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Re: [Conspiracy Theory] Minetest development coopted.
That link shows us that even the project creator doesn't really have any direction for Minetest. There are a lot of "I don't know"s and "I don't have an answer"s in his posts.
- Thu Jan 14, 2016 21:21
- Forum: Minetest General
- Topic: [Conspiracy Theory] Minetest development coopted.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2038
[Conspiracy Theory] Minetest development coopted.
*Disclaimer: I don't necessarily believe what is written below It could be possible that one or some of the core Minetest contributors are plants and/or compensated by competition in order to disrupt the Minetest project. With the goal of sabotaging critical features in the name of design direction...
- Thu Jan 14, 2016 19:15
- Forum: Minetest General
- Topic: [Conspiracy Theory] Minetest development coopted.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2038
Re: Post your screenshots!
Probably nothing special but I thought this frozen bay was serene.
- Wed Jan 13, 2016 22:11
- Forum: Minetest General
- Topic: Post your screenshots!
- Replies: 5323
- Views: 1412374
Re: Minetest 0.4.13
Reading IRC, it seems to me the opposite is true. RBA is apparently the only one who knows what this game needs and everyone just fights him 100% of the way.
- Sun Jan 10, 2016 16:40
- Forum: Minetest News
- Topic: Minetest 0.4.13
- Replies: 141
- Views: 52423
Re: Add notes for addresses of favorite servers in client
When setting up a server, there is a conf option for server descriptions. Does that go unused? +1 Your idea.
- Wed Jan 06, 2016 23:08
- Forum: Minetest Features
- Topic: Add notes for addresses of favorite servers in client
- Replies: 5
- Views: 891
Re: What's Minetest still missing over Minecraft?
Welcome to the forums, SamCinnamon. The Minetest developers are generally not also writers or musicians or modelers. If you want to see music, animals and game art the onus is on you to create, submit and promote it. Other than that, there is royalty free music and assets. I like your idea of humano...
- Mon Jan 04, 2016 03:51
- Forum: Minetest General
- Topic: What's Minetest still missing over Minecraft?
- Replies: 836
- Views: 136044
Re: I'm new here! How do I start?
What is it you want to start? Just getting into the game in general? In order to have a game that feels fully-featured, you will need to build-your-own with Minetest by adding mods. Some immediate benefits you will notice switching from MC to Minetest: - Map height far above Minecraft's limit of 256...
- Sat Jan 02, 2016 21:08
- Forum: Minetest General
- Topic: I'm new here! How do I start?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2140
Re: What's Minetest still missing over Terraria?
Want to make mining more exciting in Minetest? Add monsters.
- Fri Jan 01, 2016 16:04
- Forum: Minetest General
- Topic: What's Minetest still missing over Terraria?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 3550
Re: What is it about Minetest that draws you to it?
0.4.14 should be out relatively™ soon, maybe you'll see some of those additions.
- Mon Dec 14, 2015 01:45
- Forum: Minetest General
- Topic: What is it about Minetest that draws you to it?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 5854
Re: Raytraced Minetest
Neat, RealBadAngel is working on a similar implementation and when he asks to review it in IRC he will get a royal beatdown for "excluding old hardware" or "not aligning with the goals of Minetest".
- Sat Dec 05, 2015 01:30
- Forum: Minetest Features
- Topic: Global illumination
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2391
Re: Minetest 0.4.14?
benrob0329 wrote:lightwait for older computers, level of blandness is unnecessary.
You just described Minetest's development goals in a nutshell.
- Mon Nov 23, 2015 16:35
- Forum: Minetest General
- Topic: Minetest 0.4.14?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 4978
Re: Minetest 0.4.14?
My reference point for such blocks is the mod Christmas Craft which has quite nice craftable items, that don't need much resources, apart from the few kilobyte of recipes and texture. That's indeed a very nice, enjoyable mod. Unwrapping a present - or giving a present to someone - is very entertain...
- Fri Nov 06, 2015 01:04
- Forum: Minetest General
- Topic: Minetest 0.4.14?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 4978
Re: Minetest 0.4.14?
Snowmen are also pretty universal. lightonflux's post probably would have been better received if it were:
it would be nice if minetest_game would get some wintery blocks or items.
- Fri Oct 30, 2015 05:30
- Forum: Minetest General
- Topic: Minetest 0.4.14?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 4978
Re: Minetest 0.4.14?
Have a look through dev IRC history for hints of release. Very often the date is not concrete, 0.4.13 got pushed back twice I believe. Though it would be nice if they announced target dates to the community.
- Wed Oct 28, 2015 02:32
- Forum: Minetest General
- Topic: Minetest 0.4.14?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 4978
Re: Minetest on ancient hardware
A quick look at CPUWorld will tell us that PIII Katmai processors were introduced in 1999. Other hardware in the franken system I threw together may be older or newer.
- Wed Oct 28, 2015 02:30
- Forum: Minetest General
- Topic: Minetest on ancient hardware
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1105
Minetest on ancient hardware
You guys weren't kidding when you said Minetest supports old hardware. I just fired up 0.4.10 on a nineties era desktop system. It ran, barely, but it works. The machine in question: 450Mhz Pentium III Katmai 256MB PC133 SDRAM GeForce3 TI 200 30GB PATA HDD lubuntu I'm impressed at development's devo...
- Fri Oct 23, 2015 03:05
- Forum: Minetest General
- Topic: Minetest on ancient hardware
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1105
Re: minetest is growing powerfull
Well that and Minetest is not a finished game yet.
- Thu Oct 22, 2015 22:45
- Forum: Minetest Features
- Topic: minetest is growing powerfull
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1495
Re: Minetest 0.4.13
I think Mintest is viewed as just a clone of Minecraft that is free no matter how much you update Mintest it will always be viewed as just a free Minecraft clone because if you just put the right texture pack in and added some new features it can be nearly indistinguishable from Minecraft other tha...
- Thu Oct 22, 2015 12:40
- Forum: Minetest News
- Topic: Minetest 0.4.13
- Replies: 141
- Views: 52423
Re: Footstep sound replacements
Ooh, these are really good. I hope they get merged. Ingar, do you live in an area that gets snow? I'm not sure if it would be easy to replicate but snow steps really should have a muffled sound of snow compressing underneath your feet. This is the best example I could find.
- Wed Oct 21, 2015 20:42
- Forum: Minetest-Related
- Topic: minetest_game soundpack [was: Footstep sound replacements]
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2439
Re: More lava and water in caves
Caves, as they stand right now, just need more hazards in general. Long drops or a reason to fear the dark or anything.
- Tue Oct 20, 2015 20:23
- Forum: Minetest Features
- Topic: More lava and water in caves
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1071
Re: What is it about Minetest that draws you to it?
What hardware are you running it on?
- Tue Oct 20, 2015 20:21
- Forum: Minetest General
- Topic: What is it about Minetest that draws you to it?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 5854
Re: Footstep sound replacements
I like your grass_4 piece. But with the glass ones, try to only capture a single surface collision per step.
- Mon Oct 19, 2015 15:57
- Forum: Minetest-Related
- Topic: minetest_game soundpack [was: Footstep sound replacements]
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2439
Re: What is it about Minetest that draws you to it?
It seems that almost everyone is here because of the freedom and opportunity. I guess I should also share my reasons. For me there is no single, significant feature that sparked my interest but instead a bunch of little things. 1. I have always hosted a vanilla (see: no mods!) Minecraft server for f...
- Mon Oct 19, 2015 15:49
- Forum: Minetest General
- Topic: What is it about Minetest that draws you to it?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 5854
What is it about Minetest that draws you to it?
What reasons do you all individually have which attracted you to Minetest? Is it the fact that Minetest is free (gratis or libre)? Do you enjoy watching games grow from alphas into fully featured releases? Migrated from Minecraft for political or technical reasons?
- Mon Oct 19, 2015 06:03
- Forum: Minetest General
- Topic: What is it about Minetest that draws you to it?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 5854
Re: Setting absurdly long view range
I was reading the irc log and saw a quick mention of it and then they go on to discuss things that matter. Your comment before stated "Devs are busy doing, then re-doing, then discussing various innoticeable changes and then scrapping them". If you read through the whole page you can see ...
- Sun Oct 18, 2015 04:34
- Forum: Minetest General
- Topic: Setting absurdly long view range
- Replies: 22
- Views: 5734
Re: Setting absurdly long view range
The second screenshot looks good. I sometimes fly around just to get the ocean floor covered. Can this be added at least as an option to the game? probably not, or at least not before 7 years down the road. Devs are busy doing, then re-doing, then discussing various innoticeable changes and then sc...
- Sat Oct 17, 2015 22:51
- Forum: Minetest General
- Topic: Setting absurdly long view range
- Replies: 22
- Views: 5734
Re: My thoughts on Minetest coming from Minecraft
This is free software, it's not a restaurant but more of a buffet. lol More like a soup kitchen. I would like to address the notion that Minetest != Minecraft. Everyone tip toes around the idea that (heaven forbid) Minetest resembles Minecraft. Just look at it. http://fedoramagazine.org/wp-content/...
- Sun Oct 11, 2015 02:43
- Forum: Minetest Features
- Topic: My thoughts on Minetest coming from Minecraft
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4991
Re: 0.5.0
One of the biggest things that needs to be fixed first is the inventory lag. Minetest cannot be considered "ready to ship" until that gets fixed, at minimum.
- Tue Sep 29, 2015 03:52
- Forum: Minetest General
- Topic: 0.5.0
- Replies: 52
- Views: 7730
Re: advanced beginners guide?
Modding? Rubenwardy has written a pretty extensive guide:
http://rubenwardy.com/minetest_modding_book/index.html
http://rubenwardy.com/minetest_modding_book/index.html
- Thu Sep 24, 2015 21:38
- Forum: Minetest General
- Topic: advanced beginners guide?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 912
Re: Youtube
Has nobody seriously yet contributed audio samples?
- Mon Sep 21, 2015 23:32
- Forum: Minetest General
- Topic: Youtube
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1694
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