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Hello,

Me and my frinds (3) tried to play Minetest together on a own Server, we where all connected via Lan.
The Problem was that we had all huge lags, mainly means:

- Placing and diging Blocks often did not worked.
- Players where Moved sometimes back in Location.
- Players didnt updated on all Pcs (For Example: Player A moves arround and digs, for Player B blocks got digged without seeing Player A since he never moved away from his old Position)

My main Question is how i could solve those Problems, or which Hardware the Server should have to work fine?
(It was a 4GB Ram, Intel Quadcore with 2,3 GHZ and a AMD HD 7770)

Any help is welcome.

I've no knowledge about servers, but putting this in the minetest.conf might (partially) help:

disable_anticheat = true

Well, i will test that hopefully it helps. Thanks for the Answer.

What mods do you use?

I use Bones,MoreOres,Snow biomes, gemstones , unified inventory and some own mods.
Mainly they are OnGeneration Mods, can they cause lags?
Which brings me to the idea , is there a way to force the Server to generate a huge area before actually start?

I think if people leave stuff on the ground (like when you try to dig when your inventory is full) it slows down the game.

Actually we didnt even played long, we had the problems already after about 5 minutes.
Another thing that comes to my mind, is that we had many entities, can they be a huge problem for server lags?

FosJonas wrote:Which brings me to the idea , is there a way to force the Server to generate a huge area before actually start?

Add this line in minetest.conf:



Change 6, which is the default, to an higher value. The value is in block, a block is 16×16×16 nodes.