Xanadu Server

[auouymous]

Many new players have no idea how to play the game. They don't know how to pick up items, how to replant crops/saplings, how to eat food, how to protect their stuff or how to use stargates to find places to build. Some players have food and die repeatedly because they didn't realize starvation was killing them. I'll bet many players who don't replant the public farms don't know how.

What if new players spawned in a different location that had no way out and they lacked privs to use the /spawn command? The area could be divided into tutorial rooms, each room explaining how to do a single task in many languages and for PCs and tablets. They would teleport to the next room after completing each task. And get teleported to spawn and giving /spawn command priv after the final tutorial.

It would be easy to write a mod that gives the player a tutorial sapling, placing the sapling teleports player and removes the sapling. And tutorial food could teleport player when consumed. The other rooms could just explain stuff and use normal teleporters to continue. The hardest part would be building the tutorial rooms.

Thoughts?

[MinetestAmber]

Uhm,So I spawned my NPC...Are the skins for them set,or do they..mimic your skin? Mine seems really similar to mine,a steampunk girl skin.

Noted: They can't climb ladders

[firefox]

there are only two possibilities:
1. NPCs have multiple skins like most mobs and when you place them, one is randomly selected.
2. there are male and female NPCs. Ten gave you one wih the same gender as you.

besides that, the NPC model has a set skin and the similar appearance to you is just coincidence.
also all girl skins with long hair have exactly the same face.

when i got my NPC i expected a beautiful maiden, because Ten talked about how he used a female NPC as waitress in the TNT Cafe. i placed my NPC in my house next to my kittens. i expected a beautiful female, but ...
... suddenly a bearded man in a warrior outfit appeared and for some reason he got very close to me ...
i was running away but he followed me without fail.
then Ten told me that NPCs can be commanded to follow or to stay, just like dogs.
finally i was able to stop the bearded man and get some distance between us.
although not what i expected, i must admit that he is not unattractive.
i will use him as my bartender in my party room, but first i have to build the bar, so that he can stand behind it and serve drinks.

[TenPlus1]

Lolol, NPC's are one mob which have 2 skins (male/female) which is chosen at random when you place them down... If you get male and want female then use magic lasso to pick up and re-place...

[amadin]

People, how to use item Workbench. I search in google bit i find nothing about.

[amadin]

Many new players have no idea how to play the game. They don't know how to pick up items, how to replant crops/saplings, how to eat food, how to protect their stuff or how to use stargates to find places to build. Some players have food and die repeatedly because they didn't realize starvation was killing them. I'll bet many players who don't replant the public farms don't know how.

I think just need add a "Signs" to spawn with base instructions about this (english only enough) or write manual in www and post link to it in game at "Sign".

[TenPlus1]

Place raw materials in the left-most grid... craft recipe in the middle grid and the workbench will use the raw materials to output into the right-most grid...

[amadin]

TenPlus1, maybe can delete this platform in the sky? I think it spoils the cityscape,
we can use the tower on the right for a overlook from the height. It is at yellow teleport.

[Big3Force]

Was i Banned or the server down??

[TenPlus1]

Prolly server crash... just to recap though, server will be moved on 1st July and will be down whole day and maybe part of 2nd...

[amadin]

There are no image of melon slice for item frame.

[Dragonop]

How do I get a NPC?

[iska]

Howdy, I'm trying to get in, see all your messages about not moving - i am not ;) just pressing 8 to choose food and eat...

edit: got in, after first try i thought immediately its freezing bug because i saw server uptime is long - so held mouse upside down on my hand to quickly left click without rotating view.
This however didnt work until maybe the fourth time.
Weirdness. ;)

[TenPlus1]

This bug has only started happening since the std::bad_alloc error reared it's ugly head, but just incase I'm going through each of the mods 1 by 1 to see if anything would cause this to happen on joining...

[Inocudom]

This server is having some pretty ugly problems right now. Crashing all the time and such...

[TenPlus1]

It's a map glitch error in the game itself... Devs have been informed but when a player is in an area containing a corrupted map block then it crashes server instead of simple displaying an error message...

[auouymous]

It's a map glitch error in the game itself... Devs have been informed but when a player is in an area containing a corrupted map block then it crashes server instead of simple displaying an error message...

Does it log which area caused the problem or do you have to test with only one player on server?

[lag01]

It's a map glitch error in the game itself... Devs have been informed but when a player is in an area containing a corrupted map block then it crashes server instead of simple displaying an error message...

Does it log which area caused the problem or do you have to test with only one player on server?

Handle map with this script viewtopic.php?f=14&t=10333 with remap.py
, it will copy only parseable blocks and show faulty block index in console. (delete 51, 48, 47, 46 lines in script if you don't need to filter blocks)

[TenPlus1]

auouymous: sadly no errors apart from the std::bad_alloc error when server crashes, so it turns into a hunt for the bad map area to be found and if possible use WorldEdit to blank that area to fix things, which isn't handy for built up areas and players' buildings...

lag01: thanks for the script, the Xanadu map is now over 60gb in size and this may indeed help... Will it strip out all bad areas and leave those containing a protector ???

[auouymous]

lag01: thanks for the script, the Xanadu map is now over 60gb in size and this may indeed help... Will it strip out all bad areas and leave those containing a protector ???

It makes a copy of the database but strips out areas it can't read, which would probably cause a database read error when loaded on the server. It might help, you could visit the areas it lists as bad and see if server crashes. It seems like the problems Xanadu has are random and a database error would happen every time the area is loaded. Like when you added the new mobs and that one would change skin and then warp away which caused a crash.

The filtering part of that script "ungenerates" entire areas that have been explored but not built in. The list of blocks in middle of script, which include a protector, are used to determine if the area shouldn't be removed. A nice feature but I imagine it would create unmatched terrain around player builds (your ocean build might now be in a small lake).

[lag01]

Will it strip out all bad areas and leave those containing a protector ???

yes, and it will produce valid map. if you need, then later i can modify it, to include all valid blocks, but you can easy do it yourself.

[Bonny]

for some reason i cant login to server i see people login in it but for me its just being stuck on connecting to server :/

[TenPlus1]

Server is up and running bonny, could be a connection problem maybe ?

If you are on a Windows laptop check any new virus software installed to see if it's blocking Minetest from connecting to the internet...

Also, try reloading the server list a few times, might be trying to connect to an old ip address...

[Bonny]

Server is up and running bonny, could be a connection problem maybe ?

i tried to login to different server..it worked just fine

[iska]

Same here, this morning was ok but then after a while sudden disconnect and couldnt connect now for two hours or so. I thought the moving process had started already ;)

[TenPlus1]

Very weird problem...

[Kilarin]

When you are looking for the bad map areas, check in the deep deep canyon connected to the hell zone that Skrote built. My son won't mine there anymore because he was afraid he was crashing the server.

[firefox]

news from the Underworld Project:

progress had stopped for a while, since i worked on Sol Sanctum, Gaia Tower and the cleaning work near spawn.
but now i finally decided the final design of the Underworld.

the main attraction of the Underworld is the Underworld Mine. it will have more than the one planned entrance.
the Underworld itself will be a decorative town with an Inn and food and equipment shops.

so the following buildings are needed:
- entrance to the Underworld Mine (multiples)
- Underworld Inn
- Underworld Library (will display information about mining and monsters)
- Underworld Blacksmith (equipment shop)
- Underworld Cafe (food shop)
- Underworld Ship (for decoration)
- Underworld Clocktower ?

if there is enough space, more buildings can be added.
when the server is back on the net, i will resume my work in the Underworld to get it started.
contact Red_Fox to join. (as it is now, full crystal armor is required to move in the Underworld).

[DuDraig]

Where did Xanadu go? It no longer appears in the public server list and the last address (98.166.175.89:30000) no longer accepts connections. This has been going on since last night.

[auouymous]

Where did Xanadu go? It no longer appears in the public server list and the last address (98.166.175.89:30000) no longer accepts connections. This has been going on since last night.

Server is being moved to a new locaton, it will be back in a day or two.