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A small announcement, the repo has been renamed to /minetest_modding_book/ (from /minetest_doc/). You should correct any links, however it doesn't matter, I've set up redirects. It is also being hosted on rubenwardy.com rather than rubenwardy.github.io, but that redirects too.

I have also fixed some typos and clarified things in node drawtypes. Not finished yet, though. I need nice renders of drawtypes. (see existing images)

This played an essential role in teaching me to mod Minetest. Thanks rubenwardy! Great stuff here.

The folder structure chapter has been partially rewritten. All the examples in the book can downloaded or browsed in the GitHub branch. A feedback form is now on the homepage, to allow easier reporting of issues. I will be going through all the chapters and correcting mistakes tonight. Expect more chapters this week. I'm open to suggestions.

I'd love more contributors to this book.

It would be awesome if this could be exported to EPUB. Probably not worth the work but I would enjoy it xD.

One epub conversion here! https://www.dropbox.com/s/qv730im2vidmy ... .epub?dl=0

I'm not really sure what this is like on an e-reader (I presume that is why you wanted it!), but it should work alright.
It wasn't that hard to make, and I'm sure that there are easier ways than what I did...

This book is a great resource. Thanks again for your hard work.
Was wondering if you are planning on doing any chapters on methods and objects?

Just noticed that you do not have a section on adding sound.
Any chance of you adding a chapter on it. The wiki has a bit but I know there is more to sound then what the wiki says.
I have come to rely on your book and appreciate it very much.
Thanks for everything you do.

MediaWiki also uses a form of markdown. Have you considered publishing the book to the developer wiki? That's already the modders' go-to reference, allows easy linking to API elements you are describing in the text, etc. I love the effort, but it'd be nice to have all of this type of thing in one place.

The rationale behind using a separate system:

• Dictatorship. I can get to control what goes in. Spelling mistakes don't matter as much as lack of clarity and poor grammar. People on wikis seem to add irrelevant details which the reader doesn't need to know at that stage in learning.
• Clean downloading as static HTML.

Typos do exist in the book, but nobody ever submits PRs to change this. It's probably because it's not worth git cloning, etc, just for a small change. A wiki would solve this. There has also been no help from others.

As for the argument about linking to dev wiki pages, I hadn't considered doing this. I'd like the book to link to more resources, and that's on the to do list.

rubenwardy wrote:...
There has also been no help from others.
...

and yet we are lurking with interest ;-P

good job so far

The dev wiki is a great resource but I find that it is written for programmers. People like myself need a tutorial that we can understand. This book does exactly that.
I have seen the spelling mistakes and I ignore them. Maybe I should help with that.

Don wrote:The dev wiki is a great resource but I find that it is written for programmers. People like myself need a tutorial that we can understand. This book does exactly that.

Right. Well, that's why I think it would be good to add things to the wiki that aren't written just for programmers. To improve it, and make it more useful for all.

You are encouraged use to my MinetestIDE in your book, its cross platform and makes the whole experience smoother.
Forum link: viewtopic.php?f=14&t=12923

New Chapters:

• Creating Textures
• Node Metadata
• Chat and Commands
• ItemStacks
• Read More (list of resources)

Corrected multiple typos, grammatical and spelling mistakes.

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You are awesome!

Added Inventories chapter.

Download

Added loads more anchor links to lua_api.html

Commit 47880

The link to the online version of the book no longer works.

http://rubenwardy.com/minetest_modding_book/ does work,
but http://rubenwardy.com/minetest_doc/ doesn't.

It may also be because I moved to www.rubenwardy.com from rubenwardy.com

Fixed, I think.

Thank you for this tutorial!

Typo:

Wear
ItemStacks also have wear on them. Wear is a number out of 65535, the higher is more warn.

worn, not warn

Thank so much for your tutorial! I plan to use at school with the kiddos!

It has definitely been a really big help for me as well. Thank you very much.