FOSS gamedev and creative worlds

I just downloaded Minetest today, but have run into a problem. I can open the program fine, but can't create a world. I clicked "New" in the single player menu, entered the name of my world, and clicked create, but it doesn't show up in the menu. Is there something I'm missing or doing wrong?

That sounds strange. Maybe you could download a map and if that works try creating a new world. Are you sure there is a worlds folder in your minetest folder?

I just looked and it turns out there isn't a worlds folder there. Any idea how that could have happened or what I can do to get it in there?

Go Into your minetest folder and create a new folder called worlds then make a new world.

I've got the folder now, but I'm still having the same problem. I tried downloading a map, but the game stops responding after a few seconds.

Read this thread if you didn't already: http://minetest.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=3341

and/or try to install minetest again.

If you did install minetest correctly and still have the same issue, we'll need more info:

- Close minetest. Delete the debug.txt file in your home directory. Open minetest. Try to create a world to reproduce the error. Move the mouse a bit (sometimes my created worlds don't appear until I do that). Close minetest. Open the debug.txt (doubleclick it). Look for "ERROR". Copy that part and paste it here in a post
- Other info that might help is your OS (windows/linux), installed version of minetest (0.4.3 for example) and the installed mods.
- Can you create a game under the 'advanced' tab?

Edit: typo

Make sure you use the latest version, also avoid putting spaces or special characters in your world name.

And make sure you do not make this mistake: http://minetest.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=3341

Single player gets stuck on waiting for content and has the lines below repeating indefinitely.

01:43:19: INFO[ServerThread]: Players:
01:43:19: INFO[ServerThread]: * singleplayer RemoteClient 2: m_blocks_sent.size()=0, m_blocks_sending.size()=0, m_nearest_unsent_d=0, m_excess_gotblocks=0
01:43:19: INFO[main]: Client packetcounter (20s):
01:43:19: INFO[main]: cmd 16 count 0
01:43:19: INFO[main]: cmd 52 count 0
01:43:19: INFO[main]: cmd 66 count 0
01:43:20: INFO[main]: Client: avg_rtt=0.00167007
01:43:30: VERBOSE[Connection]: con(848/1): RE-SENDING timed-out RELIABLE to 127.0.0.1:58834(t/o=0.333): from_peer_id=1, channel=0, seqnum=417
01:43:31: INFO[main]: Client: avg_rtt=0.00121748
01:43:42: INFO[main]: Client packetcounter (20s):
01:43:42: INFO[main]: cmd 16 count 0
01:43:42: INFO[main]: cmd 52 count 0
01:43:42: INFO[main]: cmd 66 count 0
01:43:43: INFO[main]: Client: avg_rtt=0.000986161

On the rare occasion that I do manage to start a single player game, this does not appear. When attempting to reload that same single player game, I have never once had success. Clearly, something is very wrong here. It doesn't matter how many times I re-download, re-extract, and re-install 0.4.3, this always happens. Always has, always will. Mods don't seem to change things much.

i have the same issue where it does not create the world despite my many attempts. I am running version 0.4.3 on Windows Vista. I deleted installation, downloaded again extracted and still have the same problem.

UPDATE: minetest.exe must be run as administrator in order for it to be able to create the world file.

Yeah sounds like a permissions issue, if you have the run-in-place build make sure you have the game folder in a directory that the user has permission to save to or just run as administrator (if your on windows)

if you're on windows normally moving the game folder to your "My Documents" folder or something similar will get rid of this problem as you have permissions to create stuff there.

Ideally you want a non-run-in-place build as that will save world data etc to your appdata folder.

If you are on linux double check the directory permissions.