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 coding style changes that bleed over into the Lua API, negatively impacting 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 the person who said that isn't an official spokesperson). 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.).
• Large block walls can occur whenever you get even minor updates to 5.x and/or minetest_game due to frequent and sometimes flip-flopping changes to mapgen (world generation code).

For the issue of API changes, The Luanti engine team has recommended to updating your mod code.This isn't a full solution. 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.

If there are effectively thousands of copies of some minor mod no one maintains (some even being forks) an unstable API is a hindrance to the ecosystem. Blender has the same problem, but they have enough funding to provide heavy centralized support for important add-ons (Even then, many unique and helpful add-ons become useless).

So if there are 100 games using a modpack, and 100 worlds (not unlikely, considering they could be public, LAN, or single-player) using each game, there would be 10,000 copies frozen on a certain 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

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.

This server is only for testers. I currently don't plan to have a public server.

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.

(closed beta)

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. The game 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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