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That's a super-complicated way of doing it, so I didn't actually read your code. Instead, I'd recommend to take a look at how the flowers mod does it (specifically its mapgen.lua file). Basically, just use minetest.register_decoration() for that.

A fascinating topic. Some requests actually lean towards replication, while others lean towards federation, and they are different beasts. If we talk about federation, MT's HTTP API (HTTPS preferably) should let servers exchange information about players as OP sketched. In my opinion the most valuab...

Here's a PR to update based on feedback: https://github.com/minetest/minetest.github.io/pull/282 Please take a look and make sure you get any comments in soon, as I don't want to update the privacy policy too often (as it requires making a post on the forums each time) Glad to help here. Another un...

I changed the drawtype to "firelike" and I think it looks better: Did that too in my game. There are pros and cons. One cons is that you see the "trick" with dynamic shadows when the sun (or the moon) is at noon. One can apply a small sun orbit tilt (15 degrees) to hide it (this...

One drawback I have noticed today: If your CPU is under heavy load and you are using a mesh chunk size bigger than 1, you will experience a noticeable delay between placing a node and that node actually appearing in the world, as the engine resolves the new mesh for that chunk. I didn't experience ...

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Mon May 29, 2023 21:34

Randomly comes across this topic: "Hey, this question seems familiar."

Not putting the blame on you at all, rather just a tip: you should have quoted them in your reply, as it triggers a notification that they'll eventually notice.

Probably because it does not exist. Also, the last paragraph doesn't make sense to me.

Apparently you are a modder. Do you ask how to do it with a mod? If this is the case, indeed you should have posted in "modding discussion" instead.

It's not like anything can magically be made significantly more efficient and better if done in the engine. The effect already exists in the engine, but hardcoded. It is kind of dumb to remake a poor man's version with a script. A new texture layout for plants It's not like anything can magically b...

Let mods trigger the flashing borders effect This is the visual effect that happens when the player is hit; a brief red flash on the borders of the screen, with control on the color, and ideally the duration. Use cases: - a green flash for healing - "buff"/"debuff" effects such ...

I have no problem with the name Minetest myself. It's not particularly creative or anything, sure, but it does the job, and it definitely has recognition. To people already in the Minetest community, the name is fine, and there's certainly affection for the name that has been used for the past ~13 ...

The Minetest name is, without any doubt, the most recognized among FOSS voxel games. Cheers, bzt Really? I don't think MT is on Wesnoth, 0ad level of awareness. I've never heard of the last 2, so not great examples. I would have thought OpenRA and SuperTux were bigger names. I think Veleron is bigg...

Frédéric Veron a fait exactement cela. Il existe une longue vidéo où il parle de son expérience, mais je n'arrive pas à la retrouver.

as long as MTG remains the default built-in game that almost every mod depends on, i see absolutely no reason to go for a different name. the name fits on the box because it is what it is. Let's push it further: Let MTG be "Minetest" again and rename the engine instead. That is not a big ...

You can also decide not to use one or the other. Mesecons for example uses globalstep and stores its actionqueue itself in a file. It doesn't sound like a good strategy; file access through Lua is probably worse than native DB access (at least with default Sqlite engine). The only way it could resu...

Platform, OS, device, etc You should not "etc" here. By using this service, you give permission for the data to be moved as needed. Moved to.. where? As the service is currently under EU laws, I think it would be better to state that it will stay in EU, or else people can imagine that som...

If everything else doesn't fit, you can take a look at the source of my game, specifically the "mf" folder (but it's a mess, so good luck). It does tip-in-chat on player login and on demand with the /tips chat command. The upcoming release should feature a mod that sends to the player a me...

It's not a bad plan, but the way the default game and mods provide saplings and seeds to the player kind of go against what you want to do, even if you reduce significantly the drop chance for them. The most common problem you'll face is exponential growth. For instance if you get two bush saplings ...

I had that type of symptom some time ago; that was caused by mobs. They were spawning (and rarely despawning because of a bug) in some shallow underground cavern. After a while they were dozens of them. The way to check for that is to activate debug wire frame display and look around; with this debu...

I can say I came from the other direction: I wanted to make a "shooter with jetpacks", and I wanted to make the 3/4 types of activities players like (fighting, farming, exploration) viable through player trades. By "viable" I mean players can feel useful doing something and earn ...

Thanks, Blockhead, for your quite complete answer -- perhaps a bit too much, don't show to newbies dirty Lua tricks... ;-)

Funny, I read it as "the world probably was saved by <a hero>". Anyway. A few things that comes to my mind: - tell us which database you are using (if you have no idea what I'm talking about, it's probably Sqlite3), - maybe the machines have different architectures (e.g. ARM vs x86 vs x86_...

ok, thanks. But the thing is I would also have to create my own physics API with equations and such. I would have to use engine (Irrlicht) code for that maybe. I don't think Minetest's LUA API is good enough when it comes to entities and physics. We already have a vector library, though I suppose f...

Je ne vois pas d'erreur de logique dans ce code. Je pense que le problème est dans la nature de la variable "count". Normalement, en Lua, toute variable est automatiquement créé globalement à la première mention si elle n'existe pas, donc sa valeur devrait persister. Mais LuaController et ...

It would be more interesting to compare with a customized 5.4 Lua (current version). 5.1 is old (2006!), and users have noted speed improvements in interpreted Lua over the years. The problem with JIT is that if you are on a platform that is not supported by your JIT engine, you are screwed if the s...

I can only advise to switch to another minetest game - there are plenty on CDB that all (I guess) have better than minimalist gameplay. For instance Repixture was featured in the latest MT blog, you could try it. You could also switch to the "metagame" of modding MTG, that is the game of a...