Minetest community
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Goblins supporting new Minetest games!
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Minetest 5.9.0 Released
As of this post the blog is not yet updated, but the update is available for download and the change log is updated.
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Are there "create" likes mods for minetest?
I like such mods in minecraft. Maybe minetest has some similar?
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A modded Minetest Game or VoxeLibre for a Minecraft-like experience?
Hey,
I've found out about Minetest yesterday and I really like it. I wanted to get more familiar with the game, so I thought that making a survival world would be a good learning experience. I have made a few worlds in the Minetest Game, but I noticed that it's a clean sheet for mods. So if I wanted a classic survival experience like in Minecraft, what would be better, a modded Minetest Game or VoxeLibre?
Thanks in advance!
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Some recomendations for mods that are somewhat like alex caves?
Not a carbon copy, but my kid was awestruck by dinosaurs and monsters, running a fabric server at home has taken me a whole sunday to set up
I wanted to come to voxelibre, im tired of evading msofts practices even tho i had long ago bought the game.
I wish there was DwarfFortress / Minetest crossover tho
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Is it possible to offload the Minetest game engine to openCL?
Ok this might be totally random but I think it might be possible to use the power of some GPUs to offload the heavy lifting. Imagine having a world with lots of stuff going on. It would be nice to have it offloaded to the GPU as the GPU can do calculations in parallel.
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game with no monsters? solved
Hi everyone! Can someone please recommend a game without monsters (but with animals)? I am running my minetest server at home and I'd like to start playing with my kid, but I really don't like the monsters bit. I just want a game where we can explore and build things together.
Thanks!
ETA: For anyone looking for the same thing: I've added the option
only_peaceful_mobs = true
in minetest.conf under minetest/data/games/mineclone2
I've waited for the next night cycle and no monsters spawned. But a cow mooing behind me scared lol.
Thanks to @[email protected] for the tip!
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Recommended graphics settings?
What are your recommended Minetest graphics settings? I've tried the "just turning everything on" approach, and that's fine. But it's a bit superficial. What are the knobs to turn to get a more fun graphical experience? :D
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Exile v03.17 released
content.minetest.net ExileChallenging, at times brutal, wilderness survival with simple technology.
Exile stable release v0.3.17 is out with the following new features:
- Better feedback: Informational states displayed on character tab
- Drystack and Rammed earth arches: build a wall, knock out the middle
- server command: /recover_inv <player> to restore inv lost on restart
Get it from: https://content.minetest.net/packages/Mantar/exile/
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A Pipeworks Crash Course
github.com HomePipeworks is a mod for Minetest allowing the crafting and usage of pipes and tubes - mt-mods/pipeworks
Since I couldn't find it, here's a bare minimum guide to starting using the Pipeworks mod.
This recipe builds a trivial item sorter.
Mods you need:
- Pipeworks
- Mesecon
- I3 Inventory (optional, strongly recommend)
Resources you need (if building this in survival):
- 24 wood planks for 4 chests
- a lot of leaves (for plastic for tubes and for the injector)
- a lot of mese Crystals (for the injector and the sorting tube segment and the blinky plant)
- 3 saplings (for the blinky plant)
- 2 iron for the injector
To build the parts - look up the part recipes in I3 Inventory, or the MineTest wiki.
The Build:
In this order, place, on flat ground, in a straight line:
- A chest
- A stack wise filter injector
- A pneumatic tube segment
- A sorting pneumatic tube segment
- A final chest
Now place the last two chests on the ground on either side of the 'sorting pneumatic tube segment'.
Now place a 'blinky plant' beside the 'stackwise filter injector', to get it running. Yes, it must be a blinky plant.
Now throw some crap in the first chest and watch it get moved randomly to the other 3 chests.
Now, grab an item you want sorted, say 'dirt block'. Left click on the 'sorting pneumatic tube segment'. Put the dirt block next to one of the colors. Put more dirt blocks into the first chest.
Watch the dirt blocks follow the color you chose.
Repeat with more item types.
Now your inventory is sorted, kind of.
Finally, add additional chests and sorting tube segments, as needed, to suit your personal play style.
Edit: Of course now I found a decent wiki page that has more detail, so I put that in the URL.
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Newbie Lessons
Here's things I learned, so far, as a new player of Minetest. I'm new at this, so I'll gladly update this post with any corrections.
- Mineclone2 is a great place to just start playing!
- When confident enough to choose my own plugins, I switched back to MineGame/default, for the bigger library of available plugins.
- Mesecons is redstone, but looks way nicer. Insulated wires alone look like a huge sanity saver.
- The world is dramatically taller and deeper, so you're going to want a teleporter or elevator plugin. I found Travelnet a practical option.
- if you're coming from Java edition Minecraft, you may be pleasantly surprised how much faster, lighter and more efficient Mineclone is.
- The hang glider plugin is a giggle and a half.
- Building a Cotton farm was a quicker path to beds and hang gliders, for me, than searching for sheep.
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Minetest Blog - Early Winter in Minetest
blog.minetest.net Early Winter in Minetest (16)Improvements are made to graphics, the Lua API, and the user interface. We present the winners of the 2023 Game Jam along with other cool mods. A new core developer joins the team, and we look forward to FOSDEM 2024!
> Improvements are made to graphics, the Lua API, and the user interface. We present the winners of the 2023 Game Jam along with other cool mods. A new core developer joins the team, and we look forward to FOSDEM 2024!
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Goblins - Update
Goblins update with many bug fixes for Mineclone 2 and Mineclonia support and emotes for goblin trade reactions!
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Minetest Game Jame 2023
The results of the #Minetest #gamejam are in! In third place, we have "The Unexpected Gambit" by NO11
A chess game with unexpected mechanics.
https://content.minetest.net/packages/
In second place, it's The Velvet Crystal by regulus
Recover the crystal and bring light back into the world
https://content.minetest.net/packages/regulus/regulus_mtgamejam_2023/
and first place goes to...
Citadel by Irevol - A time-traveling puzzle game
https://content.minetest.net/packages/Irevol/citadel/
Stolen from the Minetest Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@Minetest
- blog.minetest.net Minetest 5.8.0 released!
Minetest 5.8.0 has been released with improved onboarding, a new Settings GUI, and improved Android controls
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Fantasy Brawl gets a brand new HUD!
mastodon.social Giov (@[email protected])Attached: 1 video Fantasy Brawl gets a brand new HUD 🎉 Come try it on the AES Minetest server! @[email protected] #freesoftware #gaming #gamedev #minetest
Come try it on the AES Minetest server!
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BLOCK LEAGUE TOURNAMENT (info in comments, money)
Are you prepared to make your keyboard and mouse dance to the rhythm of Mariah Carey in this new FPS tournament?
❓ 8 teams of 3 players each. Direct elimination 🗺 Hyperium (quarterfinals), Station 2 🗓 Friday, 29 December 🕑 8:30 PM - 10:30 PM (UTC)
🏆 Prizes 1st place: Champion title tag, server statue, €20 each! 💰 2nd place: finalist tag
✍️ How to apply: Enter the Matrix room of the AES server (https://matrix.to/#/%23minetest-aes:matrix.org) to let us know about your team
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Loving this game so far
I found a bunch of cool mods and cool servers that make it up to par with vanilla minecraft and maybe even up to par with modded minecraft. I have just a few questions, is it possible to change the way the third person camera operates? it looks a little weird to me and I was wondering if there's a way to make it more "minecrafty"
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August and September - Early Autumn in Minetest
blog.minetest.net August and September - Early Autumn in Minetest (15)The main menu gets more love in preparation for the 5.8.0 release, developers come and go, and new shaders are in the works. CTF celebrates its 10th anniversary, and new API mods make their way to ContentDB.
A menu rework and God rays are among the improvements on the road to the 5.8.0 release.
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Notorious input lag
As in my other post (I think it is better to keep the posts separate because they are different problems) Minetest on Linux has a strange input lag in the mouse, it is not very big but it is very noticeable for a game like Minecraft, it gives me headaches when playing with that input lag.
I tried to activate the mouse "smoothing" and although I would say it helps a little, it doesn't really fix it, it just camouflages it and gives a weird sliding effect on the mouse.
As I already mentioned, this problem is exclusive of Minetest in Linux, in Windows I don't suffer from any problem.
I consider that these problems are Nvidia's propietary drivers fault, I was really investigating a lot this problem before posting this here but I didn't find anything, just some unrelated issues in Github.
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Terrible performance of Minetest on Linux
Hi! I have been enjoying Minetest immensely these last few days but it is simply unplayable on my PC because it is unable to maintain a stable framerate, be it 30 or 60 fps. Sometimes when viewing giant block structures or sometimes at random times the FPS drops to 24 or less and I tried to lower the rendering distance (I think it's called differently) but although it does improve, it shouldn't be fixed if my PC is 100% capable of running it well, and in fact on Windows it runs beautifully.
Specs: RTX 3060, Ryzen 5 5600X, 16GB DDR4, SSD.
I thought it was a problem with my distro (Garuda Linux) so I installed another one (KDE Neon) and it's exactly the same, I also switched from X11 to Wayland and it's still the same, I honestly don't know why this happens but it's not hardware deficiency, also I tried the git version (via AUR), flaptak and snap, the problem persists,
In Windows it works perfectly without any problem, it runs great and with everything set to maximum but in Linux it is simply unplayable.
I would like to add something important, and it is that in Linux none of the compilations uses the GPU to the maximum, according to nvtop it is being used but in very little measure, and it seems that the CPU does everything.
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Is there a way to get server stats from outside minetest?
I want to get things like server uptime and player count
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Run command on the host though mod
Is it possible to run a command on the host though a mod? I know that could be a massive security risk.
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Is there a decorative mod that integrates with pipeworks and technic?
I'm looking to build some houses but I want to have the sinks and light be powered off of a city main running under the street. Is this possible?
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Why I can't download Mineclone2 from the Minetest content manager?
As seen in the image, in the past to download Mineclone2 I simply downloaded it from there, but I don't see it available anymore, is there a reason?
I already downloaded the .zip and placed it in
$HOME/.minetest/mods
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Minetest channels on PeerTube
Here's a short list of some the Minetest gameplay channels that I've found on PeerTube recently. It includes only channels that have posted Minetest content in the past year (IIRC all of these have posted within the past month or so).
@minetestvideos of course - Regular videos reviewing Minetest mods by @nathansalapat.
@[email protected] - Regular Minetest VODs in Finnish with a Linux bent.
@pcworms - Minetest CTF VODs, mostly in English.
@lofenyy\_does\_things - Calm Minetest gameplay.
@dragfyre\_games - Minetest with kids, among other things.
Feel free to comment on this post if you know of other good PeerTube channels!
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May, June, and July - Early Summer in Minetest
blog.minetest.net May, June, and July - Early Summer in Minetest (14)Work on the 5.8 release continues with some exciting new engine improvements, a classic game makes its way to ContentDB, and the use of Minetest in education was explored.
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Using 3D scanned objects in Minetest
gitlab.imn.htwk-leipzig.de object2minetest.en · Wiki · István J. Mócsy / Lo-TekGitLab-Server der Fakultät IM
A workflow to scan 3D objects into Minetest voxel buildings targeted at low end hardware.
Comments are appreciated.
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Is this hosting service safe?
Well, I am looking for a free Minetest server hosting service for me and my friends and i found this website. I just wanna know if this is safe or not. http://www.minetesthosting.com/
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This is my new house in YourLand server, under heavy construction
There is a camel and some fences in the left, a stable in the front, and a bit to the right the unfinished house made of glass and wood.
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My new stable in Yourland server
Screenshot of online gaming of minetest. There are an animal fences and some crops around a river, in the center behind the crops is the Stable with the prettiest horses :P
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Check out my Mineclone2 server!
Hello folks! If you're interested in playing some Minetest/Minecraft please check out my server. Its pretty much vanilla Minecraft (mineclone2) with a protection mod. :)
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How do I split incoming coal between fuel fired generators? (Technic mod)
I am trying to evenly distribute coal into coal generators to power my Technic machines. What is the best way to do this?