FOSS gamedev and creative worlds

I would like to introduce my server Jungle.

serveradress: 78.47.93.144
Port : 39155


Which started as a test server on my home pc now moved to a dedicated server in the Germany
and is running 24/7. There are a lot of mods installed, some of them are: moretrees, farming plus,
carts, simple_mobs, moreores, cottages, beer. The game is about surviving in a tropical environment.
Mining, building, farming and surviving, economy or do whatever you want. As long as you follow
our rules. We have 2206 different Nodes and many customized mods. A lot of experienced players in
technic and building might want to give you some help if you need it.
Of course there are lots of jungles, cliffs and beaches. But also plains and deserts. Feel free to roam.
From spawn you can chose where to start. straight into the jungle or the coral islands with lots of
beaches and shipwrecks or the waterfall where you find cliffs, jungle and more.


Only a few things to be considered as rules:

1st and most important be polite. Do not behave like you never had any parents or you get banned.
2nd respect others and their doing. That also means no griefing !
3rd cobbelstone is evil ! dont leave any traces of it in the forests. That's ugly.
4th if you need wood, please cut the whole tree and plant a new one.
5th No multi accounts or multiple logins from one ip
6th digging in other players areas without permit will be punished with jail. Get out from there with /spawn



Admin is Gundul, (of course) Moderator is Hoshi.
Don't try to ask for extra privs or stuff. Privs are good as they are and the game is about crafting, so don't ask for stuff.
If you don't like crafting, don't play Minetest. (at least on my server)
You can ask for area protection if one of us is online or write an email or pm with the coords and your player name.
New : We now have a public building area, where you can use protector blocks

Everybody is welcome. We speak german, english, indonesian and french. The last three not perfectly but quiet well.


Have fun and a good time

Gundul

--- Technic Mod, but different

Hv-Machines
MV geothermals
MV waterturbine
red crystal upgrade for mv and hv machines
plenty of uranium below -10k

--- Worldmap ---

http://imgur.com/CIUrfmr

--- The Pictures ---

viewtopic.php?f=10&t=13125&start=25#p198925
viewtopic.php?f=10&t=13125&start=75#p211122
viewtopic.php?f=10&t=13125&start=100#p223567
viewtopic.php?f=10&t=13125&p=260398#p256583

--- The Texturepacks ---



Server help section (WIP) :










--- comments are welcme ---

No, it's not nice when players leave a bit of tree here and a block there! Why is it that only the players in Minetest do that?? All the players in Minecraft don't, I have not seen any one do it any way

Only Minetest players do that?! hahaha, don't make me laugh, Minecraft players do that, but all servers have treecapitator or even lack any kind of survival on them.

Also, I think it is mainly because most of the players on phone are lazy, and looking up is too much for them, that is also why some of those players do their homes only 2 blocks tall.

I used to make 2-block tall homes...
Until I figured out I could look up and down.
Embarrassing, ik
nah jk I didn't understand fashion or how to build a house then. :3 I'll post a map sometime.

Update 10.10.2015

installed serveressentials mod today.

viewtopic.php?f=11&t=12445&p=180964#p180964

From now on all new Players will have spawn priv and can use /spawn.
People already playing on the server, I will add the priv. Should I forget someone, please tell me :)

Here a list, from extra commands, usable without extra privs:

/ping

Required privileges: None
Pong!

/clearinv

Required privileges: None
Clears your inventory.

/killme

Required Privileges: None
Kills self.

/motd

Required privileges: none
Displays server motd.

/gettime

Required privileges: none
Gets current time of day.

/whatisthis

Required privileges: None
Gets itemstring of currently wielded item.


One more thing :

Some asked me about the lack of milk. Solution is easy. There is milk. All you need is to hold an empty drinking
glass in your hand and left click a cow. The important thing is, that from spawn time of the cow until you can get
milk you have to wait one minute. After getting milk, wait one more minute and you can get milk again, and so on.


Gundul


comments and suggestions welcome

I would suggest disabling /clearinv for players without creative priv, some curious players might see it on /help and use it without knowing.

Well, I accidentally dug in a protected area, and I got banned. That was fast, and I don't recommend this server to any players that like to build.

programmingchicken wrote:Well, I accidentally dug in a protected area, and I got banned. That was fast, and I don't recommend this server to any players that like to build.

My moderator has warned you. You said you would not dig in protected areas again,
but you did it only 5 minutes later. Your own fault !

Unfortunately my mod did not enter the right command. He only wanted to ban you for 5 Minutes.

But never the less my mod did the right thing.

Dragonop wrote:I would suggest disabling /clearinv for players without creative priv, some curious players might see it on /help and use it without knowing.

I think that is a good idea. Thanks.

Gundul: I don't think you understand how protection in a public server works; unless you have a protection block (in the protection blocks mod) or no lag (in the areas mod, or landrush, or whatever) you WILL dig in a protected area, it doesn't matter how careful you are. You need to know the boundaries of the claimed land. Also, a moderator that makes mistakes when banning, it's not a good option.

Offtopic edit: I was "assaulted" by a player named "Orc" because of this post, I don't see what is wrong with it, why can't I tell my opinion? Called me a "problemmaker", that when "the day is long you can post such a garbage text"... I don't know who this guy is, and why he is allowed to do such acusations, when the server is not his...

Dragonop wrote:Gundul: I don't think you understand how protection in a public server works; unless you have a protection block (in the protection blocks mod) or no lag (in the areas mod, or landrush, or whatever) you WILL dig in a protected area, it doesn't matter how careful you are. You need to know the boundaries of the claimed land. Also, a moderator that makes mistakes when banning, it's not a good option.

I understand very well how protection works.

In most cases it is not a problem that an area can not been seen, it is more a problem that
it does not want to be seen. It is shown in the lower left corner, for all those who know reading.

That someone got mixed up with a command, may happen. 5 Minutes ban is ok for me.

I didn't meant to say that... but whatever...

UPDATE 14/10/2015


Server will be shutdown for 2 hours this afternoon 15:30 UTC.

a backup will be made and the parts of the corrupted world will get fixed.



Gundul

Backup was made. But the corrupted map could not be fixed. /deleteblocks only lead to even more corruption.

Server will run again at last state in a few minutes.


I will copy the whole server on my home pc and look how to fix it.


Gundul

Sorry Server down for maintenance.


World database is broken. The file was already 2.4 Gb big, which is too much for
the server or minetest itself, I do not know.

I am now working on getting rid of all the unused chunks in our worldmap.

Unfortunately the newest working mapfile seems to be from 08/10/2015


Gundul

Gundul wrote:In most cases it is not a problem that an area can not been seen, it is more a problem that
it does not want to be seen. It is shown in the lower left corner, for all those who know reading.

Does not want to be seen? You mean deliberate traps set by griefers who hide their protected areas so that any unsuspecting builder who comes by and wants to gather ressources from (seemingly) unprotected and unchanged natural terrain gets attacked by a protection mod and subsequently banned?

The Landrush server used to have autoban after digging too often in protected areas. The server lost me as a builder after I tried to pick a flower in nature - due to lag I was unable to see that it was protected. Other builders where more forgiving to the server - they came back even though they where banned regularily automaticly.

Ban those players who actually consciously destroy something built by others. That's enough work for each server owner/moderator :-) Some griefings may be accidental due to lack of control of the (Android) client. Some may be deliberate thefts of wanted materials or just pointless destruction by those who don't know better.

Update

the Mapfile from 12/10/15 seems to work,too. that is the good news.

But the mapfile need to be shrinked. That is why I need your help.
please send me the coords of your buildings which you want to be kept.
Anything other will be destroyed by the shrinking script.

thanks

Gundul

I was by a wall that was protected.
What am I supposed to do, know that it was protected?

programmingchicken wrote:I was by a wall that was protected.
What am I supposed to do, know that it was protected?

You should follow, what a moderator or admin asks you to do or not to do.

If you were asked to leave it untouched, leave it.

Jungle is back and running


The good news is, that it looks like I was wrong blaming the server or minetest itself for the corrupted map.
Even better news is, so no shrinking of the map was necessary and all buildings, mines, everything could be
left untouched.

Even though I now know how to handle the script, if I should need it one day. Thanks to solars and lag01 for their
work here: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=9774&hilit=unexplore
I had to do some modificatons to suit my needs, its not perfect yet, but already does a very good job.


Yes, there are bad news also:

First there will not be any more shipwrecks. 2.5GB is already a quiet large world. Exploring is ok but keep in mind
that the rich pirates are gone :)

Second, I had to disable the server essentials mod. For some reason, which i do not now already, it caused the
high cpu usage. So no more extra commands like /spawn etc until I find a solution for this. (Now we are using 40% instead of 80% and more.)


if you should encounter any unusual behaviors please report.


Happy mining

Gundul

Gundul wrote:First there will not be any more shipwrecks. 2.5GB is already a quiet large world. Exploring is ok but keep in mind
that the rich pirates are gone :)

Can you show a few screenshots of one? Shipwrecks would be great. Especially if built well.

Gundul wrote:Second, I had to disable the server essentials mod. For some reason, which i do not now already, it caused the
high cpu usage. So no more extra commands like /spawn etc until I find a solution for this. (Now we are using 40% instead of 80% and more.)

But not spawn! That's such an essential and cheap command that it ought to be no problem. I'm sure you'll find a replacement for that command. Hope you find out what causes your problems.

Sokomine wrote:

Gundul wrote:First there will not be any more shipwrecks. 2.5GB is already a quiet large world. Exploring is ok but keep in mind
that the rich pirates are gone :)

Can you show a few screenshots of one? Shipwrecks would be great. Especially if built well.

The shipwrecks are from the sea modpack:
viewtopic.php?f=11&t=4627&hilit=sea+modpack

I have no pictures right now, but i will see what I can do.

Sokomine wrote:

Gundul wrote:Second, I had to disable the server essentials mod. For some reason, which i do not now already, it caused the
high cpu usage. So no more extra commands like /spawn etc until I find a solution for this. (Now we are using 40% instead of 80% and more.)

But not spawn! That's such an essential and cheap command that it ought to be no problem. I'm sure you'll find a replacement for that command. Hope you find out what causes your problems.

I do not think that it is so much a problem of the serveressentials mod itself. I guess it is a problem of our
mailsystem. But that one I would really miss.
viewtopic.php?f=11&t=6273&hilit=mail
Read the warning and you know what I mean :)

Gundul wrote:

programmingchicken wrote:I was by a wall that was protected.
What am I supposed to do, know that it was protected?

You should follow, what a moderator or admin asks you to do or not to do.

If you were asked to leave it untouched, leave it.

I didn't know that the wall was protected and your moderator didn't tell me not to touch it.

programmingchicken wrote:

Gundul wrote:

programmingchicken wrote:I was by a wall that was protected.
What am I supposed to do, know that it was protected?

You should follow, what a moderator or admin asks you to do or not to do.

If you were asked to leave it untouched, leave it.

I didn't know that the wall was protected and your moderator didn't tell me not to touch it.

Look what you write. First "I was by a wall that was protected" then "I didn't know that the wall was protected".
I could post debug and chatlog of that day, but I do not like wasting my time.

Thread closed.

Sokomine wrote:

Gundul wrote:First there will not be any more shipwrecks. 2.5GB is already a quiet large world. Exploring is ok but keep in mind
that the rich pirates are gone :)

Can you show a few screenshots of one? Shipwrecks would be great. Especially if built well.

Ok. I made a few pictures. There are wooden ships and sunken submarines of metal. That is why the last
ones were very popular on my server. :) Do not expect too much, design is very basic.

--- News ---


On the weekend spend some time on server and we have a few
changes.

First, name restrictions when logging in. GuestXXXX from those Android devices will not be
allowed to enter. If you want to play, please spend some seconds to choose another name.

Second. We have a public Double-Your-Ore machine placed in the armor shop in Lagoon City.operates when daytime.

Third: We have a new public travel destination. A good place for all those afraid of the dark :)

And not to forget. It is land for sale in the Lagoon City Center. There will be even more places in the future.


Happy mining.

Gundul

There are a lot of mods installed, some of them are: moretrees, farming plus, carts, simple_mobs, moreores, cottages, beer

there is a beer mod???

tomlukeywood wrote:

There are a lot of mods installed, some of them are: moretrees, farming plus, carts, simple_mobs, moreores, cottages, beer

there is a beer mod???

There is :)

viewtopic.php?f=9&t=10557&p=186892&hilit=beer#p186892


Cheers

Gundul

-- UPDATE --

Serveressentials mod is back, but reduced in number of commands.


These commands are made available for anyone:

/spawn - teleport back to spawn
/killme - commit suicide
/gettime - get local time in game
/ping - check if server responses
/whatisthis - tells you what is in your hand


I worked over the mob-framework and game should be even more stabil now :)

- UPDATE -

A few things, beginning with the new month :)


- Technic mod is updated which fixes the CNC-machine. Inventory is now shown and machine working.

- As we have lots of water and even a river now, some might want to do some fishing. Possible now, get your rods
ready
viewtopic.php?f=11&t=6480&hilit=fishing
[EDIT]
useful hints about fishing:
you have to be alone on server, more than one person playing and no fish will bite
You will find worms when you dig with your bare hands in dirt without grass.
Just put the worms on the right side of the fishing rod.
Leftclick with fishing rod on water places the bait.
Wait until bait starts showing bubbles and then rightclick with the rod on the bait.
When you are lucky you caught a fish :)



- For easier teamwork when building or whatever, now shared chests are available
viewtopic.php?f=9&t=10160&hilit=shared+chest


These mods shouldn have too much influence on fps and lag I believe, but if you encounter any problems
please report.


Happy mining

Gundul