If you want a map of a portion of MUME, you have to draw it yourself. We want to encourage people to explore the game. A few pre-drawn maps of trivial areas (such as Bree, the Shire) exist in ASCII and can be bought at a local grocery or travellers shop.
The map command is used to view your nearby surrounding areas. Several options exist in order to view specific things:
- ‘map rooms’ displays your surroundings, only works with good visibility.
- ‘map weather’ displays the nearby weather, see weather for details.
- ‘map fog’ shows fog in the nearby zones.
These maps have the following key:
A Ingrove T Tharbad
B Bree W Troll Warrens
C Caras Galadhon X Your current location
D Dwarven Homes Z Zaugurz Outpost
E Edoras
F Fornost % Swamps
G The Grey Havens * Forest
H Helm's Deep : Plains, Fields
I Isengard = Bridge
M Moria ? Zone under construction
N Dol Guldur ^ Mountains
O Orc Caves ~ Hills
R Rivendell
‘map darkness’ shows the influence of Sauron in nearby zones.
This map has the following key:
+ Good zone. Sauron's influence is actively repelled
. Neutral zone
- Evil zone. Sauron's minions are most often encountered here
= Zone under the influence of Sauron's Darkness (treated as
an evil zone, until the darkness dissolves)
Notes:
- All map commands may be abbreviated.
- The ‘global’ option can be used in all map commands except ‘map rooms’ to view the entire map of Arda for the specified command.
Examples:
> map r Map rooms.
> map g d Shows a global map of Sauron's influence.
> map g w Shows a global map of the weather on Arda.
There are also external client applications (called ‘mapper’) that can help you in creating maps. See mappers and Rules Mappers for further details.