Game crashes with Minetest 0.4.16

[bonsaiheldin]

Hello! I just downloaded your subgame, but i can't get it running, using the latest stable 0.4.16 on Ubuntu 64 bit. It crashes just before the ingame screen should appear, right after the loading completes.

I tried to remove all mods and add folder by folder until it crashes. I found out, that it works only when i remove default from the mods folder. But then, of course, the world is empty. But it must be something within that folder.

Here is my debug.txt: https://pastebin.com/9d2B2Zjg

[CasimirKaPazi]

The latest release compatible with Minetest 0.4.16 is this one: Voxelgarden 0.4.16.2

The current git version only works with the 0.5 development version of Minetest, because there are a lot of changes in 0.5 that break compatibility.

[bonsaiheldin]

Oh sorry, i forgot to tell which version of Voxelgarden i've tried. It's the 0.4.16.2 you have linked to. It just crashes with the log messages i've put on pastebin.com. I've not added any other mods and i've even tried re-downloading the file from the link you provided. It's also a fresh minetest as i just installed it a few days ago. Renaming the folder to just "Voxelgarden" doesn't help, too.

[CasimirKaPazi]

Ok that's stange. Normally there should be some error message of some sort. What also confuses me, is that in your menu you have no header and no mention of the subgame used in the upper left corner.

Do the other subgames work? Does the header appear when you switch to another subgame and then back to VG? Is there any more output when running minetest with "--verbose"?

[bonsaiheldin]

The other subgames work, of course.

The header appears above the UI when i select a subgame below the UI instead of the world which was created with the subgame. I don't know if that's any different from the windows version of Minetest. By the way, i also tried the game with v6 and v7 mapgen, it crashed with both.

I ran the game with --verbose but it seems the error messages are just the same as without: https://pastebin.com/EZyARWz4

I now ran the game from the console and saw there some error which does not appear in the debug.txt file. It's in german, but maybe it helps somehow:

minetest: /build/minetest-wva50I/minetest-0.4.16/src/nodedef.cpp:691: void ContentFeatures::updateTextures(ITextureSource*, IShaderSource*, irr::scene::IMeshManipulator*, Client*, const TextureSettings&): Zusicherung »liquid_type == LIQUID_SOURCE« nicht erfüllt.
Abgebrochen (Speicherabzug geschrieben)

To me it looks like some kind of problem on my side, though i don't know what i could do. Also, i can play other subgames without any problem.

Sorry that i don't have any more infos. All i know is that the game runs when i remove the default folder from the mod folder of the subgame, which leads to an empty world and me falling forever. 😅

Maybe your subgame will work on later versions, either of itself Minetest. I will keep an eye on it, it sounds promising! 😀

[CasimirKaPazi]

Thanks for the information. By the way, I do speak German, but I would like to keep the conversation in English. Can you please try replacing this definition in mods/default/nodes.lua line 466:

-- Dummy node for valleys mapgen.
minetest.register_node("default:river_water_source", {
description = "River Water Dummy Node",
drawtype = "liquid",
tiles = {"default_water.png"},
alpha = 160,
paramtype = "light",
walkable = false,
pointable = false,
diggable = false,
buildable_to = true,
drowning = false,
drop = "",
liquidtype = "source",
liquid_alternative_flowing = "default:water_flowing",
liquid_alternative_source = "default:water_source",
liquid_renewable = false,
groups = {water=3, liquid=3, not_in_creative_inventory=1},
})

For now I can't think of anything else causing this error.

[bonsaiheldin]

Wow. It finally seems to work with this piece of code. Very nice! 👍

I suggest to include this for everyone else, too.