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Experimenting with Ubuntu and being pressured by the kids to set up a "Minecraft" server... but I like the looks of Minetest better.

Issue I am having right away is I know very little about this sort of game, have installed Minetest 0.4.9 from the Ubuntu Software Center, and no mods are showing up in the Mod store. I was trying to find the tutorial to get started...

Wiki has been a good read but isn't helping resolve the question. Where can download the tutorial and I'll try to manually install it.

Or should I try to get a more current version before moving forward?

You would be better off getting the latest minetest.
http://www.minetest.net/downloads/

To install mods
http://dev.minetest.net/Installing_Mods

Please note that the minetest folder is called .minetest
That means it is a hidden folder. Press ctr h to show hidden folders. Your mods get placed into the mods folder inside the .minetest folder.


If you need more help just ask.

I might get sh** for saying this but, if they asked for a Minecraft server, just go ahead and get a Minecraft server, chances are they know what they want and don't care about the things Minetest is supposed to be better at.

Don wrote:You would be better off getting the latest minetest.
http://www.minetest.net/downloads/

Thanks, a bunch of confusion at this link... makes little or no sense, to be more accurate THIS link http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=minetest

I do appreciate you trying.

As for Minecraft... I'd just as soon not give Microsoft any more of my money. If the kids had come to me before they bought it...

To upgrade, first uninstall the minetest currently installed, then open a terminal and run this:



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Don wrote: Please note that the minetest folder is called .minetest
That means it is a hidden folder. Press ctr h to show hidden folders. Your mods get placed into the mods folder inside the .minetest folder.

Thanks so much, Don. I spend lots of hours reading and searching why my subgame is not noticed. Had to create a games folder there and drop the subgame in this. :)

It might seem confusing at first but it doesn't take long to learn how to do things. It wasn't too long ago that I was wondering how to do things. The community is great and willing to help. Keep asking questions and someone will answer.

rubenwardy wrote:To upgrade, first uninstall the minetest currently installed, then open a terminal and run this:

Outstanding function, worked flawlessly to install current version, but after closing it I am having to dig into how to make a shortcut.

I have found the new installation location and confirmed mod, texture and game folders... so I am going to proceed to install a few interesting mods... but still am having trouble locating the "Tutorial" mod for my own introduction to the "minecraft" type game, and the differences between mine "craft" and minetest.

I appreciate all of the input and thank everyone for their replies and the many discussions I have been reading here over the last few days.

If you want to get a deb package you can download the version here.
https://code.launchpad.net/~minetestdevs/+archive/ubuntu/daily-builds/+packages

Near the bottom click the version of your os then pick the deb package for your processor.

Here is the tutorial game.
http://wiki.minetest.net/Subgames/Tutorial

You'll need to restart your computer for the menu item to appear.

rubenwardy wrote:You'll need to restart your computer for the menu item to appear.

l'm using lubuntu and when l install something, it appears in the start menu without restarting

l recommend you to use sudo checkinstall instead of sudo make install.