Black World

[Xubux]

Hi!

So i've had minetest for a while and I enjoy it a lot. Recently, I loaded up my favorite world and started playing in it. A couple minutes in the entire screen (within the game) went grey/black and I couldn't see a thing! I could see my pickaxe and toolbar and health. I can even open my inventory, but I can see anything! (I attached a picture)

I am running Linux Mint and minetest 0.4.12 if that helps.

Thanks in advance!

[Dragonop]

You are at -2230. check if you can dig and place a torch first.
This usually happends on servers. On servers you can solve for some time if you delete "cache" folder that is on your minetest directory.

[Napiophelios]

Did you get any errors in the debug file?
I got this one today with the same effects you describe:
"ERROR[ServerThread]: ERROR: An unhandled exception occurred: createSector(): pos. over limit"

It happened when I teleported a ridiculous distance away, trying to find oceans;
And everything went blackish, so teleported back to spawn and no change.
So I restarted the game and everything was still black.

I had forgotten about testing the new map_generation_limit setting in the minetest.config.
I deleted the setting and restarted and everything was back to normal.

I am not really sure if this actually solved the problem
or if it even has anything to do with it all.

[Marshall_maz]

Looks like you are outside the playing area ( -214k on x value ).

[Dragonop]

Looks like you are outside the playing area ( -214k on x value ).

Yeah, Marshall is right, I didn't noticed, I tought it was -21k not 214k... well, do /grant teleport
and then do /teleport 0,0,0 or any other coordinate you have.