Badges

Badges are a reward given to players for notable achievements in Hackmud. Badges are typically awarded for activities such as responsibly reporting potential exploits and sandbox breaks to the developer, or winning competitive community events. Badges can be displayed on the profile of its owner, should they choose to.

break_badge_XXX
"a properly reported sandbox break. badges are numbered chronologically."

Awarded to players who responsibly disclose severe exploits or sandbox breaks to the developer. This badge is only awarded once it is confirmed that the related exploit has been properly patched. So far, at least 69 copies of this badge have been handed out total.

break_report


"a properly reported sandbox break. just not the first."

Awarded to players who help report exploits or sandbox breaks to the developer, if they were not the first to report said break.

alpha
"i knew her as alice."

Given to players who were present for Hackmud's alpha period.
 * The badge description is likely a reference to Angie's original name -- Alice.

beta
"i know where the bodies are buried."

Given to players who were present for Hackmud's beta period.

builder
"a contributor to the mud we all make with."

Awarded to players who have made contributions to Hackmud's codebase. Examples of this which have resulted in builder badges being awarded include:


 * Creation of the chat API website
 * Creation of the https://binm.at fansite for BINMAT.
 * Improvements to the game's miniracer configuration

puzzlemaster_v1
"a good glass in the bishop's hostel"

Awarded to creators of community events.
 * The description is a reference to Edgar Allan Poe's short story, The Gold-Bug, in which William Legrand deciphers a secret message that will lead him to buried treasure.
 * The badge's icon is morse code for "PUZZ" (.--. ..- --.. --..)

puzzlemaster_v2
"the magic words are squeamish ossifrage"

Awarded to creators of community events.
 * The description was the solution to a challenge ciphertext posed by the inventors of the RSA cipher in 1977
 * The badge's icon is base64 for "puzzlemaste". Assumedly, the letter "y" was cut off due to the icon's size limit, as cHV6emxlbWFzdGVy becomes "puzzlemaster".

seal_of_the_antecedent_v1
"the first, far from the last"

Awarded to the creator of the first developer-endorsed event. 


 * It is a puzzlemaster_v1 badge, with a "1" in the middle and surrounded by triangular drawing characters.

king_kamehameha_v1
"Ha'aheo i ka miki'oi o ke kai o Lehua"

Awarded to the winner of the community event.


 * This was the first community event where a badge was awarded to the winner
 * The badge's description is Hawaiian for "Ha‘aheo dances because of the clear calm waters of Lehua. One can do things well when calm.", a Hawaiian proverb from the Olelo No'Eau.

top_toymaker_v1
"it's a cold winter night"

Awarded to the winner of the community event.

ruthless_dream1er
"your aim is quite good, isn’t it."

Awarded to the winner of the community event.

community_cultivator_v1
"observer of obelisks. farer of the fog."

Awarded to the winners of the "it_takes_a_village" community event.

plaque_plaque_v1
"first real brush with politics"

Awarded to the winner of the "christmas_crackers_v3" community event.

garbage_collector_v1


"oom.gibsun used more than 268435456 bytes of memory and was terminated."

Awarded to those who were involved in patching a major issue affecting scripts erroneously timing out due to memory limitations.


 * The script name mentioned was one of the scripts used to test the conditions which caused the issue.
 * The rest of the description is the error returned when a script runs out of memory during execution.

frostbitten_finger_v1


"saved by the snow. raised towards vontori"

Awarded to the winner of the "christmas_crackers_v4" community event.