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The Builder Academy

The Builder Acamady (TBA) was created to train new builders and develop the codebase tbaMUD.

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Educational academy builder building

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About The Builder Academy

The Builder Academy is foremost a training academy for anyone willing to learn or teach how to build a virtual World. Due to our success and the stagnation of the CircleMUD codebase we have also released our code for anyone desiring a stable and functional codebase.

tbaMUD is the continued development of the codebase formerly known as CircleMUD. And we use it to mean both the Academy for training, and the codebase that is made freely available to the community.

The most challenging aspect of running a mud is finding good builders. You will hear this from the admin of every MUD that has ever been. In the past it has always been up to each individual MUD to find and usually train their own builders. This works, but I think the MUDding community can come up with something better. That is why I created The Builder Academy.

TBA has trained 1000's of builders and has an extensive tutorial and help file system. No pressure, no deadline, just come learn, teach, or help develop the tbaMUD codebase. Give back to the community we have all taken so much from. TBA is a MUDding resource. Take advantage of it so we can improve the entire MUDding community.

TBA can also be used by other MUDs as a builder's port. Just send us your newbie builders. We will teach them and then you can have them back with the zones they built.

We are always open to anyone willing to learn, teach, or help develop our newly released tbaMUD codebase (the codebase formerly known as CircleMUD).

Play style

Roleplay
Not Enforced
Player killing
Allowed
World size
6000-10000

Activity

Players seen per dayDaily player counts for 30 days ending 1 October 2026 UTC: peak 3, average 0.9 over 12 counted days; 18 days unsampled.3
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Day (UTC)AveragePeakLowSamplesAnswered
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Players over the last 7 daysHourly player counts for 168 hours ending 1 October 2026 13:00 UTC: peak 3, average 1 over 153 counted hours; 15 hours offline or unsampled.3
The numbers
Hour (UTC)PlayersStatus
2026-09-24 14:001online
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Players, from our own probesAnswered 100% of probed hours over 30 days
The Builder Academy
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