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
Newly built ships: consoles, the hull outside, and airlock hatches
2026-10-09
Consoles on a newly built ship are now connected to it from the start, so ship alerts and console sounds reach every station without anyone having to install them. A console only plays its sound when someone is in the room to hear it.
Turbolifts on newly built ships
2026-10-09
Every ship built from a class used to get a turbolift with a phantom extra stop named after the ship class, and on Nova class ships the Bridge button was mislabelled Deck 1, so there were two Deck 1 buttons and no Bridge.
Room modules can say which way they face
2026-10-09
Text in a room module can now name directions with tokens such as $north, $up, $port and $fore. Each copy that is placed reads correctly for the way it faces, so a mirrored cabin says its door is in the northwest corner where the origina...
The world right now.
World activity and server details
Server time: Fri Oct 9 21:54:02 2026 UTC
Running ToastStunt 2.7.3_37
Time since reboot: 5 days, 1 hour, 17 minutes, and 49 seconds
Latest object ID: #225536
Web requests served: 2349414
Players online over the last day
Recorded counts ranged from 4 to 9 connected players. The latest reading was 5 at 2026-10-09 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 |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-08 22:00 UTC | 4 |
| 2026-10-08 22:40 UTC | 8 |
| 2026-10-08 23:00 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-08 23:40 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-09 00:00 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-09 00:40 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-09 01:00 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-09 01:40 UTC | 5 |
| 2026-10-09 02:00 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-09 02:40 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-09 03:00 UTC | 5 |
| 2026-10-09 03:40 UTC | 5 |
| 2026-10-09 04:00 UTC | 5 |
| 2026-10-09 04:40 UTC | 5 |
| 2026-10-09 05:00 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-09 05:40 UTC | 7 |
| 2026-10-09 06:00 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-09 06:40 UTC | 5 |
| 2026-10-09 07:00 UTC | 5 |
| 2026-10-09 07:40 UTC | 5 |
| 2026-10-09 08:00 UTC | 5 |
| 2026-10-09 08:40 UTC | 5 |
| 2026-10-09 09:00 UTC | 5 |
| 2026-10-09 09:40 UTC | 5 |
| 2026-10-09 10:00 UTC | 5 |
| 2026-10-09 10:40 UTC | 5 |
| 2026-10-09 11:00 UTC | 5 |
| 2026-10-09 11:40 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-09 12:00 UTC | 5 |
| 2026-10-09 12:40 UTC | 4 |
| 2026-10-09 13:00 UTC | 5 |
| 2026-10-09 13:40 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-09 14:00 UTC | 5 |
| 2026-10-09 14:40 UTC | 5 |
| 2026-10-09 15:00 UTC | 5 |
| 2026-10-09 15:40 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-09 16:00 UTC | 7 |
| 2026-10-09 16:40 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-09 17:00 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-09 17:40 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-09 18:00 UTC | 5 |
| 2026-10-09 18:40 UTC | 5 |
| 2026-10-09 19:00 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-09 19:40 UTC | 9 |
| 2026-10-09 20:00 UTC | 7 |
| 2026-10-09 20:40 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-09 21:00 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-09 21:40 UTC | 5 |