Books

Until the modding API becomes better, it's impossible. The only thing that could even come close to this is the Poison mod, and that only let us use inventory items (nowhere near making a whole writable piece of paper). The only way to implement this is to hack some C++ code, and I don't think we want to do that.

Let me start this with a 'I've not looked at any of the source code for anything minetest related, except browsing an lua script for recipes here and there.'

I believe I read that the rollback mod was storing user action data in separate files, so storing the description data in a data file should be easy enough.

Making that data editable and readable on the screen, on the other hand, will probably require some description interface changes in the core engine.

I think the best course of action to change as little as possible would be to the description editing window (already used for making signs) to make it better handle multiple pages and then maybe give it an edit mode toggle/buttons of some sort.

Maybe an option to make the description viewable outside the edit window or not (if you're using the same functions as the signs, having a page or more of description could be messy on the screen at a glance.)

Finally, you'd have to give access to the description editing functionality to the modding api.

I could see that working too. Maybe when you click on the book, it assigns a "book text" id to the player and then chat's a brief command list or intro for the book/pages.

Actually, last night I was playing Minecraft (USING MINESHAFTER - TOO LAZY TO PAY) and the server had the same type of mod. It is possibile, if the books were text files. Oh, relating to Scratch: http://scratch.mit.edu/users/jordach might still work.

Ya i know the mod your talking about, i really dont think Minetest is really worth playing anymore. because Minecraft Actually runs faster for me(2-3 times faster), and i really doubt this is possible with Minetest as of now. And Mineshafters is pretty BOmb, thanks for the heads up on that. I also Have s Server for Minecraft (private of Coarse) but if your interested in playing some time  on it Jordach just email me:D its on ramdisk so its runs real nice:D im just now getting into Bukkit so theres a couple mods on the server^^

Peoples, Scratch I can code almost anything, within 48 hours, although art is my bad side.

i agree with death Here.

Servers are usually faster.

a 2004 pentium 4 runs mc better. mt needs too much.

java is better, and mineshafter is Awesome.

The RAM amont can be adjusted through the control panel. it use's as much as you allocate. by default it may use up to 1-1.5GB tops. its just an option.And the test really cant be held on two different OS's. Optifine also plays a huge role in my laptop actually playing Minecraft. and graphics cards change there core structure a lot from company to company, an even the Company's change there design on a regular basis.Some computers are going to run it better, just by design. So i see Minetest as
1. A good way to get into .lua Scripting. or scripting in general.
2. a minecraft alternative for older graphics cards and GPU's that might not run minecraft that well.

overall play-ability of minetest is maybe a soid hour of gameplay (with alot of mods installed. and ones that dont conflict or bog down your system to much) while Minecraft has an incredible amount of material right out of the gate and  with mods (and really simple GUI mod installing programs)and the amount of user created material awes me still(Also has server mods:D very cool stuff eg:Bukkit) theres also Minecrat PE on both android market and the apple store. so theres really no competition at all. Minecraft Triumphs over all. Minetest however is a free open source alternative. with a "pretty" friendly modding community. so it defiantly has its plus's. But fails in comparison.