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Mark54321 has made an absolute brilliant new box named "Portal". Go check it out.

Wouldn’t it be enough to register a custom authentication handler with core.register_authentication_handler(…) doing all that for you? It could interface with an on-server application or script, handling all of it independent from Luanti (and thus without its limitations. I was replying specificall...

SupercatsDad wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 25, 2026 13:28

How much of a Pipe-dream is it? Can it be done? Thanks.

Can be done in mods, and, isn't even too complicated. Needs: on player join/leave hooks saving inventory state to some central db/service, which can be done with the HTTP API (simplest, probably) or DB integration (slightly more complex).

5) Rebrand the confusingly named "MatchMaker" series (red teleporter) to "Quick Start" (because this is what it basically is) and move the teleporters to a spot where they can be accessed faster. Ideal for impatient players who are like "Just let me PLAY already, I don’t wa...

The new parcours series are surprisingly well hidden. No sign. No update in the terminal. Located at a place that makes no sense (neither on Play island nor the new "Series underground"). I only found them after looking at the screenshot again. Also, when I go to the final part after the ...

image.jpg New series available: [*]Some Parkour [*]Mostly Parkour [*]Totally Parkour Each of these three series contains boxes with some parkour, mostly parkour, and pretty much nothing but parkour! While these new series have been added, I'm relaxing the parkour related rules that were in place fo...

Can you post what was wrong in your original code, and, what fixes you made that made it work?

I don't know what the actual library is that is needed. I assume it's libpq.so.5, but, that is just a wild guess. Sorry, I neither use debian nor postgresql myself.

The DB backends require (1) that luanti is built with the proper support enabled, and (2) the local support libraries are installed and (3) the actual database backend up and running (in case of pgsql). Most likely one or more of these things isn't right, and so it fails. You'd have to dig into the ...

yes, box[] stuff is what I mean.

Yes, this is a limitation due to the vertical spacing between font lines in the engine. I've ran into the same issue for my insidethebox server, which uses this exact sort of ascii-art bordering for all of its dialog windows.

You can opt to instead draw actual lines, through, and overlay them.

Yeah! I actually broke this. I'll get a fix in ASAP - this isn't too complicated fortunately. The auto-read function I added makes it skip sending the trigger, so, this will be an easy fix. Tested my fix and this is working again. If you spot any other issue, feel free to ping me by name on the ser...

Unsolvable Boxes! Trouble with Mechs Good luck solving 703 and similar boxes that have the following: Terminal -> mech -> output This type of connection worked in the editor. However, I found it doesn't work in older boxes. Subsequently making some boxes unsolvable. Yeah! I actually broke this. I'l...

After dinner walk on the beach.

ArceusI wrote: ↑

Sun Mar 22, 2026 05:58

Impossible, all dev..

please, stop ranting.

This thread here was about code security and reliability, and you're essentially off-topic blasting something that should be a separate thread.

Open a different thread for that nonsense.

Please link the bug report. I can't look at a forum post and magically understand what we're talking about here. This seems to be the issue Nininik is talking about: #17030 . Vague on details and without reproduction steps - and if there were details other than the machine running the server itself...

Yeah...Sofar just sort of insulted me with their reply. I'm not sure how I insulted you. I'm just asking for clarification. But still, how is Luanti going to protect the users of it when the OS itself is compromised? (Unless a user uses something like Ageless Linux or something related to Project T...

Why is it not a priority to fix the DOS Bug which happens when a script spams malformed packets to a server thread, making it unresponsive and skyrocketing cpu usage? It is a priority. What bug are you talking about here? the spamming of packets to a server causing unresponsiveness- the issue was c...

Nininik wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 21, 2026 15:38

Why is it not a priority to fix the DOS Bug which happens when a script spams malformed packets to a server thread, making it unresponsive and skyrocketing cpu usage?

It is a priority. What bug are you talking about here?

I've made some efforts in the past to do network fuzzing of Luanti, mostly focused on client->server attacks. A few bugs we've encountered in the past have been fixed. This is a time consuming effort. Good to know. But now that OS systems are getting compromised due to privacy violating mandates de...

I've made some efforts in the past to do network fuzzing of Luanti, mostly focused on client->server attacks. A few bugs we've encountered in the past have been fixed. This is a time consuming effort.

All data was recovered and the Inside the Box server is back up again!

(and yes, I made another backup right away ;))

This is terrifying. I am scared the boxes community work of 8 years has been nuked. PLEASE tell us that your backups work. I have full backups of the entire server from 2 weeks back, offline. So in the worst case, we'd lose just the work that was done on the boxes in the last 2 weeks, only. The ser...