Hi josephnet!
I guess you are running singleplayer mode with a minetest_game and default mods without some additional mods, am I right? What kind of mapgen generator you use? v5, v6? I think there is always possibility to made the world without jungle. Some map generators can create a world with only single kind of terrain. You should check what you have set in such options. You can always create new world and check if it contain jungle near spawn point. If not, delete such world and create another. You can also change map generator (v5, v6) to find out some differences, maybe also in how jungle are generated.
But with default setting you should have some jungle in any world you create, I think. I never have difficulties with finding a jungle, water (sea), desert and so on. But people who played also minecraft saying here, that world size in minetest is much bigger then in minecraft. And a map can be really big, so there is possible to have a lot of one kind of terrain around. So maybe even you are walking around searching for jungle, you are still walking around one area and that is why you could not find different kind of terrain? How far you walk from your start point? One, two days, or week, that is not good information, becouse you can walk around in circle for a years, so the time can`t say how far you walk from start point.
What you can do? If you are in singleplayer mode, you can always type:
Your phone or window isn't wide enough to display the code box. If it's a phone, try rotating it to landscape mode.
then
Your phone or window isn't wide enough to display the code box. If it's a phone, try rotating it to landscape mode.
and after that press the "K" and "J" buttons. With those privilages you can fly around fast (spacebar for up, shift for down, and w, s, a, d as for walking) and maybe that is how you could find the jungle. Fly above the trees ang move in one direction fast, than back to start point and move in different direction. Just like in a small spy plane.
You can also look for some information in the wiki - minetest wiki is very good for new players playing default minetest_game. Fine the
trees topic and check how the
jungle trees looks like. It should be easier to look for it on a map. Learn about the
jungle grass and cotton seed or even all available
terrain types. I guess if you were useing default settings, your map/world should have some jungles as other terrain types so you need more patience and.. it should be fun to explore the world searching for a jungle or something other. I remember my first contact with minetest and a big exploring and a long lasting journey for some papyrus. That was funny. I have found a very big jungle and made a way tree after a tree, dropping some torches to mark the way back and so on