# 金庸群侠传 (原名"侠客行三") / Heroes of Jin Yong (formerly Xia Ke Xing III)

> slug: `xiakexing3` · browser status: `playable` · native port: `40038`

Both the archive and its internal config call this game "Xia Ke Xing III" (the literal text of its connect-time /adm/etc/welcome banner), but its in-game MOTD and doc/help files consistently self-identify as "Heroes of Jin Yong" (Jin Yong Qun Xia Zhuan). A direct file comparison confirms it shares its core master codebase not just with this collection's jqxz2008/jqxz2008dlx/jqxz2008std/jqxz2015 series (91% of shared-path files byte-identical) but, more closely than either side previously realized, with this collection's own xiakexing2017 (80-84% identical) — one server program and base game world (tea-house/inn start, martial-arts training, sect recruitment) produced across several separately-branded content snapshots. New characters can join the jianghu's sects and make their way through a full death-and-revival cycle: dying takes them from the inn through the Gate of Ghosts (escorted by White Guard), then the Fengdu city gates (Black Guard), before automatic revival at the Wu Temple, entirely NPC-driven once a character's "earthly span" hasn't run out.

## Play in the browser (WebAssembly)

- Landing page (description + notes): https://mudlibs.fluffos.info/xiakexing3/
- Play now (boots the WASM driver): https://mudlibs.fluffos.info/xiakexing3/play.html

## Download source ZIP

- Same-origin ZIP (trimmed source tree, no need to clone the whole repo):
  https://mudlibs.fluffos.info/xiakexing3/xiakexing3.zip
- GitHub tree: https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs/tree/main/libs/xiakexing3
- README: https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs/blob/main/libs/xiakexing3/README.md
- Restoration notes (NOTES.md): https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs/blob/main/libs/xiakexing3/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 `xiakexing3.zip` from the URL above (or clone
   `https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs` and use `libs/xiakexing3/`).
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 `127.0.0.1:40038`.

- 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/xiakexing3/llms.txt