ShadowMUD is a text-based MUD with a Medieval Fantasy theme. It is based ultimately off Nightmare 3's code. ShadowMUD's went down at some point in 2005 and after it became clear the MUD was not going to be restored a new staff attempted to rebuild from scratch.

To connect to ShadowMUD you need to use the web client, a mobile friendly web client, the jiMUD desktop client, or a telnet client and connect to www.shadowmud.com on port 1030, we also offer a websocket port on 1034 for clients that support websockets. Those that have issues or do not support websockets you can use an older flash version. The default windows/linux client gets old quick and you might find life more comfortable with a proper MUD client such as Icewolfz's client or one of the clients listed at mudconnect or MUD client page on Wikipedia.

A new alpha web client is being worked on and will some day replace the main client and the mobile client with one single interface, if you wish you try the oiMUD alpha client, it offers most if not all features from both the main and mobile version and any missing features should be added over time, remember to also backup your old data first just in case as it is alpha and may corrupt or break your current profiles/maps/settings as it uses the same backend, to backup you can export your profiles/maps using the main or mobile client to text files or login and use the client save command for remote backup. Any issues or bugs can be reported to Icewolfz on the mud, or on his repo once he creates it.

If you have issues or questions you can email the immortals using the email provided at the login screen, mud mail, chat line or the contact form.