Welcome to Nilgiri the Forgotten World.

Nilgiri is a DikuMUD-based game. It came online in August 1991 and is among the oldest continuously running DikuMUDs on the Internet. The proper name has always been “The Forgotten World”; early players mostly knew it by hostname nilgiri.berkeley.edu port 5000. Like most MUDs of that era, it ran on college resources: a student-assigned Sun workstation in Tilden Hall at UC Berkeley, before commercial ISPs were common. It began as a Sequent I clone and shared players with Copper from CU Boulder, Eltanin from Caltech, and its sister Sequent.

The game as it runs today is a complete rewrite and a new DikuMUD variant by Frederick Nacino, first drafted in 2010.

• Code Law — code philosophy & resources
• DikuMUD

ssh nilgiri@nilgiri.net

Password: letmein

More detail: Connecting to Nilgiri

Current game iteration reset in September 2026.

Nilgiri Facebook group

• Game Law — how the game works (systems, economy, skills, weather, justice, …)
• Skill Law — practiced abilities & the skills tree
• Spell Law — spells on the same tree (practice & cast)
• Shop Law — shopkeepers, buy/list/value/identify/balance
• Auction Law — listing, bidding, timers, fees, and delivery
• Purpose
• Privacy policy

• Creation Law — building rooms, objects, mobiles, items, zones, and shops in-game (topic pages for rooms, objects, items, mobiles, zones, shops)
• Script Law — attaching scripts to rooms, objects, mobiles, and items (topic pages per type)