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Have fun in your Minecraft worlds! I hope you can enjoy it as much you're looking forward to it. If you'd like to keep your mods maintained by minetest-mods, you may post a repo transfer request . I don't think they will be developed actively, but at least user contributions (bug fixes or feature P...

Wow, of all the things this would turn into I didn't expect the focus to be yet another "Minecraft vs. Minetest" thread. My main reason for picking minecraft over other sandbox projects like vintage story etc. is that minecraft gets more new content in a month from the community than minet...

Minetest is getting pointless for me with how limited it is and how static the development seems. I'd rather deal with the pre-existing world and lore and just make minecraft mods, because while a modding API is better than making mods in the core language IMO, the usefulness of an API is limited by...

cuthbertdoublebarrel wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 18, 2021 11:03

no good trying to big up Minetest when we do not have one decent showcase game as a standard .

the only ones that even qualify are nodecore and a literal MC clone. All the others are derivatives of MTG.

I think support for non-English character sets is a feature we should strive for, but I also think hex is right about how stupid emojis are. Moving beyond their arguments though, I think emojis look cheap and corny in general. One thing Minetest is hurting for, in my opinion, is smooth and clean vi...

packages now can't be approved if they require mods not yet on ContentDB. So, releasing own content now entirely depends on the willingness of other people to release their content on the CDB? Yes, because if a package can be on the CDB the whole thing, including the optional parts, should be avail...

hex wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 06, 2021 16:45

Wasn't there a thing that worked in reverse, allowing you to bundle the game in the world folder?

there is for mods, but since worlds only show up in the correct game menu world-specific games would be impossible.

I think I'll wait for custom main menus so I can make the 'new world' button just copy a premade file.

LibraSubtilis wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 03, 2021 20:15

You don't have to place everything yourself, if you use a specific seed. It is possible to set the seed with minetest.set_mapgen_setting.

I want to build everything myself.

I wan to make a game where the map is handmade like most actual games, instead of generating a new one each time.

In theory, you might start with a singlenode map and place everything there by using place_schematic. That might be pretty slow and impractical for large maps. There's also sometimes trouble with players falling down through the non-existing floor when using singlenode and placing things manually. ...

MHL wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 01, 2021 20:42

But calm down. Minecraft has no voice-transmission feature either.

It does through modding

Is that a platform made of boats

LRV wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 31, 2020 14:04

Mod follows guidelines and was hence moved.

ok cool

r1bnc wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 30, 2020 00:50

I've watched some twitch streamers of minecraft, and they appear to have proximity voice chat. Is this possible to implement?

No. There's no way for the client to send that kind of data to the server.

Most of these main menu ideas look great! I would like to see "Menu packs" that work like texture packs, but alter the main menu look, so I could use all of them... This is a legit feature request, btw You can indeed design and code your main menu already, the fact is I don't think anybod...

emoji do not qualify as any sort of language or script. Yes they do. Pictographic systems were the first type of written language. The images aren't even rendered consistently between vendors. Neither are any other part of unicode, because fonts are a thing. Just because something is new(ish) doesn...

hex wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 29, 2020 09:02

PolySaken wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 29, 2020 08:00

also emojis come from japan

BRB, moving to Japan so that everything I make instantly becomes good and nobody is allowed to say anything bad about it.

bad post
missed the point

hex wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 29, 2020 05:53

Worldblender wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 27, 2020 00:22

Add emoji support

Just because some phone carriers bribed or blackmailed the Unicode people to include their smiley cancer into a text encoding doesn't mean anyone should actually support it.

Luddite
also emojis come from japan

Bruh, I didn't look at those, I just assumed they were being reasonable.
The folder format rule should apply to LMD and no-one else.

Old Phantasy Star Online player here. I recalled the image of a Mese Crystal when suddenly the currency "Meseta" from PSO popped into my mind. Is there a conspiracy here? They look too similar. Mese in minetest_game is based on a finnish(?) programming joke so it's somewhat plausible that...

Why would anyone ever install a mod by hand anymore? we have a content manager for a reason. It's literally one click to install and automatically updates. It's also pretty much guaranteed to be safe too.

hex wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 26, 2020 00:17

Wow, look at all those features Minetest doesn't need!

The Idea that minetest doesn't need things just because they would require an engine change is stupid. Literally noone would complain if minetest had always had actual lighting and shaders, so why complain about the idea of adding them?

heyo PolySaken, my 2 cents: tabs are ugly. They make things look like some sort of weird folder. First time someone opens MT is kind of lost, the fact the "builtin" aspect is grey and with shades here and there (I'm referring to the current one, not to your mockup) make everything worse. ...

Correct me if i'm wrong, but that sounds like a difference of a few bytes. Lots of other blocky games have 'infinite' world scale and most of them run better than minetest.