[Mod] Restart Gift [restart_gift]

[ChimneySwift]

Restart Gift

Server restarts and crashes are a necessary but annoying part of the Minetest game, so this mod tries to make them more bearable by giving players who log back in after a restart/crash a little gift.

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Code license: MIT

Dependencies: None

Usage

Modify the variables on lines 1 to 7 of init.lua to change gift timeout (amount of time after a restart players who were kicked have to log in bu to receive a gift) in seconds (default: 300 seconds or 5 minutes), gift name (default: "default:mese"), and gift count (default: 1)

[AccidentallyRhine]

The only problem I foresee is that this could incentivize players to abuse issues known to cause server crashes. Though I guess that would also be motivation to actually address server crashes...

[KatzEyez]

It's a neat idea. Probably best used on PvP servers.

You could make the gift something small. Perhaps the gift could be a fruit that isn't available in the game, but admins have access to it, like strawberry, orange or banana.

I have died because of crashes before. It would have been nice to have a small token gift, even if it was just a food item.

The only servers that might not be able to offer gifts would be creative servers, since there's not too much that you can give a player that they're not able to give themselves, unless the owners add some desirable blocks that are hidden from creative.

[ChimneySwift]

The issue of players exploiting this feature is real, just by restarting in singleplayer with it enabled while I was debugging I collected a not insignificant quantity of mese blocks, which is why I recommend servers set the item to something like a Cookie, where it doesn't really matter if players have access to lots of them easily.

I may investigate (if enough community interest is shown toward this mod) making it so a gift can be given randomly from a list of items.

[Chem871]

Free cookies are nice :P

[ThomasMonroe]

COOOOKKKIIIIEEESSSSS
Everyone like cookies!

[AccidentallyRhine]

If you configure your server to use this mod, it would be nice to set

ask_reconnect_on_crash = true

and

kick_msg_crash = There was an issue but you may reconnect to receive a free cookie.

[Byakuren]

There could be a cooldown time so that players are limited to one restart bonus per X hours or something like that.

[ChimneySwift]

There could be a cooldown time so that players are limited to one restart bonus per X hours or something like that.

Yeah I'm going to look into doing that, should be doable with a bit of reworking, I'd have to have a separate database to record who has been rewarded or something like that, I'll look into it, LadyK actually mentioned a similar idea to me via PM so I'm glad to hear others agree.

BTW, your signature is amazing

[ManElevation]

ah nice mod, does it send them a message too?

[ChimneySwift]

does it send them a message too?

yep!

"We're sorry you were kicked, have <gift quantity> <gift description> as a thank you gift for coming back :)"

You can modify it on line 50 of init.lua if you wish.

[lonestar]

This is the type of mods that I like to see, along with your sendstack and temp_priv mods, as they actually give something unique to the game. Nothing wrong with the other mods here, but there are so many variations of the same type of mod or do basically the same thing. Good job and thank you for your contributions.

[ManElevation]

yep!

"We're sorry you were kicked, have <gift quantity> <gift description> as a thank you gift for coming back :)"

You can modify it on line 50 of init.lua if you wish.

sounds great