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Technic game mode:
Github page: https://github.com/minetest-technic/technic_game
Download zip archive: http://amun.inchra.net/technic_game.zip

List of mods used in this game:
Technic
Pipeworks
Mesecons
Plantlife
Moreores
Moretrees
Moonflower

License: LGPLv2+ for Technic mod, all others mods that comes with the game have own licenses, read license files in their folders.

All the available craft recipes can be checked with using Unified Inventory's built-in Crafting Guide.

The default creative mod has been removed.

Changelog:
30.06.2013 1.0 Release.

For further assistance, questions, development discussion, etc., please visit #minetest-technic also.

How did you remove the default creative? If you just delete the mod's folder, won't the game be unable to work?

Inocudom wrote:How did you remove the default creative? If you just delete the mod's folder, won't the game be unable to work?

Unified Inventory replaces it completely.

RealBadAngel wrote:

Inocudom wrote:How did you remove the default creative? If you just delete the mod's folder, won't the game be unable to work?

Unified Inventory replaces it completely.

It is true, however, you don't need to be giving in 99 item stacks anymore as we implemented infinite items a while back.

Jordach wrote:

RealBadAngel wrote:

Inocudom wrote:How did you remove the default creative? If you just delete the mod's folder, won't the game be unable to work?

Unified Inventory replaces it completely.

It is true, however, you don't need to be giving in 99 item stacks anymore as we implemented infinite items a while back.

Infinite stacks aren't good for testing crafting recipes, and item_drop might not work with them.

After today, game pack is updated with UI style backgrounds for all the chest including default, completely new way to change infotext for silver and gold chests, added backgrounds for many LV machines, made lava renewable by default, changed lava cooling, many tweaks and smaller changes.
More to come :)

Silver chests (editing infotext)


Gold Chest with color picker for filters:

I think water flow is a little messed up in the technic game mode. Here is an image of how it flows in my technic game.



and here is one of how it flows in the basic Minetest game.



I just started a new game in the Minetest game mode and it flows more circularly.

LionsDen wrote:I think water flow is a little messed up in the technic game mode. Here is an image of how it flows in my technic game.

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I just started a new game in the Minetest game mode and it flows more circularly.

I dont think water flow is game related. Its engine stuff.

wait, what does color filtering in golden chest do?

I think it is related to mese sorting tubes in the pipeworks mod. Ask RealBadAngel.

Dan Duncombe wrote:Ask RealBadAngel.

that's what I did. -_-"

Mito551 wrote:

Dan Duncombe wrote:Ask RealBadAngel.

that's what I did. -_-"

Thats a thingy that was in mind even before tubes were born.
Way to let know the tubes system wheres the receiver.
It was meant as a piece of sorting machines and storage system.
Tubes side is not yet implemented but i saw early test tree in vanessa's git.
Marking chest (and changing infotext) was aviable before, but were pain in the ass.
Now i made it pretty usable i think.

Back to marks. Lets use filter, it can have rules, like inventory.
Lets say rows:
1st row is marked green
2nd red
3rd blue
each of them have 3 slots to put example filter nodes
so player choose to put in first (green) cobble, stone and desert stone
2nd, dirt, gravel
3rd sand, desert sand
after passing filter each item will get the colour mark
if will fit any of the rules above it will be marked with the colour roo
if not, it will stay unmarked
then, colour marked items can go only to the chest (receiver) with mark of the very same colour
if not its travelling further
until it will find the destination or bounce back.
Unmarked items could only go to unmarked receivers.

So if u have inserted cobble in such circuit and put filter (or sorting machine, propably better solution) it will be given a colour, green in this example.
Item travelling will be blind for any receivers other than marked green simply.
So it can pass tubes line of 10 red chests connected and pick next one green.

Gives error message

EDIT: Works though

playzooki wrote:Gives error message

EDIT: Works though

what kind of errors? please do copy them

how do you install a minigame

In folder ~/.minetest/games, run "git clone https://github.com/RealBadAngel/technic_game".
That's it, you're done!

For future updates, go in folder ~/.minetest/games/technic_game and run "git pull".

Of course, you need to have git installed to have these commands work ;)

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@RealBadAngel : Are the new 32x32 textures from your Haven Pack?
I really love them!

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About the new textures, sizes of cobblestone one and overlay for chromium, uranium, zinc, silver, mithril and tin don't match.
(16x16 overlay on 32x32 textures)

RealBadAngel: I don't know if this has been mentioned, but, pipeworks adds it's own chest textures, same as default but with a hole in the side. The problem is these textures are still used, and so the sides of the default chest are like minetest_game chests, whereas the front and top are from your texture pack.

I post a copy of the README here, 'cause I've been wondering why I had empty folders in mods/ after a simple "git clone":

Cloning with git:
This repository uses submodules. In order to get all the parts of the
game you will need to run 'git submodule update --init' when you clone
and 'git submodule update' every time that the submodules are updated.

I am getting empty folders when downloading the game mode as well, the following folders are empty for me.

digilines
forth_computer
mesecons
moreblocks
moreores
moretrees
pipeworks
plantlife
technic

I don't know why it changed as the first time I downloaded it, it had everything and worked properly. I do know that for the past week or so, every time I try to download from github it fails the first time saying the file was not readable but allows me to download it fine the second time. Not sure if thats a change in github, my connection or my computer.

@ LionsDen: Read the post just above yours ;)

vv221 wrote:@ LionsDen: Read the post just above yours ;)

I don't clone the git repository. I use the download links in the first post.

How does this gamemode differ from technic mod (aside from being a gamemode and comming with all the mods, ofc.)?

i cant get it to work, can someone help me plz?

durtective6 wrote:i cant get it to work, can someone help me plz?

If you are using the download links in the first post, it wont work because of some github problem. I don't know what happened as the first time I downloaded it, I got all of the directories and such but since then I haven't been able to get most of the files. Someone above mentioned cloning the github repository but I have no idea how to do it and frankly am not interested in learning how. I have since stopped using the mod/game mode because it's a pain (EDIT: to download) and all the abms in technic/mesecons/pipeworks slows the game to a crawl and quite often dips my fps below 10. When that happens, the game gets very close to crashing on me and has happened fairly often. It's hard to watch your fps when your trying to play.

LionsDen wrote:[...] a pain to download [...]

Because of submodules the GitHub download zip will not work properly, therefore I have uploaded a packaged version of the gamemode with all the mods included, the link is in the first post.

LionsDen wrote:[...] technic/mesecons/pipeworks slows the game to a crawl [...]

Technic has recently been significantly optimized.

Edit: Disabling fancy leaves should significantly increase FPS due to the number of leaves that moretrees adds.

The download archive has been updated with the latest versions of all mods and some bug fixes.

Can i make some textures for technic for my texture pack to release?

durtective6 wrote:Can i make some textures for technic for my texture pack to release?

Yes, of course you can make your own technic textures. :-)

Is The version in the Git Hub repository working? i got the error:

2015-07-19 14:33:35: ERROR[main]: Server: Failed to load and run F:\local\minetest_technic\bin\..\games\technic_game\mods\wireless\init.lua
2015-07-19 14:33:35: ERROR[main]: ModError: ModError: Failed to load and run F:\local\minetest_technic\bin\..\games\technic_game\mods\wireless\init.lua
2015-07-19 14:33:35: ERROR[main]: Error from Lua:
2015-07-19 14:33:35: ERROR[main]: cannot open F:\local\minetest_technic\bin\..\games\technic_game\mods\wireless\init.lua: No such file or directory

caffe23: You should read README.txt. You need to clone the submodules, use `git submodule update --init`.