# Dead Souls 3.8.6 / Dead Souls 3.8.6

> slug: `ds386` · browser status: `playable` · native port: `40205`

The classic, widely-deployed "Dead Souls" LPC mudlib base (v3.8.6, released 2014), descended from Descartes of Borg's Nightmare mudlib. Unlike every other lib in this collection, Dead Souls isn't a themed game in its own right -- it's a generic, well-documented starter codebase that hundreds of real-world LPMuds have been built on top of, shipped here close to stock. A fresh boot runs its own first-time admin installation wizard (register the admin's name/password/gender, then the driver restarts itself), after which the world is the small stock demo area: a campus, a scripted line editor (ed/qed), a bulletin board, mail, an in-game creation system for builders, and a starter "Players Handbook" new characters are pointed at on login.

## Play in the browser (WebAssembly)

- Landing page (description + notes): https://mudlibs.fluffos.info/ds386/
- Play now (boots the WASM driver): https://mudlibs.fluffos.info/ds386/play.html

## Download source ZIP

- Same-origin ZIP (trimmed source tree, no need to clone the whole repo):
  https://mudlibs.fluffos.info/ds386/ds386.zip
- GitHub tree: https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs/tree/main/libs/ds386
- README: https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs/blob/main/libs/ds386/README.md
- Restoration notes (NOTES.md): https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs/blob/main/libs/ds386/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 `ds386.zip` from the URL above (or clone
   `https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs` and use `libs/ds386/`).
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 `127.0.0.1:40205`.

- 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/ds386/llms.txt