[Server] Inside The Box [Puzzles]

[Mr. Sun]

I want to know why sneak(shift) didn't work.

[ZenonSeth]

I want to know why sneak(shift) didn't work.

It's been asked before, if I remember, it's explicitly disabled because the sneak can be abused to get over obstacles, like jumping on places you otherwise can't - so basically it would give an unfair advantage to some people who know how to do the tricks.

[Pudding]

Can the text output from the 'speaker' mech be changed to look nicer. I find the underline text that it currently uses to be very intrusive. My personal recommendation is to have the text be coloured. This will allow the player to easily distinguish the different between text from a speaker and text that isn't. A light colour would be best.

[Wuzzy]

I've been trying to complete box 798 ("The Town") which is one of the most complex boxes in the game but I can't finish it because I keep getting kicked out due to timeouts, thus erasing my entire progress over and over again. :-(

I wonder if this is a problem with my connection or with the server. This hasn't happened to me before.

[Mantar]

Is the server on 5.10? I've had reports of timeout problems from a player on our 5.10 servers and reverting one of them to 5.7.0 fixed the trouble.

[Wuzzy]

The server is on 5.9.0 according to the MOTD.

[Wuzzy]

This server appears to have connectivity issues for months, I kept getting timeouts when staying on the server for a longer time. I’ve written about that before.

And now I simply cannot connect at all, it gets stuck in the media loading phase and in the console it says:

ERROR[CurlFetch]: HTTPFetch for https://minetestmedia.foo-projects.org/index.mth returned response code 405

What is going on? And what is "index.mth"? Is this "index.htm" misspelled? ;-)

[Desour]

".mth" is the Minetest Hashset File Format, see ClientMediaDownloader::deSerializeHashSet(). (Just a list of all sha1 hashes of the remote media server.)

Remote media servers changed a bit, see https://github.com/luanti-org/luanti/pull/15885. And sfan5 noted that sofar's needs to be fixed. Did nobody tell sofar so far? Edit: Done.

In the meantime, you can disable remote media with the enable_remote_media_server client setting.

[Wuzzy]

Disabling the remote media setting didn’t help, I download at a rate of 0.01 KiB/s. I guess all I can do is just wait until the issues are resolved? But thanks for the hint, I didn’t know remote media downloading can be turned off clientside.

[Wuzzy]

I can join the server again now, but I still occassionally get kicked out due to network timeouts, so playing the longer boxes is difficult.

There is a new warning appearing when I join the server:

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Ignoring unrecognized media font: pcsenior

Does this server try (and fail) to provide a custom font? The font file name must be regular.ttf or regular.woff (see lua_api.md).

[iisu]

What's the use of Flint and steel? Can I light things on fire?

[Wuzzy]

You can put flint and steel into an item frame. That's it. You can't light things on fire with it.

Some boxes might introduce special events that cause fire to appear, but never can you use flint and steel directly to do that.

[sofar]

The server will move to new hardware soon. There will be a short period where it will be shutdown. Hopefully just a few minutes, but, I might kick off players at the time. The new server is being tested and things seem to work, but you'll notice that things like the webpage and stats are going to take a little time to update. The same for rankings, those will come at a later time, and rankings might not be updated for a while until I get time to sort it all out. Cheers.

[Wuzzy]

Thanks for keeping this server alive!

[Loefrm23]

Love these "Inside The Box" puzzle threads — they’re weirdly addictive and I keep getting sucked into trying to find the hidden clue in the cabling or the rack diagram; anyone else solved the one where the power LED pattern spells a code, or have a favorite trick for spotting the red herring?

[sofar]

Thanks for keeping this server alive!

I'm not making any commitments, but, I do want to spend some time revamping the review system and make it community based, so we can get the backlog down, and encourage new builders.

[Papang]

Love these "Inside The Box" puzzle threads — they’re weirdly addictive and I keep getting sucked into trying to find the hidden clue in the cabling or the rack diagram; anyone else solved the one where the power LED pattern spells a code, or have a favorite trick for spotting the red herring?

Can you give the number of the box ?

[sofar]

The server is effectively moved to the new hardware. Rankings and webpage will get updated soon.

If you're having issues, DNS still needs to update. You can try to use `minetest.foo-projects.org` or `luanti.foo-projects.org` as the server name. Both should work. If you can't connect, you may need to wait until DNS changes propagate.

I'll work in the next few days to update all the attached scripts and services.

[Loefrm23]

Thanks for keeping this server alive!

I'm not making any commitments, but, I do want to spend some time revamping the review system and make it community based, so we can get the backlog down, and encourage new builders.

why not..its 911

[sofar]

why not..its 911

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[Inocudom]

-M- This particular puzzle in A Change Of Base is... Wow... I can't even begin to comprehend what the objective of it is. )M(

[Inocudom]

-M- I got past the ice wall, but I soon found the rest of A Song Of Ice And Nexus to be way harder. Even though I gave three item frames what they wanted and placed three nexuses, the big tree with the face on it still won't open. Even the switch that is on it doesn't seem to do anything. )M(

[Inocudom]

-M- This particular puzzle in A Change Of Base is... Wow... I can't even begin to comprehend what the objective of it is. )M(

-M- After looking up how to change decimal numbers into binary numbers and vice versa, I found out the following information shown below here. )M(

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1,789 / 2 = 894.5 (remainder is 1)
894 / 2 = 447 (remainder is 0)
447 / 2 = 223.5 (remainder is 1)
223 / 2 = 111.5 (remainder is 1)
111 / 2 = 55.5 (remainder is 1)
55 / 2 = 27.5 (remainder is 1)
27 / 2 = 13.5 (remainder is 1)
13 / 2 = 6.5 (remainder is 1)
6 / 2 = 3 (remainder is 0)
3 / 2 = 1.5 (remainder is 1)
1 / 2 = 0.5 (remainder is 1)

"1,789" == 11011111101

1 x (2^10) = 1,024
1 x (2^9) = 512
0 x (2^8) = 0
1 x (2^7) = 128
1 x (2^6) = 64
1 x (2^5) = 32
1 x (2^4) = 16
1 x (2^3) = 8
1 x (2^2) = 4
0 x (2^1) = 0
1 x (2^0) = 1

1,024 + 512 + 0 + 128 + 64 + 32 + 16 + 8 + 4 + 0 + 1 = 1,789

[Inocudom]

-M- I got past the ice wall, but I soon found the rest of A Song Of Ice And Nexus to be way harder. Even though I gave three item frames what they wanted and placed three nexuses, the big tree with the face on it still won't open. Even the switch that is on it doesn't seem to do anything. )M(

-M- I have come to the difficult conclusion that this box is broken and unbeatable. I dare someone to prove me wrong there. )M(

[Papang]

-M- I have come to the difficult conclusion that this box is broken and unbeatable. I dare someone to prove me wrong there. )M(

Hello Inocudom,

It took me quite a while to find the way out of that box again… But it still works! I realize now how lacking in clues it is—sorry, at the time it all seemed obvious to me…

To complete this box, once you’ve passed the ice wall, you need to place the three correct items in the item frames, turn on four hidden switches, collect four nexus, and place three of them on pedestals before pressing the tree button.

You’ll also need a ladder to reach the fourth pedestal!