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6## Creating a Development Ship {#creating-a-development-ship}
8To do work with Hoon and with the system, we recommended using a "fake" ship -- one not connected to the network.
10Because such a ship has no presence on the network, you don't need an Azimuth identity for its purposes. You just need to have [installed our software](/install).
12To create a fake ship named `~zod`, run the command below. You can replace `zod` with any valid Urbit ship-name.
14```
15urbit -F zod
16```
18Now you should see a block of boot messages, starting with the Urbit version number. Welcome!
20### Basic Operations
22Welcome to your ship! There's a few things you should do to become oriented.
24#### The Dojo
26Let's try out the Dojo, the Arvo command line and Hoon REPL:
28```
29~sample-planet:dojo> (add 2 2)
30```
32Should produce:
34```
35> (add 2 2)
37```
39Good.
41#### Mounting
43Your ship's filesystem being "mounted" means that its filesystem can be interacted with through Unix. This makes things much easier for you.
45The Arvo filesystem isn't mounted to Unix by default. Switch to the Dojo prompt and run:
47```
48~sample-planet:dojo> |mount %
49```
51This should produce:
53```
54> |mount %
55>=
56```
58which indicates that the command was processed.
60`|mount %` will cause a `home/` directory to appear inside your _pier_ folder in Unix (the "pier" is our shorthand for the directory whose name corresponds to your Azimuth point). Changes to these files can be committed to your pier by running `|commit %home` once you're done.
62#### Shutting Down and Restarting
64You can turn your ship off with `ctrl-d` from the Talk or Dojo prompts.
66To restart your ship, simply pass the name of your pier:
68```
69urbit some-planet
70```
72## Community Tutorials {#community-tutorials}
74Here are some tutorials written by members of the Urbit community. Some are a little outdated, but they may still prove useful.
76- [Generators](https://github.com/joemfb/mardev/tree/master/docs/gen) by `~master-morzod`
77- [Urbit by Doing](https://github.com/Fang-/Urbit-By-Doing) by `~palfun-foslup`
78- [Learning Hoon](https://github.com/knubie/learning-hoon) by `@knubie`
79- [A Nock Interpreter](https://jtobin.io/nock) by `~nidsut-tomdun`
80- [Basic Hoonery](https://jtobin.io/basic-hoonery) by `~nidsut-tomdun`
82If you want to add something to the list, [shoot us an email](mailto:support@urbit.org) or make a pull request in the [docs repository](https://github.com/urbit/docs).