Minetest 0.4.16

[rubenwardy]

Hooray! Only you should list all changes and fixes.

http://dev.minetest.net/Changelog#0.4.1 ... .92_0.4.16

[Chibi ghost]

I saw Nathan's video and the changes look good the mese lamps
look interesting and seem like a good solution to the underground farm problem
from the video there seems to be 3d torches although that might be a mod Nathan uses
I'll upload 4.16 tomorrow and see how many mods I use become unknown nodes lol

[mnh48]

On the official Android version 0.4.16, is this actually really intended or it's a bug, or it's actually client side setting (where is it if it is)?
I could highlight node very far away... and yes I can dig them if I want, I've tried underground before taking these screenshots...


(yes, I use USB keyboard & mouse on Android)

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[Napiophelios]

I like the new progress bar, but on desktop PC it seems the texture is wrong.
Its currently 256px x 48px and looks weird when loading.


If you alter it to 256px x 32px it looks fine.



Is the current image size required for the Android version?
or am I just experiencing weirdness particular to me?

[ForgiveAndromedalol]

I saw Nathan's video gameplay, and it's really AMAZING. More differents kinds of sandstones, more slabs... this is really koool :).

[Wuzzy]

I applaud for this big and important release!
I am very glad for the sneaking bugfixes.
A ton of cool Lua API features which will be very useful for mod and subgame development. Probably the biggest addition of Lua API features since long. I already tested the clouds API, it's really cool!

Overall, I am just very happy with this release. :-)


Minetest Game players: I have updated the Minetest Game item help mod (viewtopic.php?f=9&t=15224) for version 0.4.16.

[Nathan.S]

...from the video there seems to be 3d torches although that might be a mod Nathan uses ...

Nope, 3d torches are part of Minetest_game since the release of 0.4.15. :)

[LordStephen77]

Nathan I saw your video changelog. I noticed you did not mention the new book. Now when you open a book, write the title and the text, save. When you move the mouse pointer to the book in the inventory, it is labeled with the title that was inserted inside it. Very useful to mark map coordinates when I find interesting things.

Some textures have been improved (ironbar type).

Oh my God! New Modding APIs! I have to test absolutely! Have added so many new features to the modding. I want to experiment with the clouds.

Thank you Nathan, your videos are always the top!

[Chibi ghost]

...from the video there seems to be 3d torches although that might be a mod Nathan uses ...

Nope, 3d torches are part of Minetest_game since the release of 0.4.15. :)

whoops I use a mod for 3d torches and didn't even know about the changes since I copy paced my older map and mods direct from 0.4.14 to 15 and didn't even take the time to explore the vanilla game
welp thats one mod I can delete

[Chibi ghost]

welp 1 bug found when I fly I sneak to go down but sneak and zoom has been integrated
so how do I disable zoom because it's playing havoc with flying up and down

but as a boon my game has rarely run smoother

[Desour]

I could highlight node very far away...

In all your screenshots you are holding an admin tool. :P

[mnh48]

I could highlight node very far away...

In all your screenshots you are holding an admin tool. :P

That's because I was working on my city's train (cart) network underground on that server, I just went above to take screenshot and post here before going back to work underground. (Luckily it didn't crash that time, usually opening Chrome while Minetest is running could crash Minetest on Android)

It works regardless what I hold in hand, I retried it in singleplayer this time:

It highlights that mese post light placed in front of my skin's dummy statue (I made dummy so I could see the details of my own skin xD). The dummy itself is also highlightable. It is far.

If you can't see the highlighting, you could see the debug clearly detects where I'm pointing at... (btw, you could open the image in new tab and zoom in, the screenshot was taken at my phone's native resolution 1920x1080)

I like the new progress bar [...] Is the current image size required for the Android version?
or am I just experiencing weirdness particular to me?

I don't know if it's weird, but personally the bar is quite big in ratio to the font I'm using and in ratio to GUI scaling I set (0.8) on Android version.

[maikerumine]

Minor bug:

When in creative mode, you cannot make a written book with regular book.

[Fixer]

If you have github accounts - post your bugs there, it will help a lot.

[Chibi ghost]

welp 1 bug found when I fly I sneak to go down but sneak and zoom has been integrated
so how do I disable zoom because it's playing havoc with flying up and down

but as a boon my game has rarely run smoother

disregard solved it
I'm a idiot

[PEAK]

Just updated to 0.4.16.
On the whole everything performs better!

But I get following errors:

debug.txt:

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2017-06-05 16:15:10: WARNING[Main]: /!\ You are using old player file backend. This backend is deprecated and will be removed in next release /!\
2017-06-05 16:15:10: WARNING[Main]: Switching to SQLite3 or PostgreSQL is advised, please read http://wiki.minetest.net/Database_backends.

I don't understand this. All my world.mt files have the line

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backend = sqlite3

The following error was a result of a deprecated setting in minetest.conf. Solved!

Spoiler

And I cannot access the advanced settings:

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2017-06-05 16:16:59: ERROR[Main]: Main menu error: Runtime error from mod '' in callback handleMainMenuButtons(): Setting [mgv7_np_terrain_base] is a group.
2017-06-05 16:16:59: ERROR[Main]: stack traceback:
2017-06-05 16:16:59: ERROR[Main]: 	[C]: in function 'get'
2017-06-05 16:16:59: ERROR[Main]: 	...hare/minetest/builtin/mainmenu/dlg_settings_advanced.lua:426: in function 'get_current_value'
2017-06-05 16:16:59: ERROR[Main]: 	...hare/minetest/builtin/mainmenu/dlg_settings_advanced.lua:657: in function 'get_formspec'
2017-06-05 16:16:59: ERROR[Main]: 	/usr/share/minetest/builtin/fstk/ui.lua:107: in function 'update'
2017-06-05 16:16:59: ERROR[Main]: 	/usr/share/minetest/builtin/fstk/ui.lua:151: in function 'handle_buttons'
2017-06-05 16:16:59: ERROR[Main]: 	/usr/share/minetest/builtin/fstk/ui.lua:192: in function </usr/share/minetest/builtin/fstk/ui.lua:178>

[Nathan.S]

Nathan I saw your video changelog. I noticed you did not mention the new book. Now when you open a book, write the title and the text, save. When you move the mouse pointer to the book in the inventory, it is labeled with the title that was inserted inside it. Very useful to mark map coordinates when I find interesting things.

It would figure that I would forget something. I honestly didn't even know that had happened. I don't use books at all, and the discussion surrounding it must have either been very small or I just missed it somehow.

[TumeniNodes]

I could swear I saw you cover books?
Nice vid btw Nathan. Great job, as usual

[Chibi ghost]

I think he was talking about resizing the book to 16 nodes? 16 something I know that
also the same with the ghost book icon in book shelfs

[Wuzzy]

This is a mese post light, which is new in Minetest Game:




This is a mese lamp, which Minetest Game had for quite a while:


Please do not confuse the two.


Other important things completely forgotten by Nathan S.:
- All the serious sneaking bugs have been fixed. This is easily the most important change in this release.

Minetest Game (only most important changes):
- Cacti and papyri require light level 13 to grow!
- Nyan Cat and Nyan Cat Rainbow removed
- Tooltip of written books/keys show title / what they open
- A lot of crafting recipes were changed, especially dye crafting has been seriously nerfed

[ratmix]

Where can I find the 0.4.16 minetest-server and minetest-data packages for Ubuntu 16.04? I got these packages from debian.org last time but they only have 0.4.15 currently.

[GamingAssociation39]

I'm having a problem with editing subgames/mods inside every time I go to test it the game crashes.

[v-rob]

Spoiler

YOU FORGOT TIN STAIRS!!!!

[dawgdoc]

Where can I find the 0.4.16 minetest-server and minetest-data packages for Ubuntu 16.04? I got these packages from debian.org last time but they only have 0.4.15 currently.

It looks like they are currently in the 'experimental' repo. https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/minetest
I did not see a download available, which leaves you to compiling your own package from github source, sorry.
(I didn't suggest the stable PPA, even though that is at 0.4.16 because you asked for -server and -data packages.)

[ratmix]

Cheers dawgdoc