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WE files are also known as WorldEdit schematics. Diwnload the Printer.we file as it is named, making sure the extension is in fact .we. Put the file in a folder called schems in your world folder (the one that we will be putting the printer into). First, make sure you have WorldEdit, and a recent ve...

I'm trying to make a hollow sphere out of super glow glass (moreblocks). How do I do this? I know it's: //hollowsphere [number] [block] I just don't know what the name of the block is. More generally: How do you tell what the name of the block is in various mods? The node name can be found in a num...

Ompldr seems to be down temporarily. Here's the WE schematic @ DropBox: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8097754/Printer.we

The original links should probably work again after a while.

Awesome! I fixed the link for the Conway machine in my original post. Here it is again for convenience: http://ompldr.org/vaWVsag/Conway.we The only really complex part is the master controller, which basically handles all the operations that make it work. Without loops, the code got a little hairy....

Did you install the mod in the right location? If you're playing the build game, it must go under $MINETEST_FOLDER/mods/build, in a folder named "carts". Inside that folder should be the file init.lua.

I recently realized there isn't much information for new Mesecons users that don't already have Redstone experience, so here's my attempt at remedying that: http://i.imgur.com/mMt1BNR.png It goes quite well with another work of mine, the "Opinionated Guide to Advanced Mesecons". Check it out! The ra...

Oops, I forgot to push the rest of the fix for the metadata. It needed a few workarounds to avoid some wierd minetest issues when modifying nodes with metadata constructors. I pushed it now.

I fixed the issue with the chests loading, by the way. It was a bad pattern (+ instead of *).

Excellent! You might also want to check out WorldEdit++, where the block queue is already working quite quickly.

Can we get half spheres or domes? Or is it possible to work something like that up? In fact, itd be cool to learn how to make WorldEdit commands. http://i.imgur.com/kKGv0nm.png Enjoy! Please refer to the WorldEdit API reference for a guide on how to use the API. If you want to make your own command...

Do you like cactus? Do you like cactus so much, that you need 20 of them each and every minute of your day? Of course not. Presenting the Cactus-O-Matic 6000, a revolutionary new device that will change the way you obtain cactus forever! http://i.imgur.com/5ETBwMy.png There's no harvesting timer - a...

This is a pretty nice mod. Here's what I always add to the end of README.txt every time I download it:

Beds are crafted using the following recipe:

Wool Wool Wool
Wood Wood Wood

Although many people already know the recipe, it is helpful to have it available.

Blend feature? Please elaborate.

If you've been having trouble loading huge saves, try downloading WorldEdit again. Due to a limitation of Minetest's LuaJIT version, it fizzes and sparks at only a few tens of thousands of nodes. WorldEdit now uses a workaround to make sure your file loading is smooth and bug-free.

Builders rejoice! Mesecons wire now has a larger selection box, making building above the ground much easier.

Speaking of selection boxes, I'm planning to make the ones for uninsulated Mesecons wire taller, to make building easier. What do you think?

I just realized, if you set the pistons to be a physical entity like they used to be, they wouldn't need to use a function to push items/people around. They were never physical entities. Physical entities would collide with the piston node itself and lead to a whole bunch of headaches. The original...

Oh, I see the problem. If you look carefully in the image, I used uninsulated mesecon in the second-to-bottom and second-to-top row rather than insulated corner wires. This differs in that the rows above and below it also light up when this one does. See here: http://uberi.mesecons.net/projects/Cloc...

Have you tried the WorldEdit schematic? You might also want to make sure your Luacontrollers are facing the correct direction. Generally, you can tell which direction I'm building it from the pictures. In the digital clock article, port A should be facing the lightstone, and port C should be facing ...

New article!

The digital clock does exactly what you'd expect it to - it tells the time.

This one also covers the creation of a very compact 7 segment display plus a built-in driver for the digits 0-9.

A lovely (category 2) digital clock! Only 17x3x5! http://i.imgur.com/fKeNOv0.gif This machine displays the time in 24-hour format. Since it uses the Digilines RTC, it works even if you use the /time command. For some reason, at certain times it can be off by as much as 5 minutes. This is the final r...

I can't confirm the issue; are you sure you're using the latest version?

Saving a single chest with a steel block inside completed perfectly, and so did a 3x3x3 glass cube with a chest in the middle.

Could you post your world if this problem persists?

Impressive. Any plans of fitting it to the terrain in the future? That would need some sort of parametric system I guess.

Energy transport? No no, pipeworks. Like here:

http://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?id=2155

They transport items in different types of tubes. You want the teleport tube for long distance item transport.

Teleport tubes are single nodes that can transport items on multiple channels for any distance easily. Check them out, they're probably what you need.

Yes, use pipeworks and create a sorting mechanism at each end. You can use MESE pipes and filters for this. Link it all together with a clock line and you have a multiplexer!

Edit: or use the Teleport tubes and don't worry about distances at all.

One word: fire.

(this is not my own picture)

This is pretty neat. Have you considered using the WorldEdit API to do file loading? WorldEdit's current worldedit.deserialize supports every version of WorldEdit ever released having save/load capabilities. Just add "worldedit" to depends.txt, or even use the following to avoid a dependency: dofile...

Falling nodes use entities, and are subject to all the bugs described. Pushing rows with a piston is possible if we use multiple entities, but is prone to visual glitches. You can already see that falling nodes have some issues such as duplication in very specific circumstances. Having many of them ...

Pistons appear to instantly extend because that's exactly what they do - they extend instantly! Movestones do it smoothly because they are not instant. If you look at some older versions of Mesecons, you'll notice that the pistons were originally animated with entities, but this led to a whole bunch...

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