Dragon Ball Calamity, the MUD where the universe dies every month
Every month, the entire universe is wiped and rebuilt from scratch. Planets are redrawn, new enemy factions move in to raid them, and the skills you can hunt shift with them. Your character and everything you’ve earned carry over, but the world you’d mastered is gone and the climb starts fresh. That rhythm of build-up and calamity is the whole game.
I’ve been building Dragon Ball Calamity (https://dbzfor.us/) around one question: what if a MUD’s world never had the chance to grow stale? You can play in your favorite MUD client or we have a solid web client and it’s ready for a beta beating.
A few things that set it apart:
The world is never the same twice. Planets are pulled from a big pool of Dragon Ball worlds (Namek, Vegeta, Future Earth, Planet Plant, and more) and reshuffled every cycle. Each one draws a raiding faction that rotates too: Earth might be under the Frieza Force this month and Lord Slug’s mutants the next, each with their own moves, taunts, and behavior.
Skills drop like loot, not on hitting a specific power level. Techniques and gear drop from the enemies you fight, and the game tells you exactly which faction drops what, so you can hunt the move you want or trade for it at the player auction house. Skills never cap: keep leveling Basic Combat and your auto-attacks start catching multiple enemies at once; push Hellzone Grenade and it rains ki across a wider and wider ring of rooms.
Combat that describes itself. Hand-written flavor, race-specific fight lines, and text that reacts to where you’re standing: you’ll slam enemies into mountains and watch bodies vanish under Namek’s oceans. The command set is deliberately small, so you’re fighting within a minute of logging in without having to memorize a dictionary of terms.
Every race plays differently. Not just stat spreads, each has its own resource. Saiyans build Rage as they take hits and turn it into raw power. Icers build Fear and start executing wounded foes outright. Anubins (Beerus’s people) charge Hakai for one annihilating strike. Androids learn their enemies, growing deadlier against foes they have fought before. Most races branch at the top, too: chase Super Saiyan 4, or take the divine road to Super Saiyan God. Pick the fantasy you want.
Fights the whole server shows up for. As each cycle winds down, a God of Destruction descends with a community health bar for everyone to hammer, and rewards scale with how much you pitched in. Every cycle also crowns an Ascendant faction that spreads across all worlds, hitting harder and dropping richer loot; break their shared health bar before the calamity and the whole server earns a boon (+10% XP, +15% drops) for the rest of the month. Smaller events roll on every planet in between.
It’s a genuine passion project, and it’s in beta: rough edges, features still landing, tuning to do. But the core loop is live and, I think, genuinely fun. If a Dragon Ball world that remakes itself every month and never stops handing you new power to chase sounds like your thing, come break it and tell me what you find.