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Where would be the best place to start learning Lua? I understand C or C++ Would be way too hard for someone of my skill, but I would love to make my own mods and develop on the engine if I get good enough

I dual boot windows 7/ Ubuntu, I use Ubuntu about 90% of the time though.

Learning LUA for Minetest in 3 simple steps:

1) search the forums for modding tutorial, this will give you the very basics

2) read the code in the mods you like playing, this will give you a basic understanding of lua syntax

3) try to write your own mod, start with something simple like your own Node with a simple ABM.

like Cornernote said it is always important to start with something simple. For example my Decoplants mod:
http://minetest.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=3151. You can browse its code to get the basic idea of a mod.

Lol my first mod was actually a very hard one an ore generation which even has tv's with channels!!! I learnt pretty quick by reading other peoples init. In about 1 hour and a half i had finished coding my first mod ;-) so good luck!

My first mod was a mesecons clone.

Jeija's Minetest Modding Tutorial.

http://tinyurl.com/mt-tut

my 1st mod was craft guide

but it started out very simple ... just chat commands that would dump the recipe into the chat

Josh wrote:like Cornernote said it is always important to start with something simple. For example my Decoplants mod:
http://minetest.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=3151. You can browse its code to get the basic idea of a mod.

If that was easy to make, I applaud Pilzadam and jeija for making their mods.