B.A.T. ry has Today placed an order for new server hardware!! The current main server was commissioned in 2008 and it's due time to kill the LAG with some slick new technology again. The new machine has been specified with the one purpose to run BatMUD, powered by industrial grade SLC PCIe-SSD disks, titanium power supplies (redundant), 128GB of 1600MHz RDIMM memory and a plethora of other options; while keeping the game 100% available over the coming years. This investment would not have been possible without Your continued support (help donate). Thank You.

Really.. You create a primary and a secondary. You then proceed to sales cheat. But you create a new character that has the same as one of your previous characters. And it has the same email as one of your primaries. Then you claim that your brother has been hospitalized, and you just happened to create the character the same day, and by accident wrote the same email address, and COMPLETELY by accident happen to play from the same IP? Like.. really? Byebye Tamerlane, Toukohousu and Thechosen.

Faint mist fills the atmosphere and a majestic rainbow casts its arc across the realm; malicious cackle reverberates throughout the realm as the wicked leprechaun Ens grins mischievously as he bathes in levels at the end of the rainbow. Congratulations, Wizard Ens, for ascending the divine ranks!

For long, the Adept known as Acidia has honed his magics in shadows, best behooving to be left shielded from the disturbances of public attention. Today, with his skills prepared, he has finally chosen to ascend to the rank of a Wizard. Congratulations!

Through trials of fire and flames, Moss ascends in the ranks of Wizardhood and claims the title of Augur. His persistent efforts in both creating new content and amending that which has been created before him have not been left unnoticed. Congratulations!

New guild is going to open next friday 21.00 EET sharp

Ggr has ascended to the rank of Wizard. Congratulate him on his arduous and well appreciated efforts to make the game better for all mortals and bunnies alike.

Spamming open channels is not acceptable behavior. Spamming open channels with deliberately racist, sexist, or personal attacks is grounds for punishment. Doing so, then using the names of several archwizards to get their attention, is just asking for it. Say, has anyone seen Blackstar for a while? No? Well, you won't.

February will be BatMUD photo gallery month on our Facebook page. Send in your favorite (appropriate) picture of you and/or your mudder friends doing something BatMUD related (such as a con) to tarken@bat.org with a small story about it. Featured submissions will earn a taskpoint or two and be posted to our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/batmud

A reminder: There are still cities left unplaced 'in the void' -- you should place them in the realm to ensure their safety; who knows what dark forces lurk in the fickle void, and what defences once taken granted by the surrounding environment are absent in the nothingness of the Void.