Change tool default range

[texmex]

I've managed to increase the range of the hand (":") by range = 12, but whenever another item is wielded the range falls back to something undefined, some default. How do I make it so that the player always has a minimum range of, say, 12?

[Desour]

Look how creative did it.

[texmex]

What? Did you read my post? :P

[Krock]

Add the wieldhand item to the player's "hand" slot. Otherwise it will fall back to 4m because Minetest doesn't know what to do in case an item without specified range is selected.

[texmex]

Add the wieldhand item to the player's "hand" slot. Otherwise it will fall back to 4m because Minetest doesn't know what to do in case an item without specified range is selected.

I don’t quite understand. I thought that was what I did. Are there extra steps past register_item(”:”)?

[Hybrid Dog]

If I understand that code correctly, it should set the range to the wielded item's range if available.
If the wielded item's range is unavailable, it sets the range to the hand's range,
except if both are inavailable, then it sets the range to 4.

I think that code does not do what it should do. Either all items have a range implicitly set to 4 at another place in code (except items which had range set during minetest.register_item), or the hand inventory list does not actually contain a hand?

[Desour]

What? Did you read my post? :P

Of course I did.
I thought that creative does what you want.
I have questions for you:
Do you also use MTG?
What are you trying to do exactly? Do you want that items which have their range set to eg. 3 have a bigger range (probably not)?
(hand invlist in lua_api.txt)