FOSS gamedev and creative worlds

Hello,
I would like to know if a --mods parameter to running minetest on the command line would be helpful to the community.

Currently you can


To start a game using carbone-ng subgame. Which is cool! But what if I wanted to use this same subgame with a few additional mods?


Should I:

• Put some mods in games/carbone-ng/mods ? -- That would mess up the subgame folder for the world I just created.
• Copy carbone-ng subgame folder to carbone-ng-with-mods and then put the mods in /games/carbone-ng-with-mods/mods? -- That's ok but now I have another copy of the subgame to maintain with updates and the I cant use the mods, that I have to maintain separately in that folder with other subgames....

Running the game with a GUI I can select a subgame and mods I want to use with it if I choose. The mods stay in mods/ and the subgames stay in games/.

But what if I'm trying to run on a headless (no display) server!? :o

Wouldn't it be cool if we could:



I could have a little text file outside of my games/ and mods/ folders with a list of modids I want to use with whatever subgame I wish.
When I update my subgame it would be nice and clean. When I update my mods, I only have to do it once!

What do you think?

I put up a feature request here: https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/3065

Put the mods in your mods folder. After you start the server once and shut it down. Go to the folder for the world you just started the server with and there will be a world.mt file. In that file you can enable or disable any mods in your mods folder for that world specifically.

BrandonReese wrote:Put the mods in your mods folder. After you start the server once and shut it down. Go to the folder for the world you just started the server with and there will be a world.mt file. In that file you can enable or disable any mods in your mods folder for that world specifically.

Does that work when one is using a mapgen mod? From what I understand, a mapgen mod should be set when the server is created.

You could also upload a world that you set up locally (in singleplayer)

FreeLikeGNU wrote:

BrandonReese wrote:Put the mods in your mods folder. After you start the server once and shut it down. Go to the folder for the world you just started the server with and there will be a world.mt file. In that file you can enable or disable any mods in your mods folder for that world specifically.

Does that work when one is using a mapgen mod? From what I understand, a mapgen mod should be set when the server is created.

If there's no players, no MapBlocks are generated. A standalone server has no players until they join.

FreeLikeGNU wrote:Copy carbone-ng subgame folder to carbone-ng-with-mods and then put the mods in /games/carbone-ng-with-mods/mods? -- That's ok but now I have another copy of the subgame to maintain with updates and the I cant use the mods, that I have to maintain separately in that folder with other subgames....

That's similar to how I do it: Create a new game in games/ with a minimal game.conf and add a mods/ folder. That mods/ folder now gets symlinks to all the mods and modpacks you're intrested in.

you could use world/worldmods/