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
Wizards no longer join Wizards and wizinfo on connect
2026-10-23
Wizards no longer join Wizards and wizinfo on connect. If you turned them off, they should now stay off.
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...
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...
The world right now.
World activity and server details
Server time: Fri Oct 23 07:43:01 2026 UTC
Running ToastStunt 2.7.3_37
Time since reboot: 8 days, 15 hours, 24 minutes, and 41 seconds
Latest object ID: #283491
Web requests served: 2463162
Players online over the last day
Recorded counts ranged from 5 to 8 connected players. The latest reading was 7 at 2026-10-23 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.
Read player counts as a table
| Collection window starts | Connected players |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-22 08:00 UTC | 5 |
| 2026-10-22 08:40 UTC | 5 |
| 2026-10-22 09:00 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-22 09:40 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-22 10:00 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-22 10:40 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-22 11:00 UTC | 5 |
| 2026-10-22 11:40 UTC | 5 |
| 2026-10-22 12:00 UTC | 5 |
| 2026-10-22 12:40 UTC | 5 |
| 2026-10-22 13:00 UTC | 5 |
| 2026-10-22 13:40 UTC | 5 |
| 2026-10-22 14:00 UTC | 5 |
| 2026-10-22 14:40 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-22 15:00 UTC | 7 |
| 2026-10-22 15:40 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-22 16:00 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-22 16:40 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-22 17:00 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-22 17:40 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-22 18:00 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-22 18:40 UTC | 7 |
| 2026-10-22 19:00 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-22 19:40 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-22 20:00 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-22 20:40 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-22 21:00 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-22 21:40 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-22 22:00 UTC | 5 |
| 2026-10-22 22:40 UTC | 5 |
| 2026-10-22 23:00 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-22 23:40 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-23 00:00 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-23 00:40 UTC | 7 |
| 2026-10-23 01:00 UTC | 8 |
| 2026-10-23 01:40 UTC | 8 |
| 2026-10-23 02:00 UTC | 8 |
| 2026-10-23 02:40 UTC | 7 |
| 2026-10-23 03:00 UTC | 8 |
| 2026-10-23 03:40 UTC | 7 |
| 2026-10-23 04:00 UTC | 7 |
| 2026-10-23 04:40 UTC | 8 |
| 2026-10-23 05:00 UTC | 7 |
| 2026-10-23 05:40 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-23 06:00 UTC | 5 |
| 2026-10-23 06:40 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-23 07:00 UTC | 7 |