FOSS gamedev and creative worlds

Quick question, I installed minetest from apt using a good old apt-get install minetest, have some nice executables stuck in /usr/games for me, one of them being minetest server.

I've tried running it with a conf and a previous world I've built. With and without mods. It will read the config file and everything, will even let me connect and authenticate. When I use my precreated world that ran on windows, it errors out and says invalid block format.

If I just let it create it's own world, clear out the entire ~/.minetest directory, it creates a folder called world, I try and connect, and it just hangs at item definitions screen indefinitely. That is without any mods installed.

What steps am I missing here?

The minetest version in the software center is very outdated. Use the PPA to get an up-to date version.

PilzAdam wrote:The minetest version in the software center is very outdated. Use the PPA to get an up-to date version.

I realized that it was outdated and I grabbed the version info and it said something like 0.3.1 =O

I just built it from source. Working like a champ. Thanks PilzAdam!


Edit: In fact, the answer is simply built it from source or use PPA for ubuntu specifically. I'd be okay deleting the thread unless you think it's useful to others.