Yes,  it does. Lol  did you read the post ?
From what I gather, the link is either on their website, and I believe there is one if you follow the article link .

is it playable on vipmud? i know the soundpack works with it but I'm not certain of some extras, though I am now relieved that the problems with marks and quests are apparently fixed.

Ah, good to know.

What is the game like now? Is there more than just hack n slash?  do you get to do anything in the random wilderness? I do remember liking the look of the game but when i played it was just irritating with the level limits on marks. it took me three goes through lasler to get what was there, then when i finished lasler I wondered around in the forest and then suddenly "woopse! you've leveled yourself past! doing these marks, sorry!"

I then went to the city and tried random quests, but given they all had ridiculously short time limits I'd get a quest and then run around like a headless chicken trying to find one location on an absolutely gigantic map, and usually fail. So all in all the game was an exercise in major frustration, since the choice seemed to be either sitting there with a guide constantly open to try and get the marks (which really kills exploration), or missing most of everything, indeed for all the vaunted activities the game seem to devolve to a simple hack n slash kill fest since doing anything other! than the hack n slash kill festing was so difficult.

Admitedly, this was a good four or five years ago and I know considerable work has gone into the game since then, and the developers did modify things with quest timers etc, still with games like frandum and some of the good muds we have now I'd like to be sure I know what I'm getting before starting another really major mud.
I also confess it's likely that Materiamagica sticks a little in my craw since it was the first mud I ever played. I got really enthusiastic, really! wanted to get deep into the game, loved the website mentions of the underground ocean and ships and such, even really enjoyed death, started up Vipmud and got used to muds, loved the elemental effects and atmosphere, and then woopse! found there really wasn't much that I could actually discover or do for myself without scuppering my own game.

What style of game is it?  JRPG? MMORPG?  *Shrugs*

i use jaws with mushclient, so seeing the post above about jaws, does this mud work jaws or not?

Materia Magica works great with Jaws on VipMud, and I would imagine MushClient too.
It's my main screen reader, so I've never used any other to play.

@Dark,
I ran into a bit of the same problem, about trying to find things to do the first time I played.
But I think it's somewhat better now.
Did you have a sextant when you played? It gives you the coordinates for where you are, and where other locations are, so it's easy to know if you are going in the right direction.
I think they have added some commands to use, so that you don't level out of getting the marks, but I can't remember the specifics about them.
I would say it's worth another go if you are interested.

JAWS doesn't read anything unless you put it on read all, but then it reads everything and that includes stuff from like rooms before which slows you down. Not sure how to fix it to where it reads normally.

I don't understand why Jaws doesn't read. I though MushReader worked with Jaws, which is what the bundle uses for screen reader output.
As for things to do after Lasler, an entire area was created called Rune Forest. Quests and marks abound in there, with two different factions quests to undertake. The Maliquite Golem faction questline and the Rabid Wolf Faction questline.
Rune Forest is actually right off of the Lasler Trail. I like VipMud, however I like the bundle because
1. NVDA is my primary screen reader on Windows.
2. Sounds and everything is set up already.
3. The automapper and speedwalk manager greatly increase the MM experience toofold for me. No more getting lost.
4. The tutorial command presents 20+ tutorials on how to utalize the bundle's built-in features, including a plugin to help out with Crystals. I see people putting Crystal pastebin links up all the time on the Sight Impaired relay channel.
On a side note, I'd play Frandum if there were more people on. I'm at a loss for what to do there right now. I'm the one that recommended it and now it just feels lonely on there still.

Few things here:

1. Marks are like achievements. They aren't quests. They're basically there for bragging rights. You're not supposed to get all the marks (some are mutually exclusive, some are based on your race or class). Levelling out of Lasler before you do all the stuff there is much harder now than it used to be, but honestly your game isn't totally screwed if you miss a mark. I feel like you're making a bigger deal out of this than you need to. I've played MM off and on for years, and rarely had this issue nor noted it.
2. Quests can and often are tightly timed, it's true. So this is why it's a good idea to really explore the city and surrounding area first before you start taking quests. I usually start in Rune. Rune is pretty easy to get around in, and you probably won't get randomly PK'd while running around. Ask for a quest from Lord Agrippa, or whatever his name is, and see if you can do it. Remember, of course, that the idea is that you're not necessarily going to be able to do every single quest the first time. You obviously want to succeed more than you fail, but if you explore first and then quest, you'll have a better time. Honestly, both the complaints about quests and those about marks have a backward feel to them. The reason you had an issue is because you 1. tried to rush (in the case of marks) or 2. tried to get quests in an area you weren't familiar with. Many of the quests have perfectly good reasons for being timed (Agrippa wants a birthday cake and you need to go to the baker to fetch it, obviously that's probably not going to be viable forever), and many of the marks are simply not a challenge if you do them at higher levels than those suggested. Honestly, I have never, ever levelled out of Lasler without doing all the marks there without having deliberately run around trying to grind experience in there, and now that the level limit is even higher, there should be fewer issues yet.
3. Rune Forest will take you well into the 30s or low 40s. That area has been there for awhile, but now it's much more newbie-friendly. There are several bosses, a couple of hidden areas, and a whole ton of quests.

Frankly, the reason I don't normally play MM is because it's huge and unwieldy for me. It feels extremely grindy. That complaint, at least, I can get behind. I feel like it's a slog till you become an archon, and after you become an archon it's a whole different sort of slog. That, and I'm not a huge fan of PK, which is one of the game's apparent strong points. I love a lot of the bits and pieces of MM, I just don't love the way they're executed a lot of the time.

This new mushclient thing looks nice though. I may (key word, may) dust this off and have another go.

@Jayde, the problem with the marks and quests is basically that firstly, even when I did! explore and look at the area the bloody quests didn't work out (on one occasion I was told to go to a completely different area), and secondly if I don't get marks there really didn't seem much to do besides wander around and slay random wildlife.

It actually annoyed me, the game has a list of features half a mile long, pretty good writing and descriptions, lots of potentially really interesting systems like multiclassing, ships  and random wilderness, and yet once out of Lasler basically it seemed to boil down to wandering about and hitting things over and over again for no reason, and the few things that actually seemed to have a point to them besides grinding I'd already gone past.
It's not that I mind things which are not possible on first remort, cleft of dimentions and Aardwolf actually account for this by having too many quests to do at one run through, however you still get enough quests on the way through to actually keep the game interesting, (well I assume you do in cleft of dimentions though when i tried I had a little trouble finding the quests theree).

Basically it seemed with materiamagica that unless you stood there with the wiki open all you could ever find to do was grind grind grind and then be told you'd ground too much to get other stuff, which is frankly just plain depressing. Compare this to alter where you can these days just quest your way through the game to the point it doesn't even feel grindy, and you'll see what I mean.

I did think though that some work had been done on this a little more recently, with other stuff to do, commands to find marks without going past them and some changes in quest timers, so if someone who is playing now could confirm if there are! actually more things to do besides slay monsters and then be punished for slaying too many monsters that would be good.

@Jayde, I'll admit I'm a real sucker for quests. Simply wandering around killing things for the sake of levelling doesn't appeal to me, but have an npc tell me to go and defeat the goblin king and I'll explore every inch of the goblin caves and gladly slay as many goblins as you like .

Actually I've been loving alter recently for this reason, I'm level 22 in my primary class and haven't had to grind for the sake of grinding once.
I think though this is what undid me in materiamagica since I naturally tend to wander around and poke at things, and if I have something to slay along the way I'll slay it, certainly this was what kicked me out of Lasler the first run (I had barely done half of the stuff there). when I tried again I did get everything in Lasler, got booted out at level 12, was level 30 in Rune forest when I found I'd buggered myself out of the marks, and then sat around trying to do quests and failing in rune city, i think I was level 33 or so before i gave up entirely.
That was however in 2010 or so, and I do know a lot of work has been done on the game since then, and I do recall the developers being sensative to my comments on these issues.

I'd be interested to know how the game is now and what stuff there is! to do.

Unfortunately at the second I'm a little busy since we've had a slue of good games recently, but I'll keep an eye on mm and next time I fancy a mud I'll try it,I'll certainly be interested in anyone's experiences, especially with things beyond the hacknslash.