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I'm probably just being a NOOB, but I have been unable to find any way to get mods on my distro. I have tried doing what everyone says about putting the mods under ~/.minetest/mods/minetest, but nothing works. Being stuck without all of the good stuff really is plain awful. Please help!

Which Minetest version are you running?
Mods don't go into ~/.minetest/mods/minetest anymore; they go into ~/.minetest/mods.

If your Minetest client is just a self-contained install in your home directory, or if you run Windows, then you have a "run-in-place" build, probably named something like "minetest-0.4.8-abc123456". For those, mods go into the "mods" directory therein.

If your Minetest client is installed to /usr or /usr/local or similar, then it is a system-wide install (maybe you got from your package manager?). For these, mods go in ~/.minetest/mods

In both cases, you must do without that final /minetest level you read about -- that's outdated info there.

If "mods" does not exist in whichever is the appropriate directory for your particular install, just create it and put your mods there, so that you have, for example, ~/.minetest/mods/moreblocks or ~/.minetest/mods/homedecor or so.

Once you find the right place to put them, you must make sure the mods themselves are correctly named. Each of the mods' forum topics has a subject line of the form "[Mod] Some description here [1.2.3][shortname]". Make sure your mods all have the exact same names as the "shortname" part, as this is the real name of the mod. Rename them if necessary (they are CaSE SEnsITiVE!).

Mods are enabled on a per-world basis now, so once you put mods into the right directory and (re)name them properly, you go to the game's main menu, click a world, then click the "Configure" button and enable the mod in the screen that comes up, then click "Save" and go play that world.

kaeza wrote:Which Minetest version are you running?
Mods don't go into ~/.minetest/mods/minetest anymore; they go into ~/.minetest/mods.

the package manager I downloaded it with got minetest version 0.3.1, which may explain some things. I can't help but wonder if mods aren't as easy to do with my version

spock the elder wrote:

kaeza wrote:Which Minetest version are you running?
Mods don't go into ~/.minetest/mods/minetest anymore; they go into ~/.minetest/mods.

the package manager I downloaded it with got minetest version 0.3.1, which may explain some things. I can't help but wonder if mods aren't as easy to do with my version

The mods are not not easy, but not at all compatible with 0.3.1. The use of mods started with 0.4.

Some popular mods are even updated to run under the latest builds.

You can give compiling minetest a try:
https://github.com/minetest/minetest (scroll down till README.txt and further to Compiling on GNU/Linux:)

Topywo wrote:

spock the elder wrote:

kaeza wrote:Which Minetest version are you running?
Mods don't go into ~/.minetest/mods/minetest anymore; they go into ~/.minetest/mods.

the package manager I downloaded it with got minetest version 0.3.1, which may explain some things. I can't help but wonder if mods aren't as easy to do with my version

The mods are not not easy, but not at all compatible with 0.3.1. The use of mods started with 0.4.

Some popular mods are even updated to run under the latest builds.

You can give compiling minetest a try:
https://github.com/minetest/minetest (scroll down till README.txt and further to Compiling on GNU/Linux:)

thanks for the tip. I'll try that.

got a .deb for 0.4.8 and installed it. It works great! Thanks again!

spock the elder wrote:got a .deb for 0.4.8 and installed it. It works great! Thanks again!

Your welcome. Good to know it works. Enjoy Minetest!