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I just compiled Minetest 0.4.6 on Linux, but I am a total newbie (never played MineCraft or any similar game). I am having problems getting the Minetest game started as a single player.

The Mintest program lanuches, but there are no worlds to choose from under the "Select World" box (see below).



I tried selcting "New" and creating world, but then I get the following message when I try to start playing in that world

"ModError: Requires common mods: default, bucket, creative, door, dye, file, stairs, vessles, wool"

Can anyone help. I am a total beginner at gaming, and I was not able to locate anything in the wiki to help me get unstuck.

jeeves wrote:I just compiled Minetest 0.4.6 on Linux, but I am a total newbie (never played MineCraft or any similar game). I am having problems getting the Minetest game started as a single player.

The Mintest program lanuches, but there are no worlds to choose from under the "Select World" box (see below).



I tried selcting "New" and creating world, but then I get the following message when I try to start playing in that world

"ModError: Requires common mods: default, bucket, creative, door, dye, file, stairs, vessles, wool"

Can anyone help. I am a total beginner at gaming, and I was not able to locate anything in the wiki to help me get unstuck.

jeeves, I got this error too. I presume the ModError means that Minetest can't find the "common" mods (new addition to 0.4.5/6) in the Minetest folder.
I'd go check where all the gamemodes are stored. I think it is in ~/.minetest or /usr/share/minetest or something similar.

You need to install "common" and optionally "minetest_game", "build", and "creative".

cheapie wrote:You need to install "common" and optionally "minetest_game", "build", and "creative".

OK, a bit of googleing and I found the Github page for "Minetest Common Mods" [ https://github.com/minetest/common ]. Judging from the contents of the zip file I downloaded it contains the mods I need. The problem is the instructions on Github make no sense. It says to install the files to $path_share/games/common which given my $path variable works out /usr/local/bin_share/games/common. Needless to say, minetest is not finding the mods in this location.

Where are these really supposed to go on a Linux system?

jeeves wrote:

cheapie wrote:You need to install "common" and optionally "minetest_game", "build", and "creative".

OK, a bit of googleing and I found the Github page for "Minetest Common Mods" [ https://github.com/minetest/common ]. Judging from the contents of the zip file I downloaded it contains the mods I need. The problem is the instructions on Github make no sense. It says to install the files to $path_share/games/common which given my $path variable works out /usr/local/bin_share/games/common. Needless to say, minetest is not finding the mods in this location.

Where are these really supposed to go on a Linux system?

~/.minetest/games/ (for just your user) or /usr/share/minetest/games/ (systemwide)

jeeves wrote:I just compiled Minetest 0.4.6 on Linux, but I am a total newbie (never played MineCraft or any similar game). I am having problems getting the Minetest game started as a single player.

The Mintest program lanuches, but there are no worlds to choose from under the "Select World" box (see below).



I tried selcting "New" and creating world, but then I get the following message when I try to start playing in that world

"ModError: Requires common mods: default, bucket, creative, door, dye, file, stairs, vessles, wool"

Can anyone help. I am a total beginner at gaming, and I was not able to locate anything in the wiki to help me get unstuck.

The common mods like default,creative.......It already should be installed on your game.Try downloading it again.

If you have a run_in_place version then path_share is just the folder; for a globaly installed version its ~/.minetest/ and /usr/share/minetest/

For me the game directory (system wide install) is located at /usr/local/share/minetest/games

I'm using xubuntu precise

thanks. I finally found a path that works for me on my Arch Linux install. Its:

/usr/share/minetest/games

When I unzip the file I downloaded from github its folder called "common-master," so I renamed that folder to "common" and moved it into the /usr/share/minetest/games/ directory. This makes the full path to a mod like "default" go as such:

/usr/share/minetest/games/common/mods/default