As I have told before, I have been coding my own custom MUD client with batclient protocol support.

I have time to code it somewhat sporatically, but here a list what works so far:

• Encrypted SSL connection to BatMUD
• Account and autologin support
• Terminal handling basics using standard ncurses, UI resizing based on terminal size, colors
• Unicode characters on client UI, translation between Latin1 encoding of BatMUD to Unicode/UTF-8 on client side
• Trigger support via Lua scripts
• Batclient protocol parsing for colors and party status messages

What is still missing:

• More complex input handling. Now you can only add characters and remove them one by one via backspace.
• Minion (entities, souls, etc) status support
• Effects tracking/window
• Optimizations everywhere. Especially the UI code is somewhat slow.
• Custom keybindings
• Custom commands / aliases
• Separate views/tabs for tells and channel messages
• Map support (maybe never implemented, it is somewhat hard to show area maps in the terminal)
• Documentation

A short video can be found below:

(3M megabytes)

I will release the source code of the client at some point, but that point is still quite far away (maybe year or two…).