MongooseThere'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 few doors to try.
See who's here
A list of connected players, plus people's homepages.
Read something
Books written here, and public mailing lists for the longer conversations.
Look under the hood
Browse objects and public MOO code. There's command help and a project task list (login required).
Keep up with people elsewhere
Use
@fedito follow and read ActivityPub and Bluesky feeds from inside Mongoose.
What's new
Mongoose website refresh: layout, public browsing, help, news and sharing
2026-09-30
Refreshed mongoose.world with a responsive shared layout, clearer navigation, browser-client links, keyboard focus styles and a skip link. Removed obsolete login widgets and dead links.
Notifications: $notifications framework and six feeders
2026-09-28
$notifications (#11223) is a new notification system for reaching players whether or not they're online.
Help system section 2: quick content fixes
2026-09-24
Moved the $effects_pc programmer doc out of player help: new $prog_help topics effects-programming and effects-programming-waif; cleared $effects_pc.help_msg; removed effect_pc/effect from $playerhlp_db.
The world right now.
World activity and server details
Server time: Sun Oct 4 21:17:40 2026 UTC
Running ToastStunt 2.7.3_37
Time since reboot: 41 minutes and 27 seconds
Latest object ID: #69255
Web requests served: 2305500
Players online over the last day
Recorded counts ranged from 6 to 10 connected players. The latest reading was 10 at 2026-10-04 21:00 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.
Read player counts as a table
| Collection window starts | Connected players |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-03 21:40 UTC | 7 |
| 2026-10-03 22:00 UTC | 7 |
| 2026-10-03 22:40 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-03 23:00 UTC | 7 |
| 2026-10-03 23:40 UTC | 7 |
| 2026-10-04 00:00 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-04 00:40 UTC | 7 |
| 2026-10-04 01:00 UTC | 7 |
| 2026-10-04 01:40 UTC | 8 |
| 2026-10-04 02:00 UTC | 8 |
| 2026-10-04 02:40 UTC | 8 |
| 2026-10-04 03:00 UTC | 8 |
| 2026-10-04 03:40 UTC | 8 |
| 2026-10-04 04:00 UTC | 8 |
| 2026-10-04 04:40 UTC | 8 |
| 2026-10-04 05:00 UTC | 8 |
| 2026-10-04 05:40 UTC | 8 |
| 2026-10-04 06:00 UTC | 8 |
| 2026-10-04 06:40 UTC | 8 |
| 2026-10-04 07:00 UTC | 8 |
| 2026-10-04 07:40 UTC | 8 |
| 2026-10-04 08:00 UTC | 8 |
| 2026-10-04 08:40 UTC | 8 |
| 2026-10-04 09:00 UTC | 8 |
| 2026-10-04 09:40 UTC | 8 |
| 2026-10-04 10:00 UTC | 8 |
| 2026-10-04 10:40 UTC | 9 |
| 2026-10-04 11:00 UTC | 9 |
| 2026-10-04 11:40 UTC | 9 |
| 2026-10-04 12:00 UTC | 9 |
| 2026-10-04 12:40 UTC | 8 |
| 2026-10-04 13:00 UTC | 8 |
| 2026-10-04 13:40 UTC | 9 |
| 2026-10-04 14:00 UTC | 9 |
| 2026-10-04 14:40 UTC | 9 |
| 2026-10-04 15:00 UTC | 9 |
| 2026-10-04 15:40 UTC | 9 |
| 2026-10-04 16:00 UTC | 9 |
| 2026-10-04 16:40 UTC | 9 |
| 2026-10-04 17:00 UTC | 8 |
| 2026-10-04 17:40 UTC | 8 |
| 2026-10-04 18:00 UTC | 8 |
| 2026-10-04 18:40 UTC | 8 |
| 2026-10-04 19:00 UTC | 8 |
| 2026-10-04 19:40 UTC | 8 |
| 2026-10-04 20:00 UTC | 9 |
| 2026-10-04 20:40 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-04 21:00 UTC | 10 |