FOSS gamedev and creative worlds

As 0.4.x has just become slow, and lacking in fun for me I've restarted development of the 0.3.x series as Minetest Classic. All of these servers run Minetest Classic, but can still be played on (with some unknown blocks) with an old 0.3.x client.

Main Server
Address: minetest-classic.com
Port: 30000
Privs: shout and teleport, ask me for build; either here, on irc.freenode.net #minetest-classic, at the Minetest Classic Forums, or on the server.

Public Server
Address: public1.minetest-classic.com
Port: 30001
Privs: shout and build.

Creative Server
Address: public1.minetest-classic.com
Port: 30002
Privs: shoutt, ask me for build; either here, on irc.freenode.net #minetest-classic, at the Minetest Classic Forums, or on the server.

New features in Minetest Classic, not found in 0.3.x (everything except the new blocks, and 3D models work in original 0.3.x clients):
Cotton: craft from 4 junglegrass
5 Tree Types: oak, large oak, apple, jungle, conifer - each with their own saplings, wood, and leaves
Plant Growth: junglegrass and papyrus grow naturally
Apple Growth: apple trees grow apple blossom, which grow into apples
Border Stone: protector nodes, these stop players other than the owner digging/placing nodes within a 5 node radius.
Leaf Decay: because leaves hanging in the sky are ugly
Apple Drop: apples drop to the ground once the leaves are gone
Farming: place mud next to water, dig it with a shovel and it becomes farm dirt; can be used to grow papyrus, cactus, junglegrass, roses, daffodils, tulips, cotton, wheat, carrots, potatoes, beetroot, grapes.
Rat Death: rats die in lava
Stairs and Slabs: 7 types of each, as well as the upside down versions.
Stone Blocks: a more polished stone block, made from regular stone.
Stone Bricks: kinda self explanatory.
Glass Light: a clear light source.
3D player models: and 3D mobs.
Dyes: 8 colours that can be used to colour glass, glass slabs, glass panes, cotton, carpet, beds, clay, and probably other stuff I've forgotten.
Roofs: a proper roof draw type that allows for sloped roofs with neat capping and corners.
And a whole lot more.

With several hundred node types and crafting recipes, I took the easy way out, rather than keeping track of all the recipes I just made an in-game craft guide (there's also cooking, and decrafting guides, but you can get the recipes for those from the craft guide):


The source, as well as precompiled binaries for windows (thanks to Menche's awesome build script) of Minetest Classic are available at the Minetest Classic Website.

Not everyone is capable of having a powerful computer, so a server like this is good for those that don't. If you are not aware of this already, Minetest 0.4.6 does have jungles and dungeons in it, but there are probably computers that can't run it.

(quite unrelated to the server) I am having trouble building minetest 0.3 with irrlicht 1.8... and with 1.7.3 I got a segfault at startup of minetest, so I think I'll give up...

Zeg9 wrote:(quite unrelated to the server) I am having trouble building minetest 0.3 with irrlicht 1.8... and with 1.7.3 I got a segfault at startup of minetest, so I think I'll give up...

Try downloading 0.3.1 stable off of Minetest's main site.

To anybody else that reads this, 0.4.6 can't connect to 0.3.1 servers. You must download and use 0.3.1.

Inocudom wrote:

Zeg9 wrote:(quite unrelated to the server) I am having trouble building minetest 0.3 with irrlicht 1.8... and with 1.7.3 I got a segfault at startup of minetest, so I think I'll give up...

Try downloading 0.3.1 stable off of Minetest's main site.

To anybody else that reads this, 0.4.6 can't connect to 0.3.1 servers. You must download and use 0.3.1.

...The main site only links to windows versions. I could connect with the help of wine, but well, 0.3.1 is pretty boring...
EDIT: though the textures are good there, too... I wonder if there is a texture pack using 0.3.1 textures.
EDIT2: Now I let you talk about the server, not about 0.3.1...

darkrose wrote: ask me for build; either here, on irc, or on the server.

why not? addme! user: Melkor

Melkor wrote:why not? addme! user: Melkor

done :)

Zeg9 wrote:(quite unrelated to the server) I am having trouble building minetest 0.3 with irrlicht 1.8... and with 1.7.3 I got a segfault at startup of minetest, so I think I'll give up...

how about this: https://github.com/minetest/minetest/tree/stable-0.3

thanks darkrose

Could I get build?

And is it really running 0.3.1? The latest 0.3 version is 0.3.3.

Menche wrote:Could I get build?

And is it really running 0.3.1? The latest 0.3 version is 0.3.3.

Assuming your name in-game is Menche, you have build.

The server is a bit of a patched hybrid of 0.3.x + leaf decay, and some other things I can't remember at the moment. I just call it 0.3.1 as it works with that, and that's the version debian has in their repos.

EDIT: though the textures are good there, too... I wonder if there is a texture pack using 0.3.1 textures.

Cisoun's texture pack (0.3.0/0.3.1, Windows package only) or the "Old" texture pack (before 0.3.0, 0.3.0/0.3.1 on Linux, which was converted to 0.4.6 by me).

Melkor wrote:

Zeg9 wrote:(quite unrelated to the server) I am having trouble building minetest 0.3 with irrlicht 1.8... and with 1.7.3 I got a segfault at startup of minetest, so I think I'll give up...

how about this: https://github.com/minetest/minetest/tree/stable-0.3

thanks darkrose

This is the first one I tried. But never mind.

It was so nostalgia being there.
Yeah, count me in. I can recreate some of past world's glories and laying some roadwork. Busy though.

user: MichaelEh

Can I get privs? My game name is diablo.

diablo wrote:Can I get privs? My game name is diablo.

done. :)

Can I get privs.... please. game name MichaelEh

i'll build roads

Hello darkrose, may I build, and thanks for setting up this server, I was about to.
Pentium44. I can also look out for trolls / greifers for you.

You should both have build now :)

hi username: Rev0x (with a zero)
thanks in advanced

darkrose wrote:You should both have build now :)

Thanks, I will watch over the server. I am in like a 10 hour time different than you so, I will do your night shift

madchicken13 wrote:

darkrose wrote:You should both have build now :)

Thanks, I will watch over the server. I am in like a 10 hour time different than you so, I will do your night shift

cool, ta.

Rev0x wrote:hi username: Rev0x (with a zero)
thanks in advanced

You have build.

Um, oops!

I accidentally deleted the latest version of the map, not all is lost, just anything built in the past 24 hours or so... which is a lot.

Sorry. :(
I've got a better backup mechanism in place now though.

To make it up to you a bit we now have cotton on the server, crafted from 4 jungle grass arranged in a square.

Also, papyrus and jungle grass now grow (very slowly).

This all works with the standard 0.3.x client; you don't need anything special to get the new nodetype or anything... by default cotton is using the cloud.png texture, so replace that with a better one if you want your cotton to look more like cotton and not just a white block. No, replacing it won't make clouds look wierd, clouds don't use that texture.

Also, I'm going to turn on creative mode for a while this weekend.

i had built quite some stuff and MichaelEh is going to be pissed heh, he was making a chessboard

At what time will creative be on? i don't want to miss it

Yeah, I saw all your stuff gone, and swore. :(

Just put creative on now, I'll leave it on for a couple of hours, and do the same tomorrow some time.

hi my username is JessicaC i would like privs thanks.

Michael took away my privs for no reason....can i get them back please? thanks

No reason...? While you say the silliest things drunk Rev0x, lets go over stuff you said while DARKROSE was watching both offline and after she logged onto the server...

You admitted you are LANDMINE...
(Which you backed up with info relavant between myself and Landmine.)

You admitted you were FUZZYWUZZY on Gameboom...

You admitted to griefing many Gameboom landmarks as FuzzyWuzzy...
(Oddly for those out there, he as Fuzzywuzzy griefed Gameboom's iconic pixel logo...
... right in front of DARKROSE. It was DARKROSE who banned Fuzzywuzzy on the spot.)

You threaten myself, the Darkrose's server amoung other incrimidating outbrusts.

Frankly if I was going to remove any privs from you, 'shout' comes to mind.

Keep in mind that in MY country, we sign the UN declaration against the use of LANDMINEs and my father was in the Engineer Corp which IRONICALLY his job was removing LANDMINEs. I have strong family and Patriotic duty to get rid of ... well... if you ever sober up and realize you shot yourself in the foot over and over again... without my help or actions.

Still we need to clear the air here... and every other server. So the clear Minetest servers of LANDMINEs all they have to do is ban 189.191.1/24 though some have said that 189.191.1/16 is good enough.

Can I have build IGN: Adarqet

Adarqet wrote:Can I have build IGN: Adarqet

You have build.

hi im new on your server i wanted to know if i could have building privileges thanks my username is steve.