Mirrored as part of a study of Minetest events of 2010 to 2019 and people involved, and in connection with a related book, events in 2017 to 2018, in particular, conferring upon host legal rights related to Fair Use.

Warning: A rip off without source, with possible virus

May 15th, 2011 by celeron55

There seems to be at least one rip-off of Minetest-c55 on the internet as of now. I heard this one contains a virus. Also it is published without the source code, which violates GPL.

http://ronan.gaillard.free.fr/cuber/

I don’t know what to do about it other than inform about this.

Ubuntu packages

April 25th, 2011 by celeron55

I’ll just quicky throw this in here:

There are now Ubuntu packages available in Launchpad; I’d like to have some people test them:
https://code.launchpad.net/~sebastian-ruehl/+recipe/minetest-c55-daily
https://code.launchpad.net/~minetestdevs/+recipe/minetest-c55-stable

20110424_0

April 24th, 2011 by celeron55

Version 20110424_0 released.

The changelog:

- Small bug fixes
- Item drop multiplication fixed
- HP added (there is no way to regain it though except dying, so damage is disabled by default)
- Added a simple monster which spawns to dark places at map generation time
- Some code refactoring and cleaning (possibly new bugs)
- Smooth lighting with simple ambient occlusion
- Updated main menu

I hope you like it!

The download page

Here’s a screenshot of the improved lighting:

Ohloh

April 22nd, 2011 by celeron55

I hadn’t even heard of this site before but anyway, somebody added my project to ohloh.

Now, there is one thing I noticed: It says the project is worth of 7 person years of effort and would have cost $402,942 to code from scratch. I do know I have worked pretty hard on this one but doing a job of 7 years in around half a year isn’t bad at all even for me!

Speaking of money, I’ve got around $30 worth of donations as of now. Well… I guess that’s kinda fair… or what do you think? 8)

Forum created

April 19th, 2011 by celeron55

There have been many requests for a discussion board, so I have now created one, and hosted it myself. I hope it gets lots of users, but not so much that it’ll completely kill my connection. 8-)