This page can use a lot of help from people who use different systems than ours. Please update it if you are a Mac or Linux user!

Getting a Client

A client is the program that connects you to the game server, like your web browser connects you to this website. There are a lot of different clients out there. If there isn't one shown here that works for you, try Googling 'MUSH client' or 'MUD client' and your operating system to see what shows up.

Windows

There are two primary clients available for windows: SimpleMU* and MUSHclient. SimpleMU* is generally somewhat less complicated and allows you to easily cut back on spam using spawn windows. MUSHclient, however, allows you to download a pre-written world file, which means you don't have to fiddle with any of the settings at all to get connected. We therefore recommend that if this is your first MUSH experience, you download MUSHclient.

When installing MUSHclient on newer Windows machines (Vista/7), install it to somewhere other than Program Files, or else you run into problems with where it wants to store data. Your documents folder works.

Mac

The best client for Mac out there right now, by far, is Atlantis. It offers many of the same benefits as SimpleMU* (events, spawns, highlights) though it's always free and those things are all unlimited, unlike SimpleMU*.

Operating systems below 10.3.9 are not supported.

Linux

There are probably newer Linux clients out there, but Tinyfugue has the advantage of being a generally easy-to-use client that is available in the usual Ubuntu repositories. In a terminal, type:

sudo apt-get install tf5

Then just:

tf

For more help on Tinyfugue, go here.

Setting Up a World

MUSHclient

Download BS-MCworld.zip and unzip it to your worlds folder, which will be wherever you installed MUSHclient. (Note, again, that this should be somewhere that isn't Program Files.)

Open MUSHclient, select File>Open, and navigate to this directory if it isn't already there, and then open the file 'Burning Skies MUSH'.

Now you'll be in the process of connecting!

If you wish to set up worlds for multiple characters, just click File>New World, and then tell it to load defaults from the Burning Skies MUSH world.

After you create a character, you may want to set up your world to automatically connect to your character. To do this, go to Game>Configure>Connecting, input your character name and password, and select 'MUSH/MOO' under the auto-connect options.

Atlantis

Once you have Atlantis open, open up the Address Book. (It's up to you whether or not you want to delete the preset worlds the client has on it.) The little '+' icon will allow you to add a world. Under 'World Name,' put 'Burning Skies.' The hostname is burningskies.net and the port is 6250.

In order to not be kicked off the game if you are using wireless, I recommend setting your 'to keep alive behind NAT' to 'send a blank line to the game every 60 seconds.' That doesn't register to the game as activity.

Your First Connection

Welcome, guest!

The first time you connect to the game, we encourage you to connect as a guest. To do this, at the connect screen, type:

connect guest guest

Help will then be available on how to check out the game.

If you've never MUSHed before, type '=new Help me, I'm new to this MUSHing thing.', and if anybody is online to help, they'll contact you to help you through your first steps. (Someone usually will be during normal hours, but if you get no response, send an email to staff at burningskies dot net instead.)