Magma MUD - An old-school MUD codebase derived from DIKU, Merc, Envy, and UltraEnvy that runs on Windows and Linux.

This codebase was used as the basis for Basternae II: Phoenix Rising MUD, which had a good vs. evil races PvP theme. Unlike its ancestors, Magma allows players to attack each other freely and has a system for tallying "frags", which are the net number of kills of the enemy side minus the number of times you've died in combat against the other side.

There was also a Basternae 3 MUD project. It did not use this code, but rather a new codebase written using C# .NET. That codebase has been open-sourced as the ModernMUD codebase, available at https://github.com/xangis/ModernMUD and zones from magma can be converted to run with it using the ModernMUDConverter which is available at https://github.com/Xangis/ModernMUDConverter

It is written in C and runs on Windows or Linux. Check the files in /doc/Licenses for the various licenses that apply (there are a bunch -- this has inherited from a long branch of the DIKU MUD family tree).

Documentation is in the /doc directory. Start with README.TXT and go from there.

The changelog is in /doc/magma_changes.txt. See that for changes made in each version.

As a quick start to building and running:

This project has recently switched to CMake. If you have cmake installed, run:

cmake .

make

sudo make install

We no longer use makefiles to build. See version 3.05 or earlier for makefiles.

Run startup.sh or startup.bat in the src directory once the application has been built. Or, on Linux, just run "magma" from the command line.

By default the MUD runs on port 4001. You can connect to that port via telnet in order to play the game.

The default admin login is Superuser with a password of password. You'll want to change that.

On Linux, you can set the path of your data files by setting the MAGMA_HOME environment variable. Otherwise it will default to /usr/local/share/magma/

Magma is not currently under active development, but I do make changes to it from time to time to ensure that it can be built on a modern system.

Earliest versions ran on Red Hat Linux in 2000, some version before 7.0. The newest Linux distribution this has been tested with is Ubuntu 18.04.

I am willing to accept pull requests if you have improvements to contribute.