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Posted: **Wed Oct 10, 2012 22:00**

Hi everyone. My name is shadow and I am new to minetest or any minecraft games in general. I have learned the basics like making tools.(shovels, torches, ladders, doors,fences, axe pickaxe, etc..... but im having trouble finding or making lava and glass also on how to install mods. If someone would like to join mines or create a server to help me out i would love you forever lol.

Posted: **Wed Oct 10, 2012 22:14**

You can join one of the servers. Enough players that want to help you in-game. http://servers.minetest.ru/ (edit: this is a link to the servers that are running (most of the time))

Lava can be in undeground caverns. There are a lot of those caverns. You need to dig to get there. Another way to get there is 'freemove' . You'll need a bucket to scoop it.

For glass you'll need to put (desert-)sand in a furnace and something to heat it up (tree, wood, coal). Glass will appear to the right.

I extract/unzip the mods (from the highest zipped directory/folder) in the following folder on my linux:

/home/TOPYWO/celeron55-minetest-25cf375/mods/minetest

There must be a file called "mods_here.txt" in it.

And.... Welcome :-)

Posted: **Wed Oct 10, 2012 22:34**

i have windows 7 and when i extract the mods in the mods folder it says and error message and i have created the furnace lol not to long ago by just fiddling around with cobblestone and i need to figure out how to get fuel

Posted: **Thu Oct 11, 2012 01:53**

Welcome to the forums Mediumshadow1. I hope you enjoy playing minetest and being apart of this forum. :D:D

Posted: **Thu Oct 11, 2012 02:40**

ty for the welcome and I notice you noticed my name the correct way im very upset that i typed it wrong :( Josh and Topywo do you think you can help me out like come in a server with me and show me something i dont know about like how to get lava and right now im working on making flint lol

Posted: **Thu Oct 11, 2012 02:46**

Mediumshdaow1 wrote:ty for the welcome and I notice you noticed my name the correct way im very upset that i typed it wrong :( Josh and Topywo do you think you can help me out like come in a server with me and show me something i dont know about like how to get lava and right now im working on making flint lol

If you are looking for a server to play on i suggest you go to Redcrabs (0.4.3) server. Im on there sometime's.
here is the link to the topic :http://minetest.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=1705

Posted: **Thu Oct 11, 2012 03:08**

i edited my last message because i read the forum post about red crabs but when i try to join the server it says that my version isnt supported idk why not i downloaded 0.4.3. from minetest.net and its the same version so whats going on?

Posted: **Thu Oct 11, 2012 03:59**

Mediumshdaow1 wrote:i edited my last message because i read the forum post about red crabs but when i try to join the server it says that my version isnt supported idk why not i downloaded 0.4.3. from minetest.net and its the same version so whats going on?

What's your OS?

Posted: **Thu Oct 11, 2012 04:33**

if o.s. mean operating system mines is Windows 7

Posted: **Thu Oct 11, 2012 07:25**

You best try to install the minetest 0.4.3 with this number 25cf375

I read Sfan5's windows7 version must be good, so here's the link to his page:

http://sfan.sf.funpic.de/minetest-builds/

Edit: Look for it at the top of the page

Mods
I extract/unzip the mods (from the highest zipped directory/folder) in the following folder on my linux:
/home/TOPYWO/celeron55-minetest-25cf375/mods/minetest
So the minetest directory under the mods directory.
When you find a file called "mods_here.txt" in it you know you placed the mods on the right place. (Still you can get errors, but most are easy solvable. Most common is that you rename the modsfolder to the mods name without the name of the author and without the 'serial' number and no CAP'S)

Furnace
"a furnace and something to heat it up (tree, wood, coal)"
Dig a tree (can be done bare-handed) and put or the leaves or the tree (trunk) left under in your furnace. put sand left above. The furnace starts working (animated fire with tree, no fire with leaves). In the upper-left slot of the 4 slots to the right there will appear glass
http://wiki.minetest.com/wiki/ --> the wiki page where you can find what and how to craft and smelt (and lots of other usefull stuff)

Posted: **Thu Oct 11, 2012 08:15**

Topywo wrote:You best try to install the minetest 0.4.3 with this number 25cf375

I read Sfan5's windows7 version must be good, so here's the link to his page:

http://sfan.sf.funpic.de/minetest-builds/

Edit: Look for it at the top of the page

Mods
I extract/unzip the mods (from the highest zipped directory/folder) in the following folder on my linux:
/home/TOPYWO/celeron55-minetest-25cf375/mods/minetest
So the minetest directory under the mods directory.
When you find a file called "mods_here.txt" in it you know you placed the mods on the right place. (Still you can get errors, but most are easy solvable. Most common is that you rename the modsfolder to the mods name without the name of the author and without the 'serial' number and no CAP'S)

Furnace
"a furnace and something to heat it up (tree, wood, coal)"
Dig a tree (can be done bare-handed) and put or the leaves or the tree (trunk) left under in your furnace. put sand left above. The furnace starts working (animated fire with tree, no fire with leaves). In the upper-left slot of the 4 slots to the right there will appear glass
http://wiki.minetest.com/wiki/ --> the wiki page where you can find what and how to craft and smelt (and lots of other usefull stuff)

ok i will try the Sfan5 version but what do you mean unzip it with that number? ans also thanks for the furnace I found out how to make steel awhile ago but i did not get how to make the glass thanks this helped alot

Posted: **Thu Oct 11, 2012 09:26**

I mean that this zip file --> sfan.sf.funpic.de/minetest-builds/c55/minetest-0.4.3-25cf375-extrafilters-win32.7z is the one to unzip for you to be up to date.

I've troubles pasting links as plain text (so you can see the complete text easily) :-)

Posted: **Thu Oct 11, 2012 09:30**

so the one i downloaded from minetest.net isnt the most updated version?
and if download the one provided in that link would i be able to tranfer my current world ive been working so hard on? i finally found lava around 2-3 comments ago on this post and i even found alot of mese and i dont want to loose my data. i have underground and underground chest so people cant steal my rare items if i go online and i have back secret back ups lol.

Posted: **Thu Oct 11, 2012 09:53**

Greetings!

Looks like you're making good use of the fourms already. :)

Posted: **Thu Oct 11, 2012 10:06**

Mediumshdaow1 wrote:so the one i downloaded from minetest.net isnt the most updated version?
I guess so, I use Linux. For me personal it's the easiest to compile minetest it as described in the readme.txt. Whenever I compile I automatically get the latest version. So I don't have experience with precompiled and automatic installing minetests.

and if download the one provided in that link would i be able to tranfer my current world ive been working so hard on? i finally found lava around 2-3 comments ago on this post and i even found alot of mese and i dont want to loose my data.
Yes, I know worlds can be saved. Only I myself don't know how. I mostly use singleplayer worlds to try out new mods and stuff so I delete easily. Regularly I see posts about transfering worlds, but I couldn't find them now with search. They might be hidden under different topics. There are forum members that can inform you correctly about using older worlds. I hope they will help you with this. For me, whenever I install a new minetest, the old minetest with a different serial number, stays on my computer, so I don't lose anything.

i have underground and underground chest so people cant steal my rare items if i go online and i have back secret back ups lol.
When you go online, you'll join the world the server provides. So the map is not one of yours, but the servers. The mods are those chosen by the server, not your mods (you don't even have to have installed those mods!). Even the texture pack is provided by the server, but that one you can change. Only if you make a server (difficult) and allow players on your world with the hidden chests, they might steal it. In that case just ban them and use /give, worldedit mod, creative or whatever to give yourself your stuff back.

Posted: **Thu Oct 11, 2012 10:22**

LazyJ wrote:Greetings!

Looks like you're making good use of the fourms already. :)

yep doing what i can to learn what i can besides im a quick learner i already foun lava, and mese. im just trying to get these mods to work ik where to put them i just dont know how to make them work but imma try that lower case thing now and changing the name to the mod name

Posted: **Thu Oct 11, 2012 10:40**

hey Topy btw I tried that download but it said windows cant open it

Posted: **Thu Oct 11, 2012 11:01**

Extract ALL OF it out of the zip file.

Posted: **Thu Oct 11, 2012 13:14**

Mediumshdaow1 wrote:i need to figure out how to get fuel

You can use trees, wooden planks, coal lumps, cacti, papyrus and many other wooden objects as fuel.

Mediumshdaow1 wrote:right now im working on making flint lol

There's no flint in Minetest.

Posted: **Thu Oct 11, 2012 17:25**

Calinou wrote:
Mediumshdaow1 wrote:i need to figure out how to get fuel

You can use trees, wooden planks, coal lumps, cacti, papyrus and many other wooden objects as fuel.

Mediumshdaow1 wrote:right now im working on making flint lol

There's no flint in Minetest.

haha yeh the flint i figured that out after trying the flint generator and i found like a huge amount of gravil underground and got no flint.

and thanks for the fuel tips i ddnt know you could use some of those but.....hey i still never made my glass thanks for reminding me lolz

Posted: **Thu Oct 11, 2012 19:39**

@JORDACH I tried to extract the file but there was no zip its just i page file its not even in a folder.

Posted: **Thu Oct 11, 2012 20:01**

Good day medium shadow, I am jordan4ibanez, it is nice to have another member join the minetest community. :]

Posted: **Thu Oct 11, 2012 20:58**

Mediumshdaow1 wrote:@JORDACH I tried to extract the file but there was no zip its just i page file its not even in a folder.

I got curious and clicked the link http://sfan.sf.funpic.de/minetest-builds/c55/minetest-0.4.3-25cf375-extrafilters-win32.7z
It downloaded 4.3 MB in my download folder. Doubleclicking on that I saw a folder which I could extract. So I tried in a experimental folder. It neatly appeared there, and doubleclicking on it, I saw the folders: bin, builtin, doc, games, mods and textures and the file minetest.conf.example. Total of 19,5 MB. Off course I tried it, but it didn't work on my Linux, which is logical.

It is a .7z file (zeven zip I thought). Could it be tat you don't have the software installed to unzipe .7z files?

Posted: **Thu Oct 11, 2012 21:12**

Topywo wrote:
Mediumshdaow1 wrote:@JORDACH I tried to extract the file but there was no zip its just i page file its not even in a folder.

I got curious and clicked the link http://sfan.sf.funpic.de/minetest-builds/c55/minetest-0.4.3-25cf375-extrafilters-win32.7z
It downloaded 4.3 MB in my download folder. Doubleclicking on that I saw a folder which I could extract. So I tried in a experimental folder. It neatly appeared there, and doubleclicking on it, I saw the folders: bin, builtin, doc, games, mods and textures and the file minetest.conf.example. Total of 19,5 MB. Off course I tried it, but it didn't work on my Linux, which is logical.

It is a .7z file (zeven zip I thought). Could it be tat you don't have the software installed to unzipe .7z files?

lol i guess not i have winzip lol so what is the software called to unzip it? 7zip you say?

btw today while playing i discovered how to make infinite water (on accident) then i wondered if i could do the same for lava sure enough it worked lolz. after doing this i accidently spilled my water and it got all over my infinite lava and created a purplish block but it doesnt have a name and i repeated this a couple times and got these lil bean shaped things sometimes when mining the blocks and i can make weapons out them

Posted: **Thu Oct 11, 2012 21:43**

Lol, sounds like the obsidian mod.

Posted: **Thu Oct 11, 2012 22:29**

I downloaded that mod and tried to give me obsidian but it ddnt work,
so thats what that is and if that mod works other mods should work too, right?

Posted: **Thu Oct 11, 2012 23:09**

You tried it like this:
/giveme obsidian:obsidian_block 99
/giveme obsidian:obsidian_shard -1
?
If placed in the wrong directory, mods don't give an error. If placed in the right directory, but there's a dependency missing or the name is not correct, it gives an error.

Posted: **Thu Oct 11, 2012 23:11**

Topywo wrote:You tried it like this:
/giveme obsidian:obsidian_block 99
/giveme obsidian:obsidian_shard -1
?
If placed in the wrong directory, mods don't give an error. If placed in the right directory, but there's a dependency missing or the name is not correct, it gives an error.

no i have not but i will try now also why doesn't the obsidian have a name on the block?
one last question is there a way to label things like on minecraft?

(i have now tried this and it said there is no such player named me)

Posted: **Thu Oct 11, 2012 23:16**

Mediumshdaow1 wrote:no i have not but i will try now also why doesn't the obsidian have a name on the block?
one last question is there a way to label things like on minecraft?

If it hasn't a name on the block, there's no description in init.lua for it. An example

No description in the obsidian mod
minetest.register_node("obsidian:obsidian_block", {
tile_images = {"obsidian_block.png"},
inventory_image = minetest.inventorycube("obsidian_block.png"),
is_ground_content = true,
groups = {obsidian=4,cracky=4},
drop = {
max_items = 1,
items = {
{
-- player will get shard with 1/15 chance
items = {'obsidian:obsidian_shard'},
rarity = 15,
},
{
items = {'obsidian:obsidian_block'},
}
}
},
})

A description in the moreblocks mod:
minetest.register_node("moreblocks:junglewood", {
description = "Jungle Wooden Planks",
tile_images = {"moreblocks_junglewood.png"},
is_ground_content = true,
groups = {snappy=2,choppy=2,oddly_breakable_by_hand=2,flammable=3},
sounds = default.node_sound_wood_defaults(),
})

I don't have Minecraft. I don't know what labeling in Minecraft means.

FOSS gamedev and creative worlds

Hi everyone(im new)

Hi everyone(im new)