FOSS gamedev and creative worlds

After watching videos of people playing challenge maps on Minecraft, I thought that it would be nice to be able to do the same thing in Minetest. Right now the only way to keep 1 map without having to swap them out is by having multiple installs.

I think this would open lots of possibilities, such as challenge maps, obstacle courses, etc.

To change the map directory either set map-dir in your minetest.conf or pass the location as command line parameter (--map-dir <value>). No need for multiple installs.

Wolfgang wrote:To change the map directory either set map-dir in your minetest.conf or pass the location as command line parameter (--map-dir <value>). No need for multiple installs.

That works, but is a bit inconvenient. There should be a way to switch between multiple worlds from within minetest.

bwog wrote:After watching videos of people playing challenge maps on Minecraft, I thought that it would be nice to be able to do the same thing in Minetest. Right now the only way to keep 1 map without having to swap them out is by having multiple installs.

I think this would open lots of possibilities, such as challenge maps, obstacle courses, etc.

Don't forget adventure maps! That's giant in Minecraft.

Anyway, the only current way to change maps is to remove all the files and stuff from the world folder and move them to a new folder or a compressed archive (e.g. zip, rar, gz, bz2, or 7z) and take the contents of another world folder and put it in the empty world folder.

It would be nice if there was a way to add multiple worlds and texture packs and choose which ones you want to use.