# Foundation I / Foundation I

> slug: `foundation1` · browser status: `playable` · native port: `40248`

A stripped-down, classic Nightmare-3.3-derived LPC library released by George Reese ("Descartes of Borg") in April 1995 -- a bare engine (login/registration, security, command dispatch, help, mail, message boards, Intermud-3) with no combat, limbs, or stats system at all, meant as a clean base for LPC programmers to build their own game on top of, not a playable-out-of-the-box world. This is the direct, earlier ancestor of this collection's separate `foundation2` (a distinct, more developed later release by the same author) -- not a duplicate. The one shipped starting room is a softly-lit cavern with magic pools, with the real player command set (look/status/inventory/quit and more) fully implemented. An optional teaching content tree references an incompatible room/item API from a different snapshot of this engine and doesn't compile, a pre-existing content mismatch. Like foundation2, this lib makes a real outbound Intermud-3 socket connection at boot (to a near-certainly-defunct 1990s host) and should not be swept into high-frequency automated re-boot loops.

## Play in the browser (WebAssembly)

- Landing page (description + notes): https://mudlibs.fluffos.info/foundation1/
- Play now (boots the WASM driver): https://mudlibs.fluffos.info/foundation1/play.html

## Download source ZIP

- Same-origin ZIP (trimmed source tree, no need to clone the whole repo):
  https://mudlibs.fluffos.info/foundation1/foundation1.zip
- GitHub tree: https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs/tree/main/libs/foundation1
- README: https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs/blob/main/libs/foundation1/README.md
- Restoration notes (NOTES.md): https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs/blob/main/libs/foundation1/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 `foundation1.zip` from the URL above (or clone
   `https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs` and use `libs/foundation1/`).
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 `127.0.0.1:40248`.

- 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/foundation1/llms.txt