Most (if not all) of the information a user--or even a programmer--needs to know about participating in and building within a MOO is provided in the help system. That said, the help system is not that intuitive or well-organized, but the content is there.

The best way to get help within the MOO is to use the "help" command. Just typing "help" gives you a list of help topics as follows:

help

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SUMMARY

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Help is available on the following general topics:

introduction[1]

what's going on here and some basic commands

index[2]

index into the help system

characters[3]

setting characteristics of yourself

movement[4]

moving yourself between rooms

communication[5]

communicating with other players

manipulation[6]

moving or using other objects

miscellaneous[7]

commands that don't fit anywhere else

building[8]

extending the MOO

programming[9]

writing code in the MOO programming language

editors[10]

editing text and code in the MOO

@options[11]

customizing your MOO environment

@pagelength[12]

what to do if lines scroll off your screen too fast

@linelength[13]

what to do if lines are truncated

Type `help <topic>' for information on a particular topic, or `pick

<number>'

to follow a numbered link.

One good way to learn about how the MOO works and what you can do within

the MOO is to read through the help files in the following order:

Help introduction (type "help introduction")

Help characters

Help movement

Help communication

Help building

You can also use Help index for a list of commands indexed under various

headings. When you want help with any command, simply type help

followed by the command. For example, if you want help with the @dig

command listed when you type "help building", type "help @dig.

The introduction to the TAPPED IN MOO has a good selection of commands.

It might be a good idea to start with those and then move on to more

complex commands. The EDIT 797 MOO and TAPPED IN are both based on the

same MOO software so the commands are the same.