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http://www.filedropper.com/minetest-slax

Here it is!! Minetest on CD? You bet!

Play anywhere, share with friends, on any PC!

I made this so my 8 year old kid could run Minetest
at his mom's place without having to worry about "how do I install it?"

The idea was to burn him a disk,
then he could pop it in the drive,
boot up, and play.

I'm sharing it with the Minetest community in hopes that all of you may benefit from it.

Just download the .iso file and burn it to a CD or DVD
with whatever burner software you have.

If you need one, here are links to some free ones for you:



If you would like to place it on a USB, that's 'prolly better,
because you'll be able to save to it.

You can use UNetbootin to do that:


I'll describe it later when I get a chance.
Going to see Jurassic Park 3D, so I gotta cut the description short :)

Originally made in Debian, but decided to build it in Slax so it would be considerably smaller.

Enjoy!!

1) Not bad, but I think you don't need a whole live cd just for playing minetest, You just need to extract a .zip/.7z file
1.2) Also "installing" Minetest doesn't touch any folder except the folder where you extracted it
2) Generally upload websites that require ANY form of checking whether you are a human, are bad IMO
2.2) Just use omploader
3) Also, how big is it? filedropper sends no Content-Length header, that means I won't be able to know when my DL is finished

Ok, so Jurassic Park was pretty cool.

Anyway, I've been working on this USB / CD version
off-and-on for about 3 weeks now.

As I say, I started with Debian.
(I happen to prefer Debian, and may create another as such.)

Tho I wanted it to be a smaller download.
So I started again with Slax - 7.0.8

(The reason being, Debian VirtualBox image is like 5.7 gig,
whereas the Slax .iso is 400 meg.)

I basically installed these modules:
openal-soft 1.15.1
cmake 2.8.10.2
irrlicht 1.8
and most importantly, minetest 0.4.6

(I know there's a few more packages that could be installed,
such as LuaJIT and cURL, so I'll get to that when I get time.

You have to do goofy things to create modules for Slax tho,
so it'll take a few. Don't expect a newer version to arrive for a couple weeks...

...as a lot of my time is now focused on helping my kid learn baseball.
He just took it up, and going to practice takes up a lot of my free time.)

You can build one of these on your own, the thing is it includes a pretty comprehensive graphics package intended to speed things up for computers with older hardware.

I started with VanessaE's 32 px HDX pack, then batch-converted 'em all down to 6x6.'

Discovered that wasn't the best solution,
as all the ores didn't seem to line up properly.

So I re-did them all as 8x8.

That was better, but there were definitely some textures
that looked better with more detail.

I then put some in as 32x32, such as flowers, doors, signs, tools, stuff with text on it.

Resized many to 16x16, sticks, clay, whatnot.
Found out glass didn't like to be smaller,
so put that back in as 32x32.

Cut animations down to fewer frames, so as to save memory.
Water, Lava, Torches - simply 3 frames.

I realize they don't look as defined and spectacular
as some of the High-Def packages out there...

...but the idea is that you can easily view 200 blocks
on a Pentium4 with 256 meg of mem.

It has some old-school Nvidia GeForce 3 video card in it.
So it's safe to say the hardware's not new,
and yet Minetest is totally playable on it.

Results may vary. Hopefully it does Ok for you tho.

I then bounced into each of the servers I could
to pre-download all the cache stuff for ya.

That way, you should be able to log into most of them
without waiting too long for that initial "Waiting Content..."

Decent view on old hardware.
So yeah, try it out. Lemme know what you think.

sfan5 wrote:1) Not bad, but I think you don't need a whole live cd just for playing minetest, You just need to extract a .zip/.7z file
1.2) Also "installing" Minetest doesn't touch any folder except the folder where you extracted it
2) Generally upload websites that require ANY form of checking whether you are a human, are bad IMO
2.2) Just use omploader
3) Also, how big is it? filedropper sends no Content-Length header, that means I won't be able to know when my DL is finished

1) I agree. It's not for all. In fact, I'd recommend installing it to you own PC
(from the latest source if at all possible.) However...

there's a few times when you are at a friend's / relative's house,
and you really want to show them something you created on Minetest.

That's when you bust out your flash-and-dazzle Minetest Live,
and wow them with your creations.

No downloads, no installs. You don't change anything on their PC.
Just put it in and reboot, and you're good to go.

1.2) Right, but my 8 year old kid can't install stuff on his mom's computer.
So it's the only way I could think of so he'd be able to log in over there.

2) I usually use wikisend, but their limit is 100 meg.
I just used filedropper because it handles 5 gigs max.

2.2) Last couple times I tried omploader, it was down.
that's why I started using filedropper.

3) it's 427 meg.

Thanks for the feedback tho. I'm glad you're trying it :)

I'd rather like to have linux binaries in a particular folder on a USB pen drive formatted in ext4.
Then I'll be able to mount folders from the pen drive to the places those binaries should be. Shell script can do that automatically, launch minetest and umount after exiting from minetest.

Edit: you'll need add binaries for many architectures, though.

For a windows build you may want to have 2 partitions on your pen drive: 1st formatted in FAT, 2nd - EXT4 (cause Windows can't see 2 or more partitions on a pen drive (Don't mix that up with external usb hdd!). For windows you may have all necessary dlls right next to the minetest.exe in the "bin" folder.

This way Minetest can be updated with no need of a new empty CD or CD-/+RW ;)

Is this for Linux cause i have burned minetest onto a cd and it runs fine(I am usaing windows 7)

jojoa1997 wrote:Is this for Linux

*dies from laughing*

doyousketch2 wrote:cmake 2.8.10.2

You don't need to install cmake to play minetest, yoou only need it for compiling

Minetest To-Go Usb will be epic :D no need do anything to add, it just boot it, on it like how Microsoft did with Windows 8 To-Go :D

jojoa1997 wrote:Is this for Linux cause i have burned minetest onto a cd and it runs fine(I am usaing windows 7)

It's a live CD. It boots a version of the GNU/Linux operating system that has Minetest on it. It's not "for" GNU/Linux, GNU/Linux is included on the CD.

Hm, might try this.