Your personal needs and system requirements will determine what MUD client is best for you. Though there are a lot of great MUD clients, below are the some of the best clients out there. The good news is that all the clients below are free or offer at least a free trial!

Tutorial Part Two - Tutorial Part Three. Arctic is a free text-based multi-user dungeon (MUD) which features both player-vs-enemy (PvE) and player-vs-player (PvP) gameplay. To get started, all you need is a basic telnet client. For Windows users, you can from the Start Run menu execute the following command.

• GGMud is one that doesn't get mentioned often, it's not as well known as the others, but it's the most user friendly client I've come across. View Entire Discussion (7 Comments) 43.
• KMuddy KMuddy is reccommended by many Linux users as the best MUD client on these machines. This client is relatively new but is growing in popularity. It has many regular MUD client features such as timers, triggers, speedwalking, and client side aliases.

Best Free Client
MUSHClient
MUSHclient is one of the best free clients out there. It is full of a lot of special features such as client side aliases, timers, and triggers. It has an amazingly long searchable buffer which helps you keep track of past gaming. MUSHclient is also extremely customizable. MUSHclient works on operating systems from Windows 95 to Windows Vista.
Best Pay Windows Client
CMUD
If you plan to do a lot of scripting, CMUD is the client for you. CMUD is designed for fast and easy scripting with the functionality to share them with others as well. It has one of the best automatic mapping systems of any MUD client. The full version of CMUD presently costs $29.95 with a free thirty day trial. If you don't need or use many special MUD client features then I would recommend trying a free client, but if you want to compete on a MUD that allows scripting CMUD is likely the choice for you. CMUD works on Windows XP and Windows Vista. (For a good scripting client for older systems check out ZMUD from the same company.)
Best Mac OS Client
Atlantis and Savitar
I couldn't help but give a tie in this catagory. There are much older Mac OS clients out there, but unfortunately they are either not very user friendly or out of development. I've read a lot of good things on these clients from Mac Users. Both are worth a try!
Best Linux Client
KMuddy
KMuddy is reccommended by many Linux users as the best MUD client on these machines. This client is relatively new but is growing in popularity. It has many regular MUD client features such as timers, triggers, speedwalking, and client side aliases. Many of the clients in this catagory can be difficult to use, but KMuddy is touted as being much easier to use than most.
Best Client for Blind Gamers
Vip Mud
Vip Mud has a lot of the features of other clients including vibrant scripting capability, but aslo a lot of special features for the blind gamer. It is designed to work with most screen reading software right out of the box. There are also voice features such as silmultaneous voices and the ability to program different voices or even screen readers for output. Vip Mud has the functionality to gag both spam and ASCII art. Vip Mud is $30 and has a 30 day free trial.

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Arctic is a free text-based multi-user dungeon (MUD) which features both player-vs-enemy (PvE) and player-vs-player (PvP) gameplay.

To get started, all you need is a basic telnet client.For Windows users, you can from the Start | Run menu execute the following command:

However, it is highly recommend that instead of telnet, you install and use a dedicated MUD client. Many such MUD clients are free such as:

At the first menu type start to get started creating your character and playing.

Once you go through the menus, when it prompts Are you new to Arctic? (Y/N): enter Y.

Doing so will allow Arctic to select stats for you which are best suited for the character class you want to play and as well signal to the staff that you�re new to the game and may likely be in need of help. Most importantly, you will also start off with a guide that follows you around and supports you.

The city you first start off in is Solace. A complete map of Solace can be found at the following link for reference.

The first thing to get accustomed to is knowing how to read and understand the information a text based game is presenting you.

To begin to learn more about your character. Type score.

This will show you your basic character stats.

You can also type eq, which is short for equipment to see what gear you are using.

As you acquire new equipment, you can use the commands remove and wear to swap out equipment.

Additionally it's important to see what skills your character class has available. You can use the skills command to help determine this.

You'll notice your skills are currently not learned. So first we need to find our respective guild.In this case, we need to find the warrior guild. Following the map, We can navigate Down, Down, South, Up, West to the warrior guild.To learn skills, type learn all. As you kill more creatures in Arctic, your skills will advance and you will need to come back to your respective guildmaster periodically to advance your skills.Additionally, everytime you gain a new level, you should return to your guildmaster to learn again before you set off on your next adventure.

Now that you have a basic feel for navigating Arctic, let's go and get some experience so we can reach level 2. To do so, we need to find some creatures to kill. A good starting place is the Solace sewers. From the warrior guild, navigate: East, Down, North, Down, South, South, South, West.Also you can have your guide help navigate you to the sewers by using the command: command guide to sewers.You should end up at the Solace Dump. You can use the rummage command and there will sometimes be extra equipment dropped off at the dump that you can equip and use.

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You can use the get command to pick up any items you might have scavenged in the dump.

Alternatively, you can ask the solace guide to help direct you using the command: command guide to sewers.Now we can go into the sewers to find some creatures to kill. It may be dark down there, so you can hold a lantern to light up.To initiate a basic attack, type kill -target-.

When the spider is dead you can examine its corpse using the examine corpse command, and then loot anything it may contain using the get all corpse command.

Now you're well on your way to reaching level 2 and exploring the city of Solace and the world of Krynn.

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