Posts by Jeremy Saunders
Who Answered Your First Question?
Two new players got knocked out by the same pygmy chieftain’s guards and asked the newbie channel the same question. One of them also got a tell from a stranger, and that’s where their evenings split.
Read MoreAchaea Turns 29, the Mnemosyne Gets Seasons, and the Iron Carnival Has One Week Left
Achaea is 29 and there’s a one-time birthday command worth claiming before the 30th. Also in the roundup: the Mnemosyne’s second season, 24 Aetolia player ideas shipped in a day, and the Carnival’s last week.
Read MoreThe Menagerie Is Open, And Five More Are Waiting
The Menagerie is open. It is the first of six attractions at the Iron Carnival, and it came with a gryphon fledgling, a lunar fox, a ku’ati kit and a bucking ram that will put you on the ground in front of a crowd. Stay on the ram and you earn bonus tickets for it.…
Read MoreA Roguelike in Achaea, a Year 20 Celebration in Aetolia, and a Summer of New Things to Do
Achaea launched a roguelike dungeon, Aetolia turned 20, and both games shipped a summer of new systems and quality-of-life fixes.
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Read MoreWhat’s New in Achaea and Aetolia: Seleucar, the Trading Post, and the First Hunting Tree
On May 10 in Achaea, the Jade Empress raised the river Mnemosyne with a wave of Her hand. The jungle peeled back from the southern coast, and the ruins of Seleucar stood exposed for the first time in a thousand years. Spectres walked the streets while memory scenes bubbled up out of the stone. Then…
Read MoreAchaea Hits Year 1000. Aetolia Builds Training Dummies That Fight Back.
Achaea‘s in-game calendar just rolled over to Year 1000. The milestone brought rare auctions, new seamonster hunting grounds, a wave of divine lore events, and one of the largest quality-of-life patches the text RPG has seen in years. Over in Aetolia, the team shipped PvP training dummies that let you practice combat against a simulated…
Read MoreEarn 10 Free Credits by Joining Discord
Every Iron Realms game has an official Discord server where players swap combat strategies, coordinate raids, argue about class balance, and occasionally help each other out. If you’re playing one of our games and haven’t joined your server yet, here’s a reason to fix that: you’ll earn 10 free credits just for connecting and verifying…
Read MoreFour Weeks of Iron Realms: Question of the Week Contest
For the next four weeks, Iron Realms will be running a Question of the Week contest across our official social channels. Each Friday, we’ll post a new question. Each week, we’ll select 3 winning responses, and each winner will receive 100 credits. At the end of Week 4, one grand prize winner will receive a…
Read MoreWhat’s New in Achaea: Year 1000, the Memory Plane, and a Realm Unmoored
Achaea, Iron Realms’ flagship MUD game, rolled over to Year 1000 on its in-game calendar in early 2026, and the development team used the occasion as an excuse to reshape the world. The gods assembled to shatter an ancient relic, which released centuries of locked-away history back into creation and opened a new plane made…
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