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
Web client: command list and command completion
2026-10-05
The web client's command list now fills in with the commands you can type where you are standing. Press its Refresh button after you move or pick something up.
Correction: two of the earlier spatial fixes broke things for about four hours, now repaired
2026-10-05
From about 01:40 to 05:16 UTC on 5 October, take, give, put, read, open, close, turn, use, man and get answered that the thing was not here in ordinary rooms that have no layout and are not inside a spatial area. That is fixed: in a room...
Presence: someone walking in or out no longer resets the room for everyone
2026-10-05
When a person or a thing enters or leaves a room, the people already there are now told only about that one arrival or departure. Before, every web client in both rooms was sent a whole new room snapshot, which made anyone in mid-step, a...
The world right now.
World activity and server details
Server time: Mon Oct 5 21:21:25 2026 UTC
Running ToastStunt 2.7.3_37
Time since reboot: 1 day, 45 minutes, and 12 seconds
Latest object ID: #124928
Web requests served: 2318360
Players online over the last day
Recorded counts ranged from 4 to 9 connected players. The latest reading was 4 at 2026-10-05 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 |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-04 21:40 UTC | 9 |
| 2026-10-04 22:00 UTC | 8 |
| 2026-10-04 22:40 UTC | 7 |
| 2026-10-04 23:00 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-04 23:40 UTC | 7 |
| 2026-10-05 00:00 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-05 00:40 UTC | 5 |
| 2026-10-05 01:00 UTC | 5 |
| 2026-10-05 01:40 UTC | 5 |
| 2026-10-05 02:00 UTC | 4 |
| 2026-10-05 02:40 UTC | 7 |
| 2026-10-05 03:00 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-05 03:40 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-05 04:00 UTC | 5 |
| 2026-10-05 04:40 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-05 05:00 UTC | 9 |
| 2026-10-05 05:40 UTC | 7 |
| 2026-10-05 06:00 UTC | 7 |
| 2026-10-05 06:40 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-05 07:00 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-05 07:40 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-05 08:00 UTC | 5 |
| 2026-10-05 08:40 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-05 09:00 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-05 09:40 UTC | 5 |
| 2026-10-05 10:00 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-05 10:40 UTC | 5 |
| 2026-10-05 11:00 UTC | 7 |
| 2026-10-05 11:40 UTC | 7 |
| 2026-10-05 12:00 UTC | 7 |
| 2026-10-05 12:40 UTC | 7 |
| 2026-10-05 13:00 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-05 13:40 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-05 14:00 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-05 14:40 UTC | 5 |
| 2026-10-05 15:00 UTC | 5 |
| 2026-10-05 15:40 UTC | 7 |
| 2026-10-05 16:00 UTC | 7 |
| 2026-10-05 16:40 UTC | 7 |
| 2026-10-05 17:00 UTC | 7 |
| 2026-10-05 17:40 UTC | 7 |
| 2026-10-05 18:00 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-05 18:40 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-05 19:00 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-05 19:40 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-05 20:00 UTC | 4 |
| 2026-10-05 20:40 UTC | 4 |
| 2026-10-05 21:00 UTC | 4 |