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spawned appreantly in mid-air, fell an amazing distance, and died!!!!!!

you really should fix the spawn area a'la the 360, or find the ground before spawning the player

i'm trying to make a patch/hack in joinplayer - i'll let you know

You are spawned at ground level, except when you modify static_spawnpoint in minetest.conf or have any mods that change the spawnpoint.

regular spawn is fine - this was the first spawn in a new world - i may have been spawned at ground level but there was nothing under me but a lot of down - i have also first-spawned inside a tree (black screen, punch breaks the tree and fixes it) and also have first-spawned into a ravine (totally black screen, nothing can be done but go to creative mode and drop some torches)

i play on damage=true and creative = false

this fixes the problem: (brings the player down to the ground or w/e that is not "air" - could possibly put the player in an ignore block but otherwise shouldn't be a problem

--spawnfix
minetest.register_on_joinplayer(function(player)
minetest.after(1, function()
local pos = player:getpos()
local p1 = {x=math.floor(pos.x),y=math.floor(pos.y),z=math.floor(pos.z)}
for y=p1.y,p1.y-50,-1 do
local p2 = {x=p1.x,y=p1.y,z=p1.z}
local znode = minetest.get_node(p2).name
if znode ~= "air" then
player:setpos(p2)
break
end --if
end --for
end) --after
end) --function

What mapgenerator do you use?
What mods do you have installed?

no mods, and minetest-game - this is at the first spawn into a totally new world - um, I guess whatever mapgenerator mindtest-game-master uses

i'll see if I can get some video

video: http://1337318.zymichost.com/spawnfix.mp4.tar.gz

it's the fall at the first spawn - this time it was small

video is in a tar.gz - download, double-click, watch from the archive

thanks, love the game!