# Dead Souls 3.0 / Dead Souls 3.0

> slug: `dsIII` · browser status: `playable` · native port: `40229`

The real, self-identified 'Dead Souls' object library at its 3.0 point release (December 2009) -- an early snapshot of the same 3.x codebase branch that later became the 3.8.6 generation, several point releases and years earlier, with seven of that later version's nine domains: a default starting area, a town, the example town Ylsrim, an LPC-University-style campus, a cave zone, an examples area, and Praxis. Registration includes an age gate ('Are you 13 years of age or older?') followed by a race pick from eight options -- dwarf, elf, half-elf, half-orc, halfling, human, orc, or poleepkwa -- and, like dsII, the very first account ever created walks through a one-time admin-installation wizard before the mud restarts into its normal login flow. This is the most network-connected mud in the collection: it dials out to a live IMC2 hub and a separate Intermud-3 network on every boot, and even a bare, unattended boot triggers an automatic version-check that fetches the still-live dead-souls.net's release notes over a real HTTP connection.

## Play in the browser (WebAssembly)

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

## Download source ZIP

- Same-origin ZIP (trimmed source tree, no need to clone the whole repo):
  https://mudlibs.fluffos.info/dsIII/dsIII.zip
- GitHub tree: https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs/tree/main/libs/dsIII
- README: https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs/blob/main/libs/dsIII/README.md
- Restoration notes (NOTES.md): https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs/blob/main/libs/dsIII/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 `dsIII.zip` from the URL above (or clone
   `https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs` and use `libs/dsIII/`).
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 `127.0.0.1:40229`.

- 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/dsIII/llms.txt