# 红尘 / Red Dust

> slug: `hc` · browser status: `playable` · native port: `40107`

An independent wuxia MUD within the ES II engine lineage, whose full in-game title is “红尘录” (Chronicle of the Red Dust). New characters land in one of four randomly-chosen starting locations, the most distinctive being a Uyghur frontier town (北疆小镇) where NPCs greet arrivals in dialect (“小波郎子呀克西”) -- a rare northwestern-frontier setting among this collection's otherwise Jiangnan/central-plains wuxia worlds; the other three are a temple's main hall (housing legendary/historical figures such as Zhuge Liang, leading on to a “Hall of Fame”), a Quanzhou ironclad town, and an inn. Characters roll six attributes -- four visible, two hidden (luck and looks) that quietly influence encounters and mentorship opportunities -- and the login screen displays running lifetime-registration and peak-concurrency statistics. The admin rank hierarchy tops out at (boss), above the more usual (admin).

## Play in the browser (WebAssembly)

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

## Download source ZIP

- Same-origin ZIP (trimmed source tree, no need to clone the whole repo):
  https://mudlibs.fluffos.info/hc/hc.zip
- GitHub tree: https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs/tree/main/libs/hc
- README: https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs/blob/main/libs/hc/README.md
- Restoration notes (NOTES.md): https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs/blob/main/libs/hc/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 `hc.zip` from the URL above (or clone
   `https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs` and use `libs/hc/`).
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 `127.0.0.1:40107`.

- Admin / wizard login: `fluffos` / `Mud@2026`
- 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/hc/llms.txt