Guides and help

Find your first steps, understand your character, or set up the way you play.

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Since 1995 Updated weekly Free & community-run

What would you like to do?

Start playing

Create a character and learn your first commands.

Learn commands and game systems

Use the Player’s Handbook, then explore the wiki reference.

Develop your character

Plan a reincarnation and keep your builds together.

Set up your client

Play in your browser or configure a desktop client.

Build & contribute

Fantasy Worldbuilding With Real Players In It

What you build in Icesus Creator, how it compares to wikis and map makers, and the honest path to an approved area.

How to Build a Game World

Design areas, NPCs, quests and stories for a living world with a real audience, instead of an empty solo project.

How to Make a MUD

World design, MUD programming and engine choice, hosting, and the hardest part: finding players.

Clients

MUD Clients for Icesus

Start in the browser, then move to Mudlet or another desktop client when you want more control.

Best MUD Clients in 2026

Mudlet, Blightmud, TinTin++, TinyFugue, MUSHclient and browser clients compared honestly — all free.

Icesus Mudlet Package

Official drop-in HUD: vitals, EXP, casting, cooldowns, an enemy panel, and channels. One install, no triggers.

Mudlet Setup

Install Mudlet, connect to Icesus, choose readable settings, enable logging, and keep your first profile clean.

Icesus Mudlet Triggers

Safe trigger sets for Icesus roles: highlights, party tools, crafting, bot rules, and why momentums stay manual.

Icesus Mudlet GMCP

Use Icesus GMCP for vitals, rooms, party grids, casting, cooldowns, screen reader mode, and manual momentum UI.

TinTin++ Setup

Terminal-native Icesus setup with split-screen input, UTF-8, autoconnect, auto-reconnect, and a working config.

TinyFugue Setup

Classic TF5 setup for Icesus with visual mode, worlds, hooks, UTF-8-friendly settings, and reconnect behavior.

Blightmud Setup

Modern Rust terminal client for Icesus with Lua triggers, timers, keybinds, server aliases, and GMCP status output.

MUSHclient Setup

Windows classic. World setup, automatic 256-colour output, and the UTF-8 plugin that makes Finnish characters work both ways.

zMUD and CMUD Setup

Legacy Windows clients, still supported. Terminal type, screen width, and the ASCII transliteration Icesus applies for them.