Welcome to the Official Alter Aeon web site!
Alter Aeon is an online text game set in a world of swords and sorcery. It has a
huge custom world to explore, quests to complete, and hundreds of puzzles to solve.
There are always other players on-line, whether for help, competition, or just to
talk with. The game is also blind-friendly for the visually impaired.
There is a place for everyone here. The brave of heart can trek to the edges
of world in search of fortune and fame, and sometimes bring home vast treasures.
Those less confident in their abilities can remain in safer or more protected
lands, or join up with others to reduce risk. Come test your mettle in the
world of Alter Aeon!
Download one of our custom game clients,
or log into the game using your own client or regular telnet (the addresses are
below.) Creating a new character is quick and easy.
We also provide a
new player guide
to help you decide what type of character to play and get on your feet.
If you can't download or are on a public terminal, you might be able to log
in with your browser using telnet. The blind player telnet login is at
dentinmud.org port 3010, while the
telnet login for players who can see our ansi title screen can be found at
dentinmud.org port 3002.
What is Alter Aeon?
Alter Aeon is a Diku-like multi-class mud written entirely from scratch. It has a
huge custom world of over thirty thousand rooms, and has been open to all comers
since 1995. There's usually between twenty and one hundred players logged in at
a time. Player killing is optional, and several options are available to let
all players participate if they wish. The equipment, spells and skills are well
balanced.
Advanced and new players are both welcome. New players will find an extensive
support structure of Avatars, low level areas and quests specifically designed
for newbies, and extensive on-line help and FAQs.
We have also worked hard to make sure that advanced players aren't left out.
Most of the content in the game is designed for high level players, and there
is a world-wide waypoint system to aid in reaching far away zones. We also give
players more advanced controls than most muds, including built in aliases
that save with your character, while control-C can be used to halt executing
aliases and regain control of your terminal. We also natively support
variables and variable substitution in both regular commands and alias
expansions.
Who's on and game help
Get current listings of who is logged on,
some of the clans your
character can join, get high level
overviews of areas, and other
information. You can also browse
or search the help pages to get
a handle on the game itself.
About the players of Alter Aeon
Here you can find the Alter Aeon Forums and Boards,
or you can look up a player using our player search.
There are also a lot of miscellaneous writings from our players, including
fan fiction and
historical writings.
Alter Aeon's sister MUD
Banished Lands uses a similar codebase to Alter Aeon, but doesn't have as
many of the recent changes. Some of the areas are the same, but in general
Banished Lands is a very different MUD. If you're interested, check out the
web site for Banished Lands here,
or log in using telnet at:
dentinmud.org port 6000
or
66.100.167.156 port 6000
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