# DarkeLIB / DarkeLIB

> slug: `darkelib` · browser status: `playable` · native port: `40258`

The real, original DarkeLIB circa 1999 ("Daybreak Ridge"), a from-scratch English-language Lima/Nightmare/TMI-lineage MudOS mudlib -- the actual ancestor codebase this project's already-onboarded rifts2 (RiftsMUD2) later forked into a Rifts-setting reskin. This fork (thraeq/DarkeLIB) is the community-maintained, more actively FluffOS-adapted branch, carrying two decades (1999-2018) of real hand-built areas rather than a stock demo. The world's own creation myth (Drizzt's bundled HISTORY document) opens with a solitary god called the Demiurge abandoning an imperfect creation to a struggle between Ethereals and Elves that eventually produces every playable race -- Humans, Dwarves, Gnomes, Orcs, Trolls, Sprites, Wood-Elves -- through slavery, experimentation, and a world-shaping Great War. Individual zones build on that backdrop with their own micro-lore: the Village of Nalon (arm_dealers) is a monastery of hand-to-hand and mind-discipline monks founded by a war-weary pacifist warrior; Illuminarae's mansion sits on ground poisoned by an elven bio-weapon that went catastrophically wrong on its own makers; the Nocte Undead Grounds are a canyon-and-tunnel necropolis of skeletons, ghouls, and bandits; Damned runs a set of named story quests (recovering a lich-stolen soul for the adventurer Rufus Tenderfoot, a stolen Dead Rose, a missing emerald) rather than generic fetch tasks; and further zones (drizzt, khojem, warsyn, zortek, shadowraith, soulslayer, excelsior, diewarzau) add their own wizard-authored dungeons, spell lines, and boss fights on top.

## Play in the browser (WebAssembly)

- Landing page (description + notes): https://mudlibs.fluffos.info/darkelib/
- Play now (boots the WASM driver): https://mudlibs.fluffos.info/darkelib/play.html

## Download source ZIP

- Same-origin ZIP (trimmed source tree, no need to clone the whole repo):
  https://mudlibs.fluffos.info/darkelib/darkelib.zip
- GitHub tree: https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs/tree/main/libs/darkelib
- README: https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs/blob/main/libs/darkelib/README.md
- Restoration notes (NOTES.md): https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs/blob/main/libs/darkelib/NOTES.md

## Run natively with FluffOS

1. Build a current FluffOS driver from https://github.com/fluffos/fluffos
   (native `build` / `build-debug`; see that repo's docs).
2. Download and unzip `darkelib.zip` from the URL above (or clone
   `https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs` and use `libs/darkelib/`).
3. From the unzipped lib directory, ensure `config.fluffos` points
   `mudlib directory` at this tree (the checked-in file may contain a
   maintainer-local absolute path — edit it to your extract path).
4. Start the driver:

```bash
/path/to/fluffos/build/src/driver config.fluffos
```

5. Connect a UTF-8 MUD client to `127.0.0.1:40258`.

- Admin / wizard login: see this lib's README (no seeded account recorded)
- If you host this on a public network, change the published default
  admin password before opening the port.

## Machine-readable catalog

- Site-wide catalog: https://mudlibs.fluffos.info/games.json
- Site-wide LLM overview: https://mudlibs.fluffos.info/llms.txt
- This file: https://mudlibs.fluffos.info/darkelib/llms.txt