# 鹿鼎天下（游戏内实际品牌：雄霸天下『西安站』） / Deer and Cauldron World (Xi'an Station)

> slug: `ldtx` · browser status: `playable` · native port: `40105`

A Jin Yong wuxia crossover mudlib in the "Century (Shiji) / adm-single" engine family (sharing lineage with this project's shiji, shujian2008, xjcq2000, xkxz2, and xiakexing100), itself descended from ES II. New characters land in an opening inn where a fixed NPC named Wei Xiaobao (the hero of The Deer and the Cauldron) greets arrivals alongside a bantering shopkeeper and a small white dog, and the game explicitly asks players NOT to name their own character after an existing Jin Yong novel figure. Beyond the four core attributes (strength, aptitude, bone-structure, agility) there are hidden fate/appearance stats that gate puzzles and master-apprentice acceptance; apprenticeship dialogue name-checks Feng Qingyang (of Laughing Proud Wanderer), and distant regions reachable from the city include Dali, a Snow Mountain temple, and a Ming Cult mountain gate with named leadership NPCs (Wei Yixiao, Cheng Chaofeng) -- a genuine multi-novel Jin Yong crossover world, not a single-book reskin. Death knocks a character out in place with a stat penalty rather than sending them through a staged ghost/underworld sequence. The archive itself is named "Deer and Cauldron World," but the login banner brands the game "Xiongba Tianxia (Hero's Dominion), Xi'an Station" and the quit message still says "you have left Deer and Cauldron World" -- an incomplete historical rebrand. That same "Xiongba Tianxia" brand name is also used, independently, by this collection's unrelated xbtxiii codebase; a line-by-line check confirmed they only share a distant ES II ancestor, not a direct lineage.

## Play in the browser (WebAssembly)

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

## Download source ZIP

- Same-origin ZIP (trimmed source tree, no need to clone the whole repo):
  https://mudlibs.fluffos.info/ldtx/ldtx.zip
- GitHub tree: https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs/tree/main/libs/ldtx
- README: https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs/blob/main/libs/ldtx/README.md
- Restoration notes (NOTES.md): https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs/blob/main/libs/ldtx/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 `ldtx.zip` from the URL above (or clone
   `https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs` and use `libs/ldtx/`).
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 `127.0.0.1:40105`.

- 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/ldtx/llms.txt