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 <player> 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.

> 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!

The results of the #Minetest #gamejam are in! In third place, we have "The Unexpected Gambit" by NO11

A chess game with unexpected mechanics.

https://content.minetest.net/packages/

In second place, it's The Velvet Crystal by regulus

Recover the crystal and bring light back into the world

https://content.minetest.net/packages/regulus/regulus_mtgamejam_2023/

and first place goes to...

Citadel by Irevol - A time-traveling puzzle game

https://content.minetest.net/packages/Irevol/citadel/

Stolen from the Minetest Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@Minetest

Come try it on the AES Minetest server!

Are you prepared to make your keyboard and mouse dance to the rhythm of Mariah Carey in this new FPS tournament?

❓ 8 teams of 3 players each. Direct elimination 🗺 Hyperium (quarterfinals), Station 2 🗓 Friday, 29 December 🕑 8:30 PM - 10:30 PM (UTC)

🏆 Prizes 1st place: Champion title tag, server statue, €20 each! 💰 2nd place: finalist tag

✍️ How to apply: Enter the Matrix room of the AES server (https://matrix.to/#/%23minetest-aes:matrix.org) to let us know about your team

I found a bunch of cool mods and cool servers that make it up to par with vanilla minecraft and maybe even up to par with modded minecraft. I have just a few questions, is it possible to change the way the third person camera operates? it looks a little weird to me and I was wondering if there's a way to make it more "minecrafty"

A menu rework and God rays are among the improvements on the road to the 5.8.0 release.

As in my other post (I think it is better to keep the posts separate because they are different problems) Minetest on Linux has a strange input lag in the mouse, it is not very big but it is very noticeable for a game like Minecraft, it gives me headaches when playing with that input lag.

I tried to activate the mouse "smoothing" and although I would say it helps a little, it doesn't really fix it, it just camouflages it and gives a weird sliding effect on the mouse.

As I already mentioned, this problem is exclusive of Minetest in Linux, in Windows I don't suffer from any problem.

I consider that these problems are Nvidia's propietary drivers fault, I was really investigating a lot this problem before posting this here but I didn't find anything, just some unrelated issues in Github.

Hi! I have been enjoying Minetest immensely these last few days but it is simply unplayable on my PC because it is unable to maintain a stable framerate, be it 30 or 60 fps. Sometimes when viewing giant block structures or sometimes at random times the FPS drops to 24 or less and I tried to lower the rendering distance (I think it's called differently) but although it does improve, it shouldn't be fixed if my PC is 100% capable of running it well, and in fact on Windows it runs beautifully.

Specs: RTX 3060, Ryzen 5 5600X, 16GB DDR4, SSD.

I thought it was a problem with my distro (Garuda Linux) so I installed another one (KDE Neon) and it's exactly the same, I also switched from X11 to Wayland and it's still the same, I honestly don't know why this happens but it's not hardware deficiency, also I tried the git version (via AUR), flaptak and snap, the problem persists,

In Windows it works perfectly without any problem, it runs great and with everything set to maximum but in Linux it is simply unplayable.

I would like to add something important, and it is that in Linux none of the compilations uses the GPU to the maximum, according to nvtop it is being used but in very little measure, and it seems that the CPU does everything.

I want to get things like server uptime and player count

Is it possible to run a command on the host though a mod? I know that could be a massive security risk.

I'm looking to build some houses but I want to have the sinks and light be powered off of a city main running under the street. Is this possible?

As seen in the image, in the past to download Mineclone2 I simply downloaded it from there, but I don't see it available anymore, is there a reason?

I already downloaded the .zip and placed it in $HOME/.minetest/mods and although it appears in the list of mods I can't use it.

Here's a short list of some the Minetest gameplay channels that I've found on PeerTube recently. It includes only channels that have posted Minetest content in the past year (IIRC all of these have posted within the past month or so).

@minetestvideos of course - Regular videos reviewing Minetest mods by @nathansalapat.

@linux.sauna.videot@diode.zone - Regular Minetest VODs in Finnish with a Linux bent.

@pcworms - Minetest CTF VODs, mostly in English.

@lofenyy\_does\_things - Calm Minetest gameplay.

@dragfyre\_games - Minetest with kids, among other things.

Feel free to comment on this post if you know of other good PeerTube channels!

A workflow to scan 3D objects into Minetest voxel buildings targeted at low end hardware.

Comments are appreciated.

Well, I am looking for a free Minetest server hosting service for me and my friends and i found this website. I just wanna know if this is safe or not. http://www.minetesthosting.com/

There is a camel and some fences in the left, a stable in the front, and a bit to the right the unfinished house made of glass and wood.

Screenshot of online gaming of minetest. There are an animal fences and some crops around a river, in the center behind the crops is the Stable with the prettiest horses :P

Hello folks! If you're interested in playing some Minetest/Minecraft please check out my server. Its pretty much vanilla Minecraft (mineclone2) with a protection mod. :)

I am trying to evenly distribute coal into coal generators to power my Technic machines. What is the best way to do this?

@minetest@lemmy.ml proxy support when?

"Right now, Minetest, a free software game engine which is also the best free alternative to the well known Minecraft, is hosted on GitHub, a proprietary platform owned by a huge unethical company." (Zughy)

"After a long talk on IRC about whether rename Minetest or not, I thought to open an issue where you can suggest a name." (Zughy)

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