Welcome to The Scourge Forest

The Scourge Forest is a Multi-User Dungeon (MUD) built upon the Evennia game engine set in a RPI world with a mixture of action-adventure and hack-n-slash gameplay.

Features

• Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) 5E Game Systems (d20)
  • All Backgrounds/Classes/Races/Skills
• Level Progression System
  • 30 levels across the core D&D 5E classes (no multi-classing)
• Unique Story Driven Content
  • Experience a new story and set of adventures with The Scourge Forest
  • Hundreds of items, armor, weapons, and monsters all heavily influenced from 5E
• Instanced Areas & Adventure System
  • Play adventures entirely solo without disruption from others
  • Content scales to your level and to your group
• Rogue-like Gameplay
  • Adventures, combat, quests, and story delivered through old school menu-style screens
• Powered by Evennia
  • Evennia is a modern library for creating [online multiplayer text games][wikimudpage] (MUD, MUSH, MUX, MUCK, MOO etc) in pure Python. It allows game creators to design and flesh out their ideas with great freedom.

Getting Started

To get started, you must first install the following prerequisites.

Prerequisites

• Linux/Unix
• Windows (Vista, Win7, Win8, Win10)
• Mac OSX (>=10.5 recommended)
• Python (v3.7, 3.8 are tested)
  • virtualenv for making isolated Python environments.
  • Twisted (v19.0+)
  • ZopeInterface (v3.0+) - usually included in Twisted packages
  • Linux/Mac users may need the gcc and python-dev packages or equivalent.
  • Windows users need MS Visual C++ and maybe pypiwin32.
  • Django (v2.2.x), latest dev version is usually untested with Evennia
• GIT - version control software

Installation

Choose the installation path that best fits your environment.

Linux Installation

If you run into any issues during the installation and first start, please check out Linux Troubleshooting.

For Debian-derived systems (like Ubuntu, Mint etc), start a terminal and install the dependencies:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python3 python3-pip python3-dev python3-setuptools python3-git python3-virtualenv gcc

# If you are using an Ubuntu version that defaults to Python3, like 18.04+, use this instead:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python3.7 python3-pip python3.7-dev python3-setuptools virtualenv gcc

Note that, the default Python version for your distribution may still not be Python3.7 after this. This is ok - we'll specify exactly which Python to use later. You should make sure to not be root after this step, running as root is a security risk. Now create a folder where you want to do all your Evennia development.

Find a location or mkdir a folder to clone The Scourge Forest.

git clone https://github.com/TehFamine/the_scourge_forest.git

A new folder the_scourge_forest will appear containing the source code for the game. To isolate the the game code install and its dependencies from the rest of the system, it is good Python practice to install into a virtualenv. Then cd the_scourge_forest and run the following:

Run python -V to see which version of Python your system defaults to.

# If your Linux defaults to Python3.7+:
virtualenv tsfv

# If your Linux defaults to Python2 or an older version 
# of Python3, you must instead point to Python3.7+ explicitly:
virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python3.7 tsfv

A new folder tsfv will appear (we could have called it anything). This folder will hold a self-contained setup of Python packages without interfering with default Python packages on your system (or the Linux distro lagging behind on Python package versions). It will also always use the right version of Python. Activate the virtualenv:

source tsfv/bin/activate

The text (tsfv) should appear next to your prompt to show that the virtual environment is active.

Remember that you need to activate the virtualenv like this every time you start a new terminal to get access to the Python packages (notably the important evennia program) we are about to install.

Let's go one hop outside the game folder to snag Evennia.

cd ../
git clone https://github.com/evennia/evennia.git

A new folder evennia will appear containing the Evennia library. This only contains the source code though, it is not installed yet. (so you see the evennia/ and the_scourge_forest/ folders) and go back into the game source

cd the_scourge_forest
pip install -e ../evennia

Your final folder structure should look like this:

./the_scourge_forest
    commands/
    server/
    typeclasses
    tsfv/
    etc..

Once you install Evennia, it should install all the dependancies for the game. These dependancies will be stored in that virtual environment tsfv everytime you activate it. To activate and start the MUD, simply type:

evennia migrate      # (this creates the database)
evennia start        # (create a superuser when asked. Email is optional.)

Server logs are found in the_scourge_forest/server/logs/. To easily view server logs live in the terminal, use evennia -l (exit the log-view with Ctrl-C).

Your game should now be running! Open a web browser at http://localhost:4001 or point a telnet client to localhost:4000 and log in with the user you created. Check out where to go next.

Acknowledgements

• Evennia