Minetest railcarts and other features

[dellodp]

Hi everyone I am new to this Minetest was recommended by a friend who cant run minecraft so I decided to give it a try.

First of all I think the game has some very good features but I am puzzled how minetest allows for rail track and powered railtrack but you cant build or use minecarts??

Will this be sorted out soon or will I have to revert back to using minecraft where this is already possible aswell as pre built villages in survival mode etc??

Please dont think I am slagging the game off as I think it has alot of good features, I'm just saying I can't see me playing it for long if small things like this are not going to be addressed.

[sfan5]

I you use 0.4 there is a Mod: http://c55.me/minetest/forum/viewtopic.php?id=595

[dellodp]

what about pre built vilages etc. minecraft has loads of them??

[jordan4ibanez]

what about pre built vilages etc. minecraft has loads of them??

this is not minecraft, we have a pre build village mod but it is rough
http://c55.me/minetest/forum/viewtopic.php?id=557

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Xyz ( i think ) was experimenting with mine carts in lua, and they worked nicely, but if you went too fast they would derail

[dellodp]

Have you not got any village or minecart mods available for download in .zip format??

[sfan5]

Use 7-Zip

[dellodp]

I dont understand i can download .zip files but the mod seems to be in a .lua file??

[Jordach]

Zip archives usually contain all the things you need.

[dellodp]

Please forgive me as I probably sound dumb but you might aswell be talking Japanese to me here. All i literally know how to do is download a zip file and put it in my mod folder??

I really haven't got a clue what you just wrote above lol.........could someone maybe post an idiot guide on how i can get this village and minecart mod for windows as a zip file??

Thanks in advance

[Death Dealer]

Please forgive me as I probably sound dumb but you might aswell be talking Japanese to me here. All i literally know how to do is download a zip file and put it in my mod folder??

I really haven't got a clue what you just wrote above lol.........could someone maybe post an idiot guide on how i can get this village and minecart mod for windows as a zip file??

Thanks in advance

ok so the .lua goes in a folder called villages like "..mods/villages/.lua file, this mode requires you to build the building in coordinates in the .lua file "0,1,1 0,0,2 etc tc " so if you cant figure out that .lua files go in a folder in mods than i suggest you just walk away from this like i did.

[wokste]

1. Download the mods, mentioned above.
2. Go to the root directory of your minetest installation. (the folder with {bin, builtin, cache, games, locale, misc, mods, textures, util and worlds})
3. Go to mods
4. Use a zip program (like 7zip) to extract the content of the archive in that directory. Directories should be like /mods/<modname>/init.lua
5. Run the game.

Possible issues:
Problem: A mod may be built for a different version.
Solution: No easy solutions here. Ask the modders to update their mods. I expect that the modding api becomes more stable soon, but this is the problem with development builds.

Problem: A mod may require other mods.
Solution: If it is not clear what mod you need, you can see the dependencies in depends.txt of the installed mods. Download and install those mod as well.