Beta A dark-fantasy text-based MMORPG

Live beneath
dragonfire.

Explore a persistent online world of ruined settlements, haunted battlefields and impossible burn patterns. Fight, craft, quest and make your name while a buried conspiracy takes shape.

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The Android Beta is openEarly, rough in places, and growing every week. iOS planned.
Drust room exploration screen with map and controls
Drust exploration screen at the Broken Signal Stand
Live rooms Real choices
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Persistent worldReal-time combatPlayer guildsCompanionsDeep crafting

The world of Drust

A substance born
from the burn.

Settlements mourn their dead, trade routes fail, and the institutions meant to protect people are quietly burying inconvenient questions.

Drust is the common term for Dragon Dust—a warm, faintly luminous substance found where dragonfire has killed. It can imbue weapons, armour, tools and even people with powerful effects. Every handful promises an advantage, but gathering it means entering places no sensible person would choose to go.

It is also the money. Drust is currency and reagent at once—the coin every trader accepts and the raw material every enchanter needs. The world’s entire economy is built on it: prices, wages, guild treasuries and the value of a life are all measured in Dragon Dust. Spending it and crafting with it draw on the same pouch, so every purchase is a decision not to make something.

CurrencyMagical reagentThe whole economy

Begin as a survivor of a catastrophic attack or an elf investigator tracing impossible burn patterns. Explore, fight dangerous enemies, earn loot, craft upgrades, take on story-driven quests and dungeons, join guilds and meet other players.

A village marked by the aftermath of dragonfire
Field report / UnresolvedThe attacks may not be accidents.Someone is shaping events from the shadows. Dragon Dust may be what they are truly after.
Real-time mobile combat with companion targeting and combat skills
Combat / Live encounterSkills, meters and companion tactics unfold in real time.

Fight with intent

Text combat that
moves.

Read the encounter, choose your timing and build a skill bar around the way you play. Bring a companion into battle, direct its target and turn status effects into decisive openings.

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    Real-time encounters

    Skills, cooldowns, health and mana stay live.

  • 02
    Class skill tracks

    Shape a mage or warrior through distinct combat paths.

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    Companion tactics

    Tame creatures, train them and deploy them in battle.

More than the next fight

Build a life
between battles.

Drust is built around connected systems. What you learn, craft, discover and who you join changes what opens next.

Forge recipe list in the Drust mobile app
Crafting & enchanting

Learn the trade, not just the recipe.

Forge equipment, cut gems, discover linked recipes and take daily commissions that grow your craft.

ForgeEnchantCommissions
Ember Crow companion stats and progression
Companions

Tame. Train. Fight together.

Discover hidden qualities, spend growth points and turn wild creatures into trusted allies.

Guild creation and guild browser
Guilds

Forge your own order.

Create a guild, recruit players and raise it through the ranks together.

Never lose the thread

A world you can
actually navigate.

Move room by room through illustrated locations while the live map records the routes, exits and people you discover. Quest markers, shops, teachers, healing wells and portals become part of your mental map.

Quest NPCsShopsTeachersPortalsArea exits
Real-time map of Area 14 with quest, shop, portal and teacher markers
Area 14Every known room, connection and point of interest—updated as you explore.
NPC quest interaction with Archivist Lethariel Quill

Stories with a memory

Meet people.
Follow consequences.

Talk to characters with histories and motives, track active objectives and pick up a thread again when you return. Quests lead through rooms, fights, investigations, crafting and choices—not isolated checklists.

Active quest tracker
Quest trackingPin goals, inspect details and keep your current leads close.

Android — open beta

The Beta
is open.

Drust is live and playable on Android. It is also genuinely early: you will find bugs, rough edges and systems still being tuned. We would rather put a real world in your hands now than a polished one much later.

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    Expect bugs — and tell us about them.

    Something breaks, a quest stalls, a skill misbehaves, a room does not read right. Report it. Every report lands in front of us and goes straight onto the fix list, and a beta player who writes up what went wrong is doing the most valuable thing anyone can do for this game right now.

  • 02
    Your feedback shapes the game.

    This goes well beyond bug triage. How combat paces, how progression feels, how deep crafting should run, how the world reads as you move through it — these are still open questions, and what beta players tell us is actively steering the structure and play style of Drust. Say a system feels flat, a curve feels wrong or an idea is missing, and it changes what gets built next. You are not testing a finished design; you are helping decide what it becomes.

  • 03
    Improvements ship continuously.

    We are working through improvements constantly and will keep doing so. Fixes, balance passes, new zones, new quests and entirely new systems arrive through server updates and app releases while you are playing — no waiting for some distant relaunch. The game you log into next month will not be the one you started.

The world is small today and it is growing every week — a multiplayer text MMORPG built in the open, with the people playing it.

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Android now, iOS planned. You can also play the browser beta at mud.mlmc.nz.
A world in its infancyGrows with every server and app updateBuilt toward a full multiplayer text MMORPG