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paramat wrote:Ugh, please remove those images, especially since this is a news thread.

OK. Sorry.

TenPlus1, note that you can test it now with an updated engine: https://github.com/minetest/minetest/co ... 40a8def401

Too bad it can’t be compiled on an up-to-date system right now :(

Just downgrade your Irrlicht package.

benrob0329 wrote:Just downgrade your Irrlicht package.

That won’t happen. I’m not downgrading anything on my machine. Never. I do’tn even know where to find an outdated package for Irrlicht and won’t compile one by myself …

I rather stay with 0.4.12 as long as either the Minetest package maintainer, the Irrlicht package maintainer, the Irrlicht developers or the Minetest developers provide a patch for either Minetest, or the Minetest package, or Irrlicht, or the Irrlicht package :)

If there aren’t irrlicht-1.8.2-3, irrlicht-1.8.3-1 or minetest.0.4.12-3 or minetest.0.4.13-1 fixing or circumventing the bug all my testing is on hold and I keep using the already compiled 0.4.12 version I have installed.

(My system isn’t a testing system so I only do very limited testing from time to time.)

I rather stay with 0.4.12 as long as either the Minetest package maintainer, the Irrlicht package maintainer, the Irrlicht developers or the Minetest developers provide a patch for either Minetest, or the Minetest package, or Irrlicht, or the Irrlicht package :)

The irrlicht package maintainer is aware of the crash bug, and has provided an initial
patch, irrlicht version 1.8.2-2, more see below.

If there aren’t irrlicht-1.8.2-3, irrlicht-1.8.3-1 or minetest.0.4.12-3 or minetest.0.4.13-1 fixing or circumventing the bug all my testing is on hold and I keep using the already compiled 0.4.12 version I have installed.

From what it seems, the crash on startup issue occurs if you compile irrlicht 1.8.2 headers with gcc 5.2. So if you have irrlicht 1.8.2-2, and use clang/llvm to compile minetest, you should be fine (passing -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER to a fresh clone).

I prefer clang anyways! What do I do to tell it to use clang when using the AUR PACKAGEBUILD?

Just add a -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=clang++ option to the cmake step.

When we're going to get weather without mods ?

Since clang can properly compile Minetest Here’s my testing results for the translation functionality.



All variants were compiled with the following base set of options plus -DCUSTOM_LOCALEDIR=/usr/share/locale/ where necessary due to testing.


Before compiling the previously installed version was removed.

All compiled versions were properly installed by the package manager. Before starting each version the ~/.minetest directory was deleted.

est13: it displays "Hi, the output is: 2 and \13"

Linuxdirk, the crash is Irrlicht's fault not Minetest's. Does 0.4.12 work when 0.4.13 doesn't?

rubenwardy wrote:Linuxdirk, the crash is Irrlicht's fault not Minetest's. Does 0.4.12 work when 0.4.13 doesn't?

All already compiled versions work. Only the self-compiled variants don’t.

It must be because the precompiled versions already use Irrlicht 0.8.1.
Irrlicht 0.8.2 is the one with the bug.

@Linuxdirk: I have some trouble interpreting your table, but if I read it right, the translations aren't read, so the patch doesn't work?

est31 wrote:@Linuxdirk: I have some trouble interpreting your table, but if I read it right, the translations aren't read, so the patch doesn't work?

No, you’re misinterpreting it. Setting CUSTOM_LOCALEDIR alone doesn’t work. But setting CUSTOM_LOCALEDIR and applying the patch does work. But only for 0.4.13 and the latest git version because the patch can’t be applied to 0.4.12.

Merged it then to master, thanks.

Sounds great! :)

Too bad subgames (including minetest_game) aren’t translated :( But it’s a first step in the right direction!

This is very exciting release with new features like beds, shelf, mushrooms, trapdoor, new slabs/stairs from wood/metals/straw, mese lights, minimap. Also present amazing snow biomes. I like them a lot!

Some screenshots:

Linuxdirk wrote:Too bad subgames (including minetest_game) aren’t translated :( But it’s a first step in the right direction!

This is a workaround: https://github.com/CasimirKaPazi/vortoj
It works only server side but is sufficient for most cases. (And uses only eleven lines of code \o/)

Fixerol wrote:This is very exciting release with new features like beds, shelf, mushrooms, trapdoor, new slabs/stairs from wood/metals/straw, mese lights, minimap. Also present amazing snow biomes. I like them a lot!

Yes, a lot of nice features showed up recently :-) It's less noticable when always working with latest git. New features show up much faster in that case. But that doesn't make them any less good :-)

Casimir wrote:This is a workaround: […]

Exactly: A workaround. Not a solution :)

The new 4138 build crashes when players connect to my server giving this error:

2015-09-16 17:45:31: ERROR[Server]: ServerEnvironment::addActiveObjectRaw(): object position outside maximum range
minetest: /build/minetest-U7YZ7n/minetest-201509160101/src/server.cpp:1865: void Server::SendMovePlayer(irr::u16): Assertion `player' failed.

TenPlus1, sorry for the inconvenience, the bug is fixed in 4139 builds and later. As a temporary workaround, set their coordinates in their player files to spawn (or any other location inside +-3000 in all directions). And next time they log out, they should again get back to spawn, so that when they log in after that, their coords aren't outside +- 3000.

That's gonna be a LOT of user files to check and change... o.O

Grep/sed is your friend.

People, the fixed build is out already, just update.

Trying to download this on my new windows pc but nothing will save. I tried on the official downloads page but it wouldn't save when I told it to. I tried six. Freaking. Times. What's the matter? At current I am running 8.1...

swordpaint12 wrote:Trying to download this on my new windows pc but nothing will save..

Right click on the direct download link -> "Destination/Target save as..." and select your Desktop in the new popup window.
If that still doesn't work, upload a screenshot or join the IRC for quick support.

Its nice to have snow biomes in my worlds, but it seems like the desserts are now gone.

I tested version 0.4.13 on map gen 6 with my favorite seed and the dessert near the spawn point was gone.