FOSS gamedev and creative worlds

I have a question, as a relatively new minetest player (only about 3 weeks):

(Running Linux and minetest 4.12, if that makes a difference)

I started a game under the "Server" tab on Minetest and got to the point that I really do not want to start over.
I would like to share this world with other players, even when I am not available to play, so I discovered the "minetestserver <game> command. Doing so gets me into the same world, but it's been totally reset--without any of the improvements I have made.

My question is--how can I get minetestserver <game> to see my improved world that I created with minetest and the Server tab? Is it at all possible?

minetestserver --worldname game

or

minetestserver --worldpath /path/to/world/folder/

In Minetest, we call saves "worlds". Games are something different.

rubenwardy wrote:minetestserver --worldname game

or

minetestserver --worldpath /path/to/world/folder/

Great! I will try that this evening

rubenwardy wrote:In Minetest, we call saves "worlds". Games are something different.

I did not know that--what is the difference between a game and a world?

ShadowAce wrote:I did not know that--what is the difference between a game and a world?

The dev wiki contains a terminology page where all terms are explained.
http://dev.minetest.net/Terminology

Krock wrote:The dev wiki contains a terminology page where all terms are explained.
http://dev.minetest.net/Terminology

Woohoo!! I'm learning (slow, but progress does exist!)