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That makes sense. If I were to fork the engine on github, what happens when 5.0.0 is released and there are conflicts? Does github provide any tools to allow merging with the mainline, or would that be a manual process? Or, would I be better off forking again from 5.0.0 and integrating my code that...

Please note that I'm not a lawyer, and this shouldn't be taken as legal advice. It's perfectly fine for mods and games to be proprietary, although the promotion of them is not allowed on this forum. However, make sure that you obey licenses if you reuse mods. For example, any changes that you make t...

It's been disabled on this forum, because it helps spam bots advertise themselves

Lua and Javascript are both prototyping languages, so metatable classes in Lua are equivalent to prototype classes in Javascript. function Company() { this.members = {} this.ceo = "" } Company.prototype.get_ceo = function() { return self.ceo } Javascript has syntactic sugar (via the class ...

Lua is designed to use the prototyping approach to oop local Company = {} company.Company = Company --- Constructor function Company:new(obj) obj = obj or {} setmetatable(obj, self) self.__index = self -- Members self.ceo = nil self.members = {} return obj end -- Methods function Company:get_ceo_nam...

Lua is well suited to game scripting, due to its simplicity. It's not well suited for large projects, which is why I always recommend to keep mods small and focused, and to use multiple mods. Lua is possibly one of the best languages out there, if you rate its design, because it is simple, well-desi...

Using advanced trains (and this happens with carts as well) when I go straight, the landscape goes periodically back and forth. :o Staying still and watching the automated train, I can see the train itself going back and forth. >( Is there any configuration setting to change / set to correct this b...

just make sure not to use Yaourt anymore and read the source files before installing Thanks for mentioning this, I wasn't aware that Yaourt was discontinued. Yay fixes a lot of peeves I had with yaourt, for example yay sorts results in reverse order which is much more user friendly https://i.rubenw...

Minetest 5.0 has a refresh button

When I click on the Win64 download link, it gives me a ZIP file called Artifacts.zip, that makes me kind of nervous. Is that just the name of the zip or is it redirecting me to somewhere else? An artifact is the result of a Continuous Development stage to build the release. In that case, it's the W...

Lol, when will you core devs learn that you should never promise a fixed release date (not even vaguely)? xD Just say “it's done when it's done” (or nothing at all), it's so much simpler! :P We never promised a date, just said a rough target date. And almost all the blockers are cleared, just 2 mor...

Hi all! We'd be very grateful for some help testing a prerelease version of Minetest 5.0.0. Please go crazy, and break all the things! Highlights ⋅ Add online content repository (games, mods, modpacks, texture packs) ⋅ Add Carpathian mapgen ⋅ Android: Rewritten controls...

https://i.imgur.com/3HSOJ64.png What's particularly amusing is the response by a core dev, suggesting that a server 40+ players isn't below servers with no players even after I shared a screencap as evidence of my server with 40+ players being listed below all other servers with no players. If that...

Why did include the old Minetest Mods icon in some of the awards?

Best Game: --
Best Server: redcat creative
Best Mod: Elepower

It also draws attention to it, for example here we are talking about it

One of the two mods should drop their registration and use aliases, or force register an alias. I have no particular opinions on which

Providing the appropriate labels are then added, clients with content restrictions will never update to the gorey version as they will never be told that there is an update

It was closed because it was a RfC which I then decided to do (eventually)

Public key authentication does not make sense in such an application. It is overkill and not user-friendly. Passwords are not evil, and are here to stay

The method you described using mod storage is a massive hack, and should be avoided . I've never seen a good reason to use a method like that. it results in unexpected behaviour, and there is also never a good reason to depend on all mods. Minetest 5.0.0 approach If you can put depends in mod.conf t...

I can't seem to be able claim my account right now. I locked myself out, it seems. :-( You can't claim an already claimed account, for security reasons Either: 1. Log in using Github, you'll then be able to set an email and password 2. Give me permission to set your email on ContentDB. This will se...

The conclusion from Mastodon is that I can make my own "rating labels" as long as I make sure I don't cause confusion with existing certification methods I think I'll do the following: ⋅ Violence ⋅ Gore / Blood / etc ⋅ Swearing ⋅ Nudity * ⋅ ...

Please do not post IP addresses in public like that