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by orwell
Tue Nov 18, 2025 19:29
Forum: Problems
Topic: Corrupted Worlds
Replies: 9
Views: 449

Re: Corrupted Worlds

I thought it was fixed at some point. But maybe it has resurfaced now…
by orwell
Sat Nov 15, 2025 20:45
Forum: Modding Discussion
Topic: one-handed controls?
Replies: 2
Views: 110

Re: one-handed controls?

With the newest Luanti versions, I believe you can rebind anything to anything. So if you have a mouse with additional buttons you should be able to bind forward/backward to these additional mouse buttons. Maybe that‘s an option. Another thing could be trying to use a gamepad and control look direct...
by orwell
Thu Nov 13, 2025 23:33
Forum: Problems
Topic: Corrupted Worlds
Replies: 9
Views: 449

Re: Corrupted Worlds

This bug is very old, from 0.4.13 times iirc.
It is sufficient to simple delete env_meta.txt. No need to create a new world etc…

Afaik you only lose the ingame time of day (and total play time in the world) by this, so nothing particularly important.
by orwell
Mon Oct 27, 2025 15:54
Forum: Servers
Topic: Cash’s World legacy gathering
Replies: 7
Views: 1620

Re: Cash’s World legacy gathering

Cash‘s world was the first Server I played Minetest on. Feels a bit nostalgic. Unfortunately it seems no one has been able to rescue the world.
by orwell
Fri Oct 24, 2025 09:35
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Avoiding downloading server's "Media" after installing a new minetest client
Replies: 2
Views: 111

Re: Avoiding downloading server's "Media" after installing a new minetest client

Assuming you are on Windows:

You can copy the contents of the „cache“ folder over to the new version. Then it should find the media again.
by orwell
Wed Oct 15, 2025 09:25
Forum: Mod Releases
Topic: [Mod] Advanced Trains [advtrains] [2.8.0]
Replies: 2673
Views: 791416

Re: [Mod] Advanced Trains [advtrains] [2.8.0]

Has anyone ever encountered this error? AsyncErr: Lua: Runtime error from mod 'advtrains_line_automation' in callback LuaLBM::trigger(): ...64\mods\advtrains\advtrains_line_automation\stoprail.lua:24: attempt to index local 'stdata' (a nil value) stack traceback: ...64\mods\advtrains\advtrains_line...
by orwell
Mon Oct 13, 2025 19:17
Forum: Mod Releases
Topic: [Mod] Advanced Trains [advtrains] [2.8.0]
Replies: 2673
Views: 791416

Re: [Mod] Advanced Trains [advtrains] [2.8.0]

Has anyone ever encountered this error? AsyncErr: Lua: Runtime error from mod 'advtrains_line_automation' in callback LuaLBM::trigger(): ...64\mods\advtrains\advtrains_line_automation\stoprail.lua:24: attempt to index local 'stdata' (a nil value) stack traceback: ...64\mods\advtrains\advtrains_line...
by orwell
Sun Oct 05, 2025 14:11
Forum: Mod Releases
Topic: [Mod] Advanced Trains [advtrains] [2.8.0]
Replies: 2673
Views: 791416

Re: [Mod] Advanced Trains [advtrains] [2.8.0]

Updated advtrains to the latest version, tried to open world, got error: ModError: Failed to load and run script from /home/.../snap/minetest/1934/.minetest/mods/advtrains/advtrains_line_automation/init.lua: .../mods/advtrains/advtrains_line_automation/time_table.lua:33: attempt to call field 'node...
by orwell
Sun Oct 05, 2025 14:04
Forum: Mod Releases
Topic: [Mod] Advanced Trains [advtrains] [2.8.0]
Replies: 2673
Views: 791416

Re: [Mod] Advanced Trains [advtrains] [2.8.0]

Hi, apologies if this is the wrong place, but how can I debug what part of a rail/TCB is causing a crash like this: AsyncErr: Lua: Runtime error from mod 'advtrains' in callback environment_Step(): ...est/mods/advtrains/advtrains_interlocking/signal_api.lua:310: attempt to index local 'ndef' (a nil...
by orwell
Sun Sep 28, 2025 20:30
Forum: Mod Releases
Topic: [Mod] Advanced Trains [advtrains] [2.8.0]
Replies: 2673
Views: 791416

Re: [Mod] Advanced Trains [advtrains] [2.8.0]

2.8.0 released I have decided to release the timetable system from the Cesky Hvozd server, implemented by singularis_mzf (aka Davidsoft on LinuxForks) for his server. Over the last months I have been integrating it into upstream advtrains, removing the server-specific parts and making general sense...
by orwell
Sun Sep 28, 2025 16:12
Forum: Problems
Topic: [Solved] ContentDB - task failed - Unknown server error
Replies: 9
Views: 1966

Re: ContantDB - task failed - Unknown server error

It's a bug that ContentDB says "unknown server error" rather than telling you the problem. I'll fix this soon Hi rubenwardy, I have a similar problem with my package orwell/advtrains. In job https://content.luanti.org/tasks/0be2ca7d-e444-40f1-b578-7d911946a715/?r=/packages/orwell/advtrain...
by orwell
Thu Sep 04, 2025 19:10
Forum: Mod Releases
Topic: [Mod] Advanced Trains [advtrains] [2.8.0]
Replies: 2673
Views: 791416

Re: [Mod] Advanced Trains [advtrains] [2.6.0]

Hi all, it looks like the server hosting advtrains.de is currently experiencing a Denial of Service. It appears not to be a genuine attack, but rather some kind of webcrawler crawling the git.bananach.space cgit instance, which loads the server quite heavily. I have to contact the server administrat...
by orwell
Tue Aug 26, 2025 18:32
Forum: Mod Releases
Topic: [Mod] Advanced Trains [advtrains] [2.8.0]
Replies: 2673
Views: 791416

Re: [Mod] Advanced Trains [advtrains] [2.6.0]

After starting to move again it turned around and started moving in the other direction. I have noticed that behaviour too. I think that when the train thinks it becomes derailed cause I paused it on a curve, then the whole (coupled) train just flips around. I haven't 100% been able to reproduce it...
by orwell
Tue Aug 26, 2025 10:43
Forum: Mod Releases
Topic: [Mod] Advanced Trains [advtrains] [2.8.0]
Replies: 2673
Views: 791416

Re: [Mod] Advanced Trains [advtrains] [2.6.0]

After updating advtrains, basic_trains and advtrains_techage today, something broke. ModError: Failed to load and run script from /[...]/minetest/1934/.minetest/mods/tieless_tracks/init.lua: ...nap/minetest/1934/.minetest/mods/tieless_tracks/init.lua:13: attempt to call global 'attrans' (a nil valu...
by orwell
Sat Jun 28, 2025 16:18
Forum: Mod Releases
Topic: [Mod] Advanced Trains [advtrains] [2.8.0]
Replies: 2673
Views: 791416

Re: [Mod] Advanced Trains [advtrains] [2.6.0]

Actually are three mods what I know that adds catenary / overhead wires. Please, could somebody write in detail from each mod what is good, what has good idea but needs small rework and what is bad, what needs complete rework? What isn't in any of the overhead line mods and is interested to be incl...
by orwell
Thu Jun 26, 2025 20:41
Forum: Mod Releases
Topic: [Mod] Advanced Trains [advtrains] [2.8.0]
Replies: 2673
Views: 791416

Re: [Mod] Advanced Trains [advtrains] [2.6.0]

I have a small request to all people who contributed translations to advtrains in the past or are willing to do this. I recently went thru the codebase and added proper translation strings to all of the sub-mods. In this I also split each sub-mod into its own translation file. Since I only know Germ...
by orwell
Thu Jun 26, 2025 20:34
Forum: Mod Releases
Topic: [Mod] Advanced Trains [advtrains] [2.8.0]
Replies: 2673
Views: 791416

Re: [Mod] Advanced Trains [advtrains] [2.6.0]

Couple of problem I've come across. Can't remove TCB. When you assign a signal to a tcb; if you then remove the signal, it changes saying it's a distance signal, but no signals assigned. You then cannot remove the tcb as it believes it has a signal assigned. If you haven't assigned a signal, TCB ca...
by orwell
Tue Jun 24, 2025 19:43
Forum: Servers
Topic: [Server] LinuxForks (Lots of trains)
Replies: 530
Views: 167233

Re: [Server] LinuxForks (Lots of trains)

Announcement Due to an issue with the areas mod, the server is currently down. We are working on resolving the issue, but can not yet give an estimate when the server will be back online. We will update once we know more. orwell on behalf of gpcf PS: during downtime, some folks can be found on libe...
by orwell
Tue Jun 24, 2025 18:41
Forum: Mod Releases
Topic: [Mod] Advanced Trains [advtrains] [2.8.0]
Replies: 2673
Views: 791416

Re: [Mod] Advanced Trains [advtrains] [2.6.0]

... Also, a thing not related to this: when I attempt to place a wagon on a slope the game crashes. The wagon gets placed anyway and is where I placed it when I restart the game. Found a bug in the latest version of Advtrains that causes a crash when a train is placed on a slope. Further investigat...
by orwell
Tue Jun 10, 2025 10:50
Forum: Servers
Topic: [Server] LinuxForks (Lots of trains)
Replies: 530
Views: 167233

Re: [Server] LinuxForks (Lots of trains)

I have found an old image from data mining the media cache. I think it was meant to be used as a subway map for an older incarnation of LinuxForks, probably the original LinuxWorks server from 2016 (the present server was launched as "LinuxWorks NG", for Next Generation). I hope some of t...
by orwell
Wed Jun 04, 2025 16:21
Forum: Servers
Topic: looking for a long-term server!
Replies: 4
Views: 1860

Re: looking for a long-term server!

EDIT: I missed survival in your list of requirements... LinuxForks probably isn't what you're looking for in that case. It's not a creative-mode server but free food and shelter are available if you decide to take advantage of those offerings. I‘d not say so. We are a survival-mode and all resource...
by orwell
Wed May 07, 2025 18:12
Forum: Old Mods
Topic: [Old] [Mod] Means of transport tracking lines [linetrack]
Replies: 82
Views: 24608

Re: [Mod] Means of transport tracking lines [linetrack]

Hi,
Yesterday I released 2.6.0, with that the linetrack issues should be fixed. But make sure you are using the updated version from Emojiminetest (which is also on ContentDB)

orwell

EDIT: didn’t see blockhead already answered
by orwell
Tue May 06, 2025 22:34
Forum: Mod Releases
Topic: [Mod] Advanced Trains [advtrains] [2.8.0]
Replies: 2673
Views: 791416

Re: [Mod] Advanced Trains [advtrains] [2.6.0]

2.6.0 I decided to make a smaller release now because I am away the next weeks. Big new feature is the ability to do load balancing with ARS, a.k.a Multi-ARS. I documented it on the wiki (https://advtrains.de/wiki/doku.php?id=usage:interlocking:ars). Aside from this there are quite a few bugfixes t...
by orwell
Tue May 06, 2025 22:30
Forum: Mod Releases
Topic: [Mod] Advanced Trains [advtrains] [2.8.0]
Replies: 2673
Views: 791416

Re: [Mod] Advanced Trains [advtrains] [2.5.0]

I can not find how to remove a TCB from a track section anymore; the TCB formspec does not longer show the corresponding button. It seems like you need to remove (dissolve) the entire section now. Less related: it seems like sections are now split and merged automatically when TCBs are placed and r...
by orwell
Thu Apr 24, 2025 18:46
Forum: Mod Releases
Topic: [Mod] Advanced Trains [advtrains] [2.8.0]
Replies: 2673
Views: 791416

Re: [Mod] Advanced Trains [advtrains] [2.5.0] (LZB seems to prevent "enter"/"leave" callbacks)

I got a weird problem with my previously working setup of using LuaATC tracks for stations. I am using an unmodified Advtrains 2.5.0 from ContentDB. "enter"/"leave" callbacks for rails (those called when a train enters or leaves the rail) are now called when the train is at the ...