MOO commands -- Quick Reference

This page lists the most important MOO commands. It focuses on stuff in emoryMOO. The greater than (<) and less than (>) signs should be omitted.

First time commands:

@describe me as <text>	Set the description of your character
@gender <gender>	Set the gender of your character
@password <oldpw> <newpw>	Change your password
@quit	Log out
@who	Check who is logged in

look at <thing>	look at something
examine <thing>	Find out more about that thing (sometimes)

In emoryMOO we try to provide reasonable 'aliases' for all objects so you don't have to type pages of text. For example instead of

   look at green bookshelf

you normally can say any of these:

   look at books
   look at bookshelf
   look at shelf
   look at green books
   ...

Similarly you can look at boards and signs and so forth.

say <text>	Say someting (is heard in the same MOO room
whisper "<text>" to <player>	Whisper in somebody's ear (has to be in the same room)
page <player> <text>	Page the text to a player no matter which room s/he is in
emote <text>	simulate emotions. emote smiles -> Juggler smiles

go <direction>	Walk in that direction
go to "<place>"	Go directly to a room (need the excat room name)
join <player>	Go to another player (has to be logged in)

list board	list the messages on the board
read <num> on board	read a message on the board
reply <num> on board	write an answer to a message on the board
post on board	Post a message to the board
look at books	look at the bookshelf and see what's there
list books	Detailled list of the books on the shelf
read <title> from books	Read something on the shelf
add to books	Create a new book for the shelf
read sign	Read the text on a sign

Last modified August 1997