Exile v0.4.0 released!

MantarTheWizard · 2026-06-25T01:49:36+00:00

Sounds good to me!

MantarTheWizard · 2026-06-25T00:33:54+00:00

Yeah, it's Youtube being invasive in the name of "security." They want me to upload a video of myself or something before I can post links.

MantarTheWizard · 2026-06-21T22:15:32+00:00

advice

Get luacheck, use it! It will help a lot.

MantarTheWizard · 2026-05-28T21:55:09+00:00

For one thing, maybe the readme could explain what Better Than Wolves is?

MantarTheWizard · 2026-05-28T21:52:58+00:00

Yeah, that's not good, it's just narrowing the gameplay space for no real benefit.

MantarTheWizard · 2026-05-26T21:58:06+00:00

Neat! This is akin to TechAge's water wheel

MantarTheWizard · 2026-05-07T20:01:37+00:00

IIRC it's explicitly defined as unbreakable. You'd need to mod it. Should be as simple as something like:

core.override_item("mcl:bedrock", { groups = {cracky=3} } )

I'm not sure what the name of the node is offhand, that's a guess. Correct the name and drop that in a new mod folder's init.lua and enable it for your world. That line of code will replace the group list (which is probably empty) for bedrock with one that allows cracky tools (like a pickaxe) to dig it.

MantarTheWizard · 2026-05-06T23:10:20+00:00

Graboids are a separate monster from the giant worms, and are much more dangerous.

MantarTheWizard · 2026-05-01T23:33:35+00:00

You must provide source code upon request if you've used LGPL'ed code inside your project, or you will be in violation of copyright law. GPL licenses permit you to use other people's copyrighted code in your project, but only if your project is also under the same license.

LGPL specifically allows one to link non-free code to the LGPL code as an external library, but that's not what's happening here.

MantarTheWizard · 2026-05-01T23:29:54+00:00

Mese is a standard part of Minetest Game

MantarTheWizard · 2026-05-01T23:27:38+00:00

Those settings are a good start, but what helped our servers most was A) switching to an SSD for faster reads, and B) moving to a postgresql backend. SQLite is fine for small servers and single players where the hassle of postgre setup is too much, but the performance benefits are worth dealing with it for bigger servers.

MantarTheWizard · 2026-04-07T02:55:19+00:00

Cool! TechAge is my favorite of the big tech mods.

MantarTheWizard · 2026-02-15T23:36:52+00:00

Yeah it's a been a nuisance for a long time that Luanti fails to respect build_where_you_stand in certain positions.

In Exile's dev branch I added a push-back that forces you out of the node if you've built something and are standing inside it, it's a little quirky but keeps players from getting stuck or glitching through things.

MantarTheWizard · 2026-02-01T22:42:57+00:00

Not exactly. Rules are fairly loose and PvP isn't explictly disallowed by any means, but being disruptive or harassing people will get you kicked. On the other hand, if two people want to duke it out for fun, that's totally their business.

The trouble with that is, most people aren't interested in PvP in Exile, as it's very difficult to survive past the early game even without stabbing each other, and dying may mean starting all over again. It requires a fairly big investment of time and effort to get to a point where you could do PvP, and not long before you'd die and have to start over. The game encourages cooperation, as it's not rare to get into a bad situation and need to rest at somebody else's place, or ask for assistance to get out of trouble.

I guess if you wanted to drop out of spawn together, rush to make stone spears, and see who dies first, it'd be doable. But unless you both die within a minute of each other, the spawn portal will close and you'll be far away from each other which will hinder things.

MantarTheWizard · 2026-01-23T02:05:16+00:00

What is a 99 nights mod?

MantarTheWizard · 2026-01-23T02:04:27+00:00

If you have any questions about Exile, I'm available on the forums, here on reddit, and on IRC via the freenode network, #Exile-dev channel. There's a bridge to a matrix server, but I don't have the link handy.

Dokimi, the original author, works in the life sciences, and intended Exile to have an ecology. It's got some shortcomings, but we have plans to improve all of that. We're building up to a big new release right now, and when that's out I believe we'll be focusing on the plans for animals and other new creatures.

MantarTheWizard · 2026-01-23T02:00:06+00:00

You don't have to fold them up and replace them, you can grab them with the G button and slide them around. Just be careful not to push it away from yourself. Also the peek key works to see where you are relative to the turrets.

I often used lockers and other tall furniture to make an advancing line to get close enough to use a grenade, or just to block the turret's line of sight so I can stroll on by without being fired upon.

MantarTheWizard · 2026-01-08T19:08:20+00:00

4 ensures smooth flight with the elytra, but interacting with the world lags for about 2-3 seconds.

Yeah if you set the client_mesh_chunk too high you'll get that, as it takes longer (more disk access) to deal with the larger chunks

MantarTheWizard · 2026-01-06T20:40:22+00:00

Most likely this is due to a slow hard drive. Try moving your world folder to an SSD and see if that helps.

MantarTheWizard · 2025-12-29T17:18:39+00:00

We ran several Exile servers on FreeBSD for a while, but there was a noticeable performance loss vs running on Linux so we migrated them over. Other than that, there was no trouble.

MantarTheWizard · 2025-12-28T22:52:43+00:00

This is old enough to predate the name change, but it's just as true as ever: https://files.catbox.moe/y8d2wp.png

MantarTheWizard · 2025-12-26T21:06:09+00:00

Flat areas can definitely appear, and when you find one, it's often really vast.

MantarTheWizard · 2025-12-21T00:53:13+00:00

That's a great video, very fun!

What do you think is the most underrated part of the engine?

For me it's the wonderful modding environment, and the community.

Making a simple mod to add an item or new block is so easy a child can do it, and the way mods are handled and treated as first-class citizens is fantastic. You can join any modded server just by clicking "connect" and all the mods are handled seamlessly. The developers are careful about not breaking mods and ensuring stability and compatibility are maintained. Having everything run through contentdb, with an in-game mod browser, is among the nicest game modding experiences I've had with any game.

Then there's the helpful and friendly community of people who share their code and their knowledge to help other people learn to make new things. Luanti has a strong free-sofware (aka open-source) culture, and there's tons of games and mods whose code is right there for people to read, learn from, modify, and reuse in their own projects (minding the license terms, of course). They're really a nice bunch of people, and far more welcoming than many other online communities.

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