Rust · Ratatui · OSRS-inspired

Glyphbound
The idle MMORPG
in your terminal.

Skills train in the background. Loot drops without watching. Quests advance while you work. Run it in a tmux pane and check back when the Timbercraft level pings. No mouse. No GPU. One terminal.

Skills

Zones

idle

Offline XP

TOML

Data-driven

╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║ GLYPHBOUND v0.1  ──────────────────────────────  ⚔ Aetheryn · Lv 9     ║
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║ SKILLS         ║ Mosswold Forest — Timbercraft                              ║
║               ║                                                          ║
║  Delving    3  ║  ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░░░░░░░░░░░  Chopping pine…  52/100    ║
║  Timbercraft 9  ║                                                          ║
║  Forging    2  ║  INVENTORY ──────────────────────────────────────────      ║
║  Hearthwork 5  ║  ⟩ Pine logs         × 63                                   ║
║  Bladework  6  ║  ⟩ Copper ore         × 14                                   ║
║               ║  ⟩ Raw scuttlefish    × 8                                    ║
║  HP ▓▓▓▓▓▓░░  ║  ⟩ Iron shortsword    [equipped]                             ║
║  84/100       ║  ⟩ Gold: 394c                                                ║
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║  /  start timbercraft mosswold_pine 50            press / to open palette  ║
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Chapter I

Command Reference

Press / from any panel to open the command palette. All actions are typed — no mouse required. Commands execute in the game tick loop.

Actions

start <action> [qty]Begin a skilling or combat action

queue <action> [qty]Append action to the queue

stopCancel current action immediately

cancelAlias for stop

Economy

buy <item> [qty]Purchase from the nearest shop

sell <item> [qty]Sell to the nearest shop

shopBrowse items at current location

deposit <item>Deposit all of item to bank

withdraw <item> [qty]Withdraw from bank

bankList full bank contents

Equipment

equip <item>Equip item from inventory

unequip <slot>Remove gear from slot

Quests & Utility

quest start <id>Begin a quest

questsList all quests and status

focusToggle minimal UI mode

saveForce save to disk

helpList all commands

Chapter II

Skills

Five skills in v0.1, each with original names. OSRS-spirit XP curve, compressed ~3.4× — level 99 is a genuine long-term achievement.

⛏

Delving

analogue: Mining

Extract ore from rock nodes in Rustfall Quarry. Unlock better ores and smelt bars via Forging.

🪓

Timbercraft

analogue: Woodcutting

Harvest lumber from tree nodes in Mosswold. Logs fuel Hearthwork fires and craft items.

🔨

Forging

analogue: Smithing

Smelt Delved ore into bars and forge weapons and armour. Requires a forge in the zone.

🍳

Hearthwork

analogue: Cooking

Cook raw food at fires or hearths. Cooked food restores Bladework HP during combat.

⚔

Bladework

analogue: Melee combat

Fight monsters in combat zones. Drops loot to inventory. Requires equipped weapon.

World

A hand-authored 20×12 tile world. Navigate with WASD. Each tile carries resource, bank, shop, monster, and exit tags. Movement cancels the current action.

Hearthmere

The starter village. Home to the bank, general shop, and cooking hearths. Safe zone — no combat.

bank shop hearth

Mosswold

Dense forest north of Hearthmere. Pine and oak tree nodes. Mire rats, thornback goblins, and moss imps patrol the edges.

timbercraft combat drops

Rustfall Quarry

Eastern mining pit. Copper and iron ore nodes. Gravel crawlers, stone imps, and forge giant guard the deep veins.

delving forging combat

Chapter IV

Mechanics

Idle-first, active-rewarding. The simulation runs on a Tokio async tick loop, separated entirely from the Ratatui TUI layer.

Offline Progression

Close the terminal mid-action. On reopen, elapsed ticks are calculated and applied — up to 6 hours offline by default.

game/offline.rs

Action Queue

Queue multiple actions in sequence. The engine processes them one by one. Set it, close the pane, and come back later.

game/action_queue.rs

TOML Data-Driven Content

Items, actions, maps, zones, drops, and quests live in TOML files. Override defaults by dropping files in config dir.

data/loader.rs

Atomic Saves

Player state persists to JSON on quit or Ctrl-C. Writes are atomic — no corruption on crash. Auto-saves every 60 ticks.

saves/player.json

Collection Log

Tracks every unique item you've ever looted. Separate from inventory — a permanent record of drops received.

game/collection_log.rs

Dev Mode

25× XP, 50ms ticks, boosted drops. Test quest chains without grinding. Flags: --dev --xp-multiplier 25

config.rs · dev_mode.rs

Dev Mode

cargo run -- --dev --xp-multiplier 25 --action-speed 50 --drop-multiplier 5

Fast-forward mode for development. 50ms ticks, 25× XP, 5× drops. Disable before shipping.

Glyphbound The idle MMORPGin your terminal.

Command Reference

Skills

World

Mechanics

The terminal is the world.

Glyphbound
The idle MMORPG
in your terminal.