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I encountered this same obstacle while developing my Ambience II mod back in 2017. I needed to cache ambient and dynamic sounds on a per-mapblock basis. Ultimately the solution I devised was to spawn a transparent entity at the center of each loaded mapblock. Since entitites are much less prone to d...

Congratulations to wata555, winner of our fourth Finding Nemo Challenge! This month's award included a trophy and a chest filled with stacks of dirt with grass and dirt with snow. https://i.imgur.com/ZhR9Pjx.png Afterward, several players gathered at Nemo's hiding spot for all the usual antics. It t...

https://i.imgur.com/udSMVk9.png Who's ready for another round of bunny-mania on JT2? Our fourth-annual Easter Egg hunt starts at 7am Central (noon GMT) this Sunday, April 20. You'll have exactly one week to find all 80 eggs that Nemo has hidden around Spawntown. Keep in mind that eggs may be anywhe...

Important Announcement This Wednesday at 1200 UTC (7:00am Central), the server will be shutdown for 24 hours to commemorate the original "just test" server that went offline on April 16, 2016. I will also be performing a full server backup to the cloud during this time. The server should ...

Congratulations to SuGg, winner of our third Finding Nemo Challenge! This month's award included a trophy and a chest filled with stacks of Melon and Pumpkin. https://i.imgur.com/0jsH9xd.png It was a close competition, as both SuGg and Galuhops were practically head to head even during the final min...

I just wanted to welcome aboard our returning moderator erstazi! https://i.imgur.com/CiuMpPk.png Being a veteran player in the Minetest community since 2013, I believe erstazi will make an excellent addition to the JT2 staff. Thanks for joining us once again. We certainly appreciate your dedication ...

https://i.imgur.com/uwmS7kZ.png I've received a number of reports that grass is once again not spreading as expected. Keep in mind that grass and snow on JT2 does not behave the same as vanilla Minetest game. So please consider these important caveats while landscaping: Dirt with grass and dirt wit...

At server startup, the init.lua script within each and every mod is executed exactly one time. Those scripts can register callback functions that are later executed during specific events (such as when a player joins a server). However, if no callbacks are registered, then nothing in the init.lua sc...

Cheers to the winner of our second Finding Nemo Challenge which was held earlier this month. Besides a trophy, jesus was awarded a chest filled with confetti and confetti cannons. Huzzah! https://i.imgur.com/fdjbM74.png Incidentally, this proved to be one one of the most difficult challenges to date...

Node meta is set programmatically, usually within the on_construct handler. Hence there is no way to automate the validation of node meta just by examining the node definition itself. The best you can do is scan the raw source files for sections of code that appear to set node meta (perhaps with the...

https://i.imgur.com/Yw0lpHk.png Thanks to everyone who attended our annual Valentine's party last weekend. We had a truly spectacular turnout. It was wonderful to see so many players sharing kindness and affection for the holiday! Nemo handed out plenty of Valentine's goodies throughout the evening...

https://i.imgur.com/tdEKGbp.png Are you looking for love this Valentine's Day? Grab your friends and join us this Saturday, Febuary 15 at Club Nemo for a night of love and heartbreak on the dancefloor, including a raffle drawing and free giveaways all night long! The Valentine's party officially ki...

This is definitely a concern, albeit thanfully a very rare occurence. It have to wonder whether this might incentivate creating a server-list moderation panel so that certain trusted members of the community (perhaps those who are already designated moderators on these forums) can log in and easily ...

Just a friendly reminder that building above others is not allowed. This rule particularly applies to properties at or above zero elevation or otherwise above ground within the city limits, which extends to Brookfield Rd (400 N), Valley Rd (400 E), Hill St (400 S), and Crystal Lake on the west. Plea...

An arial view of spawntown on JT2 at night. Looking eastward from Crystal Lake.

I'm happy to report that I was able to resolve this issue. It was not a memory leak nor was it related to fixes in the 5.x series. Rather it was a bug with mapblocks being continuously reloaded at the world border even after they were already in memory causing the associated static objects to be mul...

I'm happy to report that JT2 is up and running again! I had to patch the engine due to a critical bug that was causing repeated server crashes this past last Thursday. It turns out that objects at the world border were not being properly cleared during map loading, which led to out of memory errors....

The past several hours I've been experiencing regular server crashes where the minetestserver process just terminates without reporting any error. So I tried running minetestserver under gdb, and that shows that the process is being killed. Program terminated with signal SIGKILL, Killed. The program...

https://i.imgur.com/hKidyrF.png As many of you have already noticed, earlier this month I introduced environment sounds to JT2. I originally began work on this feature back in 2017, but it got put on hold. So I'm excited to see it finally go live! No longer is the world of JT2 dead silence. Now pla...

https://i.imgur.com/SfsArc4.png https://i.imgur.com/Q6TLwvT.png Testing my Ambience II Mod, which I finally completed earlier this month. I started work on this project back in January 2017, but it was put on hold due to an unresolved bug wth looped sounds. However, most of the core logic was alrea...

Congratulations to our Top Players of 2024! Due to the extended downtime of the server last year, I've awarded giftboxes to all players that have spent over 100 hours in-game (instead of the traditional 200 hours). Your names will also be listed on a new leaderboard at spawn. https://i.imgur.com/K2...

Cheers to iisu for winning this year's first Finding Nemo Challenge. You've been awarded a chest filled with chocolate eggs in addition to a trophy to commemorate your achievement! https://i.imgur.com/Ichscee.png Look forward to many more opportunities to win BIG throughout 2025! The rules are simpl...

I added a date calculator to JT2 that calculates the difference between two in-game dates, making it possible for players to determine how many real days until the new year or even the next century. https://i.imgur.com/IriDxvi.png The starting date defaults to the current date, but of course it can ...

I'm happy to report that the Spawncam mod has been completely overhauled to resolve a number of longstanding issues. These are mostly backend fixes and code refactoring, but it will greatly improve stability and reliability. In particular, I finally tracked down the cause of the camera becoming rand...

Just a friendly reminder that our weekly Block Party is BACK! Every Saturday night at 5pm Central (2300 UTC) is music, dancing, and fun at Club Nemo! To keep you hydrated, we'll be serving free drinks all night long. See you on the dancefloor! Note: To connect to the livestream, just enter your pers...