# Dead Souls II / Dead Souls II

> slug: `dsII` · browser status: `playable` · native port: `40228`

The real, self-identified 'Dead Souls Mud Library II,' released as public domain by Cratylus in November 2006 -- a distinct middle generation of the Dead Souls object library, between the earlier Nightmare-IV-era snapshot and the later, much larger 3.8.6 generation. A brand-new install walks the very first connecting player through a genuine first-boot admin-setup wizard (name, password, gender, display name, email, real name, and a race pick from seven options: halfling, elf, orc, half-orc, human, half-elf, or dwarf) before the mud restarts into its normal, ongoing registration flow. Four domains ship with the archive: a small default starting area, a town, an example town called Ylsrim with a pub, an armoury, a weaponsmith, a jar-and-lightning-bug minigame object, and a couple of deliberately 'broken' disease-item teaching examples, plus an LPC-University-themed campus area complete with a live greeter-bot NPC. The mud preloads a real Intermud-3 client and makes a genuine outbound connection to a live I3 nameserver a few seconds after every boot.

## Play in the browser (WebAssembly)

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

## Download source ZIP

- Same-origin ZIP (trimmed source tree, no need to clone the whole repo):
  https://mudlibs.fluffos.info/dsII/dsII.zip
- GitHub tree: https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs/tree/main/libs/dsII
- README: https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs/blob/main/libs/dsII/README.md
- Restoration notes (NOTES.md): https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs/blob/main/libs/dsII/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 `dsII.zip` from the URL above (or clone
   `https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs` and use `libs/dsII/`).
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 `127.0.0.1:40228`.

- 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/dsII/llms.txt