[mod] Simple Anchor [simple_anchor]

[zing269]

A node that keeps the map block it is in loaded when players are not near by.





Place the node to add its location to the force load list. Remove the node to remove it from the list. Punch it to see the area.

Area display based on Protector Redo by TenPlus1

Download: https://github.com/zing269/simple_ancho ... master.zip
Source: https://github.com/zing269/simple_anchor

Licenses: MIT and CC BY

[Chem871]

Sounds useful for singleplayer farms, nice.

[zing269]

Sounds useful for singleplayer farms, nice.

That is the reason I wrote it. All the other mods I found seemed overly complicated for my usage.

[TechNolaByte]

does it load the area EXCACLTLY like a player would, or is it pseudo loading?(

also love the area grid

[zing269]

does it load the area EXCACLTLY like a player would, or is it pseudo loading?(

also love the area grid

Honestly, that is pure speculation on my part. I call get_voxel_manip on the position of the node and use get_emerged_area to get the pmin and pmax of the actual loaded area. I'm assuming that the engine loads areas in a similar manner to get_voxel_manip but I could easily be wrong. I haven't looked through the actual engine code to confirm my suppositions.

I can't take credit for the area grid, I took that almost entirely from TenPlus1's Protection Redo.

[TechNolaByte]

I can't take credit for the area grid, I took that almost entirely from TenPlus1's Protection Redo.

but it was YOUR idea to include it which means while TenPlus1 made the original code you decided to modifi and use it

[cx384]

Nice mod, there is already a forceload mod but the show area function is very helpful.
viewtopic.php?t=10006

[zing269]

Nice mod, there is already a forceload mod but the show area function is very helpful.
viewtopic.php?t=10006

Thanks. I looked at that mod but decided I wanted a simpler mechanism.

That mod keeps a list of force loaded positions in a file and uses a globalstep to validate each position. This method is undoubtedly more robust than my implementation since the validation will remove a position if the anchor node is removed by any means.

In my mod the node is only removed if the anchor node's on_destruct callback fires, but there is no globalstep or additional file involved.

[Starbeamrainbowlabs]

Cool mod! Have you considered listing it on ContentDB (content.minetest.net), and adding a crafting recipe?

[DoyleChris]

I am having a problem with the simple anchor. I am running it on my server it is 5.5.0-dev. It dosen't seem to be completely loading the area. Some of the crops are growing but not all of them. The picture below shows the grid area it covers but also the un grown wheat.

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