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What I get from these interviews is that they don't use Minetest to teach things, they use it to introduce concepts. Minetest is a model of the real world. But as one says, "the map is not the territory". What is a limitation for us players and casual game designers is I think a great oppo...

Evidence? There's this: https://framinetest.org/en/ And for actual use, I can refer to french teachers experiences ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y73BoR23BfM ): A french teacher of mathematics in middle school says that he uses MT is to train his students at mental calculus and introduce concepts...

I think more professional attitude towards the world generation is needed in the first place. Don't use that word - "professional". It is too often used to bullshit people. For one thing, "Professional" qualifies activities people get a living from by being paid - as in "pr...

Regarding the player at the top of the tree, they don't have to be online 24/7: "inviters" would automatically have interact. This something I thought about but did not, indeed, mentioned. New exploit: Create a second account and "invite" them [...] so that you can get 24/7 inte...

Thanks for your perspective, Micheal64K. Regarding the player at the top of the tree, they don't have to be online 24/7: "inviters" would automatically have interact. This something I thought about but did not, indeed, mentioned. The loss of the inviter status if a subtree is detached is i...

I am writing down an idea I've had in mind for a while, but I am not sure it is worth implementing. New players can join but do not have interact privilege by default (*). It has to be granted by someone with the "invite" privilege. When someone invites a new player, the idea is that the &...

Nitpick: damage should be a function of the kinetic energy, so momentum times speed, or mass times (speed squared).
That said, since fall acceleration does not depend on the mass of the object, MT doesn't currently have (AFAIK) a built-in notion of mass to begin with.

I think adding a ymin an ymax property (min/max altitude) should also be considered. When applicable this is a win-win: the engine can skip iterations, and the ABM callback doesn't have to perform that check. The real question is how often it is applicable, though.

I actually tried this teleportation idea but gave up on it eventually, because it made the game more difficult than I expected. However, I guess that it depends on the mobs - speed and reach notably, because they determine the reaction time for the player. The teleportation distance is therefore als...

One player built chimney with iron bars and is trying to get blocks to pass through bars and trapdoors. Perhaps sometime if it makes sense, you could find some sort of blocks that could be considered as pass-through-able. Nice to hear that this mod is on a server other than mine ;-) This is definit...

Why specifically XML? I invite you to take a look at the experience of Oolite in the domain of AI, which is similar to what you want to do. They had a "Plist-based" system, which is (AFAIR) a native structure in Objective-C, their implementation language (OXP in Oolite lingo <=> "mod&...

I was too lazy to look into your mod, but it seems to me you could use: local spawnpos =minetest.setting_get_pos("static_spawnpoint") or {x=0,y=0,z=0} ... as a reasonable fallback if the player has no bed. They will be teleported to the spawning point. This is old code that was commented o...

Mobs can be nodes; imagine a slime monster that is a node that only moves one node at a time. Of course, Mob stands for Mobile, so it's debatable whether fireflies/butterflies are actually mobs, since they are animated and appear to move, but they never actually move from their spot. Actually you c...

it is a good point worth considering. Currently, a single universal 'dirt with snow' node is used when strictly it should be 'dirt with grass and snow' or 'dirt with coniferous litter and snow' instead. It is a little sloppy. However i still prefer the snowy side extending 75% down and covering the...

All moves are bad. Moving away from github is really, really bad. Moving to gitlab is also really, really bad. Not a single move will be a net positive. We already lost developers that no longer could fathom github. There will be developers that won't be able to swallow gitlab, either. Thus, the le...

I have pushed a minor update that makes smoke nodes "floodable" (stupid typo in the commit, won't go out of my way to fix it because it probably involves doing things hazardous that one should never do on a public repo), that is they are deleted by water or lava floods. I also have switche...

Would it be possible to make it so torches also make smoke? Also while being held? The second request is difficult to do, because one has to place the smoke node above the torch which is not aligned with a node when held by a character; placement would have to be computed smartly so that the node i...

TIL about EUPL. Interesting license!

ThorfinnS wrote:git?

The git link is provided on the ContentDB page:

https://github.com/ElCeejoYT/grave

Version 0.3: - introduces a WIND parameter that make smoke blocks randomly move laterally on occasions. This parameter should not be set too high, otherwise it could be a nuisance near furnaces. Contrary to what the parameter name suggests, there's actually no preferred direction. - The lifespan of ...

He asks if you would consider updating it...

This mod is fairly simple and works for me. Did you rename the folder noclip_block0.4-master into noclip_block?

If so, check again, mister "evisager" ;-)

Thank you! I checked performances only with the task manager, so it's nice to see actual figures. I didn't mention that we lost with this update the occasional "collisions" that make some nodes deviate from the straight upwards route. One could tweak the parameters to make it happen again ...

Version 0.2 is out: Merged Texmex' animated smoke texture. This is not related, but I discovered visual glitches when the smoke is next to a liquid which is due to transparency (the docs are very clear about the fact that it may occur), so I disabled transparency by default. At least Texmex' animati...

The source ABM is innocent, the CPU activity mainly varies with the number of smoke nodes (timers only). I haven't done any particular testing on this but this has been my anecdotal experience, anyway. It might be worth trying your mod with ABMs rather than node timers and doing a comparison to see...

PR inbound! Thanks! It looks good indeed. You forgot to license your texture, though. The update jitters now conflicts a little with the animation; the smoke nodes have a variable lifespan while the animation has a fixed duration. No big deal, but I'm considering changing the update jitters to a fi...