FOSS gamedev and creative worlds

PEAK wrote:Is that really the purpose of mods to create huge complete buildings?

Not all mods, obviously, but there's definitely a largely unexplored niche for mods which generate buildings and roads rather than hills and oceans. Imagine a zombie-survival type subgame which starts you in the middle of an abandoned city where you search for food and weapons to fend off the zombie hordes, or a subgame where you can explore vast ancient ruins buried underground.

Oh, don’t insult the beasts ;) They are more intelligent than many a human. And only intelligence without emotion is boring.

So I would say: building is of gods, because that needs both. We all are little minetest-gods ;)

ArguablySane wrote:Not all mods, obviously, but there's definitely a largely unexplored niche for mods which generate buildings and roads rather than hills and oceans.

Ok, I understand, you’re right: when mods can generate "natural" maps - why not generate something big "artificial".

But I think: npc buildings, villages look all the same, the more of them you discover - even the great mg_villages with so much variation - because they are functional.
Why does Lord of the Test not generate Imladris, Erebor, Minas Tirith etc?

PEAK wrote:But I think: npc buildings, villages look all the same, the more of them you discover - even the great mg_villages with so much variation - because they are functional.

That's the moment where I hope that you'll consider building your own houses. After all that's what the game is about :-)

Sokomine wrote:That's the moment where I hope that you'll consider building your own houses. After all that's what the game is about :-)

Exactly what I mean.

Sokomine wrote:

PEAK wrote:But I think: npc buildings, villages look all the same, the more of them you discover - even the great mg_villages with so much variation - because they are functional.

That's the moment where I hope that you'll consider building your own houses. After all that's what the game is about :-)

building my own houses…
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Quite impressive stuff everyone!

How do you post screen shots? I have some to post!

Samson1 wrote:How do you post screen shots? I have some to post!

Upload them to a host such as imgur, then put the link to the image inside [img.] [/img.] tags

MiThrill electric roller coaster

info:
-separate power, brake, and que door circuits
-braking system with track mover piston (so the minecart doesn't accelerate into the next dimension)
-motorized que doors
-togglable track power

Ignore the error messages and enjoy the view
that thing with the notes is a music box while the adjacent building is a 2-slot food cort
that fountain is cool isn't it?
that huge hovering sign says: SF's FUNWORLD

here some buildings from me again (my home on the new VE-Building Server)

i have some screenshots i from the new VE-Building Server AGAIN

here some more subway buildings from VE-Building

here my very colourful wool building

Wow awesome builds even with the slopes makes it so life like.
And nice job Whoareyou on the subway.
And, thank you C55 making Minetest and, devs, keeping it going. Minetest is the best!

Some stuff I built since summer:

Underground Boulevard






Gallery
grail-test






Mesecons in style






Quartz Palace



Artifical groves with pathways for recreation and contemplation




Poe-esk building
grail-test





Spookington Hall

Incredible, PEAK.

Please consider sharing your maps here.

jp wrote:Please consider sharing your maps here.

I already was considering this. But there are some issues: I have modified a lot of the mods I use (for example I added stairs and slabs to a recent version of grail-test...) - and: as you can see, some glass textures are "borrowed" from another well-known voxel-game ;) I must not share them.

But we’ll see...

You could put the mods in a worldmods folder.

benrob0329 wrote:You could put the mods in a worldmods folder.

OK. Only one file https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=13760 - others are unfortunately too large...

Update: Download for Quartz Palace https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=14241&p=211268

Wow!

One of my long-term projects has a village of mushroom shaped houses. Each house has two floors and is fully furnished. I'm currently detailing the landscape around each house to settle them into the scenery. Adding things like gardens, workshops, foot paths, fountains, etc.

Here some shots from Liberty Lands. The player Evil is building a fortress with the slopes mod.

The Fortress design looks a bit like a Panopticon, but that's not intentional. Evil asked me to post this in the forum.

Building by him, screenshots made by me.

@LazyJ Cool! Me and Lor made a mushroom town on the Redcrab server a few years ago kind of like this.

Where's Toad?

WIP ~ "Steampunk Canyon"

My latest build on LinuxGaming2:



Here's some views of the interior:
The ground floor and lounge

The Clock Tower Cafe

Great Staircase













I used the same tracery for the Abandoned Cloister

my first screenshots from my tower (the tower is not finished, but the parts shown are finished)