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MUME Help

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CHANGE HINTS, HINTS


Use change hints to enable or disable in-game hints.

Usage:

  > change hints [on|off]

By default, only new players up to level 12 receive hints.

Random Hints

Random hints are useful tidbits of MUME knowledge.

They are displayed at logon or with one of the following:

  > hint                 displays a random hint
  > hints show random    displays all random hints
  > hints view random    sends all random hints to your viewer

Contextual Hints

Contextual hints are focused on a specific event that happened to the character and offer tailored advice. For example, exhausted adventurers carrying too much weight will receive a suggestion to travel lighter.

To avoid spam, the same hint will not repeat itself too often (but: see hints show recent below) and will only be displayed a limited amount of times. To receive all contextual hints again, use hints reset.

Related commands are:

  > hints show recent [<count>]   displays recent advice
  > hints view recent [<count>]   sends recent advice to your viewer
  > hints reset                   will show all contextual hints again

Contributing

Feel free to contribute! Please idea new random hints that are:

  • Focused on issues that new players (levels 1-12) may have.
  • Express one idea concisely (make that two hints if needed).
  • Preferably in-character (but OOC if that cannot be done conveniently).
We already have a long backlog of contextual hints we'd like to implement, but feel also free to idea proposals with detailed advice lists (things to check about the character) and texts to display.

See also: CHANGE NEWCOMER, COOKIES, NEW

Generated on Fri Apr 25 07:40:43 2025

What is MUME?

MUME, Multi-Users in Middle-earth, is a multiplayer text-based online game based upon J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth during the epic wars of the late Third Age between the forces of the Dark Lord and the armies of the Free peoples. MUME is completely at no cost and has been continuously running, expanded, and remastered by a community of volunteers since 1991.

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