Basic Mud

In theory, this is a general purpose mud engine. However, we are making it just to scratch our own itch. We have added significant though far from complete set of features to the game. It is written in ruby, because that is the language we most enjoy.

As part of this, you can see a bit of documentation about our world, too.

Our World

No name yet.

Starting location is a city called Cragfall. Cragfall is a city-state that is neutral and democratic. It is ruled by the people. Becoming a citizen there is very difficult, though, and non-citizens are treated as second class. Most players will probably want to venture out in order to seek parties, friends, guilds, and other nations which may suit their character more.

Map

Map of Our World

Task List

[ ] Shops! Gotta be able to buy and sell your gear
[ ] Quests! Grinding is boring
[ ] Spells! Both in-combat and out-of-combat spell systems
[ ] Skills! Both in-combat and out-of-combat skill systems
[ ] Experience and leveling system
[ ] Auto-stat NPC system based on levels
[ ] NPC and item creation in-game
[ ] PvP? I think the current fight system supports this, but maybe we want special rules?
[ ] Websocket support + web client
[ ] Better creator mode, where you just "walk" and it creates rooms for you, no need to type tedious "create exit east 9"
[ ] Autogenerated "instances" that are random or semi-random to allow for variability. Mobs, rooms and items can all be random within it.
[ ] Areas or bundling of rooms that give more information

Admin setup (production)

There is a default user: Admin with the default password 'password'. You'll need to reset the password or delete the account if that's not the admin char you would like to use.

You'll need to find a way to psql into the postgres server. We run postgres as a tied-off network in production (you can see that in the infra/ folder). So, we actually need to run a container with access to it in order to give ourselves admin access.

ssh <server>
cd $APP_HOME/basic_mud/infra
docker-compose run mud /bin/bash
$ apt-get install postgresql-client
$ psql $DATABASE_URL
$$ update classless_mud_players set level = 101 where id = 1;

Dev setup

Server

bundle
./bin/classless_mud scaffold
./bin/classless_mud init
./bin/classless_mud start

Server - Docker

docker-compose build
docker-compose up -d db
docker-compose run mud ./bin/classless_mud init
docker-compose up -d

Client

telnet localhost 2000

pmcfadden / basic_mud

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