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The FAQ is on the Minetest Wiki.

Thank you very much mate!

This is a really great reference. Thanks.

Great! this will help the new people.

You should add the solution for this as well:

PilzAdam wrote:Remove the singeleplayer file from the players folder in your world directory.

This should also be there-

When a new player hits 'j' or 'k' to run fast or fly respectively, there's a message saying privileges not present (I don't remember it exactly.)
We simply have to type in the following-

Type : '/' ( A window opens up in which you have to type the next command. )
Type : "grant singleplayer all" (Without the double-quotes and singleplayer is without spaces. )

This grants the priveleges and now you are able to fly or move fast when you press 'k' or 'j'.

Hope this helps. Stumped me when I started, but I asked around in the Google+ community and they assisted me. Here's the link to the post-
https://plus.google.com/112127291830325669645/posts/SnbaPgQYF5P

Aditya Raj Bhatt wrote:This should also be there-

When a new player hits 'j' or 'k' to run fast or fly respectively, there's a message saying privileges not present (I don't remember it exactly.)
We simply have to type in the following-

Type : '/' ( A window opens up in which you have to type the next command. )
Type : "grant singleplayer all" (Without the double-quotes and singleplayer is without spaces. )

This grants the priveleges and now you are able to fly or move fast when you press 'k' or 'j'.

Hope this helps. Stumped me when I started, but I asked around in the Google+ community and they assisted me. Here's the link to the post-
https://plus.google.com/112127291830325669645/posts/SnbaPgQYF5P

This is found on the wiki. And is neither a bug or a problem, you just need a good sense to go and check the minetest wiki before you post random things on here.

Obiewan1111 wrote:

Aditya Raj Bhatt wrote:This should also be there-

When a new player hits 'j' or 'k' to run fast or fly respectively, there's a message saying privileges not present (I don't remember it exactly.)
We simply have to type in the following-

Type : '/' ( A window opens up in which you have to type the next command. )
Type : "grant singleplayer all" (Without the double-quotes and singleplayer is without spaces. )

This grants the priveleges and now you are able to fly or move fast when you press 'k' or 'j'.

Hope this helps. Stumped me when I started, but I asked around in the Google+ community and they assisted me. Here's the link to the post-
https://plus.google.com/112127291830325669645/posts/SnbaPgQYF5P

This is found on the wiki. And is neither a bug or a problem, you just need a good sense to go and check the minetest wiki before you post random things on here.

type this for k /grant singleplayer fly
and this for j /grant singleplayer fast

Obiewan1111 wrote:

Aditya Raj Bhatt wrote:This should also be there-

When a new player hits 'j' or 'k' to run fast or fly respectively, there's a message saying privileges not present (I don't remember it exactly.)
We simply have to type in the following-

Type : '/' ( A window opens up in which you have to type the next command. )
Type : "grant singleplayer all" (Without the double-quotes and singleplayer is without spaces. )

This grants the priveleges and now you are able to fly or move fast when you press 'k' or 'j'.

Hope this helps. Stumped me when I started, but I asked around in the Google+ community and they assisted me. Here's the link to the post-
https://plus.google.com/112127291830325669645/posts/SnbaPgQYF5P

This is found on the wiki. And is neither a bug or a problem, you just need a good sense to go and check the minetest wiki before you post random things on here.

First, The wiki just states that you need fly "privileges" with no emphasis. A new user will never know to check at the "privilege" document in the wiki, assuming that there will be an option in the game, vainly searching. (People accustomed to Minecraft don't expect to give commands for such simple things)

Second, This is a frequently asked questions page, not a bugs reporting page per se. It is for new users who might be stumped with things which have simple solutions or simply don't know that its a feature that needs to be enabled (like in this case).

So I was right to post the method to solve this potentially-stubbing issue.

how do u set on_punch =function(pos,node) and how do u make it cooperate with drop="plant:plant 1",

You set on_punch to a node, a function which will be executed when punching the node (punching is not digging -- it means you've started digging the node); what do you mean by "cooperating"? You can set both drop and on_punch to a node just fine.

Calinou wrote:You set on_punch to a node, a function which will be executed when punching the node (punching is not digging -- it means you've started digging the node); what do you mean by "cooperating"? You can set both drop and on_punch to a node just fine.

I think he means digging things immediately (like torches, etc).

@dj22, add "dig_immediate=1" to your node's groups.

jojoa1997 wrote:

Obiewan1111 wrote:

Aditya Raj Bhatt wrote:This should also be there-

When a new player hits 'j' or 'k' to run fast or fly respectively, there's a message saying privileges not present (I don't remember it exactly.)
We simply have to type in the following-

Type : '/' ( A window opens up in which you have to type the next command. )
Type : "grant singleplayer all" (Without the double-quotes and singleplayer is without spaces. )

This grants the priveleges and now you are able to fly or move fast when you press 'k' or 'j'.

Hope this helps. Stumped me when I started, but I asked around in the Google+ community and they assisted me. Here's the link to the post-
https://plus.google.com/112127291830325669645/posts/SnbaPgQYF5P

This is found on the wiki. And is neither a bug or a problem, you just need a good sense to go and check the minetest wiki before you post random things on here.

type this for k /grant singleplayer fly
and this for j /grant singleplayer fast

I have a question.
I downloaded oalinst for sound in version 0.4.5 but it still won't work. Is there a specific folder I have to put the file in?

Jasmine Mika wrote:

jojoa1997 wrote:

Obiewan1111 wrote:
This is found on the wiki. And is neither a bug or a problem, you just need a good sense to go and check the minetest wiki before you post random things on here.

type this for k /grant singleplayer fly
and this for j /grant singleplayer fast

I have a question.
I downloaded oalinst for sound in version 0.4.5 but it still won't work. Is there a specific folder I have to put the file in?

It needs to be executed IIRC.

Your a help mate! +10!

That's the same problem i've been getting everytime i shutdown the game.

Are there supposed to be links to these? I am having trouble with the what()= Access violated part.

Oh never mind about that last one. But whenever i press the minetest.conf file it always says the file is unknown. Any help?

For the PlayerArgsEnd error:
http://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?pid=94578

All Textures Appear Red In Colour

ikko123 wrote:All Textures Appear Red In Colour

Disable shaders.

HOW TO FIND THIS AND CHANGE IT?
video_driver = direct3d9
change it so that it says:
video_driver = opengl sorry for caps

sometimes during playing game, ill be playing and out of nowhere i have these error spam my chat.. it says ERROR{main}: WARNING: updateListener: invalid name. There is also a different error that spam with it as well when i mine blocks , i cant remember how to word this second error but its kinda like this ERROR{main} WARNING: before SoundPlay create: invalid name or something relatively close to it. i will get 3-15 spams of the first error in a single second, i need to get rid of it bad i have to exit to OS everytime, and later a few hours it will do it again.. also when the first error starts happening, the sound effect of whatever i am doing in the time being, will start spamming my speakers, lets say i broke some glass when the errors happened, i would get the glass sound effect breaking spam my speakers too, and whatever sound effect follow it would spam along with it. Sorry for all the words and reading but i need to get rid of it, its very annoying.

nolan wrote:HOW TO FIND THIS AND CHANGE IT?
video_driver = direct3d9
change it so that it says:
video_driver = opengl sorry for caps

It's in the minetest.conf.example. Just copy paste this: video_driver = opengl in your minetest.conf. Although I thought opengl is already used as default.

nolan wrote:sometimes during playing game, ill be playing and out of nowhere i have these error spam my chat.. it says ERROR{main}: WARNING: updateListener: invalid name.

There's a link about it, but I don't know if it helps solving your problems:
http://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?id=5301

nolan wrote:There is also a different error that spam with it as well when i mine blocks , i cant remember how to word this second error but its kinda like this ERROR{main} WARNING: before SoundPlay create: invalid name or something relatively close to it. i will get 3-15 spams of the first error in a single second, i need to get rid of it bad i have to exit to OS everytime, and later a few hours it will do it again

I don't know about that one. Maybe something in a mod? You can see (and copy/paste them here) the ERRORS in the file debug.txt. If it's too big to see, exit minetest completely, delete the debug.txt and restart a game of minetest. A new and smaller debug.txt will be made automatically.

P.s. Playing a few hours without an error message is not bad at all ;-)

Edit: typo

nolan wrote:sometimes during playing game, ill be playing and out of nowhere i have these error spam my chat.. it says ERROR{main}: WARNING: updateListener: invalid name. There is also a different error that spam with it as well when i mine blocks , i cant remember how to word this second error but its kinda like this ERROR{main} WARNING: before SoundPlay create: invalid name or something relatively close to it. i will get 3-15 spams of the first error in a single second, i need to get rid of it bad i have to exit to OS everytime, and later a few hours it will do it again.. also when the first error starts happening, the sound effect of whatever i am doing in the time being, will start spamming my speakers, lets say i broke some glass when the errors happened, i would get the glass sound effect breaking spam my speakers too, and whatever sound effect follow it would spam along with it. Sorry for all the words and reading but i need to get rid of it, its very annoying.

I found a set of errors posted by another player, but they are the same errors i get so here they are:

It's in the minetest.conf.example. Just copy paste this: video_driver = opengl in your minetest.conf. Although I thought opengl is already used as default.
Do i literally just copy and paste it inside all that stuff? anywehre in there ? im freaking confused, sorry im 14 but im confused. Celeron said i have to find video_driver = direct3d9 but u said just copy and paste this in there
video_driver = opengl, dont i need to find what celeron said and CHANGE it not just paste this in there?

nolan wrote:It's in the minetest.conf.example. Just copy paste this: video_driver = opengl in your minetest.conf. Although I thought opengl is already used as default.
Do i literally just copy and paste it inside all that stuff? anywehre in there ? im freaking confused, sorry im 14 but im confused. Celeron said i have to find video_driver = direct3d9 but u said just copy and paste this in there
video_driver = opengl, dont i need to find what celeron said and CHANGE it not just paste this in there?

You only need to change it when that line is already in your minetest.conf. You can check that bij doubleclicking on the minetest.conf file. Then click the tab "search" on top of your screen, choose find and type "video". If it finds a line with video it will say that. Then just replace direct3d9 with opengl.

If not copy paste video_driver = opengl in your minetest.conf.

Then click the tab search on top of your screen, i opened it with Notepad, i have no search tab. >:(

nolan wrote:Then click the tab search on top of your screen, i opened it with Notepad, i have no search tab. >:(

If you have never changed the file, then it should be only a dozen to 2 dozen lines. You should be able to find it easily in that amount. If it's not there, add the line using opengl. By the way, a better notepad is Notepad++. You can find it at the link below and it is free.

http://notepad-plus-plus.org/

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