Mordred Tribute
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MordredTribute

No realm will save you. Your group and your guild are the only friends you have.

A free, unofficial Dark Age of Camelot server built around free-for-all PvP, in the spirit of the classic Mordred ruleset. Played on the old world, rebuilt in HD.

Download the launcher Join the Discord Read the rules

The concept

Three realms.
No allies.

Anyone can attack anyone. The only players who can't hit you are the ones in your group or your guild. Everyone else is fair game, wherever they were born.

Albion, Midgard and Hibernia still exist. You still pick one, and you still level in its lands. It just won't protect you.

Three safe havens Camelot, Jordheim and Tir na Nog. Inside a capital, nobody can touch you. Step outside the gates and you're on your own.
39 playable classes Every class up to Shrouded Isles: 14 in Albion, 12 in Midgard, 13 in Hibernia. Necromancer, Reaver, Bonedancer, Savage, Animist and Valewalker included. No Catacombs classes, no Maulers.
In-game screenshot: an Albion archer drawing an ornate red longbow on the cobblestones in front of a stone keep
Albion
In-game screenshot: a Midgard troll in heavy plate gripping a glowing blue warhammer, in front of a wooden longhouse
Midgard
In-game screenshot: a Hibernian warrior in silver and green armour with a shield, glowing violet hands, on a grassy field at dusk
Hibernia
Mordred Tribute loading screen: the server name in gold and red over a misty battlefield of broken banners and fallen spears
The custom loading screen you'll see every time you zone.

The rules

Short, and enforced.

  1. XP x10

    Level 50 comes fast. The game starts when you can fight on equal terms, not after months of grinding.

  2. Realm points for every kill

    Every player you kill is worth realm points, whatever realm they belong to.

  3. No farming

    • The same victim only counts once per killer every 10 minutes.
    • Killing a grey player (much lower level than you) gives nothing: no streak, no bounty, no contract progress.

  4. Free respecs

    Try a spec, hate it, change it. No cost, no stones to hunt.

  5. The classic world only

    Shrouded Isles and Trials of Atlantis zones are closed. Everything happens on the original lands of the three realms.

Towers of Mordred

The towers only open
where the fighting is.

We placed towers across every classic zone. They stay sealed most of the time. When their zone becomes the Hot Zone, the doors open, the guards come out, and anyone brave enough can go in after the loot.

108towers
4per zone
57boss level
In-game screenshot: a dark round stone watchtower with battlements and a red barred arched door, in a forest clearing in Albion, a grey giant nearby
Albion: the black watchtower
In-game screenshot: a Midgard wooden lookout tower on a stone base behind sharpened palisade stakes, under a blood-red sky
Midgard: the palisade tower
In-game screenshot: a giant hollow oak in Hibernia with an open door in its trunk, a guard in black at the entrance and the Tower Boss waiting inside
Hibernia: the hollow oak. Guard at the door, boss inside
In-game screenshot: inside a tower, a Guard of Mordred in black armor stands next to an iron-bound chest with a gilded lion lock on a wooden bench
Mordred's Coffer, and the man who guards it
At the door

Two Guards of Mordred hold the entrance. Get past them first.

Inside

A level 57 Tower Boss waits for you. Bring a group, or a lot of nerve.

The chest

High-level loot that refills every 10 to 14 hours. Whoever gets there first takes it.

Outside the current Hot Zone, every tower is sealed.

Reasons to go looking for trouble

Blood has a price here.

Free-for-all is only fun when there's something to fight over. These systems make sure there always is.

/hotzone

The Hot Zone

One zone at a time grants double XP and double realm points. It rotates regularly, so the crowd moves with it, and so do the hunters.

It's also the only place where the Towers of Mordred open their doors.

/wanted

Kill streaks

Streaks of 3, 5, 10, 15 and beyond are announced to the whole server. Everyone knows who's on a run.

End a streak of 5 or more and you earn 100 realm points for every kill in it. /wanted lists the most dangerous players alive.

/bounty

Player bounties

Someone ganked you one time too many? Put gold on their head. Whoever kills them collects it.

Bounty Officer

Take a PvP contract and go hunting. 10 kills earns you 100 bounty points.

Grey kills don't count toward contracts.

Bounty Point merchants

Spend your bounty points in the capitals.

  • Weapons 1000 to 1500 BP
  • Armor and magic items 800 to 1200 BP
  • Jewelry 600 BP

Between fights

Work for the road.

  • Hunt Masters

    Found in every town with a teleporter. They hand out monster hunts worth 2.5 bubbles of XP each.

  • Dungeon Wardens

    Posted at dungeon entrances, Summoner's Hall included. Each one has a daily quest to slay that dungeon's bosses.

  • Realm Gatekeepers

    Travel to the capitals, the towns and the frontier keeps. Getting to the fight shouldn't take all evening.

The old world, in HD

The map you remember. Sharper.

This is the classic 1.65-era geography, the "old map" from before Catacombs. Then we went over every inch of it.

  • All 42 classic zones re-textured with 4x AI-upscaled textures: terrain tiles, ground and objects.
  • Denser vegetation and town decor, placed by hand across every classic zone.
  • Modern rendering through DXVK (Vulkan), with ReShade sharpening, anti-aliasing and a subtle colour pass.
  • A custom loading screen for the server.
In-game screenshot: Cotswold Village in Albion, timber-framed houses with tiled roofs on green rolling hills under a clear sky
Cotswold Village, Albion
In-game screenshot: Mag Mell, a Hibernian village, at nightfall, white stone towers topped with violet crystals, a guild house lit by glowing orbs and villagers gathered in front
Mag Mell at nightfall

Getting started

From download to first blood.

One launcher for Windows does everything. No account to create beforehand: yours is made the first time you log in.

  1. Download

    Grab the Mordred Tribute launcher (Windows, 50 MB).

  2. Choose a folder

    Pick where the game should live.

  3. Install

    Click Install. It's about 5 GB.

  4. Play

    Click Play and log in. Your account is created on the spot.

The open alpha is live

Everyone is welcome. Expect bugs and possible character wipes, and report problems on the Discord. Access will never be paid. Not now, not later.

Windows may warn about an unknown app: click More info then Run anyway. Install outside Program Files.

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