MongooseWhere programmers kick back and build silly things together.
Mongoose — a multiplayer text world

There's a cow
in the lab.

Explore a living text world shaped by the people in it. Meet friends and build something of your own.

You type commands. People answer. Sometimes the furniture does, too.

The client runs in your browser. You can visit as a guest.

> look
[glorp's Lab]
A compact, cluttered workspace.
A benchmark cow is near the north wall.

> say hello
You say, "hello."
A glimpse of the lab. The cow is really there.

A few doors to try.

  1. See who's here

    A list of connected players, plus people's homepages.

  2. Read something

    Books written here, and public mailing lists for the longer conversations.

  3. Look under the hood

    Browse objects and public MOO code. There's command help and a project task list (login required).

  4. Keep up with people elsewhere

    Use @fedi to follow and read ActivityPub and Bluesky feeds from inside Mongoose.

What's new

  1. Web client: reconnect without losing the conversation

    2026-10-22

    Reconnecting as the same character now keeps the conversation already in the output window, even when the browser cannot save it to storage. Changing characters still changes the displayed history. Clear Log continues to clear the conver...

  2. Web client: save logs to a folder

    2026-10-22

    In browsers that support folder access, Preferences, Logging now offers Save logs to a folder. Sign in, turn on autologging and choose a folder on your computer. Text logs go into a separate folder for each character; the browser keeps i...

  3. Web client: help in the sidebar

    2026-10-22

    The Help tab lets you look up a Mongoose help topic, follow links to related topics and go back to the previous page. Front page and Index give you places to start. Log in before looking up help.

Read the changelog

The world right now.

5players online
476registered players
21years of world history
World activity and server details

Server time: Thu Oct 22 07:21:07 2026 UTC
Running ToastStunt 2.7.3_37
Time since reboot: 7 days, 15 hours, 2 minutes, and 47 seconds
Latest object ID: #283180
Web requests served: 2450395

Players online over the last day

Recorded counts ranged from 4 to 7 connected players. The latest reading was 5 at 2026-10-22 07:00 UTC.

Each reading is the highest connected-player count observed in a 20-minute collection window, excluding network-link accounts. Gaps mean no reading was recorded.

Connected players during the last 24 hoursRecorded counts ranged from 4 to 7 connected players. The latest reading was 5 at 2026-10-22 07:00 UTC. Exact times and counts are available in the table below. 0 7 2026-10-21 07:40 UTC: 5 connected players 2026-10-21 08:00 UTC: 5 connected players 2026-10-21 08:40 UTC: 5 connected players 2026-10-21 09:00 UTC: 5 connected players 2026-10-21 09:40 UTC: 5 connected players 2026-10-21 10:00 UTC: 5 connected players 2026-10-21 10:40 UTC: 4 connected players 2026-10-21 11:00 UTC: 5 connected players 2026-10-21 11:40 UTC: 4 connected players 2026-10-21 12:00 UTC: 4 connected players 2026-10-21 12:40 UTC: 4 connected players 2026-10-21 13:00 UTC: 5 connected players 2026-10-21 13:40 UTC: 5 connected players 2026-10-21 14:00 UTC: 5 connected players 2026-10-21 14:40 UTC: 5 connected players 2026-10-21 15:00 UTC: 5 connected players 2026-10-21 15:40 UTC: 5 connected players 2026-10-21 16:00 UTC: 5 connected players 2026-10-21 16:40 UTC: 5 connected players 2026-10-21 17:00 UTC: 5 connected players 2026-10-21 17:40 UTC: 6 connected players 2026-10-21 18:00 UTC: 6 connected players 2026-10-21 18:40 UTC: 5 connected players 2026-10-21 19:00 UTC: 5 connected players 2026-10-21 19:40 UTC: 5 connected players 2026-10-21 20:00 UTC: 5 connected players 2026-10-21 20:40 UTC: 5 connected players 2026-10-21 21:00 UTC: 5 connected players 2026-10-21 21:40 UTC: 6 connected players 2026-10-21 22:00 UTC: 6 connected players 2026-10-21 22:40 UTC: 6 connected players 2026-10-21 23:00 UTC: 7 connected players 2026-10-21 23:40 UTC: 6 connected players 2026-10-22 00:00 UTC: 7 connected players 2026-10-22 00:40 UTC: 7 connected players 2026-10-22 01:00 UTC: 7 connected players 2026-10-22 01:40 UTC: 6 connected players 2026-10-22 02:00 UTC: 6 connected players 2026-10-22 02:40 UTC: 6 connected players 2026-10-22 03:00 UTC: 5 connected players 2026-10-22 03:40 UTC: 7 connected players 2026-10-22 04:00 UTC: 7 connected players 2026-10-22 04:40 UTC: 7 connected players 2026-10-22 05:00 UTC: 6 connected players 2026-10-22 05:40 UTC: 6 connected players 2026-10-22 06:00 UTC: 5 connected players 2026-10-22 06:40 UTC: 5 connected players 2026-10-22 07:00 UTC: 5 connected players 07:21 UTC 07:21 UTC
Read player counts as a table
Recorded online player counts; times are in UTC
Collection window startsConnected players
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