# Town MOO

COME JOIN!

    rlwrap -pYellow -S '> ' nc localhost 7777

Quickstart:

- `"` to speak, `:` to act.
- `look` to look at things
- `@describe me as "a funny little fellow"`
- `@gender MYGENDER`
- `@create $thing named "bowl of spaghetti"`
- Check `news` and `help` for LOADS MORE.

(Note: You'll need to be registered as a programmer in order to create things. I'd like for this to be automatic, but I don't know how to do that, so unfortunately it's manual.)

## What is this?

It's a MOO, which is a kind of text-based virtual reality. Part chatroom, part programming, part creative writing. You can create, describe and program your own objects and rooms.

Specifically, this is ToastStunt, which is a fork of the venerable LambdaMOO. It runs a ToastCore database.

## What is the future of MOO on tilde.town?

Who knows?

- This is an experiment/proof of concept.
- I make no promises about the durability of the database. **If you make something and want to keep it, `@dump` it!**
- I had to patch the code to get it running, so it might be crashy.

See <./compiling.md> for tilde.town-specific building steps.

See <./db_setup.md> for basic database setup.

## I want to learn more!

MOOs and MUDs were very popular in the early days of the internet, and thus have a rich history. Many are still alive today.

Recommended resources:

- [Yib's Guide to MOOing](http://www.yibco.com/) (2003).
    - Excellent resource for beginners, originally written about LambdaMOO (of which ToastStunt is a derivative). Most of the commands discussed still work in ToastStunt.
- [The New Wizards FAQ](https://jkira.github.io/moo-cows/docs/faqs/new-archwiz-faq.html) (Date unknown, but old).
    - More technical in nature. Focused on people running their own MOO.
- [ToastStunt Programmer's Manual](https://github.com/lisdude/toaststunt-documentation/blob/master/manual/toaststunt-programmers-manual.md) (2023).
    - Very technical. Useful only if you want to know how things work under the hood.
- [A Rape in Cyberspace](http://www.juliandibbell.com/articles/a-rape-in-cyberspace/) (1998).
    - Chapter one of a book called "My Tiny Life," which is contentious in some circles, but I enjoyed it for its view into MOOing in its heyday. Interesting to see how the early internet responded to trolling.

See also:

- [timbran/moor](https://codeberg.org/timbran/moor).
    - Needs a little more time in the oven, imo, but this is the most promising modern MOO engine I've seen.

Further information:

- <https://lisdude.com/moo/>
- <https://jkira.github.io/moo-cows/>
- [YouTube: SevenEcks](https://www.youtube.com/@SevenEcks/videos). About the only MOO resource on YT.
- [Reddit: MUD](https://old.reddit.com/r/MUD/).