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Hello everyone!
Drowning has been added to the engine. Some people in IRC said they dont like drowning (I dont really understand that), so I made this mod that disables drowning for the default liquids.

Depends:
default

License:
WTFPL

Download:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/bjyua6aytlct2 ... owning.zip

Does drowning happen even if the enable damage option isn't on?

Inocudom wrote:Does drowning happen even if the enable damage option isn't on?

Ehm... yes. It doesnt really make sense if it wouldnt.

PilzAdam wrote:Hello everyone!
Drowning has been added to the engine. Some people in IRC said they dont like drowning (I dont really understand that), so I made this mod that disables drowning for the default liquids.

Depends:
default

License:
WTFPL

Download:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/bjyua6aytlct2 ... owning.zip

I am all in favor of adding drowning to the engine but I, personally, would prefer to have a minetest.conf setting
to disable it rather than have to install a mod.

+1 anyway

stu wrote:I am all in favor of adding drowning to the engine but I, personally, would prefer to have a minetest.conf setting
to disable it rather than have to install a mod.

+1 anyway

A mod can be more handy than a minetest.conf setting, since you can enable/disable the mod per world.

PilzAdam wrote:

stu wrote:I am all in favor of adding drowning to the engine but I, personally, would prefer to have a minetest.conf setting
to disable it rather than have to install a mod.

+1 anyway

A mod can be more handy than a minetest.conf setting, since you can enable/disable the mod per world.

That is a good point, I agree. If you want to build underwater then you need to install this mod. I'm ok with that.

stu wrote:If you want to build underwater then you need to install this mod

Not if you like challenging gameplay.

PilzAdam wrote:

stu wrote:If you want to build underwater then you need to install this mod

Not if you like challenging gameplay.

/me approves

PilzAdam wrote:

Inocudom wrote:Does drowning happen even if the enable damage option isn't on?

Ehm... yes. It doesnt really make sense if it wouldnt.

…but I'm assuming that one wouldn't actually take damage from drowning, because getting damaged when damage is disabled makes even less sense.

hdastwb wrote:

PilzAdam wrote:

Inocudom wrote:Does drowning happen even if the enable damage option isn't on?

Ehm... yes. It doesnt really make sense if it wouldnt.

…but I'm assuming that one wouldn't actually take damage from drowning, because getting damaged when damage is disabled makes even less sense.

Oh, sorry, misread your post (missed the "n't").
Currently the drowning bar still shows up, put it will probably be changed.

... finally, I can say goodbye to my drowning_mod. Hello, no_drowning!

My idea is let a player kill monsters to earn experience points which can upgrade the time he can stay in water.

this doesnt support river water. I modified the lua to add support for it in my server. too bad this isnt on github.

But you do realize that the thread is nearly 5 years old now?

I do. Doesn't mean I can't improve the past ;)

It would be nice if OP put the mod on github

Fedora24 wrote:It would be nice if OP put the mod on github

It's licensed under WTFPL, so do what the fuck you want with the code :)

Put on GitLab (GitHub is teh evil now) or so, and then maybe improve to have drowning read from player properties to allow custom configuration a per-player basis.

I guess I'll do that then ;)

Check out PR https://github.com/minetest/minetest/pull/7706 that enables/disables drowning in the minetest.conf files.