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Ok so i am a huge fan of this but really want some cool mods. I dont understand how to install them can someone please explain how to in a way that a 14-year old girl can understand? I tried to install the mods by extracting the compressed files to first the mods folder, then the games/mods folder but it wont load! i am really confused and just want it put in easy to understand terms. my laptop is windows 7.

I use linux. But maybe this helps:

- Do you have version 0.3.1 or 0.4? The current mods, you can only install mods 0.4

- Did you already see this page: http://minetest.net/wiki/doku.php?id=installing_mods

- Try to start with 1 mod only, for example the moreblocks

- On my computer the folder/map/directory where I extract the mod moreblocks looks like this:
/home/TOPYWO/celeron55-minetest-c57e508-tester1/mods/minetest --> Containing:
- a map/directory/folder, with the name "moreblocks'
- a text-file with the name "mods_here.txt"
As you can see, I extract the whole directory/map/folder with the name moreblocks in my mods directory.

- Under the directory/map/folder "moreblocks" there must be the following submap and 2 files:
- submap "textures". This contains all the mods .png files (the pictures)
- "depends.txt". A text file, most of the time having only 1 word "default"
- "init.lua". The programming of the mod in the LUA-language

you need both minetest the game and minetest the engine. check the folders in games: there should be both minetest_game and minimal.

if there is no minetest_game you need to download it and decompress it there. mods cant load without it.

if you have them both, decompress the entire mod folder into mods/minetest, like so:

mods/minetest/animatedtorches

hope this helps

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That's what I needed to do to get my game + mods working properly. I downloaded and compiled Minetest from the git repository. I didn't realize I had to install the minetest_game as well. I installed minetest_game under $minetest/games/minetest_game as specified by the readme.txt instructions. https://github.com/celeron55/minetest_game#readme

Since you mentioned animatedtorches: Note that the folder name that comes out of the ZIP has changed (it'll be VanessaE-animatedtorches-blahblah now).

I'm running lubuntu (I think, I'm not the tech wizard, my dad is) and I can't even find the mods folder when I download it from either the software center or synaptic. When I got it from online, I didn't know how to install it. Don't you just love modern day technology?

P. S. Please help, really, I feel like throwing my computer out of my bedroom window (2nd floor).

Me wrote:I'm running lubuntu (I think, I'm not the tech wizard, my dad is) and I can't even find the mods folder when I download it from either the software center or synaptic. When I got it from online, I didn't know how to install it. Don't you just love modern day technology?

The version in the Ubuntu software center is outdated. Try my one-line install-compile script: http://minetest.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=3837

Me wrote:I'm running lubuntu (I think, I'm not the tech wizard, my dad is) and I can't even find the mods folder when I download it from either the software center or synaptic. When I got it from online, I didn't know how to install it. Don't you just love modern day technology?

On linux (like lubuntu), mods can be installed in [your home folder]/.minetest/mods/minetest. The .minetest folder is usually hidden by default; press CTRL-H in most file managers to show it. The mods/minetest folders aren't there by default, just create them. Likewise, texture packs are installed to [home folder]/.minetest/textures/all (again, create the folders if they don't exist), worlds are kept in [home folder]/.minetest/worlds, and game modes are installed to [home folder]/.minetest/games.

jessica0115 wrote:Ok so i am a huge fan of this but really want some cool mods. I dont understand how to install them can someone please explain how to in a way that a 14-year old girl can understand? I tried to install the mods by extracting the compressed files to first the mods folder, then the games/mods folder but it wont load! i am really confused and just want it put in easy to understand terms. my laptop is windows 7.

If you're using the provided version of Minetest (0.4.4) from minetest.net, then:
- Extract mods from the zip to /mods/minetest/
Note: if the name of the folder is something like Dev-"mod"-2a9e39, rename to "mod"

If the mods won't run, you may be using outdated mods or have an outdated version of minetest. Or the modfolder is named wrong. You can open init.lua in the modfolder with Wordpad to check (hint: any "definition" starts with foldername:whatever).

And you're done!

Thanks for the help. I think the problem was compiling the thing (I'm kind of new at this and just got a computer for myself), so my dad did it for me, but i do appreciate the suggestions.

Happy mining,

Me

P.S. I will post pictures of my Tower of Light once it's done.