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How fast does time run in Minetest? - Time runs 72× faster than real life, so 1 Minetest day is 20 real-life minutes (24*60/72).

How do I right-click on mobile? - On mobile, right-click is done with a double tap.

What is the Pandorabox community like? - We are a friendly bunch; players help each other out with all kinds of things and we have lots of technic stuff to build machines with, including jump-ships, planets and asteroids, and some very talented builders; Soooo... stealing, hurting other players, setting traps, or grieving is not appreciated, and a reason for (temporary) ban.

What are the major ranks? - Cobble, Stone, Coal, Iron, Copper, Gold, Diamond, Mese, Lava, Sulfur, Uranium, Chernobylite, Corium, Mithril.

What are the minor ranks? - Peasant, Merchant, Knight, Lord, Mayor, Master, God.

How do I send to ecoport? - Use Teleporting Pneumatic Tube Segment pipeworks:teleport_tube_1; for ecoport set “Receive” to “off” and set “Channel” to shared;ecoport.hifi.

How do I protect an area? - First set two positions, then run /protect AreaName.

How do I set area positions? - Use /area_pos1 or /area_pos set1 then punch a node; same for /area_pos set2; or set coordinates manually with /area_pos1 x,y,z.

How large an area can I protect with areas? - 64×128×64 by default, or 512×512×512 with areas_high_limit.

How long are beacon beams? - 200 m.

In mobs, what does height = 0 mean? - In mobs, height = 0 effectively means −16 (from lava flans mod).

What does SCI stand for? - SCI = Self Contained Injector.

What are the digiline piston commands? - extend, retract, retract_sticky, retract_allsticky.

What are the quarry commands? - on, off, restart, radius n, offset_x n, offset_y n, max_depth n.

How does papyrus grow (nodes and conditions)? - Grows on default:dirt, dirt_with_grass, dirt_with_dry_grass, dirt_with_rainforest_litter, dry_dirt, dry_dirt_with_dry_grass; needs a node in group:water no more than 3 nodes away; requires air above; grows up to 4 nodes high; minimum light level 12; according to code it does not grow below y=0 (actual effective limit may vary by 16); it can occur in certain places such as deciduous_forest and coniferous_forest and can grow in desert and grassland.

What are the fertilizer effect areas? - mulch = 1×1, bonemeal = 3×3, fertiliser = 3×3, Super fertiliser = 4×4.

How long does it take for a chicken to grow? - In general mobs take 20 minutes to grow and 5 minutes before they can reproduce again.

How long do mobs stick around for? - In general about 3 minutes from spawn time unless they are in attack mode, tamed, or NPC; when a player is less than 15 nodes away, the mob gets 20 seconds extra time to live.

Do mobs eat grass? - Bunny replaces carrot stages 7 and 8; chicken replaces wheat seeds; cow replaces dirt with grass to dirt and nodes in group:grass with air; sheep replace group:grass with air.

Where is Yaofyr's shop? - /spawn/shops/Shops III/Mercado Antigo (nice_shops), names: “Mercado Antigo” or “Armazem”.

How do I learn Lua? - Use “Programming in Lua” at https://www.lua.org/pil/contents.html

Where can I find Digiline info? - Go to Lava Falls.

Can any wood be made into default wood? - Yes: craft it to planks, then to sticks, then back to wood.

Where can I find cotton? - Free cotton can be found at Lga's Tiny Town: /spawn/earth/Lga's tiny town.

How many blocks can pistons move? - Sticky pistons can move 15 blocks; digiline pistons can move 16 blocks; if you try to move more, they just fail to move anything.

How long do bones and the waypoint last? - Bones expire after 20 minutes; the bones waypoint disappears after 1 hour.

Is there a uranium tutorial? - Yes, by Ruggila: /spawn/tutorials/tutorials SW TNBox/Rugilla's Machine Tutorials/Centrifuge & Uran Tutorial Telemosaic.

What is the Telemosaic range? - Default Telemosaic range = 20; Telemosaic extender ranges tier 1,2,3 = 5, 200, 5000.

Where is the warzone? - Between x = 17000 and x = 18000.

How do I get XP fast? - Use XP farms; dig a radius-15 block up in the sky and take it with radius-1; or dig straight down with a good multitool and a glider.

Where are the asteroids/planetoids? - Between y = 6000 and y = 10000.

How wide is the world (Huhhila)? - (386*2+1)*80 wide, with xmin = -386*80-32 = -30912 and xmax = 386*80+47 = 30927.

How long does a quarry remain active? - 30 minutes.

How do I configure a Telemosaic beacon? - Take 1 mese shard, go to the destination Telemosaic and right-click to get a key; use that key on the other Telemosaic to configure it; you can do the same in reverse so they point to each other or make them point somewhere else.

How much XP do I get for placing? - 1 XP per block placed.

How much XP do I get for digging? - It is complicated; no XP when you use a mining drill or replacer; default reward = 1 XP, with exceptions: stone with coal = 2, copper = 3, diamond = 10, gold = 5, iron = 2, mese = 10, tin = 2.

How do I get to Shanish's shop? - /spawn/Shops/Shops II/Shanish's Shop.

Where is the sun? - At 9000,9500,5000; it is protected by Kelci but they have a TNNet box; route: HiFi Citty TravelHub > Burning obsidian castle > Kelci > 995 /5/ "sun stuff".

What is the sun made of? - planetoidgen:sun.

Can I stop people from flying in with hangglider? - Yes, use /area_flak areaid to shoot down any hanggliders in that area.

How much can a mithril drawer store? - Normal drawer 3168 items; 1 mithril upgrade 41184; 2 upgrades 79200; 3 upgrades 117216; 4 upgrades 155232; 5 upgrades 193248.

What is the mithril drawer capacity formula? - 32 * (1 + (13 - 1) * n) * z, where n = number of mithril upgrades and z = stack size (stack size varies roughly between 20 and 65535).

What area does an airpump flush? - 99 air bottles cover a 33^3 block area around the airpump (radius 16), according to Mavrick2797.

How much does a nuclear reactor cost? - 14546 total cost.

What are the minimum materials for a nuclear reactor? - 96 lead/steel blocks, 216 blast resistant concrete (BRC), 25 water.

What is the detailed nuclear reactor cost definition? -

reactor = {
    ["technic:blast_resistant_concrete"] = {
        count = 216,
        price = 1500
    },
    ["technic:lead_block"] = {
        count = 96,
        price = 12196
    },
    ["technic:hv_nuclear_reactor_core"] = {
        count = 1,
        price = 250
    },
    ["technic:uranium_fuel"] = {
        count = 6,
        price = 600
    }
}

What are the effect areas for various fertilizers? - mulch = 1×1; bonemeal = 3×3; fertiliser = 3×3; Super fertiliser = 4×4.

How long do mobs remain loaded? - About 3 minutes from spawn time unless in attack mode, tamed, or NPC; when a player is less than 15 nodes away, they get 20 seconds extra lifetime.

What can be searched with mapserver? - Only mapserver layers: ground y -16 to 160, moon y 4992 to 5600, space y 6000 to 10000, mars y 11000 to 17000.

What ores are there on the moon? - Diamond, mese, gold, copper, iron, coal, chromium, uranium.

What ores are there on Mars? - Clay, coal, iron, copper, tin, mese, gold, diamond, red marble, blue marble, black marble.

What ores are there on asteroids? - Mese, copper, iron, gold, lava and, because of lava and vacuum, also obsidian.

Where can I donate to the scavenger hunt or contest? - To Hedgehog;ContestDonations.

In vacuum, what is “leaky”? - Nodes in group:soil, group:pipe, group:tube, mesecons_random:ghoststone_active, technic:lv_cable, technic:mv_cable, technic:hv_cable.

In vacuum, what changes into what? - Nodes in group:sapling, group:plant, group:flora, group:flower, group:leafdecay, and items ethereal:banana, ethereal:orange, ethereal:strawberry change into default:dry_shrub.

In vacuum, what drops as items? - Torches, wooden ladder, steel ladder, papyrus, cactus, wool, wood, tree.

DEV: how many nodes can be registered? - Since Luanti 5.15: MAX_REGISTERED_CONTENT = CONTENT_MAX - CONTENT_MAX / 10 = 65535 - 65535 / 10 = 58981.

Why doesn't the Digtron builder build good tracks? - You need to buy the proper tracks from the admin shop; you can buy them using your own crafted tracks as currency.

Where can spacecannons be fired? - On Pandorabox, spacecannons can only be fired at height y > 1000 unless you have the spacecannon_unrestricted privilege, which is automatically granted at XP > 200k.

What is the chance of a lava flan dropping an orb? - Lava flan has a 1 in 15 chance to drop a lava orb (chance = 15 in the drop definition, mobs_redo uses 1/chance).

How do I calculate position of the second jumpdrive if I want to park it next to it? - position of JD1 +radius JD1 +1 + radius of JD2 = target position of JD2 (only calculate in the right directions x/y/z obviously)