Make everything unbreakable!

[AiTechEye]

Players that easly glitch break through protected walls when there are small lags, doors without lags, or a celling to easly fall into the buildnings.

Its too easy to get through everyting, except unbreakable things


why not make everything to unbreakable, then set the drop level when a player is poiting a block that is able to break?, namely uprotected and allowed by can_dig

same for buildable_to, so players can't glitch climb by placing blocks in protected areas

[sorcerykid]

The unbreakable group is set in the node definition, and cannot be applied to a single instance of a node in world.

Your idea has merit, but what you are suggesting would require an internal engine change. Perhaps one possible solution would be the addition of a param3, with bits for buildable, breakable, climbable, and walkable that could be inherited from the node definition, and thus resolved entirely on the client-side.

[Wuzzy]

That would be actually almost trivial to code. Just assign the player a hand which can't dig anything. The Lua API upports custom settable hands since a while.

Okay, there's a small problem: Nodes with the group dig_immediate can still be dug, no matter what.

[sorcerykid]

The player needs to be able to dig areas that they own. But due to client-side prediction, such checks would be very difficult to implement on the server side (even given my solution above)