• We don't know about the area.
  If something is missing, then nobody involved in the mapping project has noticed it yet and nobody has bothered to report it. Typically I (Ggr) tend to check for added areas every once a while, but sometimes it may take days or weeks if I forget about it.
• The location is not "static".
  If the location moves, e.g. it is an roaming NPC or area entrance that is not static, it is technically impossible to include it in the maps.
• The location is "hidden".
  This applies only for the miscellaneous / city / area maps. Some locations in area overworld maps etc, while possibly well-known among seasoned players, are not supposed to be public knowledge by design. As such, they are not included.

NOTICE! Under no circumstances locations will be left out due to intimidation, threats or blackmail from players wishing to hide knowledge of some area. If any such notes or threats are received, they may be posted publicly on this website.

The PupuMaps BatMUD mapping and data maintenance project is mainly headed by Ggr, who developed the Pupunen "maputils" software package for this purpose. The second in command is Jeskko. However, during the history of the project, there have been numerous contributors donating their time and knowledge ...

• Ooga - Did the original mapping of new continents, providing raw mapdata and some locations. His work was invaluable in the early days of the project.
• Jeskko - Did his own Google Maps-style implementation, which has become rather popular. Worked with BatMUD staff to assist development of Batclient's map feature (which was based on his map style). Has also helped with Laenor and Lucentium re-mapping, general project assistance, various locations, and provides pupunen.net hosting.
• Malacoda - Loaned her ship for re-mapping of Lucentium and Laenor.
• Moonlord's website - Lots of area coder information.
• Nuane - More area coder information.
• The wizard plaque - Bits and piece of information about coders current and past.
• Dryad's archived 1996 BatMUD conversion notes - Coder and addition date information.
• BatMUD newsposts were also searched through for area addition dates and coder info.
• Durand made the HCBat raw mapdata available and has helped on other occasions.
• Osku assisted with HCBat location data updates.
• And numerous other contributors have reported locations or knowledge about them, etc.

Please also see the next FAQ item concerning the history of the project.

Currently, both two major mapsites (this and Jeskko's) and Batclient map are based on the same data, centrally managed and known as the "PupuMaps" data. The main differences come from representation and update frequency - this site being the "authorative" source with the most up to date data. Batclient locations are nowadays synchronized daily from PupuMaps main data, but actual map "tile" data only occasionally. Jeskko's map is synchronized on random occasions.

A simplified timeline of PupuMaps project and various more or less related events:

• 2001 - 2006 - Tumi/Twomi maintains a popular site with an colourized HTML map of BatMUD world and other BatMUD related tools.
• Early 2006 - Ggr starts developing first piece of maputils, to make an improved version of the BatCity map. mkbcmap is born and maputils code is imported into Subversion repository in April 27th. The map is eventually featured on bat.org website and Durand awards Ggr two taskpoints for it.
• 09 May 2006 - B.A.T. ry announces plans to produce a BatMUD specific game client, in co-operation with Mythicscape, later to be called simply "Batclient".
• Nov 2006 - Twomi does the "WELL FOLKS" routine and retires with some noise, taking his map and other projects, like the reinc-simulator, offline. Much whining and gnashing of teeth ensues.
• Nov 2006 - Almost immediately, several replacement maps are created, including one by Jeskko. Some people resort to using archived copies of Twomi's old map, from Google cache etc.
• 7 Dec 2006 - Old BatWorld sinks and Age of Exiles starts, players find themselves on shores of continent of Laenor. During the other whining and gnashing of teeth, archwizards inform that their immediate plans do not include making continent mapdata public, thus creating the need for player-led mapping.
• 8 Dec 2006 - Ggr creates first version of mkmap utility to stitch together map pieces from logfiles mapped via walking around. Ggr and Jeskko start mapping Laenor. Ooga starts his own mapping effort, which ultimately progresses much faster.
• 9 Dec 2006 - Ooga publishes the first map of Laenor.
• 12 Dec 2006 - Ooga finishes mapping Rothikgen and Lucentium, though the Lucentium map has some bugs and misses a smallish part of the map (this remains to be the case for a rather long time). Several utilities are developed by Ggr, the first results of Pupunen mapping project are published. Lots of locations are added during the next two weeks (to the maps and few in the game itself, as not all areas were immediately added back in game.)
• 15 Dec 2006 - Ooga finishes mapping Desolathya and Furnachia.
• 15-16 Dec 2006 - Jeskko publishes first version of his Google Maps-style continent map, based on PupuMaps data.
• 17 Dec 2006 - Ggr adds PNG image versions of maps to his site.
• 28 Dec 2006 - Batclient v1.00 is released.
• 22 May 2007 - Ggr and Jeskko re-map Lucentium, the artifacts and bugs left from Ooga's original mapping are fixed. Additionally they do a quick re-mapping of Laenor, which gets finished on 25th of May.
• 18 Jun 2007 - PupuMaps metadata format is extended to support coder, SS and freeform information. Jeskko's map implementation supports it one day later.
• 01 Jul 2007 - Batclient v1.40 released, with the new realm map functionality, based on PupuMaps location data. Development of the feature occured partially in collaboration with Jeskko.
• 13 Jul 2007 - Metadata gets extended again, adding support for location timestamps, enabling the creation of latest locations list feature.
• 21-22 Dec 2007 - The official raw ASCII mapdata for Age of Exiles continents gets published officially at last.
  Gore tells Jeskko, Ooga and you 'unless I get some heavy objections tomorrow, I will arrange to make the rawdata available to ease up map updates.' (Fri Dec 21 01:04:11 2007)
  Ooga tells Gore, Jeskko and you 'excellent'
  Jeskko tells Gore, Ooga and you 'cool. Amarth might have some already working scripts for generating the raw files if you ask him nicely. :)'
  Gore tells Ooga, Jeskko and you 'I doubt it, the batclient mapdata seems to be last updated October 14th :)'
  
• 23 Feb 2008 - Nosunrise announces the first early beta of his "ReincSim 2", replacement for Twomi's famous (and by then long absent) reincarnation simulator.
• 4 May 2008 - Twomi finally releases the sources and data for his tools (now somewhat obsolete, though.) [BatMUD news post announcement]
• 20 Jun 2008 - Quest information page is added and announced, generated from the recently added LQ/AQ information in location database.
• 13 Mar 2009 - A more up-to-date HCBat map is introduced, thanks to Durand for making the raw mapdata available.
• 06 Apr 2009 - OpenSearch support is added and announced, along with improved map of Arelium (other citymaps got certain improvements for the same price, too.)
• 14 Sep 2009 - Player Atlas bat.org website feature is announced. Originally a "quick concept hack" by Ggr a week earlier, wizards (Amarth, Dralith, Durand) become interested and official version is quickly refined, with automatic integration of the 'atlas' database.
• 19 Sep 2009 - After a lengthy testing period on a separate test game server, BatMUD moves to use 64-bit version of the MUD driver. Few next weeks are plaqued by semi-frequent crashes due to some remaining driver bugs, but they are promptly addressed by Favorit along with other wizards.
• 14 Apr 2010 - BatMUD 20 years anniversary.
• 17 Apr 2010 - BatMUD 20yr Anniversary Gala at Kaivohuone, Helsinki. BatMudders from all around the world gather for drunken fun etc. The amount of attendees is diminished by unexpected volcano eruption of Eyjafjallakokull in Iceland, that causes disruption and closing of almost whole north-European airspace.
• 08 Jul 2011 - PupuMaps site finally gets a new layout and various smaller improvements.
• 31 Jan 2012 - Ggr immorts, but continues the map data maintenance as before for the foreseeable future, despite ascending to higher realms.
• 09 Sep 2012 - Jeskko ascends to immortality as well.
• Mar 2014 - GMapsNG project is finally finished by Ggr (or at least brought to state that it is usable and mostly on feature parity with the old version), and replaces the old BatMUD GMaps hack.
• 03 Mar 2015 - Various minor updates made to the PupuMaps pages, and maputils tools revamped. HTML maps switched to HTML5 and given some JavaScript-based multimedia goodness.
• 14 Apr 2015 - BatMUD's 25th anniversary.
• 27 Apr 2016 - The Pupunen BatMUD Maps Project reaches the mature age of 10 years! Hooray!
• 19 Oct 2017 - HC-Bat map gets updated, after a 5+ year gap in updates. Additionally few other improvements to the map site and maps themselves were made.
• 06 Nov 2017 - Map search feature is re-introduced. Originally a feature on Jeskko's GMap pages, it was removed during the GMapsNG refactoring. Now implemented again as an asynchronous WebSocket server.
• 17 Sep 2019 - Map search gains "show nearest locations" feature.
• 11.-13. Oct 2019 - Various technical and usability improvements made to the "city"-type maps (e.g. map of Arelium and other major cities, and certain maps of areas). Also the information content has been improved, adding details that were missing, and certain errors fixed. [1] [2]
• 02 Apr 2020 - IPv6 support enabled in map search WebSockets server, so now IPv6 users can connect directly to it. (Previously this was not possible due to old/broken libwebsockets version.)
• 14 Apr 2020 - BatMUD's 30th anniversary. Due to the COVID-19 situation, the planned celebratory event is cancelled / postponed.
• Feb 2021 - Pupunen.net server's hard drive fails and the site becomes unavailable for almost two months. This includes the GMapNG BatMUD world map and all the Mercurial code repositories stored there. Fortunately, most of the relevant data is also stored elsewhere. The various Mercurial repositories previously hosted on Pupunen.net are moved to tnsp.org.
• 17 Apr 2021 - BatMUD's 31th anniversary celebration. A streamed online-event is held, featuring arena fights with commentary, greetings videos from players and talks from wizards.
• 18 Apr 2021 - GMapNG at pupunen.net is restored to functionality by Jeskko.

More to come...

Yes. PupuMaps location data is freely available to anyone who wishes to use it. Naturally some kind of acknowledgement would be preferred, if you use it in your own projects.

Currently this data is available through the Mercurial repository of Ggr's MapUtils. You may also be interested in the utilities themselves https://tnsp.org/hg/batmud/maputils/ and especially the file "README.loc", which contains some documentation on the format of *.loc-files.

Bat Ry provides the raw ASCII map data for the BatMUD continents, which is updated at every game reboot:

• Laenor
• Rothikgen
• Furnachia
• Lucentium
• Desolathya
• Renardy