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
Retired merged native prerequisite worktree
2026-10-14
Removed only the clean native line-primitives task worktree and its branch after verifying exact head7dc9 is a parent of normal merge8c930 and both source trees are identical. Other worktrees and dirty work were preserved.
Private chunk startup capture recipe
2026-10-14
Documented a source-only private constructor prototype that preserves real root initialization and the actual master-area factory return, then restores the captured chunk's original parent under its sealed lifetime. Its initial parent/de...
Chunk fixture receipt rules clarified
2026-10-14
Documented a bounded WAIF-only receipt rule for exits inside actual returned placement rooms: bind references to the pending real operation, source-room mapping, exact native constructor code and immutable class/owner, and retain unknown...
The world right now.
World activity and server details
Server time: Wed Oct 14 00:45:15 2026 UTC
Running ToastStunt 2.7.3_37
Time since reboot: 3 days, 1 hour, and 35 seconds
Latest object ID: #281683
Web requests served: 2383104
Players online over the last day
Recorded counts ranged from 3 to 15 connected players. The latest reading was 12 at 2026-10-14 00:00 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 |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-13 01:00 UTC | 10 |
| 2026-10-13 01:40 UTC | 10 |
| 2026-10-13 02:00 UTC | 15 |
| 2026-10-13 02:40 UTC | 11 |
| 2026-10-13 03:00 UTC | 10 |
| 2026-10-13 03:40 UTC | 10 |
| 2026-10-13 04:00 UTC | 12 |
| 2026-10-13 04:40 UTC | 13 |
| 2026-10-13 05:00 UTC | 11 |
| 2026-10-13 05:40 UTC | 11 |
| 2026-10-13 06:00 UTC | 10 |
| 2026-10-13 06:40 UTC | 9 |
| 2026-10-13 07:00 UTC | 7 |
| 2026-10-13 07:40 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-13 08:00 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-13 08:40 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-13 09:00 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-13 09:40 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-13 10:00 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-13 10:40 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-13 11:00 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-13 11:40 UTC | 7 |
| 2026-10-13 12:00 UTC | 6 |
| 2026-10-13 12:40 UTC | 5 |
| 2026-10-13 13:00 UTC | 5 |
| 2026-10-13 13:40 UTC | 4 |
| 2026-10-13 14:00 UTC | 3 |
| 2026-10-13 14:40 UTC | 3 |
| 2026-10-13 15:00 UTC | 3 |
| 2026-10-13 15:40 UTC | 3 |
| 2026-10-13 16:00 UTC | 3 |
| 2026-10-13 16:40 UTC | 4 |
| 2026-10-13 17:00 UTC | 4 |
| 2026-10-13 17:40 UTC | 4 |
| 2026-10-13 18:00 UTC | 4 |
| 2026-10-13 18:40 UTC | 4 |
| 2026-10-13 19:00 UTC | 4 |
| 2026-10-13 19:40 UTC | 5 |
| 2026-10-13 20:00 UTC | 7 |
| 2026-10-13 20:40 UTC | 13 |
| 2026-10-13 21:00 UTC | 14 |
| 2026-10-13 21:40 UTC | 9 |
| 2026-10-13 22:00 UTC | 14 |
| 2026-10-13 22:40 UTC | 14 |
| 2026-10-13 23:00 UTC | 13 |
| 2026-10-13 23:40 UTC | 12 |
| 2026-10-14 00:00 UTC | 12 |