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# The House of Icarus
**The House of Icarus** is a simple open source MUD inspired by classic early 2000s skilling MMOs like Runescape. It is a low-tech, neo-dark age, sci-fi game where edged weapons and bows are more common than computers and guns.
There is not much here yet.
# Gameplay
- Type and wait skilling.
- Attack and wait combat.
- Semi-AFK and active gameplay styles.
- 600ms game ticks.
- 28 slot inventory.
- Classless. Skills level 1-99 as you use them.
- Solo friendly just like you remember from 2001. Grind and chat with friends.
- Ironman-style, slow, grind up your own gear progression. Vendors generally don't sell craftable items.
- Non-violent ways to use combat skills with "dangerous work".
- Discoverable safespots for chill training ranged and science.
- A detailed casino for you to waste all the credits you grind up for.
## Skills
| Skill | Description |
| ------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Accuracy | How accurate you are with melee weapons. |
| Strength | How hard you hit with melee weapons. |
| Defense | With higher defense you are less likely to get hit. |
| Hit Points | Your HP is your maximum amount of health. |
| Ranged | Accuracy and effectiveness with using bows, guns, and thrown weapons. |
| Science | Accuracy and effectiveness using scrap for utility and combat. Almost magical! |
| Technology | Temporary togglable buffs that slowly drain your battery. Recharges at terminals. |
| Fishing | Relax, AFK, and catch some fish for easy food. |
| Mining | Relax, AFK, and mine some ore. Or do sweaty 3-tick mining to mine a lot of ore. |
| Woodcutting | The best skill. Chop trees to get wood. |
| Firemaking | Burn logs to watch this number increase. |
| Assassin | Take on jobs to slay large numbers of creatures and rivals for big rewards. |
| Hacking | Follow rumors using illegal computer skills for personal gain. |
| Thieving | Steal limitless credits and farming seeds from the rich NPCs of Vesta. |
| Scavenging | Pilfer junkyard scrap, then turn it into components for Science. |
| Farming | Grow your own food and reagents. You terraformed Vesta after all! |
| Cooking | Cook food for HP and other minor buffs with your fish and crops. |
| Smithing | Turn ore into bars. Turn bars into useful equipment and ammo! Modify weapons! |
| Crafting | Create jewelry, clothes, glass, pottery, and fine silver items. |
| Fletching | Create cheap low-tech bows, crossbows, darts, arrows, and bolts. |
| Pharmacy | Clean herbs and brew potions for temporary buffs. |
| Construction | Build a player-owned house for fast travel or to show off rare items. |
| Agility | Get more stamina and shorter wait times when AFK travelling with APS. |
# Building
Install Go then
```
git clone https://git.historia.vg/git/thehouseoficarus
cd thehouseoficarus
go build -o thoi ./cmd/thoi
./thoi
```
Telnet to the port configured in `config.yaml` or bring up the web client.
# Server Options (config.yaml)
The `thoi` binary checks for a file named config.yaml in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/thoi or the local directory. It creates one if it's not found.
The game is designed around 600ms ticks, but you can change the `tick_length` here. You can also set up telnet, SSL telnet, HTTP, and HTTPS on different ports here. For the secure options can provide a private key and certificate. Use something like [certbot](https://certbot.eff.org/). If you enable HTTPS/Telnet TLS without providing certs, a self-signed cert will be generated and used for you.
# AI Disclosure
The THOI **game engine and tools** are ~~completely vibe coded~~ ~~agentically engineered~~ written with "LLM assistance".
**LLMs do not generate any creative content** (e.g. story, characters, rooms, quests). LLMs do generate *example* content for dev testing, so you might see that somewhere, but not in the final game. I personally prefer mediocre solo dev writing to AI filler.
# License
0BSD. Do whatever you want. Have fun.
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