# Foundation II / Foundation II LPC Library

> slug: `foundation2` · browser status: `playable` · native port: `40221`

A stripped-down classic descendant of the Nightmare mudlib lineage from the mid-1990s, positioned by its own boot banner as an engine for hardcore LPC programmers, not a beginner-friendly game world -- it ships no combat, limbs, or stats system at all. What shipped and works: a real first-boot admin-setup installation wizard, full login/registration, security/privs access control, command dispatch, help, mail, message boards, and Intermud-3 networking, plus one small starting domain. Two optional example/teaching content trees included in the archive reference an incompatible, differently-named room/item API from a different snapshot of this engine and don't compile, so they're not playable content.

## Play in the browser (WebAssembly)

- Landing page (description + notes): https://mudlibs.fluffos.info/foundation2/
- Play now (boots the WASM driver): https://mudlibs.fluffos.info/foundation2/play.html

## Download source ZIP

- Same-origin ZIP (trimmed source tree, no need to clone the whole repo):
  https://mudlibs.fluffos.info/foundation2/foundation2.zip
- GitHub tree: https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs/tree/main/libs/foundation2
- README: https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs/blob/main/libs/foundation2/README.md
- Restoration notes (NOTES.md): https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs/blob/main/libs/foundation2/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 `foundation2.zip` from the URL above (or clone
   `https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs` and use `libs/foundation2/`).
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 `127.0.0.1:40221`.

- 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/foundation2/llms.txt