Aardwolf

Link

https://www.aardwolf.com/

• A text-based game that has been running since 1996-12-07.
• Free to play; irregular fundraising runs provide optional perks.
• Good support for visually impaired players.
• Impressive tutorial (“Aylorian Academy”) welcomes new players.

Rules

• Role-playing not enforced, and rarely encountered.
• PK (PvP) opt-in.

Resources

Documentation

• Races
  • You may change your race free of charge every 3 days.
• Classes
  • You may change your class free of charge every 7 days.
  • You can multi-class after level 201.

  • Before training stats for the first time, it is strongly recommended that you read help stats. You may also want to check out the help file for your class (i.e., help mage) for suggested stats to train.

• Wiki
• The Gaardian
  • Campaign Manager
  • Roominator
• l33t.xyz
  • Mobs
• Fort Terramire / All in a Fayke Day
• Epics

Maps

• Boot Camp
• The Gaardian

Videos

• @AardRumour
  • Aardwolf Tutorial by Rumour

Scripting

• GMCP
• Channel 102

Clients

Official

• Aardwolf MUSHclient Package - customized version of MUSHclient
  • Documentation
  • Plugins
    • Aardurel/aard-plugins - tools to analyze and use items in your inventory
• Web client

Third party

• For Mudlet
  • AardwolfMudlet - last updated 2022-05-13
  • Mudlet Aardwolf GUI - last updated 2010-07-24
• For TinTin++
  • Aardwolf-TinTin by theixle

Commands

Commands are not case-sensitive. If some of their first characters are capitalized below, those are the minimum number of characters that must be typed for the command to be recognized unambigously. For example, it suffices to type the letter “i” to view ones inventory.

For clan leaders

Community

• Discord

Clans

Definitions / Glossary

• Alignment ranges from -2500 (evil) to 2500 (good).
• Andolor is the name of the world in Aardwolf.
• Aylor is the largest city in Andolor.
• Completing campaigns for Commander Barcett in Aylor is like quests, but involve multiple victims and are much harder.
• Banks only store gold, not items.
• Channels are similar to chat rooms. The player can subscribe to multiple chat rooms to receive messages sent to them. To send a message to a channel, prefix it with the channel name (which may be abbreviated), e.g. nb Hi! to send “Hi!” to the newbie channel.
• Clans are player-run communities, similar to guilds in some other games. Clans are at war with other clans, unless they have the NOPK flag set.
• Constitution reduces damage taken overall, determines your hit point gain when you increase in level and is important for most warrior abilities.
• Containers are used for organization and also offer the extra benefit of (usually) providing a reduced total weight for objects carried within them. Containers have a capacity and weight limit. The quest item ‘a Bag of Aardwolf’ changes capacity as you level.
• Currencies include gold, quest points and trivia points.
• When death occurs from being killed by a monster, you will lose some experience (at least 400), and have a small chance of losing one point in a random stat, which can be re-trained like normal. Your gold stays on your character, but your equipment is put in a corpse. The corpse rots after 3 hours of real life time. This timer stops while disconnected. If you have a clan, your corpse goes to the clan morgue room and you go to your clan’s death recall room (usually the same room). Unclanned and outcast players end up at the Aylorian hospital and must retrieve their corpses from the room where they died.
• Dexterity helps avoid attacks, determines how often you attack during combat and affects many skills, particularly those used by thieves.
• Use drink from drink containers when thirsty. The Insulated Canteen from Boot Clan (U;S from recall) has 50 servings of milk that each replenish thirst by 81% and hunger by 100%.
• Experience is gained by killing monsters and results in gaining levels.
• Forums are a bulletin board like system, where players and the system can post notes, which can be browsed and read by players.
• Goals are puzzles of varying difficulty.
• Gold coins are one of the in-game currencies. Campaigns, quests, and goals are a good way to start getting gold during the earlier levels.
• Being hungry or thirsty makes one regenerate HP/MP/movement points at a much lower rate.
• Immortals (“Imms”) provide, manage and maintain Aardwolf. In other worlds, they may be known as Gods or Admins. To see a list of current immortals, type WIZlist.
• The info system works similar to chat channels, but for system announcements. These messages are sent through info channels that can be toggled on and off individually using info CHANNEL.
• Intelligence increases your magical attacks, affects how quickly you learn new abilities, helps you avoid harmful effects and determines how much mana you will gain with each level increase.
• Inventory space is limited by weight (carrying capacity) and number of items.
  • The number of items increases with the dexterity attribute. Also it’s a good idea to turn autoloot off, or keep all items one wants to keep, and sell all others in between “runs”.
  • Carrying capacity increases with the strength attribute. There are also bags that decrease the weight of items within.
• Keys expire (usually) after 14 days of real time.
• Loners are players who have chosen not to be in a clan. This flag can only be removed after tiering or after one year of real life time has passed.
• Luck is the primary stat for nothing, but affects almost every ability to a lesser degree. Training luck is recommended as you increase in level but can be left until later for all classes except Psionicists.
• The market allows players to list regular auctions or with a buyout price. Items are delisted after a week.
• Mob is a synonym for monster.
• Every object in Aardwolf has a unique object ID to track and distinguish it from similar items. This can be used to unambigously identify it, e.g. when using the get, give, drop, put etc. commands.
• Practice sessions (or practices) can be spend on increasing skills and spells.
• Personal quests can be requested from questmasters, while “global” (competitive) quests are announced in the Gquest forum. Quests reward gold and quest points (at a minimum) and possibly additional bonuses such as trains, practices, and/or a trivia point.
• Quest points are gained through questing and can be spent on wishes.
• Player killing (PK) (or “PVP”, Player vs player) is almost completely optional in Aardwolf.
• When you reach SUPERHERO (level 201), you can continue to gain trains. Alternatively, you can choose remort into another class. What basically happens is that you add another class to your existing set of skills and spells and restart at level 1. Because Aardwolf has 7 classes, a player can ‘go around’ the whole game 7 times. Since there is more power to be had, there is also more experience per level to gain as a tradeoff. When you remort, you are going back to level 1 and your item and weight limits will decrease accordingly.
• Characters are saved saved automatically every 15 minutes as well as whenever they quit, level, die, complete a quest, change their password or manually save.
• Strength determines how hard you hit during combat, the amount of equipment you can carry and affects most physical abilities.
• Every 30 second a tick occurs, this corresponds to approximately one hour of time elapsing in the game. Characters not in combat usually heal some at each tick.
• A person who has reached 7x remort status on Aardwolf and would like to continue playing the game, can restart the game and add a tier to their character.
• Train sessions (or trains) can be spend on increasing stats (strength, etc.).
• Trivia points can be earned by winning at trivia games, donating, converting quest points, killing some mobs, finish some campaigns, winning some global quests, or won randomly. They can be spent on special items at Ravi Enterprises, north of recall. They can also be converted to tokens to be traded with other players.
• Vaults are lockers, similar to banks in some other games. Due to their high price they would typically only be used for storing valuable items.
• Wisdom increases the damage and healing ability of cleric and ranger spells, determines the amount of protection you receive from spells such as sanctuary, and affects the number of practice sessions you will receive with each level increase.
• Wishes are special abilities for experienced Aardwolf players that can be bought for quest points at Vira (located up from the pulpit in the church of Aylor).

Flags

Objects

Keep (K)

Cannot be accidentally dropped, sold or eaten.

Invis (I)

The item is invisible to normal sight. Removed through the ‘solidify’ spell. If you expect invisible objects, try e.g. potsearch "detect invis" to find potions that temporarily grant the ability “detect invis”.

FAQ

I have returned and don’t remember whether I’m in a clan

Type CLANMotd