FOSS gamedev and creative worlds

status info: currently i'm re-writing the biome definitions to include an underground, ocean, beach, land and mountain version for each of the 9 biomes. mars, venus, jupiter and mercury are already done. having 9 underground biomes instead of 4 (for the 4 stones) is important for biome based ore dis...

TenPlus1's fork of the armor mod lets you craft Crystal Armor when the Ethereal mod (mapgen) is active. the Ethereal mod has the materials for crystals and a Crystal Gilly Staff which re-fills your breath bar. this staff can be combined with the Crystal Helmet to create the Crystal Gilly Helmet whic...

Very, very brief and horribly incomplete summary of Minetest Game updates [list] [*]Stone Block, Sandstone Block, Desert Stone Block, Obsidian Block (+ slabs and stairs) I did not quite understand the purpose. Are they just decorative? Why can not I turn a block of stone into stones? normal stone b...

afflatus wrote:Tameable penguins? about 4 fish would be right. We all want pet penguins. Don't we?
Oh and penguins should be able to swim - I'm starting a campaign to save the drowning penguins ...

yes, yes!
+1

Kosmos wrote:How i can get the right air?

you have to collect the breath of Notos, Boreas and Zephyros.
or you can also take normal air and enchant it if you know how to that ;)

http://grailtest.pathilorra.co.uk/images/choice/roller_ghoster.png The Roller Ghoster is ready if anyone wants to try it out. This is just north of the Emporium - just follow the pink road until it runs out. I think I made the sign big enough. Comments and suggestions welcome. Not recommended for t...

i did some further testing and it turned out to be more complex than expected :P my simple approach with only 4 oceans for 9 biomes didn't work out. apparently you need to make an extra ocean and beach version for each biome and give them all the same parameters. then make them overlap where they sh...

On trying this it doesn't work so well, it needs to work for biomes which are vertically stacked and have the same heat /humidity points. The reason i gave up on the idea is because it would add blend where you don't want it, for example at sea level where you want grass on the water's edge and dir...

TumeniNodes wrote: nice but..., how does one "lose" a lighthouse?? 0_o

forget where you built it :P

yes, you can =(^.^)= if you make the min and max height overlapping, they will blend like the horizontal borders. of course this is more effective if their heat/humidity parameters are closer to each other ;) i used this technique to blend beaches. the normal and the beach version of a biome had the...

sounds interesting =(^.^)=

scottvee wrote:they seem so bright and happy down in the pitch black pits of the world. ;-)

the surface dwellers expelled them to the abyss because they were too bright and happy for them :P

while the Fox was sleeping, wind and waves picked up the crumbled rock pieces and sorted sand from gravel. shores and riverbeds now had a different soil than the higher lands. eventually, grass sprouted from the soil and slowly covered every place where the sunlight reaches. the ninja kittens picke...

i hate curved stairs =(>.<)=



it took me 2 hours to realize that realistic shapes don't work,
and another 2 hours to come up with this solution.
meow...

Using mgv7 in minetest 0.4.15 with standard settings, I find quite a lot of those floatlands. not the occasional small floating islands :P floatlands is a whole new world above the clouds ;) Also, lots of places with a 'square-wavy' landscape, ie. plateau high up, sudden drop to a lake, steep cliff...

my username on minetest is WhiteOwl and i was wandering if i can join your server. every time i try logging on to your server it says not accepting any new users. maybe you could add me in to your server. the gates were open some time ago, so it's not always closed. i'm not so well informed about t...

Trump, huh?
coincidence or intended? :P

HAPPY NEW YEAR =(^.^)= better late than never :P the server felt a little lonely this week, so time to revive the forum thread and get things going :) before complaining about others, i will start with myself: - i finally finished the farm places around my storage room, yay~ - i continued to build ...

do players have any options to enforce their laws? i mean, it's not like you can stop griefers just by talking to them :P and personally i feel like i would want to make a secret house in a hard to reach place and then go "treasure hunting" *wink, wink* :P also, you will most likely not se...

can you explain the mod name?
sounds like an illegal hack of xdecor :P

I think the angle of sunlight doesn't change during the day. How do I know which side comes a shadow on my plantation? It has a forest on one side, a mountain of stone and a mountain of dirt on the other... I could clear the forest. light always comes from above. time of day only changes the bright...

on Xanadu, we try to convince players to use the original minetest on computers or at least get the official app version. you can usually identify those mobile users when they talk about the app store, ratings, worldcraft and that stuff. when they are flying or noclipping (if that is not a word, the...

next story update will be ready soon... =(^.^)=
i only need to do some "minor" changes to biome parameters :P

(will edit this post when it's done)

rubenwardy wrote:I suggest renaming this mod to "Players Must Have Item", as "must have mod" sounds like you must have the mod

The title would then be "[Mod] Player Must Have Item [player_must_have_item]"

but... i clicked this because i thought i must have this mod...

:P

*whoosh whoosh*

The only suggestion I would have is create some options for generating a world apart from inputting a world seed. This would help for players to pick certain options that would allow them to create the world with attributes they want. well, the naming of the different map generators just started to...

when you become one with your build... - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiiHfOAG2Hk " Here we are Riding the sky Painting the night with sun You and I, mirrors of light Twin flames of fire Lit in another time and place I knew your name I knew your face Your love and grace Past and present now ...

what blocks were you using? stairs let light through and are illuminated by all nearby light while full blocks are only illuminated by light from above. see here: http://i.imgur.com/9WbBtoc.png the floor is made of slabs and full blocks, taking advantage of their lighting properties to make this pat...

+1

i will add it to my ToDO-list for Sol Aureus =(^.^)=