# Majik 4 / Majik 4

> slug: `majik4` · browser status: `playable` · native port: `40253`

A 1998-1999 hobbyist mudlib by Finnish author Tero Ilkka Leino ("namhas"), the fourth incarnation of his Majik project and a sharp architectural break from majik3 (also in this collection): instead of room objects, the whole game world is a real 2D grid rendered by a dedicated graphical client, driven over a custom binary-framed wire protocol rather than plain telnet. A fresh character rolls a race (human, elf, orc, troll, or dwarf) and lands in Hilltop Village -- a hand-built little town of named locations (a bank, a post office, a general store, the Hilltop Inn, an "Intersection," and a hilltop shrine called the Legendary Hilltop of the Gods with a nearby Plaque of Explorers) populated by a banker, grocer, innkeeper, guard, and a hermit NPC forever muttering about the application he's filling out to become a wizard "greater than Namhas itself" -- a wink at the author's own handle. West of the village lies Bral Gaur, a dwarven area named and lettered in Gwel, an invented dwarven conlang with its own noun/verb/adjective word lists bundled in the archive. The project's own README candidly admits development stopped while the engine was "almost, still not even beta," before the team moved on to a planned 3D successor (majik3d) that was never released -- so wilderness beyond the two hand-authored areas is thin, and the terrain generator that would have filled it in was never finished as portable code. See also majik3, the same author's 1997-1998 predecessor project.

## Play in the browser (WebAssembly)

- Landing page (description + notes): https://mudlibs.fluffos.info/majik4/
- Play now (boots the WASM driver): https://mudlibs.fluffos.info/majik4/play.html

## Download source ZIP

- Same-origin ZIP (trimmed source tree, no need to clone the whole repo):
  https://mudlibs.fluffos.info/majik4/majik4.zip
- GitHub tree: https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs/tree/main/libs/majik4
- README: https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs/blob/main/libs/majik4/README.md
- Restoration notes (NOTES.md): https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs/blob/main/libs/majik4/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 `majik4.zip` from the URL above (or clone
   `https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs` and use `libs/majik4/`).
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 `127.0.0.1:40253`.

- 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/majik4/llms.txt