Wuzzy wrote:
I don't like that usual wooden planks and tree nodes are now placable like pontoons as well. It's less convenient in my opinion. If you want to build wooden planks underwater, you're screwed. I think this was a bad idea.
I also don't like that the wooden pontoon is disabled by default. WTF?
They're all independently configurable, so they can be enabled or disabled to your taste. The reason wooden pontoons were disabled by default was because wood and log floating was enabled by default - a wooden pontoon is completely redundant if you can build wooden planks directly into the water. I can see your point, though - when I was testing building pilings underwater I must have been using noclip, it's hard to get stuff on the ocean floor without it.
I'll swap the defaults. They can still be set to whatever pattern users prefer, of course.
Wuzzy wrote:
Steel pontoons are a bit cheap, they only cost 4 steel ingots. A real steel block costs 9 steel ingots.
Well, they're hollow, after all. :) IMO the balance problem is more that steel blocks aren't as useful as they should be. When I build a structure out of solid steel blocks I would expect it to be a mighty vault, worthy of the investment I spent. But in basic default minetest it can be tunneled through almost as easily as any other basic building block. I've got the same issue with stone brick, those nodes take a lot of work to construct and are only more useful than cobble for cosmetic reasons.
Perhaps a subject for another mod.
Wuzzy wrote:
Steel pontoons are pointless anyway, as wooden planks can be placed into lava as well.
They can, but they don't last very long.
