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For the curious, can you fill us in on what a good mechanism would like? (Programmer but not a game programmer.) How would you design it if you had a clean slate?

Linuxdirk wrote:I’m all in for the Small House Movement.

Linuxdirk - is that house on a public server I could visit?


Here's another small house.

Nice..! The animation is a great touch.

Been thinking it'd be fun to have build-parties. Anyone want to team up for a couple hours to put together a space elevator? Illuna has biomes all the way to y+31000

Continuing to play with ideas from the Small House Movement. This time I wanted to build an all-wood house that didn't just look like a misplaced crate, or make a mess of the surrounding forest.

https://forum.minetest.net/download/file.php?mode=view&id=17452&sid=6cd1c58ef634cc006f8d4cbedfcb1615 I've been taking a bit of inspiration from the Tiny House movement. There are numerous images and blueprints for extremely modest homes, many of them well designed for a person who wants to ...

Otter - nice summary; I've had similar experiences of showing up on a server and not being able to get away from spawn before I starved. Can't remember which, but I remember being especially annoyed on a server that had a public farm, and some admin came along and told me not to take too much after ...

Not sure if this is your kind of thing, but I automatically give small donations to sites I visit via Flattr. I know they support github accounts, so that might be an easier way to turn things around.

I'm enjoying it.. !

Are you on Illuna at all? I don't speak German, but I think they are based in Germany and have a few more advanced builders and players.

https://forum.minetest.net/download/file.php?id=17275 I've been playing with a voxel image editor, Goxel , as a better way to make blueprints. So far it's been easy to use and a much more direct way to visualize my builds before I put game-resources and time into them. It'd be fun to see more of th...

So - bad news / good news... Bad news: * Changing the external tile-sets breaks any blueprints that use them. * TileD doesn't handle tiles with different sizes very gracefully, so you'll have to decide for yourself what to do about making two-tile doors. Good ish news: twoelk - your rotated trees id...

Hadn't seen anyone using the Minetest textures directly in their blueprints, but it's pretty easy to set up with TileD. Open source crossovers ftw!

https://github.com/ptvirgo/minetest_tiles

Didn't know about the first database, but I've seen some of your work, so - you're Minetest famous. Cool idea, like I said it's fun thinking about the possibilities.

Cool idea, it's inspiring me to imagine how I'd implement the same concept. There's an older "Minetest Bower" site, maybe worth looking into whether that format / api has anything to offer. GraphQL also offers some nice features over REST, though that probably isn't realistic if your teach...

You constantly look for opportunities to do *hard* labor under *insane* working conditions even though food is abundant, weather is a non issue, and money can't get you anything that wouldn't be easier to just pick up off the ground or make yourself.

Interesting project - you may be over-complicating the requirements. Have you looked at Minetest Bower already? https://minetest-bower.herokuapp.com/ You might be able to accomplish your goal by using the Bower API to handle the centralized mod data. That would make synchronization a much simpler pr...

I haven't written any in-game mods, but that does sound like a good best-practice.

Discovery in the Plateaus With today's discovery we might finally know the truth about those legends. But so far, we were unable to find out how to open the "Gate" ... https://i.imgur.com/CvhYp4g.png Nice! Fun that it catches the sense that there's always more to discover, just like the g...

Sometimes mods create crafting recipes that conflict with each other, resulting in craft items that can't be crafted. I put together a mod and command line tool to make it easier for server administrators to identify conflicts in their configuration. There's a quick overview here: http://www.codefor...

Here's the last bit of the Steve Sapp storyline. Points if you saw the pun coming from the beginning.


Glass Ceilings: Good for Everyone's Safety
http://www.codeforyendor.xyz/glass-ceiling.html

@voxelproof - I got a huge kick out of that one! If you want to post it somewhere that I should link to or let me put in on codeforyendor, lmk.

Steve Sapp Found Dead

The body of Steve Sapp was found yesterday. The coroner's report states that Sapp appears to have fallen from a great height.

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http://www.codeforyendor.xyz/steve-sapp ... orted.html

... meantime: If you're up for brainstorming amusing Name / Epitaph combinations (or anything else that might be fun for a quick graveyard build), I could use them...!

I saw a fun location to start a myth a while back, took a screenshot and then forgot to record the location. Might try to turn rediscovering it into a fun activity. The old adventure style games were the best .. ! I don't know how to interact with Minetest code particularly, but implementing dialogu...

I've never seen the inventory bags mod or gotten my head around Technics .. yet. Will have to look into those. "Just chests" : in a cool looking vault with plenty of room. So far I've been going from "small basement that no longer has room for chests" to "oddly separated loc...