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Good to know your problem was solved, it will help others for sure. I am curious, how big is your server directory? My own server is about 12 GB by now and it is near the point where my drives are too slow to copy everything before the database gets written to again. Granted I am using old SATA HDDs...

Hello, the Minetest server and associated services are currently down because the host computer experienced a hardware failure. It is most likely the power supply that gave up after about 4 years of 24/7 operation and many power outages. I already installed my backup power supply into another comput...

My ISP fixed their network and the server has been online for about a week, however there are still frequent connection issues. Everything is running normally again, hopefully the ISP solves the remaining issues before Christmas time.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: some of you may have noticed that my FreedomTest server has been inaccessible for about 2 weeks at the time of writing this post. The reason for this being that my ISP's local network suffered a major failure and (allegedly) they have been working to fix it. This is the first time...

There seems to be a misunderstanding that increasing the world size will create a network compatibility breakage with older versions of the engine. Proller already demonstrated that inter-compatibility between regular 5.x Minetest and Minetest32 is possible. minetest32_in_530.png I managed to connec...

I visited r/place, this is a good idea, but I was not able to find the Minetest logo in there, I assume it does not exist yet. A good place to take would be one where only small logos are present because those are likely being maintained by fewer people. We would also have to decide what to draw. ED...

I updated my server to the latest Minetest32 version which features network compatibility with regular clients. There are a lot of problems, regular clients can only see about 4 mapblocks from where they spawned and cannot move further than that without using noclip, essentially as if there were wor...

Thank you all for your input, you certainly helped with looking at things from a different perspective. On the topic of cryptocurrencies, the reason I will only use them for payments is that I do not own US or Euro bank accounts, that being said, insanely high transaction fees is mostly a problem of...

I am getting an average of 154 ms of ping latency to the server list from a coaxial cable connection. I have always considered the server list to be quite slow on network performance, usually when my server has high network load it is enough to make it timeout and disappear from the server list.

Hello, as a Minetest server admin that hosts using their own hardware, I find myself in a situation where the cost of hosting my servers is starting to bother a little since financial support from players in the form of donations is almost non-existent, of course. However the hardware I have allocat...

no need to thank me. Touch needs to have the brightness of the blocks raised higher so it doesn't show as black. You can also do the crouch thing by changing a number in the visual sneak script. The way I did it is to set "eye_height" to 0.75. For Touch, I think I may have set "glow_...

Totally accurate observations Blockhead. An administration-level-anarchy server is an idea I have been thinking about for a long time, but no matter how you look at it, such an approach is deemed to end up in an unplayable or non-working server. Another interesting idea is a federated server network...

I cloned already https://github.com/proller/minetest but pulling still work not. If I remember correctly, what I did to compile my server back in early January was: git clone https://github.com/minetest/minetest.git cd minetest git checkout bc7b07af1057c38ce998085aa511a62cfdb8c115 Where the long st...

New mods have been added to the server, in no particular order they are: nether, death_messages, touch and headanim. There was also a tweak to the floatlands generation noise parameters to make the floating islands smaller but tighter and closer together. Many thanks to Grubler for the mod suggestio...

End of year update: mods were updated to their latest versions and many bugs fixed in the process. Also the server will be running on a VPS until January 24 2022 so there will be very little lag, enjoy and happy new year everyone!

Update: So far the most stable game is devtest, but it is boring so I decided to test other games; minetest game crashes instantly, however Loria and NodeCore work out of the box. Since there seem to be no public servers hosting Loria I decided to change my public testing server from devtest to Lori...

For history: first working attempt to break 62000 limit was here: https://github.com/minetest/minetest/pull/11843 I compiled your minetest32 fork and after some trial and error I finally got it to work, this is a big step forward towards achieving near "infinite" worlds in Minetest. I am ...

proller wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 18, 2021 12:08

For history:
first working attempt to break 62000 limit was here:
https://github.com/minetest/minetest/pull/11843

Very interesting, I will test this as soon as I have time available.

This is unfortunate, will the website be down just temporarily? if it is not the case I have all skins from early 2021 that did not have the NC component in their CC license. I could release them if the website owner agrees.

Good to see jp back at it.

Mineminer wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 19, 2021 22:16

Yes, logics tells me that this will turns that off. So if that what they want, they can surely tell it to quits it.

There is database backend called dummy which does just what you just said, it stores the world only in memory, but I should test your suggestion.

Mineminer wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 19, 2021 22:14

Would be intensively dangerous but you can. Just set the save to disk to "0", this will just non-presists to RAM (as soon as power is lost or the server is offlined/crashed ALL data is lost).

Are you referring to server_map_save_interval?

Then your internet connection is probably not a problem, 100 Mbit/s is more than enough for your player count. Sorry I was wrong about viewing the max_lag value, just for your information the privilege required to get access to the basic debug screen when you press F5 is called "basic_debug&quo...

If I/O is indeed the issue then I should see an improvement if I tell minetest not to dump the data using "server_unload_unused_data_timeout = 86400", right? You are correct, this will help with disk I/O. The official documentation on both settings you mentioned is misleading, I have not ...

You have very little mods in fact, that makes me wonder what kind of lag are you experiencing, is it network related, high ping for example? or just the server taking too long to respond to certain actions, maybe are you running other programs on the server apart from just Minetest? The settings you...