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Reinstalled game from clean. No antivirus software is present in system. Firewall is disabled. Still no luck.
Here's one of these strings:

http://minetest.daconcepts.com/server-media/_re.png gives me 404 even from browser.

EDIT: My friend is also unable to retreive that png image, from another computer and network.

Indeed the link you gave does not work. Looks like that particular texture is part of Jeija's digilines mod. Of course, not being on the media server, it probably was downloaded the "old" way, via Minetest's older, internal media transfer protocol.

It's still odd that I don't get any errors while retrieving that file when I started the client. Of course, files stored on a remote_media server are not named plainly like that, but rather with a hash value for the filename.

I have no idea why it isn't working for you, unless it's a bug in your build or in your cURL library maybe.

It was sfan5's build fault, connected from official msvc build just fine. Thank you.

What is the hardware this server runs at? I would like to host Dreambuild-based game in the future, so it will be good to know.

This describes the server's hardware: https://www.soyoustart.com/us/offers/e3-sat-3.xml

Thank you!

I'm also having trouble viewing the downloaded ~10GB old server map. I've set the mg_name to singlenode in the env_meta.txt, but there is nothing around me whatsoever when I first spawn in, and when I teleport to the spawn coordinates there is only this:

Are you sure you're using the right backend? My maps are leveldb format. If you use the wrong backend (i.e. don't have leveldb support), MT will think it needs to create a new map and will ignore what's already there.

How do I make sure I'm using the right backend?

Firstly make sure your Minetest build is compiled with support for it ("-DENABLE_LEVELDB=true" among the other cmake flags, if you build it yourself). In the world.mt file, find the backend line and set it to, "backend = leveldb" if it isn't already.

Make sure the permissions and ownership of the whole tree are correct, and make sure Minetest can read from the map.db folder therein, then the world should load.

I am using the stable 0.4.13 32-bit download (64-bit crashes with Dreambuilder) from the minetest.net page, the backend is set to leveldb, and the Minetest folder isn't anywhere that would need special permissions to access.
I have also tried sfan5's 32-bit build, but that also doesn't work; the console/debug.txt is filled with tens of thousands of lines of

Ouch. I simply don't have any idea how that would happen. Can you try migrating the map to sqlite and run it that way?

This server has been shut down and discontinued due to lack of interest.

sad

but the map that I had lived in for quite some time had been reset anyways

so

I guess I need to allocate some space to download the map from befor the reset and extract some of my favorite areas...

It was great fun and thanks for a wonderful server

VanessaE wrote:This server has been shut down and discontinued due to lack of interest.

Would there be any server that would take it's place?

It depends on what a person wants, I guess. If someone wants simple survival without everyone/everything trying to kill them, my "Basic-plus" server (daconcepts.com port 30005) should do fine. My "Free-for-All" server (daconcepts.com port 30008) should be suitable if they want PvP, hostile MOBs, armor, etc.

Everyone plays on my "creative building" server (daconcepts.com port 30008) these days anyway.

None of these servers has as many options as this Dreambuilder server did, but they should be more than enough.

Hi, Vanessa, is this server isn`t working anymore?It is disconnecting in list of servers

I have brought this server back online, with the map that was in place before the 2015-12-15 reset, since there just wasn't much built between then and the day I shut it down.

Since this uses current Dreambuilder, you will need a Minetest development build dated 2017-01-24 or later, otherwise a lot of previously-colorful stuff will just look white. All other mods on the server are equally up-to-date, and the server now uses the newplayer (/rules formspec, et al.) mod, like my others.

Thanks for bringing the server up again. It is very satisfying that all the buildings are still there. I hope building on that map will soon be possible again without those lag problems around spawn. At least the devs ought to be motivated now that there's new data on what's possibly going on and causing the problems.

VanessaE wrote:I have brought this server back online, with the map that was in place before the 2015-12-15 reset, since there just wasn't much built between then and the day I shut it down.

Since this uses current Dreambuilder, you will need a Minetest development build dated 2017-01-24 or later, otherwise a lot of previously-colorful stuff will just look white. All other mods on the server are equally up-to-date, and the server now uses the newplayer (/rules formspec, et al.) mod, like my others.

Wow, these are some great news! I love the old map! I just finished a visit of my old places on the server...

Glad you enjoyed it, webdesigner. Hopefully we'll see more of you. :)

VanessaE wrote:Glad you enjoyed it, webdesigner. Hopefully we'll see more of you. :)

Cannot promise that, but I'll try. I'm busy with my studies ^^

The reboot time for this server has been shifted to 6:00 AM US Eastern Daylight time (11:00 AM CET).