# OpenLib / OpenLib

> slug: `openlib` · browser status: `playable` · native port: `40245`

A real MudOS v22.1a6-era mudlib (formerly "UltraLib") by Tim McIntosh, released as a single alpha snapshot (v0.1) in late 1996 before development ceased -- genuinely distinct from every other lib in this collection: a from-scratch English-language codebase built around a UNIX-flavored security and shell model rather than the usual Chinese-wuxia lineage. Login bootstraps by connecting as the literal username "root" (a privileged bootstrap account defined in security.h), then uses in-game commands (mkwiz/addmem/chmem) to promote a real admin character before retiring root's own privileges. Access control is entirely privilege-based (a custom D_ACCESS-style security_d.lpc consulting per-directory read/write protection tables walked up the path hierarchy) with no driver uid usage at all. Players get a real UNIX-like shell (nmsh, a "new mud shell" supporting cd/pwd/pushd/popd/aliases/history) as their command interpreter rather than a flat verb table, and the archive ships a working FTP daemon, finger daemon, and HTTP daemon as real listening services alongside the game itself. The shipped content is deliberately minimal (GETTING_STARTED admits "the lib is incomplete") -- a single starting room at the exact center of the mudlib's universe with two exits, and a handful of unfinished example object classes (a generic shop, money, a zombie) that reference the original author's own never-shipped personal test items under his own /u/ wizard directory. English-language content throughout.

## Play in the browser (WebAssembly)

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

## Download source ZIP

- Same-origin ZIP (trimmed source tree, no need to clone the whole repo):
  https://mudlibs.fluffos.info/openlib/openlib.zip
- GitHub tree: https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs/tree/main/libs/openlib
- README: https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs/blob/main/libs/openlib/README.md
- Restoration notes (NOTES.md): https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs/blob/main/libs/openlib/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 `openlib.zip` from the URL above (or clone
   `https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs` and use `libs/openlib/`).
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 `127.0.0.1:40245`.

- 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/openlib/llms.txt