Ingame help

[lightonflux]

Hi there,

Minetest and also Minecraft are very unfriendly to new users who don't know the concept.
Some may say "but it is easy", but they probably already know what MC and MT are about.

It would be very helpful if MT had an ingame help.
It would be great if the user could access the help without opening a game menu (except inventory).

So lets say the player get's several books on several topics.

The basic book would explain how MT works (buttons, long press click, inventory limits, how to refine stuff, how to craft most basics things[1]).
[1]: It should not be a craft guide, just explain the minimum you need to play the game.

Then the player could get (craft or find?) other books that explain other aspects of the game.
Like a book about farming (does X need water nearby, how sampling spawn, apples etc) and crafting/items (what kind of tools are faster more enduring).

In the beginning we could start that as a mod and later integrate it as a core mod.

Features:
It should support simple formatting (headline, bold, italic, etc) and pictures.
And some kind of interface so mods can provide their own helps/books.

Whats your opinion?

[rubenwardy]

Here's the "PilzAdam" response:

http://wiki.minetest.net/Main_Page and https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/

Jokes aside, there is a wiki mod by kaeza that allows in game wikis, not craftable.
Have you seen the craft guide mod?

[PilzAdam]

Now the real "PilzAdam" repsonse:
Not knowing anything about the game except that it has to do with blocks and finding everything out by trial and error is the best part of Minetest. It was really a fun time for me to figure out how to use the furnace properly.