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Hello everyone!
We have a new release: Minetest 0.4.6! Many nice things were added to the default game. Or should I say games? Yes, we have 3 official games now: (the old) "minetest_game", "Survival" and "Build". Also with the new system were games can load mods from "common" its a lot easier to create your own game.
Some of the features that were added to the default games are new ores (like copper and gold), lavacooling near water, obsidian and diamonds. See the changelog for a complete list.
Also the engine has developed: dungeons and jungles are added back, the mapgen speed was increased a lot and many bugs were fixed. Again, see the changelog for a complete list.
Umm... I think thats enough for now. Have fun playing it!

Download (Windows build): http://minetest.ru/builds/minetest-0.4.6.zip
Source: https://github.com/minetest
Changelog: http://dev.minetest.net/Changelog#0.4.5_.E2.86.92_0.4.6

freebsd port will probably be updated in the next week.

YEAH ABOUT TIME!

was the minetest.net runing on xyz server? or is that the forum?
Anyways now I can make my city more complex :) thank you Adam :) And maybe some time in the, falling days I will, start making builds but I will need you make them run like, how they are when finish don't have the files everywhere and have the bin, since I don't know how I will do that.

PilzAdam wrote:Download: http://minetest.ru/builds/minetest-0.4.6.zip

Maybe it would make more sense to label that as "Download for WIndows", as it's the Windows version, not every version.

Yay 0gb can update to the current game on his server

jojoa1997 wrote:Yay 0gb can update to the current game on his server

minetest/minetest is compiled.
minetest/common is installed.
0gb-us/0gb.us_game still needs some work done before updating.

I need to make fire less devastating, in addition to adding some fixes related to the new lava/obsidian mechanics.

Edit; never mind, I'll do a partial update for you. It should give you what you're after, but be careful with fire and lava.

Hey Adam what is that thing we can make, boats you sayed the Vox thing.

Hybrid Dog wrote:What happened to the minimal game?

Oh, yea, thats still there.

ADAM WHY THE mg_flags not making my, map flat?

sorry, I compiled the latest git version, but it still gives a version number of 0.4.5 on linux.

Likwid H-Craft wrote:ADAM WHY THE mg_flags not making my, map flat?

Because you do something wrong :-)
Make sure the line is in minetest.conf and not minetest.conf.example and that there is no # at the beginning of the line.
Also make sure that you have create a new map after setting it and that minetest wasnt running when you edited the file.

Then you didn't actually compile the latest git. I run Linux and my build shows 0.4.6, and was updated less than an hour ago.

I found my problem it, was the wrong spot I was using the old one, not new one.

Edit:Ok now how do I make it have just dirt_with_grass flat Adam?

Never Mind about How change the flat I know how now :)

whoops. I must have messed up at some point. worked on the second try.

Ok so I replaced everything with stone on mapgen.lua and made ores spawn around dirt(That, will never happen since dirt is now stone) and I tested it out works but now the map has this:

What is that? I can't think on what it can be, in a flat map.

And I didn't do it if you say you may, have place the stone like that.

Edit:900 Post!

Found my Problem I added something I should not have.

The server list doesn't work in this build, but the build works well otherwise.

Inocudom wrote:The server list doesn't work in this build, but the build works well otherwise.

From what I hear from PilzAdam, that's because Windows uses non-standard line endings. Windows uses \r\n, where most operating systems (as far as I know, ALL operating systems besides Windows and Mac OS versions older than X) use \n. It makes it difficult for the server list file to be read by the game.

have it check for windows. if so then have it use \r\n

0gb.us wrote:

Inocudom wrote:The server list doesn't work in this build, but the build works well otherwise.

From what I hear from PilzAdam, that's because Windows uses non-standard line endings. Windows uses \r\n, where most operating systems (as far as I know, ALL operating systems besides Windows and Mac OS versions older than X) use \n. It makes it difficult for the server list file to be read by the game.

This I know, but even the list of available servers does not show (the server list that uses cURL.)

Wow, that was a fast release! Downloading it now ;)

Wow

jojoa1997 wrote:have it check for windows. if so then have it use \r\n

Better idea: Have it check for Windows, and if so, have it instal an operating system that actually works.

Or you can get rid of a grudge

Here is a perfect example of Windows making things difficult. It's not a grudge. Windows is legitimately a problem.

0gb's new signature "I HATE WINDOWS"

I encountered two annoyances compiling this version on GNU/Linux:

First, on the download page, there are no direct links to common, survival, or build. I had to go to GitHub to download them. If the readme is telling the truth about common being necessary for minetest_game to work, that's a pretty big deal. On this note, why isn't there just a source download that has everything in it? I really don't see the point in making people have to download them separately, and it's even worse when there are four separate things to download now.

Second, when I did "sudo make install", survival and build did not get copied from the games folder of the source directory to /usr/local/share/minetest/games. I had to do this manually.

It appears that CPU and RAM usage were dropped to a more reasonable level in 0.4.6 stable.

compiled this in a separate folder (not system wide) from git tonight.

weird light spots (no light sources):



And the map_meta.txt from a map i copied over was overwritten, i figured that its because these two lines were missing from the old map_meta.txt (from 045):


So anyone that wishes to hold onto their map should copy those two lines into their map_meta.txt before starting their world in the 0.46 client, otherwise a new map_meta.txt will be generated.

mauvebic wrote:compiled this in a separate folder (not system wide) from git tonight.

weird light spots (no light sources):



And the map_meta.txt from a map i copied over was overwritten, i figured that its because these two lines were missing from the old map_meta.txt (from 045):

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mgv6_np_apple_trees = 0.000000, 1.000000, (100.000000, 100.000000, 100.000000), 342902, 3, 0.450000
mgv6_np_humidity = 0.500000, 0.500000, (500.000000, 500.000000, 500.000000), 72384, 4, 0.660000


So anyone that wishes to hold onto their map should copy those two lines into their map_meta.txt before starting their world in the 0.46 client, otherwise a new map_meta.txt will be generated.

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I have updated the launchpad builds to include common, survival and build games. The stable and daily packages should be available now.
However, the stable build doesnt contain the games survival and build. You can get them manually from here and place them in ~/.minetest/games/ (you have to create the folder).

PilzAdam wrote:

Likwid H-Craft wrote:ADAM WHY THE mg_flags not making my, map flat?

Also make sure that you have create a new map after setting it and that minetest wasnt running when you edited the file.

Anyway, I do have 0.4.6 version.

1. My question is after upgrade from 0.4.5 to 0.4.6, do I need to create new world to get diamond and lava cooling etc?
2. Can i somehow regenerate old world into new version (not to lose all buildings)?
3. In 0.4.6 using old world generated from 0.4.5 I discover that can't create mese pick?! Nothing happens.

Tnx for reply.