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
Fourteen text-playable table games at The Arcadeum
2026-10-18
The Arcadeum has fourteen new table games, from Pig and Shut the Box to Hex, Quarto, Nine Men's Morris, Skull and Love Letter. Read help games for the full list and seat counts, or browse a title at the tables.
@dig works in rooms you own
2026-10-18
@dig now works only in a room you own. In anyone else's room it tells you so and changes nothing, whether you're making a new exit or changing an existing one. To connect your building to someone else's room, ask its owner.
Checkpoints and undo for your building: @wsv
2026-10-18
Builders can now save a checkpoint of what they're building, see what has changed since, and put changes back. Put the things you own into a workspace first:
The world right now.
World activity and server details
Server time: Sun Oct 18 22:02:01 2026 UTC
Running ToastStunt 2.7.3_37
Time since reboot: 4 days, 5 hours, 43 minutes, and 41 seconds
Latest object ID: #283264
Web requests served: 2423199
Players online over the last day
Recorded counts ranged from 4 to 23 connected players. The latest reading was 4 at 2026-10-18 21:40 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 |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-17 22:40 UTC | 5 |
| 2026-10-17 23:00 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-17 23:40 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-18 00:00 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-18 00:40 UTC | 7 |
| 2026-10-18 01:00 UTC | 8 |
| 2026-10-18 01:40 UTC | 8 |
| 2026-10-18 02:00 UTC | 12 |
| 2026-10-18 02:40 UTC | 11 |
| 2026-10-18 03:00 UTC | 15 |
| 2026-10-18 03:40 UTC | 17 |
| 2026-10-18 04:00 UTC | 22 |
| 2026-10-18 04:40 UTC | 21 |
| 2026-10-18 05:00 UTC | 17 |
| 2026-10-18 05:40 UTC | 23 |
| 2026-10-18 06:00 UTC | 17 |
| 2026-10-18 06:40 UTC | 19 |
| 2026-10-18 07:00 UTC | 19 |
| 2026-10-18 07:40 UTC | 23 |
| 2026-10-18 08:00 UTC | 17 |
| 2026-10-18 08:40 UTC | 15 |
| 2026-10-18 09:00 UTC | 15 |
| 2026-10-18 09:40 UTC | 15 |
| 2026-10-18 10:00 UTC | 14 |
| 2026-10-18 10:40 UTC | 15 |
| 2026-10-18 11:00 UTC | 14 |
| 2026-10-18 11:40 UTC | 14 |
| 2026-10-18 12:00 UTC | 14 |
| 2026-10-18 12:40 UTC | 14 |
| 2026-10-18 13:00 UTC | 14 |
| 2026-10-18 13:40 UTC | 14 |
| 2026-10-18 14:00 UTC | 14 |
| 2026-10-18 14:40 UTC | 14 |
| 2026-10-18 15:00 UTC | 14 |
| 2026-10-18 15:40 UTC | 11 |
| 2026-10-18 16:00 UTC | 12 |
| 2026-10-18 16:40 UTC | 14 |
| 2026-10-18 17:00 UTC | 10 |
| 2026-10-18 17:40 UTC | 9 |
| 2026-10-18 18:00 UTC | 9 |
| 2026-10-18 18:40 UTC | 9 |
| 2026-10-18 19:00 UTC | 8 |
| 2026-10-18 19:40 UTC | 8 |
| 2026-10-18 20:00 UTC | 7 |
| 2026-10-18 20:40 UTC | 7 |
| 2026-10-18 21:00 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-18 21:40 UTC | 4 |