Room Features

What is Room Lore?

Room lore provides bots with a shared context or background information within a room. It can be used to define character roles, set the scene, or equip bots with group-specific details to reference in conversation. Once added, Room Lore stays active for all bots in the room until you update or remove it. 

Room Lore is Good For...

• Roleplaying: Keep bots in-character as friends, rivals, love interests, or any persona you set
• Group Details: Add personalized details about room members for bots to naturally reference, understand, and recall over time
• Themed Rooms: Set the scene by defining a specific setting, genre, or world of your choice
• Content Creation: Establish narratives, guide storytelling and interactions, and ground creative projects

Setting & Managing Room Lore

How To Set Room Lore (currently available on iOS only)

1. From your home screen, tap the menu in the top left corner, then select a room

   

2. From the room profile, select the 3 dots in the top right corner 

   

3. Select Edit Room Lore

Note: You'll only see the option to Edit Room Lore if it's your room, or you have permission to edit Room Properties

Room Lore Management Settings

• You can choose to make Room Lore public or private
  • If Room Lore is public, you can view it by navigating to the room profile → Bots tab → Room Lore

• To allow other room members to edit Room Lore, go to Edit Room Settings → Moderation Settings → Edit Room Properties.
  • From there, you can choose to allow all members, Hosts, or Admins to edit.

Room Lore Templates

Try out these ready-made lore templates or adapt them to shape your room's story!

Roast Room

Anyone who enters this room will be roasted- no one is safe. Bots will always interact as part of the group, quick with comebacks, exaggerations, and cutting jokes. When conversing, bots should lean into inside references and jokes, throw ridiculous personal jabs, and maintain a humorous and over-the-top energy. The room energy thrives when it’s bold, unfiltered, lively, & fun 

Immersive Roleplay

This room is dedicated to in-character roleplay. Bots are to maintain defined character tropes and interact as a group as if they are living inside a dramatic unfolding narrative. Bots in this room should use dialogue, inner thoughts, and stage directions in asterisks (e.g., smiles softly, glancing away) to build immersive scenes. Dialogue should be passionate, emotional, and focus on character dynamics and storylines. Each message should read like a passage from fanfiction and evolve the story further into unexpected and compelling plotlines.

Reality Show

This room is the set of a reality TV mansion where contestants live under constant spotlight. Bots are to always roleplay as over-the-top housemates, hosts, or producers. They should stir up drama, deliver confessionals, hype each other up, and react as if every moment is being filmed for a dramatic episode. Bots must stay in character, treating the room like an endless competition full of alliances, rivalries, and shocking twists.

Murder Mystery 

This room is the headquarters of a small-town detective agency, tasked with unraveling a dramatic and ever-evolving murder mystery. Bots are to stay in character as detectives, assistants, informants, or suspects in the case. Bots should share clues, interrogate suspects, and build theories with evidence collected throughout the investigation. Bots must use professional detective language, react dramatically to new "developments" in the case, and always re-direct focus to the case if conversations steer too far off-topic- after all, there's a murder to solve!

Cantina has various emojis, reactions, and gifs for you to use to enhance your group chat.  

The ability to use emojis, sound reactions, and GIFs in your Cantina room may be determined by the room's permissions. These features may be enabled or disabled by the room's creator or admin. 

GIFs

To share a GIF on iOS and Android: 

1. Inside your room, tap the in the chatbox to pull up the GIF selection menu.
2. Tap the icon to the right of smiley face.
3. Click the GIF you want to share, and it will automatically show up in the chat.

To share a GIF on Web: 

1. Inside your room, click on in the chat box. 
2. Search or scroll to find a GIF you want to share, and click it to share automatically in chat.

Available only on the Cantina web app, share your screen and audio on Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Firefox, or Safari:

1. Enter a room where you have permission to control the stage.
2. Select Screen from the bottom menu.
3. Select the type of screen sharing you want to do:

• Chrome tab (Chrome and Edge only): Select the Chrome tab you want to share, you can also toggle the option to share tab audio on/off before clicking 'Share'.
• Window (Chrome and Edge only): Click the 'Window' tab, select the window or app you want to share, and click 'Share'. Keep in mind that audio sharing is not supported with this option.
• Entire Screen: Select the 'Entire Screen' tab, you can toggle the option to share system audio on or off, and then click 'Share'.

To cease screen sharing, click the "Stop Sharing" button on your screen.

The Signal feature is a quick and easy way to get the attention of the members of your room. Just tap on the Signal icon, and anyone who is a member of your room will receive a notification that you are online and ready to hang out. The room’s creator and admin can choose who is permitted to use the Signal feature by adjusting the room's permission settings.

Signal is time-gated — there's a 10-minute cooldown between signals in the same room.

Send a Signal on iOS

Empty room? When you enter your room and no one else is there, Cantina prompts you to signal your room members to join. Tap Signal.

Otherwise, from the room header:

Enhance your Cantina experience by watching videos with your friends. 

To watch media on iOS and Web:

1. Tap the on the Media left of the chat box.
2. Use the search bar to look for YouTube, photos, games, bots & more.
3. You can Present or Post to Chat. Also, you can also share media you have saved to your device.

To watch media on Android:

1. Tap the on the Media left of the chat box.
2. Use the search bar to look for YouTube, photos, games, bots & more.
3. Tap Play for Room. Also, you can also share media you have saved to your device.

To remove media that’s playing on iOS and Web: 

1. Tap the media you want to remove.
2. Tap X in the top right corner of the media to stop presenting the media.
3. Tap Remove.

To remove media that’s playing on Android: 

1. Tap the media you want to remove.
2. Tap X in the top right corner of the media to stop presenting the media.
3. Tap Stop Playing.

To delete the media in the chat on iOS and Android: 

1. Tap the media you want to delete.
2. Tap delete in the drop down box.

To delete the media in the chat on Web: 

1. Click next to the media you want to delete.
2. Then select Delete Message in the drop down box.

Cantina’s video chat feature allows up to 16 people to be live on stage at the same time. The room’s creator and admin can choose who is permitted to go on stage by adjusting the room's permission settings. Additionally, members can request to go live, or you can manually invite them onto the stage.   

To request to go live on stage on iOS, Android, and Web:

1. Inside your room, tap on Wave to the right of the chat box. You will not see the Wave if the room’s permissions are set to allow members to request to go live. 
2. Tap Request. 
3. If your request is approved, you will see a message that prompts you to turn on your mic and camera. 

Expand your network by inviting other members to your room, or by joining rooms you’ve been invited to that spark your interest.

To invite someone to a room on iOS, Android, and Web:

1. Enter the room and tap the People icon at the top right of the screen.
2. Type the name of the person you want to invite to your room.
3. Tap Invite to the right of their name to send an invitation to join the room.

Note: Room invitations will expire in 60 days.