Starting Minetest with the kiddos


Installed Minetest last night, and showed the kiddo this morning, still hunting for some fun mods for us to play locally.
The eldest is very excited, yelling in my ear every time we find something new, almost went deaf when we discovered a dungeon.
Last night I fell into a hole, and couldn't teleport or anything, all I could see was a tiny dot of sky above me, So I reset the game - after learning to craft torches today we expored and found tons of ore and another exit, leaving torches throughout for the future.

I built a glass wall infront of a cave for my home, and kiddo dug a home for himself that we've begun building out.
So far, we've figured out how to craft a furnace and smelt with it, and a chest to store some extra inventory.
Having a devil of a time trying to find some cotton to craft a bed with, and some red dye for that, but I've found a jungle where this is supposed to be, but trying to teleport there has been unsuccessful (I have no idea how the coordinate system works, it seemed straightforward, but discovering current location is harder than I thought)
I've installed a crafting guide mod, but now I need to find materials for a blue book to make it useful.

Eventually we'll find our way to the tildeverse.org server, but I want us all to understand the game better before getting into multiplayer.
Everything seems to take longer than I'd like - but steel tools are a huge help!




tags: minetest, gaming