Minetest community

I know this is kind of an oddball question, and every community is rightfully going to be different.

Does anyone know of any chill, laid back survival experiences that are relatively safe/accepting for queer types?

My Goblins mod for Minetest now works with:

• Minetest Game
• VoxeLibre / MineClone 2
• Mineclonia
• Hades Revisited
• Repixture

Get it in game or from the ContentDB

As of this post the blog is not yet updated, but the update is available for download and the change log is updated.

I like such mods in minecraft. Maybe minetest has some similar?

Hey,

I've found out about Minetest yesterday and I really like it. I wanted to get more familiar with the game, so I thought that making a survival world would be a good learning experience. I have made a few worlds in the Minetest Game, but I noticed that it's a clean sheet for mods. So if I wanted a classic survival experience like in Minecraft, what would be better, a modded Minetest Game or VoxeLibre?

Thanks in advance!

Not a carbon copy, but my kid was awestruck by dinosaurs and monsters, running a fabric server at home has taken me a whole sunday to set up

I wanted to come to voxelibre, im tired of evading msofts practices even tho i had long ago bought the game.

I wish there was DwarfFortress / Minetest crossover tho

I've tried the standard Minecraft one and several variations of it, but none work. The standard one below just doesn't give the cart enough time to unload. I tried placing 3 hoppers in a row and one in a closed track circuit, but those didn't work either.

Standard

Circuit

Ok this might be totally random but I think it might be possible to use the power of some GPUs to offload the heavy lifting. Imagine having a world with lots of stuff going on. It would be nice to have it offloaded to the GPU as the GPU can do calculations in parallel.

Hi everyone! Can someone please recommend a game without monsters (but with animals)? I am running my minetest server at home and I'd like to start playing with my kid, but I really don't like the monsters bit. I just want a game where we can explore and build things together.

Thanks!

ETA: For anyone looking for the same thing: I've added the option

only_peaceful_mobs = true

in minetest.conf under minetest/data/games/mineclone2

I've waited for the next night cycle and no monsters spawned. But a cow mooing behind me scared lol.

Thanks to @GrappleHat@lemmy.ml for the tip!

How can I linkba controller to mintest on android. If three is no native support how would I need to map controls to screen to use a controller?

I wanna make a server as close to vanilla mc as possible but my hardware is a bit limited, I'm running a Samsung a51 as my server.

What plugins give a mc like experience? And how do I make the server

What are your recommended Minetest graphics settings? I've tried the "just turning everything on" approach, and that's fine. But it's a bit superficial. What are the knobs to turn to get a more fun graphical experience? :D

Exile stable release v0.3.17 is out with the following new features:

• Better feedback: Informational states displayed on character tab
• Drystack and Rammed earth arches: build a wall, knock out the middle
• server command: /recover_inv to restore inv lost on restart

Get it from: https://content.minetest.net/packages/Mantar/exile/

Since I couldn't find it, here's a bare minimum guide to starting using the Pipeworks mod.

This recipe builds a trivial item sorter.

Mods you need:

• Pipeworks
• Mesecon
• I3 Inventory (optional, strongly recommend)

Resources you need (if building this in survival):

• 24 wood planks for 4 chests
• a lot of leaves (for plastic for tubes and for the injector)
• a lot of mese Crystals (for the injector and the sorting tube segment and the blinky plant)
• 3 saplings (for the blinky plant)
• 2 iron for the injector

To build the parts - look up the part recipes in I3 Inventory, or the MineTest wiki.

The Build:

In this order, place, on flat ground, in a straight line:

• A chest
• A stack wise filter injector
• A pneumatic tube segment
• A sorting pneumatic tube segment
• A final chest

Now place the last two chests on the ground on either side of the 'sorting pneumatic tube segment'.

Now place a 'blinky plant' beside the 'stackwise filter injector', to get it running. Yes, it must be a blinky plant.

Now throw some crap in the first chest and watch it get moved randomly to the other 3 chests.

Now, grab an item you want sorted, say 'dirt block'. Left click on the 'sorting pneumatic tube segment'. Put the dirt block next to one of the colors. Put more dirt blocks into the first chest.

Watch the dirt blocks follow the color you chose.

Repeat with more item types.

Now your inventory is sorted, kind of.

Finally, add additional chests and sorting tube segments, as needed, to suit your personal play style.

Edit: Of course now I found a decent wiki page that has more detail, so I put that in the URL.

Here's things I learned, so far, as a new player of Minetest. I'm new at this, so I'll gladly update this post with any corrections.

• Mineclone2 is a great place to just start playing!
• When confident enough to choose my own plugins, I switched back to MineGame/default, for the bigger library of available plugins.
• Mesecons is redstone, but looks way nicer. Insulated wires alone look like a huge sanity saver.
• The world is dramatically taller and deeper, so you're going to want a teleporter or elevator plugin. I found Travelnet a practical option.
• if you're coming from Java edition Minecraft, you may be pleasantly surprised how much faster, lighter and more efficient Mineclone is.
• The hang glider plugin is a giggle and a half.
• Building a Cotton farm was a quicker path to beds and hang gliders, for me, than searching for sheep.

A new release of Exile is out now. We've bumped the minimum Minetest version to 5.5, and we're happy to say that Exile is now fully free/libre!

Say hello to our brand new CC-BY-SA 4.0 Gundu model: https://files.catbox.moe/28wt2f.mp4

Changes:

• Replaced NC-licensed Gundu, Exile should be fully free now
• WITT for Exile: show the names of things when you press the zoom key
• Improved light meter
• Added /crouch as alternative to double-tapping shift, in case of lag
• Less trouble with lowering ropes/ladder

Get it from: https://content.minetest.net/packages/Mantar/exile/

Improvements are made to graphics, the Lua API, and the user interface. We present the winners of the 2023 Game Jam along with other cool mods. A new core developer joins the team, and we look forward to FOSDEM 2024!

Goblins update with many bug fixes for Mineclone 2 and Mineclonia support and emotes for goblin trade reactions!