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🔥 World Events & Invasions
The realm is never truly at peace! Dynamic world events spawn server-wide invasions, festivals, world bosses, and environmental phenomena. Unlike rifts, these events affect the overworld directly - mobs invade existing areas, temporary NPCs appear, and the entire server can participate!
⚡ Dynamic World Events
Events are announced server-wide, giving all players the chance to participate. Rewards are distributed based on your contribution - damage dealt, mobs killed, and whether you're present at the finale!
Event Types
🔥 Monster Invasions
Large-scale attacks on civilized areas! Demons pour through tears in reality, undead rise from graveyards, orc warbands raid the roads, and more.
- 3-5 waves of enemies
- Mini-bosses each wave
- Final Invasion Boss
- 20-90 minute duration
👑 World Bosses
Extremely powerful bosses that require group coordination to defeat. Server-wide announcements when they spawn!
- Rift Colossus
- Bane Dragon
- The Void Walker
- Ancient Lich Lord
🎉 Festivals
Positive events with unique vendors and activities! Special merchants, tournaments, and celebrations.
- Harvest Festival
- Tournament of Champions
- Merchant Caravans
- Founding Day (Double XP!)
🌪️ Environmental Events
World-altering temporary conditions that change the rules of combat and exploration.
- Blood Moon: +50% mob spawn, +25% loot
- Eclipse: Undead empowered
- Storm of Ages: Elemental spawns
- The Calm: Peaceful NPCs
Invasion Types
| Invasion | Target Areas | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Demon Incursion | Cities/Towns | 30-60 min | Demons pour through a tear in reality |
| Undead Rising | Graveyards | 45-90 min | The dead rise and march on the living |
| Orc Warband | Roads/Frontier | 20-40 min | An orc raiding party attacks |
| Dragon Attack | Any Major Area | 15-30 min | A dragon and its minions assault |
| Elemental Storm | Wilderness | 30-60 min | Elementals surge from planar rifts |
| Void Breach | Random | 45-75 min | Void creatures spill into reality |
Participation Rewards
🏆 Contribution-Based Loot
Your rewards scale with your participation! The more you contribute, the greater your share.
- Top Contributor: Earns special title and bonus rewards
- Present at End: +20% gold and renown bonus
- Minimum Reward: All participants get at least 10% base reward
Event Commands
event info - Detailed information on events
event join - Travel to active event area
⚔️ Mercenary Companions
Elite NPC mercenaries roam the world of Death Rising, fighting monsters autonomously. Hire these powerful companions to fight alongside you - each with unique personalities, combat styles, and signature abilities!
🗡️ Living Companions
Mercenaries aren't just combat pets - they're fully realized characters with backgrounds, personalities, and dialog. They comment on battles, have opinions about your choices, and develop loyalty over time!
How Mercenaries Work
🔍 Finding Mercenaries
Mercenaries roam the world, fighting mobs on their own. Find them in various areas - they spawn 10-20 levels above the zone's average.
💰 Hiring
Approach a mercenary and hire them for 1, 4, 12, or 24 hours. Cost scales with your level. Only one mercenary at a time!
⚔️ Combat
Mercenaries fight your targets automatically using AI based on their class. They scale to your level when hired!
❤️ Loyalty
Build loyalty through battles together. Higher loyalty means better performance, cheaper prices, and unique dialog!
Mercenary Classes
⚔️ Warriors
Tanks and melee damage. Defensive stances, cleaving attacks, berserker fury.
🔮 Mages
Elemental devastation. Fire, ice, and lightning specialists with AoE damage.
✨ Clerics
Healing and support. Keep you alive with heals, buffs, and holy damage.
🗡️ Rogues
Burst damage specialists. Backstabs, poison, and deadly precision.
🏹 Rangers
Ranged damage and tracking. Nature magic and animal companions.
🌿 Druids
Nature magic and balance. Shapeshifting and elemental control.
🦇 Vampires
Life drain and dark magic. Sustain through blood and shadow.
🎵 Bards
Support and versatility. Buffs, debuffs, and crowd control.
Mercenary Roster Highlights
🛡️ Grimjaw the Ironbound
Dwarven Knight - Former King's Guard captain. Gruff, honorable, calls you "Commander". Signature: Ironbound Resolve (50% damage reduction).
🔥 Ignis Flameheart
Human Invoker - Expelled from the Academy for "excessive enthusiasm". Loves fire. A lot. Signature: Inferno (massive AoE).
❄️ Mordecai the Frozen
Ice-touched Sorcerer - Sacrificed part of his soul for power. Cold personality, dry wit. Signature: Absolute Zero (freeze target).
⚔️ Valka Bloodmoon
Northern Berserker - Last of her clan. Fierce, passionate. LEGENDARY - Must defeat in combat first! Signature: Bloodmoon Fury.
Pricing Tiers
| Tier | Cost (1 Hour) | Available | Requirement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | 5,000 gold | 8 mercenaries | None |
| Elite | 8,000 gold | 12 mercenaries | Level 50+ |
| Legendary | 12,000 gold | 5 mercenaries | Level 100+ or Quest |
The Mercenary Guild
⚠️ Bounty System
The Mercenary Guild protects its own. Kill a mercenary and earn BOUNTY - making future hires more expensive or even hostile!
- Watched (1-2 kills): 25% price increase
- Disliked (3-5 kills): 50% increase, some refuse hire
- Hostile (6-10 kills): 100% increase, most refuse
- Kill on Sight (11+ kills): Mercenaries attack you!
Bounty decays over time, or pay a massive fine to the Guild to clear it.
Mercenary Commands
mercenary hire <name> - Hire a mercenary
mercenary dismiss - Dismiss current mercenary
mercenary status - View your mercenary's info
mercenary order <cmd> - Give commands to mercenary
mercenary loyalty - Check loyalty level
mercenary guild - Check your guild standing/bounty
🏆 The Renown System
Your fame and reputation echo throughout the realm! The Renown system tracks your accomplishments and provides powerful bonuses as your legend grows.
Earning Renown
⚔️ Combat
Defeat enemies to earn renown based on their level. Higher level enemies award more renown.
📜 Quests
Complete quests to earn 10-50 renown per completion, depending on quest difficulty.
🗺️ Exploration
Discover all rooms in an area to receive renown rewards for your exploration.
Renown Bonuses
- Damage Bonus: +1% per 1,000 renown (max 20% at 20,000)
- Damage Reduction: +1% per 1,000 renown (max 20% at 20,000)
- Experience Bonus: +1% per 500 renown (max 20% at 10,000)
- Quest Discounts: -1% cost per 1,000 renown (max 20% at 20,000)
Renown Titles
As your renown grows, you earn prestigious titles visible to all players:
| Renown | Title | Renown | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,000+ | [Recognized] | 12,000+ | [ILLUSTRIOUS] |
| 2,000+ | [KNOWN] | 14,000+ | [GLORIOUS] |
| 4,000+ | [NOTABLE] | 16,000+ | [EXALTED] |
| 6,000+ | [RESPECTED] | 18,000+ | [MYTHIC] |
| 8,000+ | [DISTINGUISHED] | 20,000+ | [***LEGENDARY***] |
| 10,000+ | [RENOWNED] |
📜 The Quest System
Death Rising features a comprehensive quest system with questmasters throughout the world. Complete missions for valuable rewards including quest points, gold, renown, and special items.
Quest Types
⚔️ Kill Quests
Hunt down and slay a specific monster
- 150-300 Quest Points
- 240-1,000 Gold
🔍 Find Quests
Locate and retrieve a specific item
- 100-200 Quest Points
- 100-800 Gold
📋 Multi-Objective
Complete multiple tasks in one quest
- Variable rewards
- Higher difficulty
Quest Equipment
⚔️ Equipment That Levels With You!
Quest equipment is special gear purchased with Quest Points that scales in power with your character level and Ancient level. As you grow stronger, so does your quest equipment!
- Purchase with Quest Points from questmasters
- Stats increase as you level up
- Ancient levels dramatically boost quest equipment power
- Far stronger than regular equipment at high levels
quest buy <item> - Purchase quest equipment
Quest Commands
quest info - View your current quest details
quest complete - Turn in completed quest
quest points - Check your QP totals
quest journal - View quest objectives
🌀 Rifts & Procedural Dungeons
Rifts are unstable tears in reality that appear randomly throughout the realm, spawning procedurally generated dungeons filled with danger and treasure!
🌀 How Rifts Work
- Random Spawning: Rifts appear randomly near areas matching their power level
- Scaling Challenge: Difficulty adjusts to provide appropriate challenges
- Boss Encounters: A powerful boss eventually emerges from each rift
- Temporary: Rifts will close on their own after some time
- Global Announcements: All players are notified when rifts appear
Procedural Loot
Enemies in rifts drop procedurally generated loot - unique items with randomized stats and properties. No two drops are exactly alike!
Rift Masters
Rift Masters are mysterious figures who have studied the void and understand its dangers. Seek them out to receive rift quests!
🎯 Accept a Quest
Find a Rift Master and use rift accept to receive a quest to hunt a specific rift boss.
⚔️ Slay the Boss
Enter the rift dungeon and defeat the designated boss enemy.
🏆 Claim Rewards
Return to any Rift Master and use rift complete to claim Void Shards and other rewards!
Rift Commands
rift complete - Report completion of rift quest
rift time - Check cooldown until next rift available
rift list - Show all active rift dungeons
Void Shards & Void Points
💎 Void Shards
Completing rift quests earns you Void Shards - crystallized void energy that can be converted to Void Points for cosmetic purchases.
- Use the
exploitcommand to convert shards to Void Points (VP) - Void Points accumulate permanently on your character
- Rift quest cooldown: 60-90 minutes between quests
Void Shop
Spend your hard-earned Void Points on cosmetic enhancements using the voidshop command!
🎨 Name Colors
Change how your name appears to others - red, blue, green, gold, and more! (50-100 VP)
🚪 Entry Messages
Custom messages when you enter a room - materialize from void, emerge from shadows, etc. (100 VP)
🚶 Exit Messages
Custom messages when you leave - dissolve into void, melt into shadows, etc. (100 VP)
📛 Who Titles
Replace your level/class in the who list with a custom title! (200 VP)
voidshop colors - Browse name colors
voidshop entry - Browse entry messages
voidshop exit - Browse exit messages
voidshop title <text> - Set custom who title
voidshop buy <category> <#> - Purchase item
🛒 Wandering Traders
Mysterious traveling merchants wander the roads of Death Rising, carrying unique inventories that cannot be found anywhere else in the world!
🗺️ Finding Traders
Wandering Traders follow the main roads connecting towns and areas. They are constantly on the move, appearing in different locations each time.
💰 Unique Inventory
Each Wandering Trader carries completely unique items and services. Their stock refreshes periodically with new treasures.
🔮 Rare Finds
Traders carry rare equipment, consumables, and special items you won't find in regular shops!
buy - Purchase items
value - Check item worth
sell - Sell items to them
Note: Wandering Traders are peaceful merchants and will not engage in combat.
🏃 Intelligent Auto-Run System
Lost in the world? The auto-run system uses intelligent pathfinding to guide you to any area in the game!
🧭 How It Works
Simply type run <area name> and your character will automatically navigate to the nearest entrance of that area, stopping at any blocked exits (closed doors, etc.).
Features
- BFS Pathfinding: Uses breadth-first search to find the shortest path
- Smart Detection: Stops at closed doors, locked gates, and other obstacles
- Visual Progress: Shows you the route and steps remaining
- Staged Movement: Moves with realistic delays between rooms
- Area Name or VNum: Works with either area names or VNum numbers
run castle - Run to the nearest castle area
run 1234 - Run to area with VNum 1234
Perfect for quickly traveling to quest targets, hunting grounds, or meeting up with other players!
🤖 Intelligent MOBAI Combat System
Death Rising features an advanced Mob Combat AI system that makes enemies smarter and battles more dynamic and engaging!
🧠 Class-Based Intelligence
Mobs don't just auto-attack - they use intelligent combat decisions based on their class, health, and the situation:
AI Behavior Types
⚔️ Warrior AI
Uses combat stances, special attacks, and defensive abilities based on HP.
🔮 Mage AI
Casts appropriate spells, manages distance, uses shields when hurt.
✨ Cleric AI
Heals allies, dispels debuffs, smites enemies with divine power.
🗡️ Thief AI
Uses stealth, backstab, and hit-and-run tactics.
🏹 Ranger AI
Maintains distance, uses traps and ranged attacks.
🌿 Druid AI
Uses nature magic, summons, and environmental effects.
🎵 Bard AI
Buffs allies, debuffs enemies with songs and performances.
🐾 Generic AI
Basic tactical decisions for non-classed enemies.
Survival Instincts
All mobs have survival AI that triggers at low health:
- Flee: Cowardly mobs will attempt to escape when hurt
- Defensive: Warriors switch to defensive postures
- Healing: Clerics and Druids prioritize self-healing
- Berserk: Some mobs become MORE dangerous when wounded!
⚔️ Tactical Postures
The AI system integrates with the 3-posture combat system. Mobs will switch between PRESS (aggressive), HOLD (balanced), and GUARD (defensive) postures based on battle conditions!
🎵 Bard Performance System
Death Rising features a complete musical performance system for Bards! Compose verses, wield instruments, and support your party with powerful magical songs.
🎼 Verses
Learn unique verses that form the building blocks of your performances. Each verse has different effects - buffs, debuffs, healing, and more!
🎸 Instruments
Different instruments modify your performances. Find and collect rare instruments that enhance your musical abilities.
🎶 Songs
Combine verses into powerful songs that affect your entire group. Time your performances for maximum impact in battle!
👥 Group Support
Bard performances can buff allies, debuff enemies, heal wounds, and even manipulate combat conditions!
Performance Commands
verses - List all verses you know
songs - View available songs
instrument - Check your current instrument
🏠 Player Homes
Own your own piece of the realm! Purchase homes in Gaalstrom's residential district and customize your personal sanctuary.
🏡 Home Features
- Own up to 4 rooms per character
- Expand your home by adding rooms in any direction
- Set your home as a personal recall point
- Save up to 4 additional custom recall locations
- Rename and describe each room
- Purchase furniture including beds, desks, and crafting stations
🛒 Purchasing
Buy homes in the Gaalstrom residential district for 25,000 platinum each. Expand by purchasing additional rooms.
🚪 Expanding
Use home expand <direction> to add new rooms connected to your existing home. Build north, south, east, west, up, or down!
✏️ Customizing
Rename rooms with home rename and write custom descriptions with home describe. Make your home unique!
🪑 Furnishing
Purchase furniture including beds, desks, chairs, aquariums, and even crafting stations like forges and jeweler benches!
Recall System
Your home system integrates with an expanded recall system:
Home Commands
home status - See your owned rooms
home buy - Purchase current room
home expand <dir> - Add a room in <direction>
home rename <name>- Rename your room
home describe - Write room description
home furnish - Purchase furniture
recall save <1-4> - Save a recall location
recall <1-4> - Recall to saved location
🎨 Modern Protocol Support
Death Rising: Rebirth supports cutting-edge MUD protocols, delivering a rich visual and interactive experience that goes far beyond traditional text games!
🌈 XTERM 256 Colors
Experience the game in full 256-color glory! Vivid spell effects, atmospheric room descriptions, and color-coded combat feedback bring Uryia to life.
🔤 UTF-8 Support
Full Unicode support for special characters, symbols, and extended ASCII art. See the world rendered with beautiful text graphics.
🖱️ MXP (MUD eXtension Protocol)
Clickable links, popup menus, and interactive elements. Click on items, NPCs, and commands instead of typing everything!
🔊 MSP (MUD Sound Protocol)
Immersive sound effects and ambient audio. Hear the clash of swords, magical explosions, and atmospheric sounds!
💡 Recommended Clients
To experience all these features, we recommend using a modern MUD client:
- Mudlet - Free, cross-platform, excellent protocol support
- CMUD/zMUD - Classic Windows client with full MXP/MSP
- Blightmud - Terminal-based with great color support
- Web Client - Our built-in client supports colors and UTF-8
Toggle Your Display
color256 - Toggle XTERM 256 color mode
mxp - Toggle MXP clickable links
sound - Toggle MSP sound effects
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