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public server .. "book" in the inventory of the new players with rules, howto's... My master plan is to adapt this mod to hopefully achive this. You have seen the Server-guide from posting #2 ? That might be suitable if you only have a few / short texts. It also supports intllib for trans...

create books .. that you can read in game. .. download any Project Gutenberg text (as a .txt file), save it to your mods/gutenberg/books/ directory, and it will be available in the game. .. There is no special formatting, and images are not supported. Recipe .. to produce a random gutenberg book: P...

I have been playing a bit with TurtleMiner, and it has
a rather nice editor with tabs, that supports multiple 'files'.

I think that editor would be a good addition to basic_robot.

In fact, it enhances the usefulness of those turtles,
almost like a remote with programmable buttons.

Some people said that the mainmenu could use some improvement, so it would be good if mods could be written for it. In minetest.conf, there is a setting "main_menu_script =", but that requires an absolute path, as in E:\temp\minetest-0.4.14_8a7dc83\builtin\mainmenu\init.lua It looks like ...

you also need to install this mod for the scripting Done, and I added a chapter to my TurtleMiner-Tutor . That editor is really nice, but it seems to miss buttons to delete & rename files. Also: no help / list of commands, no comments, build/place seems not to work... Why did you remove the rem...

rubenwardy wrote:My fork allows you to run scripts (although only statements so far) https://github.com/minetest-edu/turtleminer

I tried that, and made a short tutorial of it,
but I could only get the turtles to work with the remote.

The UI for Minetest puts a lot of people off, I've found You mean the main-menu, or the ingame-controls ? Is there a way to 'mod' the main menu, and have a parameter to get the alternative menu come up ? Ingame, there should be more help - and F1 should be the help-key. And some pre-defined help-to...

Wuzzy wrote:I have identified the problem of poor or missing mod documentation a long time ago.

Well, just look how many mods have no description.txt / screenshot.png,
and the contents of readme.txt only has stuff that should be in licence.txt.

The wiki is out of date and needs updating now. V7 is now the default. Done. BTW, for the fractal mapgen, I guess the seed-value selects the type of fractal to be used ? Looking for "formula" and "julia" in mapgen_fractal.cpp , it seems likely. But the interface for selecting a ...

I also try to include the new translation as soon as possible. Also, I should release a new version of the tutorial for Minetest 0.4.14 sooner or later. Sadly, Tutorial version 2.1.0 is broken at the moment, so it is still not official. I tried to run Tutorial-2.1.0 with the new minetest-0.4.14_8a7...

Wuzzy wrote: Tutorial subgame+world, here’s the obvious feature request:
Add this tutorial to Minetest.

Seconded, and I also suggest to remove that "Minimal Development Test"-game
from the standard package.

It is not useful for normal users, and developers should be able to install it on their own.

Wuzzy wrote:I present to you: The L-System Tree Utility!

It looks like the forum-search doesn't like "L-system":
the "L" is ignored, and then lots of postings are found with "system",
that have nothing to do with "L-system".

This is a nice and simple suggestion which would help with the very first steps. Players who don't need it can just throw the item away. Also, fuel for furnace :) But the text must be very short and can only contain the minimum basics if we're only using the book with text. This is also a good star...

I started a game with mg_villages, and I'm still on a tour to see all the buildings. Using commands like "/visit 6", I found at least 2 villages where the teleport-spot was buried in stone, and I had to dig out. One of those was built near a cliff, and the house partitially inside rock. *...

I made a wiki-page for the texts that should go into that guidebook.

ph8jPf9M wrote:thief mob that is going to steal your precious items and hurt you

If there is no better incentive then "you can get your stuff back",
this will make servers with this mod quite unpopular.

You could make one big mesh and place the sign texture on it. . Well, textures are static, and would need one for each text/sign. And the text couldn't be changed ingame. With "better solution" for big signs I meant a way to avoid such textures, perhaps like the current signs with a forms...

I started a game with mg_villages, and I'm still on a tour to see all the buildings. Some notes: * In the info-dialog of the plot-markers, the placing of the price is too close to the text that comes before it, so it overlaps. * Also, the range of prices for buildings seems unbalanced * The protecti...

Fixerol wrote:@hajo
turn off mod security

I think this is the worst advice.
Setting a certain mod as 'trusted' would be one step better.
(but still bad without a code-review)

Getting the mod fixed would be best.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rubenwardy/editor/master/screenshot.png Flexible formspec based text editor for Minetest (with an API) .. Secure virtual filesystem. .. not a real filesystem, but a simulated lua one. Sample editor with persistence. Could this be used to edit books ? As in, filenam...

After playing the tutorial subgame, I got the idea to use Minetest as an engine for a 3D point&click adventure. That would be a major change to the game, and most likely a lot of work. So I started reading about subgame development, but I got stuck right at the beginning .. First, is there a tu...

For Wild-West - themed buildings, I would need big signs on houses, such as "Bank", "Saloon", "General Store", etc. Obviously, I could make textures with parts of such a text, (or just single big letters) to put on blocks. Is there a better / more general way than to do...

How to add new buildings and villagetypes to this mod ?
And how to get them 'approved' and included in this mod ?

E.g. a wild-west-themed village would need some buildings
like saloon, bank, staples, stores, post office, sheriff's office/jail etc.

Done. And the manual got fixed and updated! Nice, thanks! Currently, I'm having a look at mg_villages , worldedit, handle-schematics, etc. The mod mg_villages can create villages of several types all over the map, and that would give 'natural' points to connect with a rail-network. So I was wonderi...

StepDevelop wrote:Minetest 0.4.14 Dev - Add colored Text (included text Chat)

So, how do you specify colors for chat ?

Are there guidelines/recommandations for using colors ?
E.g. red for errors, yellow for warnings, etc ?