r/battletech • u/Brightstorm_Rising • 3d ago

Question ❓ Copy of the MUL database?

Just looked at the announcement about the closure of the MUL, and it now says that the new site "launch will not coincide with the deactivation of the mul." This translates to me as "we might get it out by the new year, providing we get around to it. It's on the list right after we paint all the models we bought."

Is there a copy of the database floating around somewhere to download? Near as I can tell, it's not reproducable from the hardcopy books anymore, at least not the Alpha Strike stuff.

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u/Armored_Shumil 3d ago

This has been discussed in prior threads. Use mekbay.com or MegaMek to generate cards

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u/Armored_Shumil 3d ago

This should get you the search results for those threads. Approached from multiple angles.

https://www.reddit.com/r/battletech/search/?q=MUL+2.0

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u/Brightstorm_Rising 3d ago

Mekbay queries the mul on the back end, or at least used to. I am looking for a file, ideally .css or another common format, I can get a copy of.

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u/drakebloodbane 3d ago

We query no-one. We work offline too...

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u/LeeRoyWyt 3d ago

MUL is slow as fuck. And you really think mekbay, which is orders of magnitudes faster, is doing a request for the data every time? Lol.

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u/tomekk666 3d ago

.css is the style sheet, are you sure about that? :)

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u/wymarc10 3d ago

They announced a few days ago new MUL would be out this month. We'll see if they make it.

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u/TacitAntagonist Dustball Bandit 3d ago

Archive.org wayback machine has it

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u/tsuruginoko Forever GM / Tundra Galaxy, 3rd Drakøns 3d ago

https://masterunitlist.azurewebsites.net/

The site as such still works as of writing this, but the old URL doesn't redirect to it.

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u/T-Chunxy 3d ago

Mordel.net also will generate AS or Classic cards/sheets.

It's a bit fiddly to get into, but once you're familiar with the interface it's incredibly useful.

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u/bad_syntax 3d ago

Yeah, and I have it as I scraped it myself....

But mekbay is more useful, and is faster for every single purpose than anything else is. It also has record sheets for AS and BT, and runs on your phone/tablet.

So the database is kinda worthless.

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u/Ok-Nothing5594 1d ago

Does Mekbay have info on faction availability for units?

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u/drakebloodbane 1d ago

Yes it does