rubenwardy @rubenwardy@fosstodon.org

April - This Month in #Minetest

This month, engine development picks up with regular meetings, NodeCore gets a 24/7 livestream, and the Minetest Blog is now official!

https://blog.minetest.net/2022/05/08/April/

Another plane has rolled onto the tarmac from Apercy’s hanger. The PA28 is a small passenger plane that can fit up to 4 passengers. Like all the other planes, it is paintable too!

#ThisMonthInMinetest

Read more #Minetest updates at https://blog.minetest.net/2022/05/08/April/

#Minetest has reached 10,000 commits! A commit is a change to the code, and could be a feature, bug fix, or maintenance change

It works out to be 72 commits per month, on average, since Minetest was first started

My 2021 #PixelArt gallery wound up quite nice, so I have several pieces to share! Let's start with a landscape inspired by a real location from my childhood.

Mastodon is cool but it lacks my favorite feature from birdsite which is the timeline jumping as soon as your eyes see an interesting post that you'll never find again

We have now collectively gained 112,413 monthly active users in the last few days, and 149,720 compared to the end of March. That's a 62% increase. Total now at 384K MAU across Mastodon.

I remember one of the things that motivated me to look into the state of decentralized social media (and ultimately begin working on Mastodon) in 2016 were talks that a controversial billionaire might buy Twitter.

#Minetest 5.5.0 release candidate: https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=27731

Please help by testing it. As we've moved to our own Irrlicht fork, it needs to be tested on a large variety of platforms.

If you're a game/mod author, then please make sure your games/mods still works on Minetest 5.5.0