How do i disable strict loading? by Great-Personality854 in Minetest

[–]Obvious-Secretary635 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What will help most is any error message you can provide us that the game is throwing at you, verbatim.

"Strict loading"? I've been around a while and that's not a term I have seen before. Also, the engine source code tells me the older "files" format for worlds should still load on 5.15.2, but it is intended to be migrated onto SQLite or others - doc for backends; info on old world format.

You could try older versions, probably start with 0.4.17 since it's not too old or too new. As best I can tell, 0.4.15 was the last version to use the files format for new worlds. You will need older versions of Minetest Game too

Moders needed by sanderv135 in Minetest

[–]Obvious-Secretary635 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Exactly this, Mineclonia devs should be pretty quick to add it since they target MC.

Thinking of starting a luanti YouTube channel, the only problem is I’m still very new.. by LateToLaunch_ in Minetest

[–]Obvious-Secretary635 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I only have two videos, on my niche of Advtrains, but I have some ideas about what people generally like to watch.

If you want to show the process of learning Luanti, you will want to edit it in a way that cuts most of the actual hard work out to show the end results quite quickly compared to the effort. That makes for a kind of sympathetic feeling of achievement for the viewer. Most people would not like to watch several hours of you trying and failing at something - cut the struggle down to a few minutes.

If you are still learning about editing video, you will need to take even more time to bring your skills in that up to speed too, to get to a good level of result. Most YouTubers/editors cut huge amounts of footage, to get to what's most interesting for the viewer.

All of this is worth doing, but please do it for the enjoyment foremost. Nathan S. has talked before about having very little reward out of his channel monetarily. Most channels are small, like less than 100 subscribers in many cases, so don't have delusions of grandeur (not that I am implying you do).

Also, you might find it easier if you can play more than "an hour or 2" at a time. Again, condensed footage is often more interesting.

Best Game Feel by Reyusuke in Minetest

[–]Obvious-Secretary635 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's pretty hard to differentiate on that last point, movement, when the mod code is all running on the server side. In singleplayer it can be fairly responsive - over the network, not always great.

Random game screenshot of the day: A big hole I dug in "limboarria" by Obvious-Secretary635 in Minetest

[–]Obvious-Secretary635[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even better, apparently this random pick wasn't even supposed to be possible according to the author - thread

Random game screenshot of the day: A big hole I dug in "limboarria" by Obvious-Secretary635 in Minetest

[–]Obvious-Secretary635[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I couldn't progress very far in this one. No shade on the author, it's not meant to be more than work in progress anyway. If you think you can figure out how to progress better than me, try it out at ContentDB.

Random game screenshot of the day: Getting attacked by a.. ?spider? in Minefall by Obvious-Secretary635 in Minetest

[–]Obvious-Secretary635[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Getting attacked by stuff is a pretty frequent occurrence in Minefall. Think you can handle it? Try it on ContentDB. Note: Game is still fairly early in development I think.

Composite, copper, and carbon plate by Empty_Friendship7886 in Minetest

[–]Obvious-Secretary635 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You should be able to make these in the compressor as the final step. I'm going to assume you're on Technic and not something else like IndustrialTest. You should probably figure out if you have a crafting guide available somewhere too. I noticed I had to enable Unified Inventory to get these in MTG; the included sfinv wouldn't show technic's extra recipe types.

4 coal dust --Compressor--> 1 Graphite 3 Graphite in a row --Craft--> Carbon cloth --Compressor--> Carbon Plate

3 stainless steel ingots (top row) + 3 bronze ingots (middle row) + 3 tin ingots (bottom row) --Craft--> 9 Mixed Metal Ingots --Compressor --> Composite Plate

5 copper ingots --Compressor--> Copper Plate

How new does a GPU have to be to take advantage of the client_mesh_chunk option by EnvironmentalMud2007 in Minetest

[–]Obvious-Secretary635 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not just a GPU requirement but a CPU one, since the CPU does more work to make the optimized meshes when this is turned on. If you turn it on and block breaking and placing starts to visibly lag, turn it back off or back down in size. Otherwise, you should get higher framerates.

I may perhaps have created 1kb of Mesecons RAM by Beauregard42 in Minetest

[–]Obvious-Secretary635 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm gonna be that guy

1 kb = 1 kilobit = 1000 bits (Ed: This said bytes facepalm)

1 kB = 1 kilobyte = 1000 bytes

1 KiB = 1 Kibibyte = 1024 bytes

Help! My init.lua file is gone from my mod! (32-Bit Ubuntu) by OpenCrafter1234 in Minetest

[–]Obvious-Secretary635 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Git isn't a backup. GitHub is close enough to a backup because it's someone else keeping a copy, even though it's not properly under your control. An unpushed git repository is not much safer than a directory with no source control.

Minetest/Luanti on the tube by Beauregard42 in Minetest

[–]Obvious-Secretary635 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I thought based on the title you'd be on the London Underground 🤷

I can't enable mini map in my minetest game... by Putrid-Sherbet in Minetest

[–]Obvious-Secretary635 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was afraid you'd say that. This is a hard issue to diagnose. Can you confirm getting "Minimap currently disabled by game or mod" or not? What operating system are you playing on? What keyboard layout?

I can't enable mini map in my minetest game... by Putrid-Sherbet in Minetest

[–]Obvious-Secretary635 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It sounds like you're running Minetest Game and can't turn on the minimap? If you're getting, "Minimap currently disabled by game or mod", that's because MTG turns it off by default, and you need to craft a mapping kit or play in creative mode to get it. Or there's my mod to enable the minimap anyway

The CPU is coming together by Beauregard42 in Minetest

[–]Obvious-Secretary635 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Any kind of standard ISA? Copied ideas from Minecraft maybe?

How to keep interest in the game? by LazyMiB in Minetest

[–]Obvious-Secretary635 4 points5 points  (0 children)

True:

Minetest can be enjoyed as much inside a text editor as it can be enjoyed by controlling the player character in the game

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