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Isn't it ironic that in that topic about banning forks of Minetest from the server list, one of the supposed criteria is those forks that don't "feel" like traditional Minetest. Yet clearly most users probably agree that vanilla Minetest Game is bland, boring, unoriginal, and uninspiring. ...

Huh? My pathfinder is 3D. From the post I linked above: It handles 3D terrain mapping, converting all walkable surfaces into 2D "hint" maps, then compresses and caches those results into per-mapblock node-graphs for lightning fast lookups. The pathfinder supports numerous search options to...

That's very interesting burli! I actually developed a Lua-based pathfinder as well. Nice to see we're thinking along the same lines.

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Here's a video of the fleepoint and trolpoint features in action:

https://vimeo.com/324076654

According to all of these lists, iOS is still in the lead in terms of U.S. marketshare: https://deviceatlas.com/blog/android-v-ios-market-share http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/united-states-of-america And here's a site that specifically acknowledges that the iOS userbase is nearly d...

The multicraft server is promoting their own game in the minetest server list. No other server in the minetest server list, did this so far. What do you mean by promote? Any server that has a different set of mods than vanilla Minetest Game is technically its own game. They might still be listed as...

That's not what I would call a fork. I have no problem to change the source code for servers, to do the job as a server better and more efficient. Fork in software development has a specific meaning. It's not a random word that is conditional on whatever some people feel like it should mean. Any ch...

It's mind boggling why this discussion is still continuing. Whether or not a server is forked doesn't have any proven correlation with the overall player experience. There are several non-forked servers that are running the MineClone2 game that are obviously far less like traditional Minetest. So wh...

I'm sorry to hear about your medical condition and hope you recover your health very soon.

They are hiding it (nicely), playing on them doesn't feel like not on minetest, What does it mean to "feel" like not on Minetest? What about heavily modded servers with custom texture packs? Sorry to say, but I think "feeling" is an arbitrary and subjective assessment. IhrFussel...

I actually began work on a Lua-based map explorer called MapBridge back in April. It's basically a suite of command-line tools that allow for validating, reporting, and visualizing any given range of mapblocks within map.sqlite databases. The scenario you've described would be a perfect test-case fo...

But we're talking abut a Minetest servers list, not a Minetest and arbitrary forks servers list. There is no reason in parasitizing the Minetest server list infrastructure for an own fork of Minetest except being lazy. I hardly think I'm "parasiting the Minetest server list infrastructure"...

^ This is one of the main reasons that I configure multiple partitions, both on my production server and all my home computers. I think I first started this practice around 1991 or so on my Mac SE. I had System, Programs, and and Data partitions. I pretty much kept to that same scheme when I switche...

Other than the server list or the CDB Minetest is not a centralized, totalitarian authority You misread. I said this person's vision of Minetest seems to be, at least with respect to the server list. Look at the first post. It comes across almost exactly like the whole Net Neutrality debacle. Inste...

Well not all forks of minetest are bad.... My server runs on the S3 Engine, which is highly customized fork of Minetest 0.4.14. I forked Minetest so I could add the features I need to make my vision of the the Just Test Tribute game possible. The entire concept of Minetest is that it's open source A...

Hey, everyone thanks for the words of encouragement! The release is still on schedule, so stay tuned :) In other words, it's useless. At least for me. I don't want to depend on any mod for formspec stuff! Ratio is intended to be used on a development box, not a production server. There is no need to...

Regardless, as for people that are complaining about why you might want it, maybe you don't have a problem with them, but other people may have perfectly valid reasons for not wanting Android players on their servers. I won't list any, but please stop arguing about it! I like this philosophy, peopl...

Here's a sneak peak of Ratio Workspace, the most advanced formspec editor for Minetest. The following screencaps depict the latest fully-working prototype now in testing. https://i.imgur.com/7MsZXS0.png No more messing around with Minetest's awkward coordinate system. Ratio is a full featured IDE th...

Sure, I see it of the (my) new server open all with 0.4.x version - the hell in game. I've been running a custom fork of 0.4.14 for years, and never experienced this problem. Even mobile players with high network latency have no impact on performance or reliability. They simply time out, as would b...

bosapara wrote:In any way it was good try to block phone users with fake app with advertising.

How does this mod distinguish between "fake" apps and the official Minetest app for Android that has no advertising?

Is there a mod where I can see all the online and offline players on a server? Yes, Auth Redux lets you view a list of all online and offline players for a server. You can also query by different criteria (such as first login date, total session length, specific privileges, various username pattern...

Has someone already made a mod where you have to read a personalized password from the tooltip of a button_exit in order to get interact on a server? This might be a pretty reliable protection against mobile players. Why would anybody need "protection against mobile players". I ran a serv...

JT2 used to be very popular with players of Multicraft and other forks, since it wasn't mod heavy and didn't impose username restrictions. I also think it was a far better representation of Minetest since spawn was protected from griefing and offered a safe haven for n00bs. I'm working on a new vers...

Isn’t it pretty clear at this point that Minetest will live and die with Irrlicht? I totally understand that it's unlikely core devs would have the incentive to transition to another platform, because so much of the code-base depends on the Irrlicht framework already. But at the same time, is it wo...

This is certainly shocking news that I wasn't even aware of. Is there link to some news source where people can find more background on what is happening with Minecraft? Are people jumping ship or is this a full scale exodus? And might this be an opportunity to capitalize on this death knell of Mine...

I wonder if the core devs would entertain the possibility of an API specifically for CPP map generation mods. I realize they've opposed general purpose APIs for the CPP-side in the past . But that seems mostly to do with code interoperability concerns (i.e. shared interfaces for CPP and Lua would be...