Subject: Return of Ruslan1 Grand Test Auto For: #Minetest Image: Screenshot of Ruslan1 Grand Test Auto Short link: https://dansu.org/ruslan1-gta Minetest and #Luanti people will be familiar with Ruslan1. He’s been around for at least 7 years, but we’ve never known much about him. We figure that he’s neurodiverse, his age is in the 20s, and he’s probably located in one of the Slavic countries. He’s always been polite, regardless, and this month I’ve tried to honor his one request. I created a Minetest world for Ruslan1 in the 2010s named GTA [or Grand Test Auto]. 🚗𖦹 🏁 I gave the world to Edgy McEdge [Stella Valkyrie] 👸🏻 because she wanted to host it. However, in recent years that copy was griefed 👹 and fell into disrepair. It looks like Edgy might have reset the map as well. Regardless, the old builds were lost. Eventually, the world disappeared. Sic Transit Gloria Minetest. Edgy is occupied with IRL matters. So, this Summer, Ruslan1 asked me to bring the world back from the dead. 🪦 For gamedevs who might be interested, here’s how that has gone. The GTA maps from the 2020s that I’ve checked so far have been griefed or reset. The only intact map 🌎 is from 2019. Fortunately, I think that a number of builds were in place by that year. 🏫 The modset is a problem. Edgy McEdge was using a GTA modset that I’d created originally, but the latest snapshots of that side weren’t compatible with the Final MT framework. So, I’ve replaced the Edgy-side mods with Bucket Game versions and I’m converting foreign blocks to types that Final MT supports. I’ll need to fix other glitches as well. Bucket Game 🪣 is the base modset for Final Minetest. For people who remember VanessaE 👩🏻 it’s comparable to her Dreambuilder modset but larger and more advanced. I usually use just a subset of Bucket Game to set up a world. I’ve managed to get GTA up and running to the extent that spawn appears as shown in the screenshot. The world is no longer lost. I don’t like to see things lost. Not when people have spent time on them. Time is precious. ⏳ So, I’ve preserved a few MT worlds from the past 14 years to the extent possible. I should have put the time, my own time, to other use. However, I’ll try to package 🎁 this project, both code and worlds, to the extent that it’ll be able to outlive me. Perhaps in the future, the box will be opened and builders who are then old will be pleased to see their past work of 50 years before. 🎉 Grand Test Auto isn’t open yet. It probably still has major breakage. So, the map will be reset repeatedly. However, for what it’s worth, the host is chillcorner.org and the port is 30095. Both MT4 and MT5 clients are supported. #Linux #gamedev #voxel @Wuzzy