# VibeWorld – a persistent multiplayer world that lives in your terminal > Source: > Published: 2026-07-07 07:36:32+00:00 A neon planet of ten continents — nine sciences orbiting the Agora, the crossroads at the center — and you walk a terminal map of your own field, meeting other devs at street corners named after the people and papers you argue about. Keep each other company at 2am while the code misbehaves; and when your AI agent "fixes" the failing test by deleting it, take a rocket to the moon and scream. Discord became a list of servers. Slack became work. Social media became feeds. **We wanted a place.** So we built one — an MMO that runs in your terminal. Not a metaphor: a multiplayer TUI, a cyberpunk, neon-lit planet you walk street by street — no browser, no Electron, one pure-Go binary. Then it starts doing things terminals aren't supposed to do. Voice chat with zero extra installs — the codec ships inside the binary. A pixel-art avatar editor with a palette, undo, and working mouse support, in the terminal. A rocket to the moon, where you type what your LLM did to you this time and launch the scream into orbit — and everyone on the planet reads it in the sky, right next to the moon (see *The moon*). A planet, not another server list. Come with friends and claim a street corner, or show up alone at 3am and watch comets from a ledge on the moon — it holds up either way (see *Fine on your own, too*). Installing it just to see it is a valid use case: ``` curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SorBalda/vibeworld/main/install.sh | sh vibeworld ``` One binary, zero dependencies, checksum-verified — details in *Install*. Leave it running on a second monitor while you actually work. It's not asking for your attention — it's just there, the way a window is. Take the rocket to Luna and you can just... watch. Alone, or next to whoever's already sitting at the Stargazer's Ledge — the sky doesn't check who's there before it's worth looking at. One command. One binary. Zero dependencies — voice chat included, and there is *nothing else to install*: the audio codec is pure Go. ``` curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SorBalda/vibeworld/main/install.sh | sh vibeworld ``` The script detects your OS/arch, verifies the SHA256, and drops a single binary in `~/.local/bin` . Windows: grab `vibeworld-windows-amd64.exe` from the [Releases page](https://github.com/SorBalda/vibeworld/releases). Linux and Apple Silicon (M-series) Macs are supported today; **Intel Mac support is coming soon**. The public server is built in: ** wss://vibecity-andrea.fly.dev/ws**. VibeWorld is early — one trial server, capped at 350 online at once, and it sleeps when nobody's around, waking on the first connection. If your login takes a second, that's the server booting because you showed up: not a crowd, a feature — an empty world shouldn't run up an idle cloud bill. Some nights it *will*be quiet. That's fine — the world's still live and there's plenty to do with no one else online (see *Fine on your own, too*); someone tends to wander in eventually. No account needed. `vibeworld --anon` if you'd rather be nobody. Same command as installing — the script always fetches the latest release: ``` curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SorBalda/vibeworld/main/install.sh | sh ``` Windows: grab the newest `vibeworld-windows-amd64.exe` from the [Releases page](https://github.com/SorBalda/vibeworld/releases). You don't need to check by hand: when a new version is out, vibeworld shows a `▲ update available` line at login with the exact command to run. `vibeworld --version` prints what you're running. To stay in the loop, watch the [Releases page](https://github.com/SorBalda/vibeworld/releases) (GitHub → Watch → Custom → Releases). Log in and you're floating between Terra and Luna — pick a direction and you're in it. Continents are disciplines. Artificial Intelligence is a landmass. Engineering is another. The Agora sits at the center, the crossroads everyone orbits. You orbit, you pick, you descend. In the Agora stands the Tablet of the **Ten Commandments of Science** ("Your agent 'fixed' the test. It is gone."): They're engraved at the crossroads of the world because every discipline walks past them on the way to its own continent. Nobody follows them. That's why they're carved in stone. Every city is a neon plan you actually *walk*, junction to junction. Corners are named after the people your field argues about. Press `Enter` on a corner and it goes full 3D — towers, rain of dead pixels, whoever else is standing there, and a chat panel. A corner is a room. A monument is a gathering. Walk up and you're in it. On your first login you put on a specialization: a macro-area and one line of truth, shown on your card to everyone you meet. Your card can also carry a **GitHub and/or LinkedIn link** (`p` to edit your own profile). Anyone who likes talking to you can press `g` /`l` on your card to open them — a two-step confirm, never a one-key surprise click. It's a social space for people who argue about code at 2am; might as well let networking happen where it's actually happening. Then, that first time only, you get an avatar. There is a pixel editor. It has a palette, undo, mirror mode, a flood fill, and a 3D preview. Yes, the mouse works. In the terminal. We had to draw the line somewhere and we drew it as a 16x16 sprite. Come back later and you land straight on the globe — no re-onboarding. Corner chat, city chat, DMs with image and PDF sharing, profiles, block/report — and slash emotes, because some things a keyboard says better: `/kiss` . Pixel hearts. `*mhua*` . No microtransactions were involved. Press `ctrl+V` and you're talking — press it again and you stop. The first press is your mic consent; until then you're listen-only. The codec is pure Go, the binary you already downloaded is the whole stack: no PortAudio, no Opus packages, no "please install these 12 system libraries first". (That object in the sky showed up on its own during the screenshot. We kept it. You would have too.) Stuck at 2am? Step into any corner (`Enter` on it from the street) and press `!` to type what's wrong. A red ribbon with a countdown goes up over the junction for everyone in the city to see. It's on-call for people, not pagers. Take the rocket to Luna, the philosophic moon. Two things happen up there, and they're opposites. **Screaming.** At the **Complaint Crater** there's a booth. You type what your LLM did to you this time; the RAGE meter fills as you type; then you launch your tantrum into orbit. Your scream joins the wall under `▼ LAST SCREAM HEARD FROM SPACE` — and here's the thing: *everyone sees it.* Anyone looking at the sky from anywhere on the planet gets your words next to the moon. Screaming into the void, except the void has a player count. **Stargazing.** The moon also has quiet places. At the **Stargazer's Ledge** you sit with whoever's there and watch comets, the Earth passing overhead, and occasionally something that is *no moon*. Press `ctrl+n` for lo-fi classical — Beethoven, at a sensible volume, on the actual moon. The **Contemplation Dome** next door is a music-only sanctuary: no voice, no noise. Some places should stay like that. You don't need anyone else logged in for this to be worth it. Leave VibeWorld open on a second monitor, go sit in a room, watch the sky from the Ledge, or read the last scream heard from space. The planet, the moon, the beacons, the wall — the world itself is company. This isn't `--offline` : you're still on the real server, it's just that some nights it's quiet. Someone tends to wander in eventually. | Key | Does | |---|---| `←↑↓→` / `hjkl` | walk the streets · orbit the planet | `Tab` | cycle worlds, regions, cities, chat tabs | `Enter` | descend · enter a corner or monument · send chat | `Esc` | back out, all the way to space | `c` | chat in the city | `m` | cycle monuments | `!` | raise a HELP flare (once inside a corner) | `/kiss` `/punch` `/jump` | emotes, typed in chat | `ctrl+V` | voice — press to talk, press again to stop | `ctrl+n` | lo-fi classical, on the moon | `]` | social sidebar (`e` avatar studio · `d` DM) | `:` | command console (planet/region) | `?` | every key, in-world | `q` / `ctrl+C` | quit (the flare, sadly, works only in-world) | **No recording voice chat.** People talk because it's ephemeral.**The Contemplation Dome is a sanctuary.** Music only. Take the argument to the Complaint Crater, that's what it's for.- Block and report exist and work. Be someone worth stargazing with. Plain facts, no marketing. Your connection is TLS (`wss://` ), and every handle, message, bio, shared filename, HELP line, and complaint that reaches your terminal is stripped of control and escape sequences before it renders — so a hostile peer or server can't hijack your terminal through a chat line (`internal/textsafe` , applied on both ends). What we *don't* do: there is no end-to-end encryption. The server relays — and can see — your text, DMs, shared images/PDFs, and voice, so don't send anything you'd mind a server operator seeing. Voice isn't recorded (it's ephemeral by design; see *House rules*), but it isn't E2E-encrypted either. Block and report exist and work. Modding starts at [ mod-sdk/](/SorBalda/vibeworld/blob/main/mod-sdk) (Apache-2.0): declarative worldpacks — data, not code. Today: VibeWorld ships as **closed binaries** (free to use) talking to a **closed, proprietary server** — client source isn't public yet, server stays unpublished. What *is* open right now: the **Mod SDK** ([ mod-sdk/](/SorBalda/vibeworld/blob/main/mod-sdk)) is **Apache-2.0**. The client source is *planned*to open under **PolyForm Perimeter 1.0.0**(read it, mod it, build it — just don't ship a competing clone), but there's no date yet — watch the repo. Don't want to trust a closed world? ** vibeworld --offline** runs a full self-contained world with no server at all — your machine, your rules, nothing phoned home. Full text: [ LICENSE](/SorBalda/vibeworld/blob/main/LICENSE). The name is reserved: [.](/SorBalda/vibeworld/blob/main/TRADEMARK.md) `TRADEMARK.md` Your terminal has been a place of work for decades. It can be a place, full stop. See you on the moon. ✦