# 西游记 (A Journey to the West) / A Journey to the West

> slug: `xiyouji` · browser status: `playable` · native port: `40079`

Self-titled "A Journey to the West," version 2.01, originally created 1996-1998. This project's research concludes it is very likely the earliest ancestor of the entire "ES II / Journey to the West" engine family (which includes xyj2000f, mhxy, xiyouji2003, xiyouji2006, xiyouji450, shenmo, and other sibling games in this collection) — its files carry the earliest timestamps and show none of the "cracker" credit lines later sites added. Set in the world of the original novel, players set out from Chang'an to explore the story's iconic locations (the Silk-Web Cave, Five-Finger Mountain, the South Sea, and more). As the wellspring of the whole Journey to the West MUD lineage its world content is comparatively simple, the most primitive form in the series and a useful baseline for comparing how the later branches evolved.

## Play in the browser (WebAssembly)

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

## Download source ZIP

- Same-origin ZIP (trimmed source tree, no need to clone the whole repo):
  https://mudlibs.fluffos.info/xiyouji/xiyouji.zip
- GitHub tree: https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs/tree/main/libs/xiyouji
- README: https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs/blob/main/libs/xiyouji/README.md
- Restoration notes (NOTES.md): https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs/blob/main/libs/xiyouji/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 `xiyouji.zip` from the URL above (or clone
   `https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs` and use `libs/xiyouji/`).
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 `127.0.0.1:40079`.

- 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/xiyouji/llms.txt