Version 3.0 19th January, 2026

Welcome to version 3.0! This features some very long-awaited quality of life stuff :

• Improved ScreenReader support, with a screenreader command. See info screenreader for more info.
• Player owned ships have landed (at last!) - see info playerships for more info.
• We award medals for your achievements!
• TrueColour support, and a new display command, which acts as a systemizing central location for logic about picking colours charset etc. With all these options you can now see your setting, override it, remove the override, or see what it would be if you haven't overriden it.
• Email verification and automated password reset path. Please use the email command to set an email, and verify it, even if you have previously set an email.
• There is a guest account system. If you connect as a guest you can register afterwards to set your name and save your character.
• You can now redo a mission you completed! Compete against yourself or others for the best mission times in mrecords.
• Some GMCP support! We provide Room.Info, Char.Vitals, and Comm.Channel.

Happy new year! 6th January, 2026

Our new year's resolution is to spend more time MUDding. Consequently, we are pleased to announce two small updates

• Following a succesful trial period, all serving members of Her Majesty's Armed Forces will now recieve a per-diem (daily) payment in credits. Higher rankings get more cash! Fill your boots!
• The idle timer has been removed on a trial basis. If you idle for long periods of time during a mission and someone else wishes to do this mission, we reserve the right to reset the zone and return you home. So please play nicely.

Write up in Writing Games 27th October, 2025

Our Orange has done an interview with the definitive MUD journalism outlet, writing-games, about the Cryosphere and its future. Check it out, and while you're there check out all Andruid's other excellent articles as well!

Version 2.7.3 9th September, 2025

Hi, it's been a little while since the last release. We hope you have been well.

• We have moved to a new server. We would like to thank Ellyll for hosting us these past twenty-two (!) years.
• Our web site is also back online, at https://cryosphere.org/.
• Our webclient, Chrysalis, is back, and is a nice modern web app.
• We now have a Discord bridge. And, in fact, a Discord! The 'intercom' and 'gossip' channels are synchronised between Discord and the MUD.

We have already been working on 3.0 (in fact, we've been working on it since 2014). Player-owned spacecraft are happening, any time now!

Big thanks to Bingo, Michael, Simon and Vesper for testing and feedback.

Version 2.7.2 20th September, 2014

Only a point release, but all sorts of things to report!

• Over 200 bugs, typos and feature requests dealt with!
• A new mission, Lab! This is an easy one, but everyone must do it if they want to get...
• CYBERNETICS! A range of new equipment with various varieties available across the game worlds that can let you see in the dark, boost your combat prowess or resilience, and more... read info implants for more information.
• No more magic free commbadges for Warrant Officers and above. Buy a commbadge implant instead.
• Beasts of burden: your carrying capacity is now substantially increased when you're mounted on an animal or vehicle.
• You can now more conveniently buy and sell items that are too heavy for you to carry, like motorbikes.
• The new liquids system is largely in place. No cocktails just yet though...
• We have a new, experimental emote system, which is a bit easier to use than myact and is available to all players. Read info emote for more information.
• The parser now understands that "examine foo's sofa" means examine the Sofa that Foo is sitting on.
• You can now jump into, onto or over some objects...
• Commanders can buy a new Officer's uniform, which they can use even after demotion due to new missions being added, etc. Its very nice.
• The Zoo and the old Combat 1 and Combat 2 simulations have been removed. A new Zoo is under construction on Eden, however...

Zub has retired due to his long absense from the mud. plett on the other hand has been returned to captainhood after actually doing some things, possibly by accident. So that's nice.

Still no player-owned spacecraft or the updated spacesuit system yet. It'll come, though!