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
Interact mode says exits in full
2026-11-02
In the web client's interact mode, Tab now says "north exit" or "up exit" where it used to say "n exit" or "u exit".
Interact: exits come first
2026-11-02
interact e, interact n and the other exit names now always mean the exit. Before, if something here or in your hands had a name starting with that letter (Effect PC, a newspaper rack), interact opened its menu instead. Interact mode in t...
Web client: interact mode now plays a sound for each thing, and lets you type
2026-11-02
In interact mode (Alt+backtick), each thing plays a short sound when you land on it, coming from where it is in the room. Exits have a sound of their own, played from the doorway.
The world right now.
World activity and server details
Server time: Mon Nov 2 19:19:21 2026 UTC
Running ToastStunt 2.7.3_37
Time since reboot: 5 days, 3 minutes, and 55 seconds
Latest object ID: #285718
Web requests served: 2651015
Players online over the last day
Recorded counts ranged from 4 to 26 connected players. The latest reading was 5 at 2026-11-02 19:00 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 |
|---|---|
| 2026-11-01 19:40 UTC | 5 |
| 2026-11-01 20:00 UTC | 4 |
| 2026-11-01 20:40 UTC | 4 |
| 2026-11-01 21:00 UTC | 4 |
| 2026-11-01 21:40 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-11-01 22:00 UTC | 10 |
| 2026-11-01 22:40 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-11-01 23:00 UTC | 4 |
| 2026-11-01 23:40 UTC | 5 |
| 2026-11-02 00:00 UTC | 7 |
| 2026-11-02 00:40 UTC | 13 |
| 2026-11-02 01:00 UTC | 16 |
| 2026-11-02 01:40 UTC | 17 |
| 2026-11-02 02:00 UTC | 20 |
| 2026-11-02 02:40 UTC | 20 |
| 2026-11-02 03:00 UTC | 21 |
| 2026-11-02 03:40 UTC | 21 |
| 2026-11-02 04:00 UTC | 21 |
| 2026-11-02 04:40 UTC | 20 |
| 2026-11-02 05:00 UTC | 21 |
| 2026-11-02 05:40 UTC | 23 |
| 2026-11-02 06:00 UTC | 26 |
| 2026-11-02 06:40 UTC | 21 |
| 2026-11-02 07:00 UTC | 20 |
| 2026-11-02 07:40 UTC | 20 |
| 2026-11-02 08:00 UTC | 19 |
| 2026-11-02 08:40 UTC | 19 |
| 2026-11-02 09:00 UTC | 19 |
| 2026-11-02 09:40 UTC | 5 |
| 2026-11-02 10:00 UTC | 4 |
| 2026-11-02 10:40 UTC | 4 |
| 2026-11-02 11:00 UTC | 4 |
| 2026-11-02 11:40 UTC | 4 |
| 2026-11-02 12:00 UTC | 4 |
| 2026-11-02 12:40 UTC | 4 |
| 2026-11-02 13:00 UTC | 4 |
| 2026-11-02 13:40 UTC | 4 |
| 2026-11-02 14:00 UTC | 4 |
| 2026-11-02 14:40 UTC | 4 |
| 2026-11-02 15:00 UTC | 4 |
| 2026-11-02 15:40 UTC | 5 |
| 2026-11-02 16:00 UTC | 5 |
| 2026-11-02 16:40 UTC | 5 |
| 2026-11-02 17:00 UTC | 5 |
| 2026-11-02 17:40 UTC | 5 |
| 2026-11-02 18:00 UTC | 5 |
| 2026-11-02 18:40 UTC | 5 |
| 2026-11-02 19:00 UTC | 5 |