Luanti isn't graphically stable in 5.15.0, the update might need to be pulled from the F-Droid repository

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I found a severe graphical glitch when using Luanti 5.15.0, and I tried pointing it out to Luanti’s developers: Making sure you're not a bot!

(Ignore the Bot message please, Luanti’s forums do that for some stupid reason)

Unfortunately I hit a standstill, and the only way to alert Luanti’s developers of their mistake, is to pull the update off of F-Droid, plus related repositories, making 5.14.0 the official stable release. Maybe that would shock Luanti’s developers into correcting the graphical glitches. Not to mention, I discovered it within 24 hours of the updates launch as well.

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Please provide the pics you were asked

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I did, they refused to do anything. I gave them a screenshot from 5.15.0, then one from 5.14.0, yet they still declined to do anything. I looked at the screenshots myself, they clearly show a serious glitch with the textures, and likely many others have stumbled across it too.

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Why do you think “they” would cover the truth?

Do you see the same glitches with a default Minetest game?

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I have the update on my Summit 5G! It has the standard MineTest game, I could test the mods there and see what happens!

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Same glitch confirmed in base MineTest game! So this graphical glitch is a Luanti problem, affecting ALL games & mods on its platform!

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You’ve tested their APK too, so we can exclude me b0rking the recipe?

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Yup, if it affects F-Droid, it affects all applications. Because 5.14.0 works perfectly, and it came from F-Droid too. That’s my assumption. Because there are other updates that they usually cover up, and the graphical glitch is definitely the result of the Luanti application itself. Nothing else.

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Now, read again and test their APK too…

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I could try, if it happens in the exact same way. That will confirm the glitch is on their end.

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Still happening, even when the APK is from their own server. The grass texture glitched up, it glitched the sand texture before the screenshot.

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Just installed Luanti 5.15 on my Pixel 6 and run a new world for both minetest_game and mineclonia and for me at least, both look fine with nothing out of place.

@Arceusl - Could you tell us the make and model of your mobile device please ?

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I tested it on 2 different devices. Both are Androids. That means others could be suffering from it, the graphical glitch is very real!

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This is why I asked for the make and model of the device(s). My current tests are on the Tensor and Snapdragon chipsets over 5 devices so far.

Did you go into settings, tick “show advanced settings” and set ‘array_texture_max’ to 0 as Rubenwardy suggested to see if that helped any ?

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I don’t think that’ll work, when I shoved a bunch of mods together the graphical glitches became apparent. So Luanti’s Node initialization system must’ve changed, which could’ve triggered the glitching.

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It couldn’t hurt to try it out, just to be sure :slight_smile: also which mods are you running alongside it ?

It was mentioned that you were running a Boost Summit 5G android phone which has quite a low powered Mediatek chip paired with only 4GB of ram, are you closing any open apps before you play Luanti/Minetest ?

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I use 4GB of RAM. But the mods are a mixture of mods, both adding quality of life improvements, and also adding additional content. It’s impossible to pinpoint the root cause.

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If you could list them I can easily check.

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That could take a while…Because I use 2 separate games: MineTest on the Summit 5G, and the unstable MineClonia on my T901 Tablet (Which is an Android 15 Tablet, 4GB of RAM as well).

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Going by the specs both of your devices are older mediatek models with 4gb, could be significant.