How to speed up the loading in offline mode?

[BrandNewPlayer]

Every time I start a single game, the message "creating server" appears in the log and takes a long time, even when I'm playing offline and Minetest is blocked by the firewall. How to disable this "server" and speed up loading? Thank you guys in advance.

[rubenwardy]

Hi, when you play offline in singleplayer, Minetest still needs a server. It creates a local server that only you can connect to, and then your client joins as singleplayer. This makes the code much much easier to write and maintain

This creating server message is usually due to mods taking a while to load. Do you have a craft guide and something that adds a lot of nodes, like moreblocks/xdecor/etc installed? Moreblocks has a setting which will speed up the loadtime, called something like "hide in creative inventory". You can search for it in mainmenu > Settings > All Settings

[GayJesus]

also be sure you're not deleting the cache