trelux (idea from Crez) new mechanic: natural weapons fly ability land (gets rid of fly) trelux leap wizard eye spell mechanics impleme…

added affects to mag_areas added affects to mag_masses added support to PULSE_LUMINARI for room affects added room-casting support to PULSE_LUMINARI 2…

making sure all new characters are getting teleporters now added an assortment of new helpfiles Pathos is now working on helpfiles as well increased m…

One of the issues that has to be handled is the upper potential characters can achieve with the most powerful gear attainable. Some current solutions …

rearranged spells in all their locations in the code to be uniform purged a buggy sanctus quest fixed the 'speaker' in sanctus bakarus changed xp loss…

added berserker class (like barbarian) made compact mode more compact with the prompt/combat (thanks Dyanangam) bakarus added weapon types to identify…

{DONE - this past week} fixed some newbie area typos level notification wasn't showing to group_gain, fixed that took out height, now just using char …

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…

In an attempt to increase efficiency at Luminari, we wanted to set up an SVN (Subversion control software). We were having some serious issues, and in…

Special thanks to Kordon and our other new players for idea/bug input rewrote gain function rewrote respec function rewrote d20mud's crafting function…

Modified saving values for pfiles more modifications to the website added a simply forum to the website configured protocol.c to transmit mssp data fo…

More map tweaking Threw up Gicker's d20 code on port 4105 Added more room types: -Desert -Ocean -Marsh -High Mountain Also modified current sector typ…

Major backend upgrades to website. Added two major feature packages to website.…

Added new region: South Midgen http://luminarimud.com/the-worldmap-of-luminari/region-south-midgen/…

Added new region: Midgen http://luminarimud.com/the-worldmap-of-luminari/region-north-midgen/…

The Development focus has switched to world development temporarily to establish a testing ground for mechanic changes. Preliminary changes include: C…

{DONE} Clan system implemented, (thanks Jamdog, tbamud.com, http://stefancole.com/) ------------- Clan Features ------------- * Zone claim system base…

We are extremely excited to announce the partnership in development! Preliminary details include: LuminariMUD is becoming officially "D20Muds Presents…

DONE - (recent updates) past week tasks completed ARCHIVES - tasks completed since port to TBA base, are below recent updates TODO - short-term goals …

DONE - (recent updates) past week tasks completed ARCHIVES - tasks completed since port to TBA base, are below recent updates TODO - short-term goals …

room affection engine for darkness made via utils.c (YAY room affections!) spell darkness spaced utils.h a little different so its easier for me to se…

The worldmap was revised and moved to this page: http://www.luminarimud.com/new-revised-worldmap-eat-your-heart-out/…

We have choices between pre-made campaign worlds, or custom made... here are a few samples.…

Welcome to the Luminari Staff Bakarus! Bakarus will be taking over as lead development world/admin at this stage.…

This weeks updates: !PWIPE! Added tons of helpfiles, everything I could think of new I added now has a helpfile Found a sneaky bug in memorize Did a G…

Newest updates: With Vatiken's help, fixed minor bug where sometimes people would respawn exactly where they die (due to copyover). Fixed big MEMORY b…

Updates to LuminariMUD: *mobiles (general) - decreased pulse_mobile, i.e. faster mob reaction, for charmees, # is now maxed out at GET_CHA_BONUS, if y…

Deveopment has started on LuminariMUD. The previous version of LuminariMUD was developed on CircleMUD codebase many years back, so in that tradition w…

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…