Notes From BatMud

Continent:  Lucetium Description: A good area for midbies for earning money and experience This is one of the most popular areas in Batmud. Also full of death traps so it helps to know what you are doing here.... I would *highly* recommend avoiding the areas outside the anthill if you are just trying to earn EXP. That being said, the areas outside the anthill are full of *ADVENTURE* and *FUN* Quests: Area Quest: The Ant Hill You need to collect the following three items: The tinder box can be found in the "hidden" slime area. Once down there go NW past an aggressive snail and then "search pool" The tools are dropped by the fearless soldier ant in the top (3nd) level of the anthill The tobacco pouch set is dropped by the ant queen I believe (a 40k monster) The items save over reboots. So you can collect them over the course of several playing sessions Also if someone else collects the items and drops them (for example by killing the ant queen), you can still pick t...

  Introduction: How Ferries are Used in Batmud: At one time, all of Batmud resided on one giant continent. While this was simple, it caused problems as traveling between areas took a long time. This went double if your character didn't have the hiking skill and a small number of hit-points (cough, mages, cough). To simplify things, the Badmud wizards caused a giant cataclysm that broke Batmud up into five different continents. Laenor: The starting continent for new players. Most (but not all) low level areas are here, and the outerworld monsters tend to be a bit tamer. Desolathya: This will likely be your next most traveled continent as you level up. Truth be told, this continent has a bit of an identity crisis as there are some very early (as in less than player level 20) newbie areas as well as tougher areas. Lucentium: Lots of good areas as your character get closer to player level 40. Be warned, this is one of the wilder continents with lots of different creatures wandering aro...

Continent:  Laenor Description: A good newbie (as in players lower than level 20) area The area quest rewards a decent amount of money (around 15k gold) which can be repeated once a day. The red rockets dropped here are a popular way to shout messages to the rest of the mud Note: Many of the bullies don't leave corpses which makes it less interesting for guilds that need corpses. Quests: Area Quest: Scouts Note: This quest is not listed on the bat.org website Equipment: Orc scout field guide Sells for around 3.5k gold so it is worth picking up even if you can't use it. Reward for finding the orc scout treasure Supposedly if you wield this then it will grant you a bonus to your consider skill I suspect there is a level limit to this item as it did not do anything for my Level 27 character Red Rockets These allow you to send a message to the entire MUD Only the first 31 characters will be displayed Use "message %" to set the message the rocket should say Next drop rocke...

Continent:  Laenor Description: Area based on the Monty Python Holy Grail movie There seems like a few things in this area which make it feel half-done. As in the wizard coding it got tired and said "good enough" For example some of the path descriptions have a generic title with a number after it Also the characters don't respond to questions. Instead you need to "say" things. Also there are typos. Such as the Castle Arg being referred to as the Castle Anthrax. Quests: LQ44: Holy Grail One of the easier "high level" level quests. The final French Knight Captain hits very hard, but I can see better geared players being able to solo them. That being said, it can only be completed by male characters which is a poor design decision. If your character has a different gender you will need a temporary sex change operation. This can be done for 500 gold in the Arelium hospital Equipment: N one that I know of.  Special Explore Rooms: The entrance to the Castle...

Continent:  Laenor Description: Most people come here for Level Quest 40 (Sacrifice Staff) To enter this area the first time, you need two people to open the gates. After that, the person inside can open up a back entrance into the area Quests: LQ 40: Sacrifice Staff This is the second area to complete this Level Quest Equipment: Ring of Stars Dropped by the Urvile Loremaster Not sure what this ring does. It looks like it should be valuable though. Hmm, doesn't appear to survive reboot so must be an area quest item Open Questions: What's up with the jester and their "time bomb" Also what is up with the key and the candle you find with them? How do you get across the pool of acid, and where does that slide go to? How do you get across the rickety bridge? Where does the portal take you in the hall of mirrors. Map: Notes: Entrance (and Hotel Lobby): Important Disclaimer: You will need two players to enter the area. One player needs to open/close the gates. The other pla...

Guild Location: Continent :  Laenor World Location:  Cathedral of Darkness Travel to the south of the mountain range, by Zoy's Inn Go to the Gates of Serinna To get past the gate guard, you need to leave all your weapons behind. They can not even been in your backpack/frame. This only applies to joining. Once you are a member you can bring your weapons with you. Shovels count as weapons. If you can wield it you need to leave it behind. This is super annoying. I dropped my weapons nearby so I could find them. If you have a chest or room leave them there. More advanced players can fly you there and/or teleport your to get past the guard. Joining Location in Cathedral :   Go to the north of the cathedral, and go a bit west until you find a named character wandering around, and try the info/join command to see if you can join the guild Note: The name of the character that lets you join changes per boot, which is annoying, so you just need to ask around until you find the rig...