bunnyland

Getting started

Start here if you are new to Bunnyland. The first actions are the same across clients: look at the room, move through exits, handle nearby items, keep hunger and thirst under control, and use focus actions for private notes and recall.

Player-facing examples in these guides use Discord message syntax. Engine notation omits the ! because Discord has already stripped the prefix before dispatch; for example, engine logs or tests may show say Hello for the Discord message !say Hello.

Launch the local tutorial

From a bunnyland-server checkout, install uv and Ollama, download the default local model once, and launch either terminal client:

ollama pull qwen3.5:9b
scripts/quickstart-tui
# or: scripts/quickstart-repl

These scripts host the guided Apple Crossing world inside the client and enable the local model for character chat and autonomous LLM dispatch. No Bunnyland server, cloud account, or API key is needed. Once the dependencies and model are present, the session stays on your machine. To try the larger town tutorial later, append --generator bell-green.

First few turns

A simple first play sequence looks like this:

!look
!say Hello.
!take three berries
!eat three berries
!go north
!look
!inspect Juniper

If a client gives you buttons, menus, clickable targets, or sprites, those controls still submit the same server-side verbs. Server validation decides whether the character can reach the target, spend the points, and complete the action.

Room summaries and ordinary turns emphasize what matters now. Detailed inspection can show additional status facts that would be noise every turn—for example, a calm need meter or a normal mechanism state. Not seeing “not hungry” in the ordinary view does not mean the state is missing; inspect yourself or open a detailed character/status view when you want the full picture.

Basic guides