FOSS gamedev and creative worlds

Ideas for changing the name? Well, if you insist... Hmmm... MineTinker? "Tinker" has overlapping meaning and sound with "test", but has better connotations. To "tinker" is to play, to inspect, to change, to build... It's much less corporate, vague, and overused than, sa...

For more than one hour? Three. Minetest Game - Pretty boring on its own. Mods help a little, but they tend to be poorly balanced and not synergize well. Worldgen is decent. I added the best mobs mod I could find, but it still isn't that great. The ambience mod was nice after I turned the sound likel...

IMO Minetest has really good bones; it just needs refinement. Minetest documentation is good. The engine is well-optimized. It just needs inconsistencies to be corrected, bugs to be fixed, and more fun things to do. I think I am good at using and combining well-known programming algorithms (like Dij...

Even back when the new Minecraft launcher was Windows-only, it wasn't like the Mac/Linux launcher suddenly vanished from existence. Besides, MultiMC is still a far superior Minecraft launcher and it's multi-platform. Java Minecraft itself is still the same as it's always been. Notch's revoked contin...

I'm surprised the 4th option got so much support. It's both impractical and unrealistic. Plantlife will grow too slowly so people will end up having to use mese lamps anyway if they actually want to farm efficiently, and yet it will still grow in places where you might not want it to grow and where...

I come to the conclusion, that the modding API lacks of lot of features. As I mentioned before in another thread a lot of good modders left the community because they can't realize their mods I want to make survival harder by adding heat and cold damage, but all I can do is checking if I walk on sn...

After much lurking, and seeing many frustrating threads like this complaining about Minetest's shortcomings, I've come to the conclusion that no amount of improvements to the modding API could possibly make Minetest better. There needs to be improvement on the content creation side: more people who ...

There is nothing wrong with including audiovisual content to enhance the learning experience, as long as there is a text-based version as well. MineYoshi, animated gifs and pngs consume significantly more bandwidth per frame than video files of the same resolution and quality; they aren't good at co...

I just played the latest version. There are some annoying things: The crafting UI within the player inventory looks like it's an armor inventory. Please add something to distinguish the fact that it's used for crafting. (Even the text "Crafting" should suffice) Enemies can hurt you without...

What a small world. I just saw your post yesterday while randomly visiting the OpenMP forum. :0

You ask so many questions on the Minetest forum, burli. I knew you were up to no good. >:D

(Disclaimer: I've never actually used OpenMP before.)

Gael de Sailly wrote:I'm sorry but I've not completely understood. Do you mean storing the nodebox data in a special field in node metadata? I've already proposed it some months ago, it seems that this topic has been forgotten.

I'm talking about this metadata:
http://dev.minetest.net/NodeMetaRef

What we need is a way to store additional data in nodes, for example unused bits of param2 could be used to select the texture inside a list. While selectable textures at runtime is a great idea, I was thinking more on the lines of a mod using the already-existing node metadata to store information...

In a perfect world, there would be a way to dynamically render nodes, Registering entities may help you cut down on the number of nodes. 20000 nodes purely for decoration purposes is way too many. This signs mod uses entities to display text: https://github.com/PilzAdam/signs Perhaps a similar techn...

An ultimate goal need not be a boss fight, but any sort of concrete goal that doesn't degenerate into building giant walls of inert material or repetitively grinding for hours is welcome by me. Upgrading your gear to explore a cave filled with poisonous gas, building a machine to produce fuel for an...

He only has to provide source code for the Minetest engine (if there are no core modifications, a link to the Minetest official git page would probably be sufficient). The only tricky bit is that the Minetest engine would have its own license attached to it which is separate from the subgame license...

We have block fall prevention with sneak here too, so I don't think that's what he's trying to say. assanetargoss try to say that what snowflake said means that the actually sneaking function is better! No. I just derped. I figured Minetest already had a sneak function and subconsciously didn't see...

In my personal opinion having a crouch/sneak is best (so you can go through 1 block hight tunnels) I really like the idea of being able to fit through 1 block tunnels and really hope that is implemented some day (in the long run, ideally alongside a generalized player/mob API like what Mircea Kitsu...

Friend, please: Javascript isn't a good "start point" because isn't in Minetest! Minetest mods are in LUA! Better start with that! Python is needed, but for mods isn't so useful. But if you are new start with phyton then learn lua! After all the Minetest mods API is very simple and unders...

Hello there. :) I am a current Minecraft/Minetest player and fangirl. The Minetest Modding Book is a great resource for modding in general: http://rubenwardy.com/minetest_modding_book/index.html Should you need more basic knowledge about coding, take the modding book's advice and take some of the fr...

Minecraft and minetest_game are similar games. They are both 3D, randomly generated, destructible worlds where resources are obtained by digging blocks, and new items can be obtained by combining resources into shapes on a 3x3 crafting grid. Both have farming, caves, per-block lighting, day/night cy...

I always look forward to reading your posts! I must admit that vanilla Minecraft's hunger mechanics feel like an afterthought to me. Terrafirmacraft and Voxelgarden are much better at making food have value. In TFC, food is rather easy to acquire, but food decays over time and each player has differ...

It is very difficult to have a consistent style unless the people making the textures are really good at it, or if the textures are all maintained by a single person. The key-word here is "difficult." It's not impossible, but it will take a long time to get right. As far as textures needin...

OS: Windows 7 64-bit
CPU: Core 2 Duo 1.3Ghz
Was always overclocked to 1.7 by the manufacturer but I think it's starting to get a little toasty. Pun intended.
GPU: Nvidia Geforce 512 MB
RAM: 4GB

I don't think that the mod (or similar mods) should be posted on this forum. I think that posting them on github or other external sites is the way to go. If I were a parent, I wouldn't want my kids to see *that* kind of mod here. I think that Minetest has done a good job at being a good alternativ...

rubenwardy wrote:This should be accompanied by allowing tools tips of an item to be changed at run time, using meta data.

As someone less familiar with the modding API, I am surprised this is not already a feature!

When I first got into Terraria, I felt the same way. "OMG, this game is so much better than Minecraft!" Thing is, Terraria was like crack so long as I didn't exhaust all of its features or get stuck at a boss. Once I did, I got bored of it and went back to playing Minecraft for a while (or...

One thing you could try is to create a Minecraft world in WorldPainter and convert the resulting world to a Minetest world using mcimport: https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=13709 It's also worth noting that WorldPainter is open-source. So, in principle, a sufficiently adventurous p...

It is the parent's job to decide what content is right for their kids. While I do think we should strive as a community to be inclusive and make our content as easily enjoyable to people of many walks of life, I think it is inevitable that many of us will find some of the content on this forum objec...

I don't like the idea of the Minetest title being blocky or pixellated; it's not aesthetically pleasing. I think the Minetest title should be just as clean and as high-resolution as the icon. It should have rounded letters, with a solid white fill and a light grey outline to match the style of the i...

I've found the /whatisthis command to be very useful.