FOSS gamedev and creative worlds

I'm really tired to build SUPER buildings with nice landscapes and just to find that the server with +- 20 players just disappear...... All your hard-work is gone!!!! Is there no one / or firm that can sponcer a stable server for us all.

The last server i almost had my Power-stations 100% running .... and puff gone is the server.. You all know the work one put in to generate power.

BIG PLEASE - Lets keep this GREAT game alive with stable servers :)

TheMiner

First of all, you can save your buildings you made in a server in your internal storage since an update wich dates less than 2 mounths.
For the second point, we can't do anything... A server closes, and an another opens...

Take a look at very olds servers, like VanessaE servers, they are very stable and here from... a very long time :)

You can also come in newer servers, like MinetestForFun (advertising sorry :D), we are opened since approximately 1 year...

That's right, VanessaEs servers are very stable. Buildings from her very first creative map where all copied over when the map was changed to a newer one a long time ago. Those are servers where builders are welcome and can truly feel at home. The servers suffered a bit lately due to a bug in the engine and some over-automatization IMHO, but are still the most attractive ones for builders. There are machines which create all materials for free in huge quantities on the survival server, and the reactors are not the nicest constructions to look at (well, atomic power plants seldom count as art in RL either). Perhaps the creative server might be the best choice. As far as survival goes, RealTest is far more of a challenge than normal MT.

And then there's still Redcrabs server. It does still work. Sadly, recent clients can only connect to it if their cache is cleared before connecting, and the server does not show up on the public list (redcrab.suret.net 30401). Redcrab shows up extremly rarely, and yet the server runs quite well - and has over more years than any other server.

Other servers that have been up for a long time and where builders and their creations are treated well are linuxgaming.us and King Arthurs Land. Your constructions are safe there.

Avoid servers that do not have a protection mod or rely on the protector mod. It has proven countless times to be insufficient for the needs of creative builders, and the server operators who use it mostly don't care enough. There are some concepts that work - either rollback or some internal alternative has to be present (whitelisting/backups/alternate rollback as on VanessaEs servers and King Arthurs Land), and the server owner needs to know how to operate these. The servers mentioned above are save in that regard. Even Redcrabs server - provided you protect your area.

If a server which hasn't been around for a long time and which may not even have the areas mod installed has a nice spot somewhere or very attractive textures, by all means enable

in your minetest.conf so that a local backup of the world will be created on your disk.

l build in singleplayer mode. VaE's creative and survival servers are very laggy (low fps) in my opinion and l can use my mods in singleplayer mode.

Hybrid Dog wrote:VaE's creative and survival servers are very laggy

That's why I prefer VanessaE's Vanilla Server (digitalaudioconcepts.com port 30005). Only a few mods. There are a lot of beautiful buildings.
See also Jodach's Public Server (jordach.net port 30001) and MinetestForFun (qbuissondebon.info port 30001).

I am an Admin on a server called Samson's World, and I can tell you that it is a stable server, if any one wants to know any thing alse then you can message me. Or pop on the server when I have put it up:D