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How do you install mods,please tell me.

Download the zip (or other) compressed file for the mod, extract it somewhere.

Look at the topic subject for the mod in question. At the top of the thread in the subject area will be something like "[Mod] Some Description here [v0.1.2.3][somemodname]". That last field is the "real" mod name.

Rename the folder that comes out of the zip to this "real" name, without the [brackets], or rename it to whatever the mod's author has indicated in the first post, if anything.

Copy the whole, renamed folder to your minetest mods folder (which might be minetest-blahblahblah/mods, or perhaps ~/.minetest/mods).

Start Minetest, select a single player world, and click "Configure". Click the mod you just installed, and click the "[ ] Enabled" checkbox. Click "Save" and start the world.

another thing,how do you install texture packs and games?

playere123 wrote:another thing,how do you install texture packs and games?

For games, just unpack them, and copy them to "<yourminetestfolder>/games".

Texture packs are a bit harder: unpack them to "<yourminetestfolder>/textures", then modify the minetest.conf (note: *not* minetest.conf.example) and add the following line:

TEXTURES WONT WORK!
help please!

playere123 wrote:TEXTURES WONT WORK!
help please!

What do you mean 'textures wont work'?

Dan Duncombe wrote:

playere123 wrote:TEXTURES WONT WORK!
help please!

What do you mean 'textures wont work'?

He means texture packs. :P

like when i put them in it wont show the textures of VanessaE HDX texture pack

help please evergreen

playere123 wrote:help please evergreen

I can't help you if you don't say what is wrong. Do the textures stay as the default textures?

yes they stay as default but i want them to be the textures of the texture pack and im trying to make a server but nothin happens that i can see

playere123 wrote:yes they stay as default but i want them to be the textures of the texture pack and im trying to make a server but nothin happens that i can see

Oh, I think I know the problem. You have to rename the texture pack folder to "all".

im using bdcraft and i named it all but it wont show up!

It's very easy... Download your mod and save in MINETEST-->MODS-->YOUR MOD
And after open your Minetest and select "CONFIGURATION" And enable your mod

I KNOW THAT NOW! But wat about the Sphax TEXTUER PACK!

What procedure, exactly, are you following to "install" your texture pack? Tell us what steps you took, what programs you ran, what folders you copied, and exactly where you copied them to, please.

And not to sound mean or anything, but please use complete sentences with proper punctuation and no ALL CAPS stuff, as it will make it easier for us to read and understand what is going on (plus filenames, folder names, etc. are cAse-SEnsiTive).

I downloaded the texture pack,opened it,put the folder in textures,went in minecraft conf and changed it from your texture pack to Sphax TestBDcraft x256 and renamed it to all and it wouldnt work.I did what keaza gave me instructions to do.

playere123 wrote:I downloaded the texture pack,opened it,put the folder in textures,went in minecraft conf and changed it from your texture pack to Sphax TestBDcraft x256 and renamed it to all and it wouldnt work.I did what keaza gave me instructions to do.

For me to get texture packs to work, I download them, unzip them and then copy all of the files into the textures\all folder in the mincraft directory. They then have almost always worked and when they didn't, it was because of some other little thing. I have never edited a texture line in minetest.conf at any time. Try this and removing/editing the line you added or changed in minetest.conf and see if this helps you.

it wouldnt work

playere123 wrote:it wouldnt work

You said earlier that you were using BDcraft. Are you using a minetest version of that or are you using a minecraft version? The minecraft version wont work straight on minetest until it has been converted. I went to the site and there are only 2 links that lead to texture packs for minetest. Every other link was for minecraft. The minetest links were the last ones on the page. I haven't downloaded the texture pack because it uses that horrible adf.ly website so I don't know if it works or what but make sure you have downloaded the correct texture pack. I hope that that was the problem for you and not that it just doesn't work.

EDIT: spelling

minetest version but i couldnt get through to get the official ones with adf.ly so i had to get it some other way

go to this link http://adf.ly/564553/stbdc-256-mt04 try to download the thing

playere123 wrote:go to this link http://adf.ly/564553/stbdc-256-mt04 try to download the thing

Still adf.ly site. I wont use them as when I tried to download something they wanted me to enable practically every ad site on the net (a little exaggeration but there are a few or more) and when I finally got to the download it was an exe file that seemed to be a downloader for the file I was trying to download. No thanks. I have avoided them ever since and wont go back. I do have a copy of PureDBcraft and in that one, the textures are all named incorrectly. To use any of them, I would have to go through and rename them. I would only consider it if I there were any I wanted to use and then would only rename those.

EDIT: spelling

what do you mean spelling

you mean testbdcraft right?

EDIT: DOESN'T WORK

LionsDen wrote: http://adf.ly/564553/stbdc-256-mt04

If you dislike adf.ly, here is the direct download link. http://bdcraft.net/download/?z=Sphax%20TestBDcraft%20256x%20MT04 Also, here is an adf.ly link bypasser website. http://dead.altervista.org/

the direct link wouldnt work

I guess the adf.ly bypasser was a dud. I should have tested it before I posted.

i used the adf.ly bypasser
and it let me have the direct link and i clicked on it and i clicked on the other link in ur post but both ways wouldnt work

playere123 wrote:i used the adf.ly bypasser
and it let me have the direct link and i clicked on it and i clicked on the other link in ur post but both ways wouldnt work

Didn't I just say it didn't work?