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Does this include the /setemail command stuff? I thought that was a good idea for a public server (give an email address in exchange for interact privileges) as it aught to make the banning of bad-actors easier

Perhaps you could incorporate the code from this mod? as near as I can tell, it doesn't have any formal mod code wrapping it (i.e. no "init.lua", no formal mod name, etc). And it hasn't been maintained in over a year and a half.

Those latest screenshots look really good. It looks like your hard work is starting to pay off!

Zombie Thread...

It looks like you'd have to create the file init.lua in the folder 'mods/extracmds' with the contents from above code snippit

Will you have the ability to customize what the sidewalk and roadbed are made up of? This is for those who don't like cobble or have some mod that has better nodes for those (i.e. streets mod)

You could have the map pre-generated. This mod would do that for you.

I'd like to play around with this one, by starting a fresh world and as the first action, teleport to Y=15000. At that point, what is the likely mining/crafting path needed for basic survival? (i.e. how do you go from nothing to breathing fresh air? what needs to be built, and can it be done when st...

I am able to do it with a linux build of 0.4.7 I even had the opportunity to try out a window at 2646x768 (yes, it's a wierd aspect ratio because I was running dual head with dissimilar monitors). About a quarter of the screen at each side was so stretched out as to be nearly useless. But the attemp...

I would say that some attack distance is set (self.attack.dist) by configuration of the specific mob, and then checked against the distance between the player and the mob itself. Thus some short-sighted mob won't attack until it blunders into the player, while some eagle-eyed mobs might nearly alway...

It looks like the cavegen is eating your roads. I suggest a disclaimer to turn those off (unless you can generate the caves *before* you generate your city)

Some ideas to get you started in a direction:
- Try googling for "procedural city generator"
- I found this link when following up on my raytracing city-generator days.
- In particular, this technical paper is likely to help you

[Thumbs up] Thanks Casimir
EDIT: Added further description to wiki page

What sort of server-side settings would I need to make biomes larger and to make gentler slopes? In effect, I'm looking for mapgen settings that would make the world seem larger (because hills tend to be broader and biomes larger)

Village buildings in snowy areas should have snow on their roofs. The first image here shows the offending situation.

I ran across this Slashdot article and immediately thought of Minetest. It seems to me that a Lua script could be written to do something like this (take some sort of data and create a minetest world from it). Would it have to be done with LVM? Could it be done at all?

Teleport arrows (as described by Evergreen) sound pretty shiny (but not what I was aiming at). What mod are those in?

How about some sort of sword-like item that teleports the punched victim to some defined location (either to a certain placed node, or to a predefined (server-defined?) location. This would be a great help to those police mods, or for someone wanting to do a hide-and-seek or tag adventure game. Perh...

If this is the same 'bug' as found on the landrush server, (and expecting that i did not missunderstood you), this post at the beginning of this page is the answer: Hmm. this must have been changed in the mod at some point. I know that on other servers (not just landrush), a saw was not needed for ...

I found a bug in the latest stable download, running Minetest 0.4.7: Attempting to craft a cobble slab (three cobble across), I get no texture in the preview of the crafting screen. When actually crafting the item, the error comes back as ACTION[ServerThread]: player singleplayer crafts moreblocks:n...

I've seen some servers do it: They have an orthographic map of the generated land of their server's world. How is this done?

With the latest download, I get this error: 11:25:01: ERROR[main]: generate_image(): Could not load image "moreores_tool_mithrilhoe.png" while building texture 11:25:01: ERROR[main]: generate_image(): Creating a dummy image for "moreores_tool_mithrilhoe.png" 11:25:01: ERROR[main]: generate_image(): ...

I've looked into some hosting from my own web-hosting company. Dreamhost is offering hosting service for $15 a month. I'm already getting web-hosting through them for $9 a month. I'm just trying to justify doubling my price.

I don't know if an admin will get this soon, but please put a griefer-protection on the following area.

owner : Neon
coordinates : from (2138,7,-4270) to (1878,35,-4103)

This works for Fedora distros: https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?id=5211

paramat wrote:Splizard's snow biomes mod is essential

Do you have a link to that?

On Fedora 17, I successfully compiled the latest stable using the following command-line recipe. It is a variant to the above one-liner by doyousketch2. [spoiler]# change username to root su (password) # make sure you have the packages to compile with yum install cmake irrlicht irrlicht-devel curl l...

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