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
@ways to see exits, and @go home if you get stuck.
@create $thing named "bowl of spaghetti"
@audit to see a list of all objects you own.
Check news and help for LOADS MORE.

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 (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 (Date unknown, but old).
- More technical in nature. Focused on people running their own MOO.
ToastStunt Programmer's Manual (2023).
- Very technical. Useful only if you want to know how things work under the hood.
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.