ConQUEST: Can you survive the frontier?
ConQUEST is a unique text-based adventure game. Come enjoy the MUD revival!
Why Play ConQUEST?
Conquest is a custom-codebase MUD with heavy emphasis on crafting, exploration, and tactical combat. Almost everything in the game is player-crafted, including equipment, personal lairs, player shops, and guild houses. Our deep combat system encourages groups of 2-3 players. If you’d rather play alone, you can instead hire a temporary NPC mercenary or craft your own golem assistant.
Our point-based advancement system offers you full customization over which abilities your character can use — there are no classes to stifle your creativity. With over 78,000 rooms in the overland map to explore, and dozens of dungeons hidden in its nooks and crannies, you will never be wanting for something new and refreshing to do.
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Explore a huge 78,000 room overworld map.
Find encounters and crafting resources during your adventures.
Craft gear for personal use or to sell to other players.
Add a custom touch to crafted items by attaching magical gems and powerful ornaments.
Constructing a final product requires sub-components and time to craft.
Although crafting an item can sometimes take hours of weeks, the hard work pays off.
Customize your character's skills from a list of over 300 unlockable abilities.
The city of Moonhaven provides many opportunities to meet citizens and take on quests.
Group with other players or hire NPC mercenaries to join you in combat.
Hone your combat skills and earn skill points by duelling the citizens of Moonhaven.
Features
Everything is Crafted
All equipment is made by you and other players. Collect resources to craft the exact gear, with the exact stats, that you want. Specialize in blacksmithing, leatherworking, metalsmithing, carpentry, alchemy, gemcraft, or be a jack of all trades. Collaborate with other players to make powerful artifacts!
Build Your Own Class
Your imagination determines your character class. Want to play a gladiator, armed with gladius and buckler? You can build that! Want to delve dungeons with whip in one hand and powerful magicks in the other? You can build that! Want to play the guardian, with thick platemail and two-handed halberd? You can build that too! Our advancement uses a point-buy system rather than character classes, which offers much flexibility when customizing your character. For those who like to experiment, the quickstart feature allows you to quickly save and swap between builds and equipment sets in town.
Tactical Combat
With over 300 skills to mix and match when designing your character, many inventive possibilities are available to you. Combat is completely manual -- including your defences -- which means you need to stay attentive to stay alive. Don't expect any auto-attacks over here! The benefit to our system is that it offers a fast-paced, tactical, and unique combat experience that you won't get easily bored of.
Build Your Own Lair
A small slice of the world is set aside for you. Players can build their own lairs, which are connected directly to the world map. Lure NPCs and other players to your domain by seeding it with tantalizing gem hoards. Protect those hoards with crafted traps and captured monsters. The more fighting that occurs in your lair, the more experience you earn for upgrading your crafted equipment.
Live the Merchant Life
Crafting is a way of life in ConQUEST. Build a shop and stock it with gear you have made. Other players can browse and purchase your crafted goods at the prices you set. Spend hours browsing the bazaars formed by dozens of player shops that crop up around the world's crossroads. If adventuring is not for you, perhaps you will find that a life of commerce is more suitable.
Explore a Vast, Changing World
ConQUEST boasts a huge 78,000 room open-world map with multiple biomes. The world is persistent and malleable -- chop down trees to create lumber for your shop, harvest gems from the mountainside to adorn your armor, or build your lair on a secluded island. All the changes stay after you leave! For those who like to explore, treasure maps reward you with powerful buried crafting components for exploring randomly generated locations.
Resources
Play Now
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Or play via the Grapevine web client. Note, ConQUEST uses some communication protocols which are not well-supported by Grapevine. Although Grapevine will give you a taste of the game, it is not recommended you use a specialized mud client, like Mudlet for a more feature-rich experience.
Visit our Wiki
Looking for tutorials, introductions, or deep, exhaustive information about the game? Visit our player-maintained Wiki to learn everything about ConQUEST.
Will You be the First to Find The Edge of the World?
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Support ConQUEST
Hosting the game’s server and website costs about $30 a month. This money is paid out of pocket by the game’s creator. If you would like to support the game’s development, consider donating a week or a month’s worth of hosting costs to keep the game running.