FOSS gamedev and creative worlds

How do you use the microfactories? I can't figure out how to make the power supply supply power... Put a generator (same as used in ships) in a slot. How do I do that? I've bought and placed the microfactory_power_generator, as well as a hydroponic farm and a mmfnr2. How do I put the reactor inside...

How do you use the microfactories? I can't figure out how to make the power supply supply power...

Power tools: power tap A rechargeable version of the rubber tap used to extract latex. At the very least, I want a more durable one. Just chop down the rubber trees (including the logs up in the trees) and wait for leafdecay to drop dozens of saplings, then replant those and use a grinder and extra...

I always use v6, v7 is designed more towards mods using its API to register own biomes. I'm not 100% sure, but it may be that v7 doesn't actually have desert registered by default. Currently, v6 is meant for general gameplay without mapgen mods like ethereal etc.

Weird. Have you tried creating a new world with a different seed but the same mods to see what happens?

Afaik, no. Can you give a list of all the mods you are using? And how far have you travelled looking for deserts?

You could try to set these options in your minetest.conf file instead of the map_meta.txt file. But then they will apply to any new world you generate. I have it set up like this in minetest.conf currently: mg_name = v6 mg_flags = trees, nocaves, nodungeons, flat mgv6_spflags = nojungles You should ...

You have to find a desert and dig a bit below the surface. The technic mapgen mod shouldn't be the cause of this.

./minetestserver --config /root/.minetest/minetest.conf --info Are you sure it's /root? Not /home/root/.minetest/minetest.conf Home directory of root user is /root, not /home/root, so that looks alright. @whtemple1959 Why are you running minetestserver as root though? I'd recommend creating a new u...

No, they don't have a limit by themselves, minetest unloads the areas of the map that are too far away, so parts of your power network are unloaded. You need to place the world anchor nodes that technic supplies in order to force areas to stay loaded in memory. It isn't craftable, you need to use &q...

I don't think there's an option for that, you'll just have to use @nearest and place the button so that whoever pressed it is nearest to the commandblock.

I think you can upload images as attachments to your forum posts on here :)

Minetest is very CPU intensive, while 0AD probably uses more GPU intensive stuff, so it would run much faster on a good graphics card, while MT stays about the same. Probably, although there is a lot more stuff going on in a 0AD game (pathfinding, AI, etc.) than in a singleplayer MT game (even when...

Can you post a screenshot of your setup so we can see it?

I thought I was pushing it when I ran MT 0.4.11 and .12 on my Precision M60 laptop from 2003 [...] it was basically the only 3D game that ran on it. Try DooM shareware :} Don't have the laptop myself anymore, replaced it with a Precision M6400 monster :D What's weird is that 0ad usually gets over 1...

I thought I was pushing it when I ran MT 0.4.11 and .12 on my Precision M60 laptop from 2003 with the specs below :P 1.6GHz Pentium M 2GB SDRAM 266MHz NVIDIA Quadro FX Go700, 128MB DDR SDRAM openSUSE 12.3 Got decent fps (30+) with low viewing range and no shaders, it was basically the only 3D game t...

Not necessarily, I just checked my tree farm (with regular minetest game) and managed to find one apple completely covered by leaves in roughly 15 apple trees. So it's quite unlikely, and digging one block of leaves isn't that much work :)
Besides, it's more realistic like this.

The minetest packages for the individual distros are maintained by different people, most of which aren't actively following development (as they also maintain other packages) and thus are not aware of newer versions. You can usually request for them to update the package. You can also compile minet...

Did you start a new world? Certain settings will only take effect on new worlds or ungenerated chunks.

Don wrote:Remove .example. It needs to be

minetest.conf

Don't remove example, there should be a separate file without the .example in its' name. Although you might have noticed that if you tried renaming it :)

It's used for extracting raw latex from rubber tree grindings.
Steps:
1. Cut rubber tree wood
2. Grind it, each block of wood yields 4 grindings
3. Put grindings in extractor to yield 1 raw latex per 4 grindings

I have seen a lot of open source games that use that advanced settings approach. I think that just providing a check box that shows advanced would be sufficient. As long as it's implemented nicely (works immediately when toggling) that would easily do the job. This would need a way to differentiate...

Freeminer also seems to depend on some weird library that I can't find for my distro, so I have never tried it because it won't compile.

They might be busy, give it a week or so :)

Edit: nvm, see below.

Also while developing this we had discussions about adding a more aggregated view as default, and moving this new view behind a "Advanced" button.. Look what settings are usual and what are advanced. Mark advanced settings like "advanced". Hide them by default in trees and add a...

It seems there is a bug in firefox. If one sets private mode it does not accept cookies, with pirate disabled it keeps them. The cookie related settings themselves do nothing at all. I will switch to midori now... That's the point of private browsing mode… It's not supposed to accept cookies, histo...

Hybrid Dog wrote:

Casimir wrote:When using Tor I always get logged out after some minutes.

maybe it deletes your cookies

That's quite likely if you're using TBB, it's set to not accept cookies by default.

Due to the imported map, there's large underground areas that are now like space because the blocks in them are missing. The only blocks that aren't missing are: The nyan cats! Maybe they are to strong to be ereased... [snip] That's because the nyan cats are spawned by Minetest Game, not mapgen, so...

NaoKat wrote:

TenPlus1 wrote:I stand by IceAgeComing's decision, players with that kind of language will have privs instantly revoked and will be kicked off server, no amount of arguing will give them back.

Your rules do not state anything about sexual jokes.

Common sense please, there are kids on that server.

Hmm, I've never seen it, but I checked the documentation last night, although I could have missed it. I'll have a look.

Edit: Yup, it's the Fuel-fired alloy furnace. Thanks! :)