Welcome to Minetest.io
The goal of minetest.io is to distribute convenient installers
and a launcher for Minetest. Minetest is Free
(Libre) Open Source Software (FLOSS). You can make mods, modpacks,
or entire games (sometimes called subgames or "_games"). The program will
automatically download mods from the server, so you simply log in
and you may be playing a very different game without a separate
download (Making a client-side mod (CSM) is
possible but usually unnecessary).
Minetest.io may eventually use the Minetest engine to make games
such as some sort of Zah Yest MMORPG.
Why does this site not use Luanti?
Earlier versions of MultiCraft (The Minetest fork, not the Minecraft host...)
provide certain compatibility features such as protocol
switching and retaining API endpoints, so it is a valuable
community asset. In contrast, Luanti is a moving target.
- Various versions of Luanti silently "upgrade" your worlds,
which has resulted in disaster in some rare cases, and generally, incompatibility that is
unclear in form and scope (This may or may not be the cause of minetestmapper-python Type errors).
The Luanti team says that only happened using
git versions, which they warn not to use in production.
- Some of the changes in versions 5.0.0 (formerly 0.5) and above are arbitrary
(such as for style) but negatively impact mods.
For example, the "nodeupdate" and
"nodeupdate_single" API
calls were said to have been changed due to a "stupid name" on the
official 5.0.0-rc1 release thread, though not by a core developer.
Those and similar changes harmed
Minetest just when its popularity was cresting. This not only
occurred at that time with 5.0 (formerly called 0.5) but also on a continuing basis
with each minor revision (5.1, 5.2, etc.). Note that fixing the
mod at the repo level isn't enough: There is a large number of
orphaned forks in game and server repos and that number of
orphans plus the upstream repos are orphaned to another degree
and then multiplied
by the number of copies on servers and computers using them.
- Large block walls occur whenever you get even minor updates to
5.x due to frequent and sometimes flip-flopping changes to
mapgen (world generation code).
It has been the instruction of the Luanti team to update your
mod code to alleviate (some of the) issues with breaking changes.
This isn't a full solution due to copies of mods within games,
and modified copies of mods or games on live servers:
So if there are 100 games using a mod, and 200 servers using
a mod, there would be 20,000 copies frozen on an old version,
sometimes with no maintainer. See also
Minetest's Scope Issue.
As a more complete solution, minetest.io
may switch to an earlier backward-compatible version of MultiCraft2.
At the same time, minetest.io may implement additional features
such as from wontfix issues or stale branches.
See also: EnlivenMinetest Issues
Downloads
Team Members
Poikilos and this site are no longer promoting nor in
communication with OldCoder, nor his sites such as minetest.org.
His game servers and git repos are no longer reachable
through minetest.io nor subdomains such as git.minetest.io.
Servers
Privacy Policy and Terms of Use: by using
zahyest.com or related products and services, you certify
that you understand and agree to the policy and terms (The Cheating
and Griefing Policy is at the same page).
Intent of Policies
The intention is to make sure that others, you, the server, and server
owner are protected! This Intent of Policies section is an overview and
does not expand or limit any part of the Terms of Use and Privacy
Policy page.
- We can keep and re-share what you submit (including what you create
in the game world, but you retain the copyright to anything you
submit if you are the author, unless you specify otherwise!
- Chat and in-game actions are logged.
- You can keep copies of what you submit and you and others can reuse
it anywhere!
- Circumventing rules of the game is not allowed.
- Moderator(s) will make an effort to stop others who try to stop you
from having fun as long as you are in the right.
To see more details about each server, click one or scroll down.
Roadmap
See Issues at the EnlivenMinetest project on GitHub.
Server Details
Center of the Sun world
Center of the Sun is a mature survival server featuring ENLIVEN, a
game (using the Minetest engine) focusing on immersion. Given enough
resources, it may become a MMORPG using the Zah Yest setting.
Server address: minetest.io Port: 30000 (OFFLINE)
ENLIVEN's top priority being immersion means the direction is to
remove things that are overpowered or distract from narrative, and add
things that add to cohesive gameplay and tell a story.
This server features a WIP (work in progress) version of ENLIVEN
based on bucket_game. ENLIVEN currently has bleeding edge Poikilos mods
and patches, and some mods from the old ENLIVEN, but is not caught up
with the old one in terms of mods yet.
A group of adventurers set out by choice to gain what their strange
world had not handed them. What will they find? Will they find it in
technology? ...society? ...architecture? ...or something deeper?
-Poikilos
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Admin: Poikilos
See also: Zah Yest
