MongooseA living laboratory of myriad worlds.
Mongoose — a multiplayer text world

There'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.

Come on in →How to get around

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 glimpse of the lab. The cow is really there.

A few doors to try.

  1. See who's here

    A list of connected players, plus people's homepages.

  2. Read something

    Books written here, and public mailing lists for the longer conversations.

  3. Look under the hood

    Browse objects and public MOO code. There's command help and a project task list (login required).

  4. Keep up with people elsewhere

    Use @fedi to follow and read ActivityPub and Bluesky feeds from inside Mongoose.

What's new

  1. Fire: splashed fuel, burning people, and phasers that set things alight

    2026-11-05

    Fuel splashed on someone now burns. Throw or pour gasoline, a strong spirit or oil on a person, then type LIGHT <person> WITH <flame> while holding something lit, such as a candle. They catch fire and take real burn damage, and so do the...

  2. Concert Archive: the Gallery, show reminders, and picking which one you meant

    2026-11-05

    The Concert Archive has a Gallery: a run of the old theatre's box seats, west from the Listening Library or up the spiral stair from the Concert Hall. Sit in the box seats and look down on whatever the hall has become; the show carries u...

  3. Concert Archive: liner notes, cassettes you can tell apart, quieter booths

    2026-11-05

    Every cassette fetched from the Listening Library's card catalogue now comes with a card of liner notes: a few paragraphs on the band, the venue and the night, the full setlist, and where the recording came from. Type READ <tape> to unfo...

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566registered players
21years of world history
World activity and server details

Server time: Thu Nov 5 12:00:39 2026 UTC
Running ToastStunt 2.7.3_37
Time since reboot: 1 day, 14 hours, 14 minutes, and 48 seconds
Latest object ID: #286372
Web requests served: 2671645

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