#MineTest

The #Glitch game for #Minetest now comes with a complete #Spanish #translation in the new version 1.2.4!

▶️ Game info page: https://content.minetest.net/packages/Wuzzy/glitch/

#games

Il y a quelques années, j'étais admin d'un petit serveur #Skyblock sur #Minecraft, SkylandStyle, et on avait fait des trucs vachement cool.

Je me demande si ça vaudrait le coup, pour 2024, de relancer un truc similaire, mais sur #Minetest. Et d'essayer, peut-être, d'en faire le plus gros serveur Skyblock sur ce jeu-là 😁 🤔

Was für ein cooler #Minetest Mod! Den muss ich gleich mal einbauen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FUE7YcftDc

@MayaMitKind "#Minecraft-Server für Kinder" ist schon so eine Sache.

Microsoft-Account mit uneingeschränktem Tracking und personalisierter Werbung, Altersgrenze ab 16,...

Dasselbe kann man mit #Minetest machen – mehr Möglichkeiten, kein Tracking, man gestaltet sein Spiel selber, statt das zu tun, was Microsoft vorgibt.

Eine passende Community dazu finden du und deine Kinder selber bei @Teckids, wo ihr euch auch eine Session mit Expert*innen in jedem Alter zum Thema wünschen könnt.

#Teckids

I have been playing Mineclonia via Minetest quite a bit lately. #Minetest

#Minetest will be at #FOSDEM2024!

#FOSDEM is the largest free and open source software conference in Europe. The conference will be held on 3-4th February in Brussels, Belgium. We'll be running a stall, showing off Minetest, giving out stickers and goodies, and talking to visitors about the project

Moe info: https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?t=29977

Are there #MineTest games that use a different character-to-cube size ratio? Is it even possible?

@peha par ailleurs c'est bien dommage qu'il n'y aie pas de sauvegarde accessible de cet/ces espaces collectifs dans lesquels tant de mémoire se sont créées ...
perso j'entretiens un serveur familial depuis bien des années, c'est en effet important, ce sont des espaces portant une mémoire affective qui vaut la peine d'être sauvegardée

@Framasoft est-ce que la db est disponible pour une éventuel fork ou revisitation personnelle ? #framinetest #minetest real #metaverse

Nice view of the E6 highway close to Tingstadsmotet, inside of Minetest.

#minetest

А осень сложно делать моды для #minetest ?
Просто игра звучит вкусно но на деле это откровенная помойка в плане удобства и симпатичности. И я пробовал #mineclone2 , но это именно клон который пытается скопировать много но не особо качественно.
По этому я подумал, почему никто не пытается взять за основу старые версии Minecraft и пытаться реализовать их механики? Банально их меньше и они сами по себе проще.

Macht mit beim Adventskalender 2023 des Minetest Bildungsnetzwerks

Das Bildungsnetzwerk ruft auf, weihnachtliche Bauwerke zu erstellen. Ab Dezember wird dann jeden Tag ein Bauwerk enthüllt.

#Minetest #Minetestbildung #FediLZ #Gaming_Event #Linux

https://gnulinux.ch/macht-mit-beim-adventskalender-2023-des-minetest-bildungsnetzwerks

へー。Minetest 5.8からgameのバンドルがなくなるのか。Minetest Gameがバンドルされていたせいで勘違いした頭の悪いキッズから罵詈雑言を浴びせられてたけど、これで誤解が減るといいな #minetest

Minetest Game will be debundled in 5.8.0 - Minetest Forums: https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?t=29867

Just out of curiosity, are there any #minetest geeks here? any #advancedtrains geeks??? My brain has decided it wants to understand this, and I'm now trying to learn interlocking and routes, but the sparse documentation is making it hard.

Yes, I _know_ I'm supposed to be writing research articles.

Der Minetest-Adventskalender 2023 startet wieder
und bietet für Konfi-Gruppen und Reli-Klassen die Möglichkeit, eine ungewöhnliche Didaktik umzusetzen. Wie man genau vorgeht, wird auf der Homepage von Minetestbildung hier erklärt: https://blogs.rpi-virtuell.de/minetest/2023/11/20/macht-mit-beim-minetest-adventskalender-2023/

#Jugendarbeit #Konfi #Adventskalender #Minetest
Hier den ganzen Artikel lesen: https://thomas-ebinger.de/2023/11/der-minetest-adventskalender-2023-startet-wieder/

Macht mit beim Minetest-Adventskalender 2023
Ein lauschiger, leicht zugefrorener See bietet die Kulisse für den diesjährigen Kalender, der aus eingereichten Bauwerken besteht, die im Lauf der Zeit eingereicht werden. Schon zum 7. Mal wird damit die Adventszeit zur Bau- und Spielzeit auf dem Minetest-Bildungsserver.

Reinkommen
Wie
#Adventskalender #minetest
Hier den ganzen Artikel lesen: https://blogs.rpi-virtuell.de/minetest/2023/11/20/macht-mit-beim-minetest-adventskalender-2023/

Thank you everyone for your suggestions on #Minetest games and mods to try!
I'll give them all a fair test, means usually a whole evening, unless it _really_ rubs me the wrong way, and will then follow up with my favorites!

@blindcoder Make sure to check up on the results of current #Minetest Game Jam 2023 near the Christmas!
https://jam.minetest.net/

There is a game made for Minetest that I like, it's called Glitch. https://content.minetest.net/packages/Wuzzy/glitch/

@blindcoder if you don't care about mobs and are interested in building machines/automation, you may want to look into #NodeCore. It's a #Minetest game with a very different “form” compared to Minecraft-inspired ones, while still preserving the fundamental “dig and build” principle.

while there is an impressive modding scene around #minetest, i'm very curious- how many people just spin up a server and goof around in vanilla?

i'd love to find that people can have/are having the same kinda fun that old minecraft alpha/beta players used to have, in servers with friends :3

What's a good start into #Minetest? I tried Mineclone 2, but there are so many mobs at night that all I can do is camp in a house until night is over (boring).
Currently trying Mesecraft which looks promising.

Hit me with your favourite game/mod combos and why!

Recent progress on the #Repixture mobs (=animals/monsters): I added support for multiple "task queues" that can run in parrallel.

A task is a simple thing that a mob does, like walking or eating grass. A task queue is just a sequence of task the mob has to do in order.

The best thing is that I can now teach the mobs to do multiple things at once. It's loosely inspired by operating system schedulers.

#Minetest #GameDev

I couldn't fall asleep. So here it's the minetest working on postmarketOS with touchscreen support. You can download the binaries from the CI for now. #postmarketOS #minetest https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/merge_requests/4556

ℹ️ New #blog post: Benchmarking #minetest modstorage using #postgresql

https://niklp.net/posts/minetest-postgresql-benchmark/

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#Minetest Game Jam is back for 2023!

From December 1st to December 21st, make a Minetest game from scratch following a theme.
3 weeks, 3 winners, $300 in prizes. What will you make?

The theme will be announced December 1st, so stay tuned

All information about the jam is at https://jam.minetest.net/

#gamedev #opensource #gamejam

@jq i don't agree with mojang on updates - i don't use them. And secretly waiting for #minetest updates. Since minetest is open source you need to wait for some changes. Mojang/microsoft with development towards warrior things don't impress me. I don't like bosses and fights. I don't like - i don't eat (folk proverb).

#Minetest 5.8 will have an improved settings menu

The new design should be much easier to use. Settings are organised in a more logical way, and you can see more settings without digging into a huge advanced settings tree

#opensource

#Minetest no longer ships with a default game.

For a long time, Minetest shipped with a default game called "Minetest Game". This was a fairly barebones survival game and gave a bad first impression. Minetest is all about customisation, the choice of multiple games is a big part of that. Now, new users are directed to choose a game using ContentDB

We'll be making further improvements in the future to make this process easier to understand

We're now in feature freeze for #Minetest 5.8! This is a period of time before a release where we only do bug fixes

Highlights:

* Minetest no longer ships with a default game
* A redesigned Settings GUI
* Improved Android controls, can place nodes with single tap
* Improved antialiasing filters

Help us by trying out the release candidate: https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?t=29937

#freegaming #opensource #freesoftware

MiBPoV is now #LibreJS-compliant.

https://wuzzy.codeberg.page/MiBPoV/

#Minetest #GameDev #development #FreeSoftware #JavaScript

(Please don't go spamming the issue even if you care about #JpegXL, it won't do any good and may be counter-productive.)

I've been doing some experimentation across both common and less common #MineTest assets for this, and even I am impressed at how efficient #JXL can be as an image format, especially for higher-resolution images, even when not used at its best (e.g. to produce “round-trippable” images from JPEG source material).

I've also opened an issue for #MineTest to introduce support for the format for its textures:
https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/13950
with the aim (at the very least) to minimize disk space and wire transfer for graphical assets (mostly node textures, maybe some UI elements). There's an interesting discussion ongoing, including alternative approaches to improve the assets sizes without changing format, but the fact that the issue hasn't been closed yet is something I consider a positive.

Alright, after doing all that MiBPoV stuff I continue my work on the #Repixture mobs again. Today I've re-implemented drowning and damage from blocks (like spikes). And code documentation. Progress is slow but steady.

Remember this is all behind-the-scenes work so if successful, the player shouldn't really notice a difference except for a few bugfixes.

#GameDev #Minetest

After quite a bit of downtime, my #MineTest server running #MineClone2 is back online!

https://minetest.pavot.ca/ for more information. :)

I built something #ace-related on JT2 today. I call it the "Ace of Spades".

#Minetest #gaming #AceWeek #ace #AceWeek2023 #asexual

It's the #Glitch game, but pixelized. I just needed to set "undersampling=8" in the #Minetest settings (and you can, too).
#retro #pixel #strange

There's are 2 reasons why I worked on a very specialized devtool (MiBPoV) for #Minetest (that will likely not be used very often):

1) No such libre (!) tool existed. The default recommendation to #Minetest devs so far was "use GeoGebra" but this is proprietary and it was painful to make it work anyway
2) I needed an excuse to actually do a larger #JavaScript project after completing the tutorial 🤓

#developemt #GameDev #TooMuchTime

I've decided to call my #Minetest biome editing tool "MiBPoV" because it's the "Minetest Biome Point Visualizer" and because "MiBPoV" sounds funny.

This tool now is almost usable; the most basic features work but not 100%. I've posted it online now and you can check it out, if you're into Minetest #development:

🔶 Release post: https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=29893
🔶 Use in your browser: https://wuzzy.codeberg.page/MiBPoV/
🔶 Code repo: https://codeberg.org/Wuzzy/MiBPoV

#GameDev

I've been working on a #development tool for #Minetest today. It's a #JavaScript program that lets you visualize the #Voronoi diagram of biome points. In Minetest, each 2D position gets assigned a heat and humidity value, and each biome has a heat and humidity point. So if the world position has a heat and humidity that is closest to a given biome X, that biome will be used at that position.

This is useful to make sure the biomes in the world are more or less balanced.

August/September - last month(s) in #Minetest

The main menu gets more love in preparation for the 5.8.0 release, developers come and go, and new shaders are in the works. CTF celebrates its 10th anniversary, and new API mods make their way to ContentDB.

https://blog.minetest.net/2023/10/17/AugustSeptember/

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social

My vote goes to @Minetest (https://www.minetest.net/) and 0 A.D. (https://play0ad.com/) two criminally underrated games that deserve much more exposure.

#minetest #0AD #linuxgaming

Holis uwu esta es mi segunda #introducció / #presentación porque la primera la borre xd, pero bueno me llamo Gaemy soy una persona #Trans de 18 años :3
Me gusta mucho #linux <3 aunque no se usarlo mucho aun y otras cosas que me gustan o interesan son:
#SuperTuxKart #Terraria #FreeSo #Minetest #Minecraft #Lojban #Esperanto #Anarquismo #Rust #Matemáticas #Chile #Transfeminismo #Hormigas… bueno la verdad mis gustos son algo limitados porque no suelo explorar nuevas cosas por miedo a salir lastimada.

Me gusta hablar sobre cosas casuales como series, videojuegos y cosas felices en general, pero no me gusta hablar sobre temas polémicas o noticias negativas… hablando de series eh visto #TheOwlHouse #MonsterHigh (g1,g2) #EverAfterHigh y otras series que no recuerdo.

Cosas extras sobre mi: mi computadora principal se llama “#Termita”, busco #amigues :blobCatDundundun:, me interesan el #veganismo, la #SoberaniaDigital y últimamente el #ajedrez.

Puedes hablarme por XMPP con confianza. :blobCatWobble:

@feditips @MastodonEngineering Yes.

First, there's #Weblate. I strongly recommend it, I have recently started using it for my own games. #Minetest also uses it.

Then, there's translatewiki.net. #FreeCol uses it and a number of other projects. Also good.

There are also #Zanata and #Pootle but I have no experience with these and they may be outdated (check for yourself).

Then, there are translation services tailored towards specific software:

#Pontoon for Mozilla.
#Eints for #OpenTTD.

Any #minetest players out there want to make some mod suggestions for me?

Recent videos on #DiodeZone:
▫️ #3DModelling stream VOD
▫️ #RetroGaming and #RetroComputing series episodes
▫️ Building a toy robot in #Elixir
▫️ Installing an SSD into an iMac G3
▫️ Gameplay videos of #Doom, #Minetest, #DK64, various RPGs, and #Pinball
▫️ Audio/synth noodling
▫️ Math, art, and sausage dogs

#PeerTube

New blog post: Ten years of Capture the Flag

CTF is 10 today!

https://blog.rubenwardy.com/2023/08/16/minetest-ctf-is-10/

#Minetest #gamedev

@selea #Minetest
gotta look up those eula changes tho, since I am new to the topic.

The Tntrun mod (that I maintain) for #Minetest now has fancier editor tools to make it easier to create levels. This mod seems to be mostly used on the A.E.S. server for now ...

https://gitlab.com/zughy-friends-minetest/tntrun

#GameDev #gaming

@thelinuxEXP ha, was playing #minetest on the windows pc and had to bring my #linux laptop because I didn’t want to support windows anymore, so slow and that idiot of Windows defender blocking Crystal disk info to even show the disk

Perhaps unsurprisingly, I've been enjoying the little extras from #Minecraft mods and modpacks. Exploring the Create Extra modpack now.

Perhaps even less surprisingly, I'm wondering how much I could do with #Minetest. Hypothetically all of it, but realistically it would be slow going.

Someone recently suggested as a joke that we should have a Gaming SIG in #CentOS.

But looking at how often wine updates break the games which were working(and fix the games which weren't) and how many native games require old libraries, it might be a reasonable thing to do.

I even have a first package ready:

#minetest is packaged in EPEL and you can easily run a CentOS Stream 9 game server with it: https://pagure.io/fedora-mine/blob/master/f/roles/minetest-world/tasks/main.yaml

So #Minetest is turning out to be a really fun game to play. Since it has proven popular with my family and my brother's family, I went ahead and added some daily scripts to back to the world and added the whitelist mod. I also discovered "auth.txt" has been replaced with "auth.sqlite", so editing it to give myself the necessary permissions to do basic server admin stuff while in game was a little more complicated, but I managed.

#gaming #pcgaming

I make or maintain #games for #Minetest:

🌳 Repixture <https://content.minetest.net/packages/Wuzzy/repixture>
⬜ Glitch <https://content.minetest.net/packages/Wuzzy/glitch>
🌋 Hades Revisited <https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?t=19121>
and more.

🦔 Outside of Minetest, I’ve helped to bring #Hedgewars version 1.0.0 <https://hedgewars.org> out.

🔣 I keep maintaining #German #translations of various free softwares.

#gamedev #FreeSoftware #introduction

Mage Zombie has joined our #Minetest server 🧙‍♂️ 🧟‍♀️

Created this by merging zombies4test with the dungeon master from mobs_monster

Now the zombies can break in to our strongholds!

@kuacgraxa

Want to launch virtual gaming to support critical thinking at your school but find it cost-prohibitive to go with the mainstream solution? Maybe you want to avoid paying a per student cost. If that’s the case, this blog entry is worth a read. You can now deploy a block-based crafting environment with Minetest– a solution that offers a block environment, simple circuit-switching features, and visual bots. https://blog.tcea.org/build-block-worlds-with-minetest/ #edtech #Minetest #education

New online, self-paced course available! #TCEA Virtual World Builder.

Expand your comfort zone with game-based learning, design thinking, and problem-based learning (PBL).

See how evidence-based instructional strategies, the ISTE Standards for Students, research, and game-based learning come together.

UPDATED LINK: https://tcea.org/learn/courses/virtual_world_builder/

#Minetest #Minecraft #GameBasedLearning #DesignThinking #ISTE #PBL #edtech #education #tceajmg @edutooters @edutooter

New online, self-paced course available! #TCEA Virtual World Builder.

Expand your comfort zone with game-based learning, design thinking, and problem-based learning (PBL).

See how evidence-based instructional strategies, the ISTE Standards for Students, research, and game-based learning come together.

UPDATED LINK: https://tcea.org/learn/courses/virtual_world_builder/

#Minetest #Minecraft #GameBasedLearning #DesignThinking #ISTE #PBL #edtech #education #tceajmg @edtech

#Minetest is a free open source way-more-moddable alternative to Minecraft, see an in-depth video about it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6Fyav6FiIs

➡️ @Minetest - Official Minetest account

➡️ @rubenwardy - Core dev on Minetest

➡️ @Wuzzy - Creates games & mods for Minetest, also co-dev on Hedgewars

➡️ @survivetest - Survival game mod for Minetest

➡️ @nathansalapat - Tutorials & video reviews of Minetest mods

➡️ @SilverSandstone - Creates mods, texture packs, skins etc for Minetest

I make or maintain #games for :minetest: #Minetest:

🌳 Repixture <https://content.minetest.net/packages/Wuzzy/repixture>
⬜ Glitch <https://content.minetest.net/packages/Wuzzy/glitch>
🌋 Hades Revisited <https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?t=19121>
and more.

🦔 Outside of Minetest, I’ve helped to bring #Hedgewars version 1.0.0 <https://hedgewars.org> out.

🔣 I keep maintaining #German #translations of various free softwares.

#gamedev #FreeSoftware

#Minetest 5.7.0 has been released! With improved graphics, better performance, and lots more

https://blog.minetest.net/2023/04/08/5.7.0-released/

#Introducción #Presentación
¡Holas! Soy Gaemy.
Esta es la primera vez que me presento en una red social :blobCatBlushOwo:
Soy una persona #nobinarie :flagNonBinary: y mis pronombres son Ella/Elle (She/They).

Me encantan las series como #MonsterHigh (g1, g2 y g3) y #TheOwlHouse. Mis colores favoritos son el #Morado, el #Rosa y el #Gris.

No suelo jugar muchos juegos, pero estos son los que más me han gustado:
#Minetest, #SardewValley, #TheSims2, #OpenMW, #Terraria, #Minecraft y #SuperTuxKat.

Los programas que suelo usar con frecuencia son: #vlc, #librewolf, #waterfox, #moshidon, #gimp, #geany y #foliate.

Hablo #español y un poco de #Esperanto.

@stux We have #minetest too.

DWeb New York March 23, 2023
https://events.woodbine.nyc/events/3b85bc17-fb2b-402a-9125-782c4b9c54e6
https://www.bklynlibrary.org/schedule/Web/view-reservation.php?rn=640bacdd5c210029017728

Presenting:
@andrew_chou - Decentralization Workshop activity;
@ntnsndr (remote) - Modpol #Minetest tour.

#DWebNY #DWeb #NYC #Brooklyn

#Minetest now has updated its strings for translators at: https://hosted.weblate.org/

Please help translating if you're a Minetest fan, now is the right time because a release is imminent!

I've already updated the #German translation.

Note there are even more texts that are not on Weblate (especially chat command stuff). Read more here:

https://dev.minetest.net/Translation#Builtin

#translation #gamedev

January - Last Month in #Minetest: In this update, we cover several engine improvements from the last two months, Backrooms Test’s first release, and more.

https://blog.minetest.net/2023/02/16/January/

New blog post about #docker and #minetest, even have a little #Education plug for @mguhlin

Post 10 of the #100DaysToOffload

https://claytonerrington.com/blog/dockerize-minetest/

@Edent We like those #games from @fdroidorg :
#minetest - like minecraft and hundreds of mods, also multiplayer
#unciv - choose civilizations, conquer & evolve technology
#shatterdpixeldungeon - walk through a dungeon, equip yourself, random levels each game, choose wizard, bow hunter and others
#hyperrougue walk through a 100 different worlds, collect orbs, defeat&befriend creatures - on a hyper plane, not the usual 2d or 3d experience.

Genuine advice: if you plan to open #Minetest server and expect to experience something close to Minecraft - please, please DO NOT USE Mineclone5 instead of Mineclone2.

At some point some folks made a fork of mcl2 and added their fixes/improvements, it was called "Mineclone5", and for a few months the game really had more close features to the latest Minecraft: Java Edition version. For example, inner skin editor (in mineclone2 you only could change gender at the time).

As of right now, that's not relevant anymore. The project seems abandoned (of course, I could be wrong, but...), mineclone2 has more commits, newer items (for example, Lightning Rod, which mcl5 lacks). Mineclone5 now has a pretty buggy world generation, when it comes to the nether. You will have a hard time finding nether fortress (if you even can), in fact, you will have a hard time finding any life whatsoever, the place feels empty, which is not the case in mcl2.

I had to rebuild a lot of stuff cause of me trusting a bigger number and their game description in order to move from mcl5 to mcl2 on my private server for friends. Do not repeat my mistake.

https://content.minetest.net/packages/Wuzzy/mineclone2/

@mguhlin @edutooter find lots of resources and manuals in German on our blog https://blogs.rpi-virtuell.de/minetest/ .#minetest