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You need to make sure anyone trying to connect to the server is using the correct port as well as the correct LAN IP address. Even if you have the right IP, if the port number is wrong then a computer won't be able to connect. You may need to make sure that the Windows (or other) firewall software i...

Press Windows Key+E to open Windows Explorer (not Internet Explorer). Locate Minetest folder in the "Program Files" and drag that Minetest folder to the C: drive. So Minetest folder should now be located at C:\minetest-0.4.6\ directly (no "Program Files"). Or as someone else suggested try dragging t...

InfinityProject wrote: just fork the game and work on your desires yourself.

Sorry, I'm too busy conducting rocket-surgery.

The mods used are dictated by the server, not by your client. Your client always downloads the mods it needs from the server you connect to in order to be able to run a game.

One thing to watch out for is that if you've created any locked doors or locked chests (or anything else that pertains to a specific player) in the singleplayer mode, then when running the game as a server those items will belong to "Singleplayer", so your new character won't be able to use them. Yo...

No, not at all. No Minetest builds for these systems means people using those systems won't be able to play without compiling themselves or installing a new OS, and so most of them would probably just give up. Not having a Facebook page just means that they need to go to minetest.net to get informa...

I don't really agree that that's the case. The only real promotional advantage of social networking sites is word of mouth from friends, and I don't think that's made any better by a page for the topic existing on the social networking site. Whether a page exists or not, people on Facebook who like...

Is irrelevant as far as games are concerned. SmellyBut aint so bad. Your avatar, though... Change it. It is kinda childish and I wouldn't want to encourage my child to go around saying it (although it's classic playground banter), but there's a lot worse they could be saying. I most definitely would...

... there's been an upsurge in server users, but not forum users. Why? Some people just want to _play_. Usually the forum represents 10% or so of the userbase. ^ This. A forum is rarely a good gauge of a community at large. There are always many more lurkers than contributors. Fact of life. One of ...

I think it is a great idea to get it going again, and to have some people start making some youtube videos. (aside from chainlynx) I think are community is kind of secluded, and we are not getting very many new people at all. I'd love to see minetest have an active community on other sites as well....

MineCraft developer is calling it quits and coming to join the Minetest team... that is how likely it is that Facebook is going to die any time soon.

I would always say more exposure is better, in the context of an open source project but that's just my opinion.

I would like to see animals as a default and hostiles as optional. I'd like to see more animals too, not just sheep, but cows, pigs (BACON!) and maybe horses to ride! Hostiles are fun and would definitely add something to the game, but sometimes you just want to build and not have to worry about get...

Client: So, the player just dug 10 blocks in front of him. Server: Ok, hang on one sec I'm just gonna update... oh look a cloud! Client: What does my immediate area look like now? Server: Errrr what was I... Here we go, there's 10 blocks in front of the player Client: WTF! I keel u! True story. Mor...

Client: So, the player just dug 10 blocks in front of him.
Server: Ok, hang on one sec I'm just gonna update... oh look a cloud!
Client: What does my immediate area look like now?
Server: Errrr what was I... Here we go, there's 10 blocks in front of the player
Client: WTF! I keel u!

True story.

i love to play games like minetest but im starting to dislike minetest...every server i try ether doesnt let me on it or has glitches that just get really annoying...is there a way i can fix it What kind of glitches? Lag? Corrupt graphics? Missing graphics? Unresponsive gameplay? Do singleplayer ga...

Menche wrote:You can set the spawnpoint with this setting:

Your phone or window isn't wide enough to display the code box. If it's a phone, try rotating it to landscape mode.

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static_spawnpoint = x,y,z

Put that in minetest.conf or run

Your phone or window isn't wide enough to display the code box. If it's a phone, try rotating it to landscape mode.

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/set static_spawnpoint x,y,z

in game.

So is the static_spawnpoint is global for all worlds, or is it world specific if you do it in-game?

I guess the only argument I can think of for having a dedicated "Single Player Mode" is that less technically adept users may be very confused by the idea of "setting up" a server to play a game with only one person. I guess it's not a big deal.

I was just thinking about this some more... Isn't the singleplayer game a little redundant? Why not always play a server game, just by yourself (if you don't want to play with others)? Is there any advantage or some difference in game-play that would facilitate the need to play a specially designate...

Jordach wrote:Copy the world + mods (for that world) into the newer stable. Run world. Any errors? Try to fix em.

Well that was a short discussion. :) So it sounds like you've never had any significant problems when upgrading from one version to the next?

With Minetest still very much in heavy development, I'm curious to know how people who host public servers keep up-to-date without trashing their existing worlds. I guess to people who plan singleplayer or LAN games, like myself, this is just as applicable though. I get that many new features "just ...

Mito551 wrote:textures, if you have some custom ones. games, if you use some different from default ones.

Noted. Thanks! And thanks to everyone for your help/responses.

So I did a "clean" install and sure enough two of the game modes disappeared. I'm now left with I think it's default (Minetest) and minimal. I even had a world that was setup up under survival and edited the world file to change it. What are the possible files/folders I'm likely to need to move on e...

Thanks Kaeza! Works like a charm and who doesn't like to carry a big stick around! *sings: I've got the power!*

shadowwraith wrote:

kaeza wrote:Tell your friend that he should stop playing Minecraft because Minecraft players will be sued by Infiniminer developers.

or 3D Construction Kit developers which was made in 1991 ~20 years before MC was even a thought

Domark for the win? Wow, you are probing the dark recesses of my mine... mind.

Do you have the latest release? As far as I know build and survival are no more included in 0.4.7. p.s. I need testers for the gamemode in my signature ;) That begs the question of how one should go about performing an "official" upgrade. Up to now, I'd simply been extracting the zip over the top o...

As the subject says, is there a way to take a singleplayer game and make it playable as a server (either LAN or public)? Primarily, the biggest issue is assigning owners to objects like locked chests and doors. If I take a singleplayer game and play it on a LAN, then locked chests belong to "singlep...

Thanks for the responses. After I posted, I noticed a forum section dedicated to custom user game modes, so I was kinda able to piece it together from there. Although, that didn't really spell out what "Build" and "Survival" modes meant. Anyway, it would seem that I'm best off playing the "Minetest"...

Is there any way my password can be reset? I'm trying to use the same username on the server as I'm using here. I had a disconnect problem yesterday, where the server/my game was a little screwy so I tried to disconnect and reconnect but couldn't get back on. I'm wondering if my account has somehow ...

I've looked around but can't seem to find my answer in the forums or Wiki. What do the different game modes do/mean? For example survival/build/basic etc. Are these only useful/valid for server games or do they also impact single player games? Answers to the above question/s may or may not explain h...

First of all, its Minetest, not MineTest. My apologies. I have corrected my original post. What you have described just looks like a bad connection to the server. It seems like the "logout" package from your client hasnt reached the server (yet), so you have to wait until your (dead) player on the ...