# Installing and Using MUDGrinder
What is MUDGrinder? Installation Not Your Mothers MUDGrinder Using MUDGrinder Author's Notes | ## What Is the MUDGrinder: The MUDGrinder is a visual editing and administration tool. It includes all of the following: Control Panel, for changing many of the flexible settings of the engine, and includes the following: Disable/enable buttons for features Database health and reset Security settings Start Room settings Death Room settings Morgue room settings Channels definitions Ability/skill/spell/etc settings Clan settings General player-related variables and settings Economy and monetary settings Calendar and weather settings Other miscellaneous system/engine settings File Browser lets you browse, create, delete, upload, search, or modify text files in your CoffeeMud package. Journals Browser lets you post, read, email, delete, or reply to any of the journals (message boards) in your system. Players List is the place for reviewing your players and the banned names/ips list, and includes the following; Player browser and editor, with the ability to delete or ban. Bank account balances for all players "Ban List' manager Cache Resources is an obscure tool for flushing from memory those things that have been loaded from disk. Quests Manager allows you to create, destroy, start, stop, and update Quests and quest scripts. System Reports gives you a quick health and status check for your mud, which also includes: "Tick" threads browser Server Log shows you the mud.log file, which is your main log file. Statistics is where you can browse the gameplay statistics after you've been running for awhile. Also included is a pleasant alternative to the command-line interface described in the Archon's Guide for creating and maintaining the areas, maps, rooms, monsters, and items inside your MUD. Instead of typing in commands, you can point and click to design your maps. Instead of running around with your Archon to get an idea of how things look, you can just point your eyes at the map on the screen. ## Installation: The MUDGrinder is a built in part of the Administrative Web Site of the CoffeeMud HTTP Web Server. For more information on this aspect of CoffeeMud, please refer to the Web Server Guide. So, if you have successfully installed and started up your CoffeeMud Server, and the Administrative Web Server has been successfully started as well, then MUDGrinder is already installed! Good job! To access MUDGrinder, simply connect to your Administrative Web Site (http://localhost:27777/) and log into the MUDGrinder pages using your Archon administrative account information. If you have no idea what an Archon Administrative account is, you'll need to start back over again and read the Installation Guide. ## Not Your Mothers MUDGrinder: The MUDGrinder is easy to use, but it is not forgiving, and it is not for wussies. If you make a mistake, you will probably pay for it. If you click the wrong button, you will regret it. Be careful kiddies! ## Using MUDGrinder: If you've actually played this game before, and you've read the Archon's Guide, and you understand it, you will have no troubles at all. The MUDGrinder is merely a visual means of accomplishing the same tasks, with the same objects and parameters as are described in the Archon's Guide. If you have any further questions, or want to know how to undo a mistake, refer to the previous section. ## Author's Notes: Users of previous versions of the MUDGrinder know that the documentation provided for this version of the editor are twice as good as anything provided previously. However, the same caveats still apply: do not email Bo and tell him that his Java and MUD puns are not funny. He knows they are funny. He also knows you think they are funny and that any protests to the contrary are vicious lies.