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This has two problems: How do you handle keyboard layouts other than QWERTY? How do you let the client change that key, especially if they already use that key for something like movement? I would rather have more “special” keys (special2, special3, special4 would be a good start), which the client...

I'm not positive that a packet would have to be sent for *every* keypress. I.e. the client could be told upon connection what a key is bound to and just send a packet if that key is pressed. It has to send on every keypress, as long as scripts are server-side only (IIRC, keypresses are sent no matt...

Actually, you will note that I didn't deny his claims. I simply asked what they were based on. We need that information to understand what the actual complaint is. Which word don't you understand? World, or size? His complaint sounds like mine, and is pretty easy to understand : the world could be ...

But Minetest's world size is way way too small in my opinion! Ah, but to understand the significance of your statement, we need to understand what actual experience your opinion is based upon. Say "Minetest's very own homepage"? No-one would ever consider a 64km-sided cube " Almost i...

We could do something like "Congratulations! You've reached the end of the game! Click here to restart" - and teleport the player back to spawn. It would be silly, but so is trying to reach the end (of the map) for no other reason than complaining about there beeing one :-) I won't go all...

Maybe I'm stating the obvious, but you might want to take a look at MTSatellite : https://bitbucket.org/s_l_teichmann/mtsatellite/

And especially its mtredisalize component : https://bitbucket.org/s_l_teichmann/mts ... redisalize

Someone doesn't like SQL much. :P Sure, but that someone wouldn't be me. It's just SQL is overkill when you want key/value storage. Minetest's legacy storage scheme is really an abuse of SQL, for instance. A lot of these non-transactional DBMS backends probably don't behave well in server clusters ...

1. altering the database code to use MariaDB (or Postgre SQL or even MySQL) or similar distributed-server-friendly dedicated DBMS; and Don't. The whole idea is great, but don't use a screwdriver to hit a nail. If you're going to add a dependance to an external storage engine, you'd be much better w...

Why aren't the menus handled client side? Because virtually nothing is handled client-side. Well, that's a bit of an over-statement, but it reflects the general direction. Note that, given a considerable coding effort, it could be theoretically possible to move some things to client-side. Though, a...

Mycraft is a rather good name. Maybe a little too good too be safe, though.

i1abnrk wrote:License MIT, free for non-commercial and educational use.

Make up your mind : either it's not MIT, or you can't forbid commercial use.

Nice work anyway.

Calinou, do you think there's a viable way to reduce the number of node boxes it uses? Yes, you can make good-looking torches with only one nodebox and one node definition. This is controversial due to wall torches being straight and not being vertically offset, but anyway, here it is . Are nodebox...

Baggypants wrote:Maybe Microsoft will open source Minecraft.

At one point, Notch suggested he would eventually open-source it himself (like when sales would drop). I guess this is out of question now.

From what I understand of the code, it would mostly be client side. The server would need to send gravity spots and do player rotation differently. It wouldn't be a rewrite of the engine, just a rewrite of several classes. I talked about this with pa about a year ago. I guess we would need better e...

Kilarin wrote:

TheToon wrote:I don't think it would work as well for plants spreading, but it would certainly work for plants growing.

As long as we don't use this for cross-block growind/spreading, it should be fine. Of course, you probably don't want to handle infinitely-growing trees with such a mechanism.

I might be stating the obvious here, but I do think part of the solution lies in how the mods are implemented (providing the API allows it, but if not it should be a welcome addition). Whenever a mod's effects depends on elapsed time, one should really express it as a function of a variable time (dt...

This is not tesselation; this is just generic optimization, sometimes called “remipping”. Minecraft does not perform any of this at all (however, it's said to render quads instead of triangles, but it's not like we can check). The problem when doing such a thing is that the game may freeze often, e...

Beside UDP and TCP, there's now SCTP - which from what I understood tries to offer the best of both worlds. Support is scarce in Windows (needs an extra-driver) but it should be OK for every version of Linux under the sun (anything post-kernel-2.4, apparently).

emugod wrote:gameplay is highly vertical

{{Citation needed}}

What I was really suggesting was to 'fake' this, without any need for the gravity changing around, by instead using the wraparound/loop on a normal flat map, just arranged as an unfolded cube laid flat (most commonly shown as cross shaped). More because I really feel the true 3D cube world just wou...

Nope, it would still be an engine rewrite. My point, exactly. Well, rewrite might be a bit of an exageration, but that's certainly not just a matter of a changing a datatype declaration. I'm surprised, though, how well minetest behaves when you cross the boundaries : you can easily teleport beyond ...

A possible suggestion for those who want more horizontal exploration space. An approach that MIGHT require a smaller engine rewrite. Don't get me wrong : I didn't expect such a thing to be doable without modifying the engine. The whole discussion has been mostly spent on "why would you ever ne...

My walkabout from around the middle of my singleplayer map to the edge of the world. https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=9651 It's a LONG way there. Not everyone starts from the middle of the map. On multiplayer environments, it makes sense to dispatch players here and there, especia...

eh? Yeah put my inventory full of mese and diamonds on a creative server and smuggle that onto a survival server? The only things that should be safe to take accross by default would be player identity and maybe personal skin texture, nothing else. I do second that, as long as servers aren't aware ...

First of all, you'd have to limit that to willing servers. Then, you'd want those servers to run the same mapgen (or at least mapgens aware of each other, e.g. each creating island(s) surrounded by sea), or else you'd have some really "interesting" seams between servers. Same goes for avai...