Time  Nick           Message
01:10 MinetestBot    AlabamaHit: Jul-19 23:52 UTC <Fixer> you wanted that? https://github.com/paramat/flexrealm/
01:11 AlabamaHit     Hey guys. I had the mods (mobs_animal mobs_monster mobs_redo) I removed the folders rebooted server got a lot of unknown nodes now (to be expected) But It seems like they are still spawning..
01:12 AlabamaHit     Does that sound possible or it is just that many left to try to kill?
01:13 AlabamaHit     And is there a faster way to remove all the unknown blocks? I tried the mod "remove_unknown" but it just crashes minetest.
02:11 AlabamaHit     Can mobs redo mod keep spawning animals after removing the mod from the game? I am still getting unknown nodes everywhere.
02:14 AlabamaHit     nvm....this irc must be nothing but bots to look like people....because even the logs show no one talks.
02:39 AntumDeluge    Where can I find the API for player objects? Specifically, I am looking for documentation on "player:get_nametag_attributes()".
02:42 behalebabo     AntumDeluge: https://github.com/minetest/minetest/blob/master/doc/lua_api.txt#L3199
02:44 AntumDeluge    I actually think I found what I was looking for with rubenwardy's Minetest Modding Book: https://rubenwardy.com/minetest_modding_book/lua_api.html. But thank you behalebabo. I should have looked there first. I was thinking that didn't cover the "player" object.
02:46 behalebabo     yeah, players are just referred to as a certain kind of ObjectRef
02:58 FriendlyMine   Hello everyone
02:58 riff-IRC       Hi
02:58 FriendlyMine   How are you?
02:59 riff-IRC       Good
03:00 riff-IRC       <img src="file:///c:/$Mft/123 />
03:02 FriendlyMine   Nice to see.  I am looking for a different community to join on in. Do you know if it readily available to find people to help run a gaming community based on this game on the forums or something?
05:33 hisforever     Hi All and blessings, Dose anybody know how I can Make a section of flat land have some high places?
06:18 hisforever     I/m running a flat game is there a way to have uneven lana?
07:33 Hijiri         you could build an area with high places
07:33 Hijiri         or use worldedit to set areas to a solid node
07:34 Hijiri         flat mapgen doesn't have any built-in support for high places since its purpose is to be flat
08:55 sare_at_work   hi, a little question: is there a possibility to see which player does unban?
16:01 Nige           hi all, I have a semi technical modding question if anyone can help..
16:01 Nige           i need to perform an action on all connected players every few (maybe 3-5) seconds
16:02 Nige           is it better to use a counter inside a minetest.onstep or to get the code to call itself with minetest.after ?
16:02 Nige           which one is more reliable/ less lag inducing?
16:04 calcul0n       i'd say minetest.after if you don't need exact timing
16:05 Nige           yeah, i was leaning that way, I have several mods that are already using counters in minetest.onsteps and was loathe to add another ;-)
16:06 FriendlyMine   Hello, does anyone have any recommendations on how to find people to help build a gaming community for the game?
16:08 calcul0n       FriendlyMine, maybe try the forum ?
16:08 calcul0n       or find some general gaming forum
16:10 FriendlyMine   calcul0n I se I will try to put it in the forum and see if I get any hits from there. Thanks for giving me a few ideas on this. :)
16:14 ThomasMonroe   FriendlyMine you might want to try discord
16:15 FriendlyMine   ThomasMonroe On what discord servers though? Many of them are bonded to an existing network (like a game server they made) and thus don't allow these activites.
16:15 ThomasMonroe   cant you make youre own?
16:16 FriendlyMine   ThomasMonroe True but how would I get people to come on in it? Like add one to the forum post itself? Or what are you saying?
16:16 ThomasMonroe   mention it in the forums, but only in the right spot
16:17 ThomasMonroe   but beware, many people use IRC as their main chat
16:19 tm3            hi :)
16:19 ThomasMonroe   hi
16:20 tm3            any one knows how to get a light source value from a node in minetest lua code. i mean let's say default:meselamp has light_source=14 and how i retrieve it in code for that node (i.e., default:meselamp)
16:21 FriendlyMine   ThomasMonroe I understand so is my gaming community venture falls under this forum sectionhttps://forum.minetest.net/viewforum.php?f=14  or where should I be putting it?
16:22 ThomasMonroe   yes it probably should go there
16:22 tm3            yes but irc is a good way to communicate live so i am asking but i will ask in forum too :)
16:22 ThomasMonroe   tm3 i'll ask tenplus1 for you if thats ok
16:22 tm3            ok :)
16:22 tm3            thanks :)
16:23 FriendlyMine   ThomasMonroe Alright thank you, let me see how this community views what I think are important unlike that "other" game...
16:23 tm3            it's esp. needed when cutting of those blocks for some purpose etc. like in circular saw. you have to specify the light source of those nodes. It would be nice if there was a method to retrieve that property of that node or else the value should be zero :)
16:23 ThomasMonroe   ok
16:24 ThomasMonroe   tm3 its this ling of code
16:24 ThomasMonroe   minetest.get_node_light(pos)
16:24 tm3            but it's not that it's get the light at that position in a time of day
16:24 calcul0n       tm3, registered_nodes["default:meselamp"].light_source
16:24 tm3            uh
16:25 tm3            do that work??
16:25 calcul0n       it does :)
16:25 tm3            thanks :)
16:25 calcul0n       tm3, wait, it's minetest.registered_nodes[...]
16:26 tm3            oh yes ofcourse :)
16:26 tm3            registered_node is a method you need the object to call that method :)
16:27 tm3            thanks a lot for that i will try to do this :)
16:46 paramat        ~tell hisforever use mapgen 'flat' and add 'mgflat_spflags = lakes,hills' to minetest.conf before starting MT and before starting a new world. read up on parameters https://github.com/minetest/minetest/blob/master/minetest.conf.example#L1602
16:46 ShadowBot      paramat: O.K.
17:40 false_chicken  Hey everyone. I was trying to start a server today and noticed that the minetest-server package is not in the stable ubuntu ppa. Instead it installed 0.4.13 from the default ubuntu repos. Do I launch the server with some command line switch using the minetest binary now or something? The documentation still says minetestserver is the binary to launch.
17:48 false_chicken  Oh wait its --server using the minetest binary? Ah. I was following the linux instructions on the Setting Up A Server page that says use minetestserver.
17:49 calcul0n       false_chicken, 0.4.13 is quite old, maybe you should compile a more recent one
17:49 calcul0n       i also heard the latest is available on some ppa, but i don't know which one
17:50 false_chicken  The stable PPA provided by the minetest team has 0.4.16. Its just that I was not using it because the minetest-server package doesnt exist anymore.
17:50 calcul0n       ha ok
17:50 false_chicken  Which the Starting A Server page on the wiki says to use. I figured it out now. Just install the main minetest package from the PPA and use the --server switch. Thanks though.
17:51 false_chicken  Just need some documentation update. xD
17:52 sfan5          it would be better if the minetest-server package existed though
17:52 sfan5          since installing "minetest" will pull in parts of the graphics stack
17:53 tm3            hey calcul0n thanks man :) it's working now. One problem though default mods nodes are working fine for that but not special mods like say caverealms glow crystals :( it's error saying attempting to index nil value ;P
17:54 calcul0n       tm3, did you add these in your depends.txt ? maybe they are just not loaded
17:54 false_chicken  sfan5 yeah it would be nice. I noticed all the gl and x packages it had to pull in. Its annoying but I can live with it for now. Thanks for all your hard work guys.
17:54 tm3            lol :P xD i am same as dead
17:54 calcul0n       :)
17:57 tm3            wow thanks man it's working now :) thanks a lot :)
17:58 false_chicken  Another quick question. The minetest-server package read the minetest.conf file from /etc/minetest but the minetest binary does not read this and does not create it in the ~/.minetest directory?
17:58 false_chicken  How do I go about generating it?
18:00 false_chicken  Oh wait. find found /usr/share/minetest/games/minetest_game/minetest.conf. Ill check that out.
18:00 VanessaE       you just create a new file.
18:00 VanessaE       add some settings
18:00 VanessaE       nothing more.
18:01 VanessaE       any ordinary text editor will do.
18:01 false_chicken  Oh. I didnt wanna miss some settings I didnt know about.
18:01 VanessaE       minetest.conf.example may help
18:06 false_chicken  VanessaE, Thanks. That one was specifically for minetest_game but there is one thats gzipped in /usr/share/doc/minetest that seems to have all the settings. Ill try that.
18:07 VanessaE       minetest.conf.example should govern most of your server-wide settings, whether mt_game-based or not.
18:07 VanessaE       er, should contain; .conf should govern :P
18:08 false_chicken  The one that was included in the /usr/share/minetest/games/minetest_game seemed to be missing some key settings like motd and abm range. It was all settings for fire and tnt and such.
18:09 VanessaE       ah, yeah I was referring to the one that comes with the engine.
18:09 false_chicken  But the one included in the man pages directory seems to have EVERYTHING. Oh man its overwhelming xD. But much better to me than starting with nothing. Thank you.
18:09 VanessaE       heh
18:09 VanessaE       you're welcome
18:10 jorgesumle     How do I start the tutorial. It's the first time I play Minetest
18:10 jorgesumle     I don't see the icon from http://wiki.minetest.net/Subgames/Tutorial
18:11 VanessaE       no idea.
18:11 jorgesumle     I have version 0.4.16
18:22 Krock          jorgesumle, did you unzip/clone the tutorial subgame to your /games/ directory?
18:23 jorgesumle     No
18:23 jorgesumle     I should read more carefully
18:23 Krock          :P
18:40 python_dev_guy hi
18:41 false_chicken  Strange. This might be a bug. If you set disallow_empty_password to true but login for the first time using the username of the admin it lets you in without a password.
18:42 false_chicken  But if I use some random name without a password it boots me xD
18:44 Krock          are you sure it's the first time login?
18:44 Krock          delete the auth.txt file to make sure it is
18:46 false_chicken  Oh wait. I just removed the players sqlite file. Ill check.
18:46 false_chicken  That would make sense xD
18:48 false_chicken  Yep that was it. Thanks. I was about to file a useless report xD. Did not know the password was in a separate file lol.
18:56 Krock          false_chicken, a present for you: http://www.overclockers.com.au/images/newspics/28jul17/18.jpg
18:58 false_chicken  xD
18:58 false_chicken  Thannks
19:20 python_dev_guy Does anyone know if the Lua API uses a type of C++ api? I was wondering if a python API would work by wrapping the Lua API or directly accessing the C++ code the Lua API does, the latter option seems like a lot of maintenance though
19:24 rubenwardy     python_dev_guy, the majority of the Lua API is written in C++ and exposed to lua
19:24 rubenwardy     see src/scripting
19:41 python_dev_guy ah thank you
22:38 Cooljar10      Hi can someone help me
22:42 Cooljar10      Plzs any one on
22:42 calcul0n       Cooljar10, maybe, if you ask your question :)
22:43 Cooljar10      How do i host a server
22:43 Cooljar10      Thanks
22:44 Cooljar10      Plzs if any one can answer that it be nice
22:45 calcul0n       ho, i don't now much about that, but here is a starting point : http://wiki.minetest.net/Server#Managing_a_server
22:46 Cooljar10      Thank u thank u
22:47 rubenwardy     http://wiki.minetest.net/Help:Setting_up_a_server
22:47 rubenwardy     the other link doesn't have much
22:47 calcul0n       well, the other link point to this one :)
22:47 rubenwardy     true :P
22:53 BloxWood       Well he asked about how to host ? not how to setup a server
22:58 greeter        greetings Miner_48er
22:59 Miner_48er     hi