Guide Camping and Campfires and Cooking in MUME
This guide written and published by p(Baca/Endo)
Campfires are a very valuable asset to playing MUME. Especially for new players.
Many parts of this guide reference to the MUME help pages which can be found at:
<https://mume.org/help/help_index>
Bold words can be looked up in the games help files. Like help camp.
Campfires
To make a campfire, use the command camp. It has a delay and will take a few seconds to build your campfire. Any character can do it, even if you are naked. Campfires are built faster or with a shorter delay if you have Wilderness skill. Campfires eventually burn out, but if you type camp again, you can refresh it with new wood. You cannot camp in cities, buildings, on open water (rivers, lakes, ocean, etc), or in some caves. But otherwise you can camp in almost any room outside in the game, even in swamps and marshes.
Some areas of the game dislike campfires being built there. Beware in the Forest of Fangorn. The Ents and Huorns there do not like fires being set in their woods. Type complain to see if you have upset the Forest of Fangorn.
What can campfires help you with?
Once a campfire is made it has the following benefits. It lights up the room and acts as a light source. You can even build a campfire in the dark. It also warms the room up some, raising the temperature. But not enough to melt ice. If it is cold or chilly in a room, lighting a campfire might raise the temperature up to mild or warm, which means it is safe to sleep there without catching the flu. If the room is too cold, you have a chance of catching the disease flu while sleeping.
To check the temperature in the room use the command weather local. If it is mild or warmer, you probably won't get the flu. If it is chilly colder, you've got an increased change of catching the flu. Check out help diseases.
camp, weather local, sleep
Some mobs are scared of fire and will flee at the sight one, instead of attacking you. So it can be a type of defense if you need to rest outside. It will not stop all mobs from attacking you, but many normal forest animals don't like open fire.
You can also get crude torches from a campfire. Use the command get torch fire. They are not very good light sources and do not last very long, but they are free to make. Burned out torches are useless weight, just drop them.
camp, get torch fire, hold torch, rem torch, drop torch
Campfire Cooking
One major benefit of campfires is being able to cook at one. You need a pan to cook. You can hold the pan or wear it on your belt, but they can also cook just from being in your inventory. You can cook raw meat, which makes it smoked meat. Smoked meat lasts longer before it decays and weights a little bit less. If you have salt in your inventory, you can cook smoked and cured meat. Smoked and cured meat lasts even longer before it decays and weighs a little bit less. Cooked meats can also be sold at some grocer shops for small amounts of coins. It's a slow way to make money, but works!
Some rooms in the game already have campfires going in them, or maybe a fireplace. Those rooms tend to be warmer for sleeping, and you can cook at most of them.
If you have a casserole you can also use the boil command to make other dishes, stews, and soups. You need to add water or another liquid to the casserole first. Look at help boil command for more information.
butcher corpse, butcher 2.corpse, camp, cook raw, boil casserole, put carrot casserole, put pepper casserole
There are even some herblores that need to be cooked once they are made as well.
Campfires can even be used to mend some gear in the game. If you have a cross pien hammer, you can mend some metal items at a campfire with varying degrees of success. Some Sinda elves are particularly good at this.
BN camp rent
If you are playing as a Black Númenórean campfires can be used like an inn in towns. You can use the command camp rent to log out in many areas of the map. They even work for retiring a Black Númenórean character.
Some drawbacks of camping
There are a few drawbacks of camping, but forest fires is not one of them. You won't burn down any areas of the game with a campfire. You can use the torches taken from a campfire to burn some webs in the game, however.
If some player runs across a campfire and sees it burning they can look for tracks there, and possibly find you if you've walked away from the campfire. The campfire is a sign that some was was recently in that room.
There is also a command called "look around" that allows any player to scan the zone around them and look for signs of smoke rising up from campfires. It's not very direct, but can help you find your way back in the general direction of a campfire.
You can use the 'cover campfire' command to help reduce the light it provides.
So make a campfire today and start practicing some of those survival skills! It just takes a minute to try most of them out.
Link back to the wiki guides:
- Guide