FOSS gamedev and creative worlds

Below are links to some old maps that I found on this site. These maps come from around the 0.3.1 days, but some of them have interesting creations.
http://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?id=2236-Train Station Map
http://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?id=890-Temple Of Time Map
http://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?id=683-Hmmm's Parkour Map
http://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?id=1416-Temperest's Adventure Map
http://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?id=1390-Quest For Death And Glory Map
http://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?id=1106-Cloudburst Map
http://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?id=691-Jordan4ibanez's Old Server Map
http://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?id=915-Jeija's Old Singleplayer Map
If any of you know of any other old maps, you can post the links to them here. Same goes for if you have any old maps.

I have my old map from 0.4.4, which is when I started playing minetest, but I guess it isn't very old compared to these

You should upload that map while you still have it. Some people might have an interest in it.

It is depressing, but the vast majority of maps of old servers were never uploaded and probably don't exist anymore. However, if any of you do have any old server maps or singleplayer maps, you can post them here. Opening them up in the current dev version of 0.4.6 can sometimes be an interesting experience.

Perhaps real server maps where too big to store them somewhere. Redcrabs map to my knowledge reached ~10 GB by now. The maps you listed seem to be mostly theme-based maps of very limited size.

When I re-visited my first real singleplayer map today, I was sad at what I saw. The building looks plain ugly with the new cobble-texture, my selection of mods has changed, and the nearby desert now looks completely diffrent as well. The new textures are fine as such - I never liked the orange desert sand much, and the desert stone texture was too even for most buildings - but I'd have used different materials had the textures been different back then.

Fortionately, I had a copy of the old minetest_game that was used to create that singleplayer world, and the game supports diffrent "games" very well. So, basicly, I took that old minetest_game, copied it into my games folder, renamed the folder to old_singleplayer, changed a few symlinks for mods used in that world, and changed the world.mt of that particular world to "gameid = old_singleplayer". There are still some problems with unknown items and error messages, but in general it runs well. Some of the unknown items are due to experiments with mods and thus perfectly normal for that world.

I'd like to suggest that you similary do an extra game for older maps with the textures that where used back then. I havn't really played 0.3.x and thus don't know how it used to be.

There are three servers that I know of that use 0.3.1.
http://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?id=1380-Redcrab's 0.3.1 Server
http://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?id=5597-Darkrose's Server
http://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?pid=2362#p2362-Jachoo's Server
If these servers end up being discontinued, I hope that the owners of them will upload their maps. Some of them might be big, but at least they won't be lost forever.

Dang this makes me wish id kept my old 0.3.1 map!!

oxenfreedan wrote:Dang this makes me wish id kept my old 0.3.1 map!!

I wish that people had kept their old maps more often. With worldedit and a mod that can be used to replace sand and gravel with types that don't fall, at least the buildings of old maps could have been saved. As the screenshot topic shows, there were some pretty creations back then. With a few useful mods (like homedecor, replacer, darkage, moreblocks, and cottages,) those old buildings could have been updated and improved. Sadly, most of those wonderful buildings of old are lost forever, both in substance and in blueprint. The current dev version of Minetest allows for even better buildings to be built, but the buildings of old could be too difficult to rebuild if their general layouts are not known.

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Inocudom wrote:

oxenfreedan wrote:Dang this makes me wish id kept my old 0.3.1 map!!

I wish that people had kept their old maps more often.

I kept mine.

Could you upload it sometime? If you do, post a link to it in this topic (or a link to a topic where you post a link to it.)

Why waste your time deleting cool old maps for no reason?

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