Not finding files in .minetest/games

[nycki93]

Where should I put custom games for this minetest install? The wiki suggests $HOME/.minetest/games, but that doesn't seem to work.

[popey]

I think they live in $HOME/snap/current/.minetest/games

[nycki93]

I noticed that whenever I installed anything with apt, I got an error related to installing Oracle Java 11. I checked and found that I had a previous failed install related to a minecraft setup. After purging that data (stackoverflow thread) I reinstalled this snap and it worked fine. I think maybe it was just swallowing an error.

[nycki93]

Wait, no, that error was related to me having accidentally installed both apt and snap packages. After purging that data, I'm back where I started. I've noticed this circular symlink:

nupa@stovepipe:~$ ls -la ~/snap/minetest/current/
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 2 nupa nupa 4096 May 11 01:19 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 nupa nupa 4096 May 11 01:18 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 nupa nupa    1 May 11 01:18 .minetest -> .
-rw-rw-r-- 1 nupa nupa  445 May 11 01:19 debug.txt

It looks like ~/snap/minetest/current/.minetest is symlinked backwards to ~/snap/minetest/current, which I don't think is intentional at all. Could that be why it's not finding my actual ~/.minetest folder?