[Mod Proposal] alchemy + moonseed

[LocaL_ALchemisT]

hey guys & gals. I'm new to this forum and nice to meet you.

I've been using minetest for about a month and i'm interested in doing mods, although i'm not good in lua coding. Here are some mods that i've made.

Introducing "alchemy" mod.



found deep in the ground, liquid mercury is the main substance in this mod. harvesting mercury would require a bucket.





by processing the mercury (in the bucket), a philosopher's stone is produced.



this can be used to transmute steel into gold.



of course, it is not limited to ingots only...



"alchemy" depends on "default", "bucket" and "moreores".

besides transmuting steel into gold, philosopher's stone is also implemented in my 2nd mod, "moonseed".









moonseeds are used to create 'artificial moon' (an almost spherical stone formation). any nodes within specific range will be destroyed before the stone nodes are placed.

there are 3 types of moonseeds:

1. Mini Moon



2. Big Moon (note the Mini Moons in picture)



3. Collosal Moon





Comparing the moons:



"moonseed" depends on "default" and "alchemy" ("alchemy" dependencies also needed).

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There are some things to be cleared before the mods are released:

1. Glitch(es) regarding "moonseed". Due to the size of moon produced by Collosal Moon, a lot of time needed for the program to run the lua code. Some attempts may result in failure.

picture below shows incomplete form of moon



some nodes within the range are not destroyed



Collosal Moon would still be included in the mod, however using it would cause lag. Be careful with it.

2. The mods are made mostly by copypasting codes from "moreores" and "nuke" mods before editting them (i did learn to understand the code though). i dont know about licensing stuff and permissions, i would be nice if someone can tell me what to do regarding this matter. i haven't uploaded the mods yet.

Thank you for your support. Sorry for bad English.

edit: title

[Stef]

i think i will use the moon mod to make a survival or adventuremap in a solar planet

[mauvebic]

Im very interested in your sphere builder - thought of releasing it seperately?

[LocaL_ALchemisT]

"alchemy" and "moonseed" are 2 different mods. if you only need "moonseed" then the recipe needs to be changed a little (replace philosopher's stone with something else), if you dont want to include "alchemy".

[mauvebic]

figured it out


i want to make huge spheres out of different materials, and from there, possibly a different type of map (no land, just planetoids)

[Stef]

yea nice i can't find the download link,
we can this mod also use as voxelsniper part (world edit) if u use sand it would fall down on the normal mountains and ground, like that you should can make mountains by your self

[LocaL_ALchemisT]

nice mauvebic. it would be better if you share your mod here. i will post mine later, after i figured out about this licensing stuff (please help me).

my mod introduce items which, when activated, will float into the air and explode, forming stone sphere. yours seems like giving user a chatcommand to build a sphere out of any nodes the user wants.

[mauvebic]

i made some generic code to create spheres from the chat console using /pointzero, /size and /round, im still missing a /hollow command to empty the interior, when its ready ill give you a copy and implement it here

[cornernote]

this looks awesome, any chance you can share the mod in its current state for us to start testing and tinkering?

[NakedFury]

i made some generic code to create spheres from the chat console using /pointzero, /size and /round, im still missing a /hollow command to empty the interior, when its ready ill give you a copy and implement it here

Do you plan to use different ways to make them?
Example:
/radius #, block type
/diameter #, block type

[mauvebic]

ive posted it here

and heres the commands:

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/p0   sets the center of the sphere (using your position)
/radius <number>   sets radius of the sphere, defaults to 12
/thickness <number>   sets thickness of hollow sphere, defaults to 1
/sphere <nodename> spawns a sphere
/hollowsphere <nodename> spawns a hollow sphere

and heres the code relating to generating spheres:

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    -------------------------------------------------------
--------------        SPHERES & HOLLOW SPHERES        ---------------------------
        ---------------------------------------------------------------
local SPHERE_SIZE = 12
local POINT_ZERO = nil
local HOLLOW_THICKNESS = 1

function sphere(pos,nodename,hollow)
     pos.x = math.floor(pos.x+0.5)
     pos.y = math.floor(pos.y+0.5)
     pos.z = math.floor(pos.z+0.5)
     for x=-SPHERE_SIZE,SPHERE_SIZE do
     for y=-SPHERE_SIZE,SPHERE_SIZE do
--     for y=-(SPHERE_SIZE*4),(SPHERE_SIZE*4) do
     for z=-SPHERE_SIZE,SPHERE_SIZE do
         if not hollow and x*x+y*y+z*z <= SPHERE_SIZE * SPHERE_SIZE + SPHERE_SIZE then
                local np={x=pos.x+x,y=pos.y+y,z=pos.z+z}
                local n = minetest.env:get_node(np)
                minetest.env:add_node(np,{type="node",name=nodename})
            elseif hollow and x*x+y*y+z*z >= (SPHERE_SIZE-hollow) * (SPHERE_SIZE-hollow) + (SPHERE_SIZE-hollow) and x*x+y*y+z*z <= SPHERE_SIZE * SPHERE_SIZE + SPHERE_SIZE then
                local np={x=pos.x+x,y=pos.y+y,z=pos.z+z}
                local n = minetest.env:get_node(np)
                minetest.env:add_node(np,{type="node",name=nodename})
         end
     end
     end
     end
end

minetest.register_chatcommand("p0", {
    params = "<none>",
    description = "spawn a sphere",
    privs = {server=true},
    func = function(name, param)
        POINT_ZERO = minetest.env:get_player_by_name(name):getpos()
        minetest.chat_send_player(name, "p0 set")
    end,        })
minetest.register_chatcommand("radius", {
    params = "<radius>",
    description = "set radius of sphere, default 12",
    privs = {server=true},
    func = function(name, param)
        SPHERE_SIZE = param
        minetest.chat_send_player(name, "radius set")
    end,        })
minetest.register_chatcommand("sphere", {
    params = "<nodename>",
    description = "spawn a sphere",
    privs = {server=true},
    func = function(name, param)
        if POINT_ZERO == nil then minetest.chat_send_player(name, "there is no p0 only zuul") return end
        minetest.chat_send_player(name, "spawning...larger spheres = more time, may need to retry if partial spawn")
        sphere(POINT_ZERO, param)
    end,        })
minetest.register_chatcommand("thickness", {
    params = "<hollow sphere thickness>",
    description = "set thickness of hollow spheres, default 1",
    privs = {server=true},
    func = function(name, param)
        HOLLOW_THICKNESS = param
        minetest.chat_send_player(name, "thickness set")
    end,        })
minetest.register_chatcommand("hollowsphere", {
    params = "<nodename>",
    description = "spawn a hollow sphere",
    privs = {server=true},
    func = function(name, param)
        if POINT_ZERO == nil then minetest.chat_send_player(name, "there is no p0 only zuul") return end
        minetest.chat_send_player(name, "spawning...larger spheres = more time, may need to retry if partial spawn")
        sphere(POINT_ZERO, param, HOLLOW_THICKNESS)
    end,        })

you might notice i commented out:

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--     for y=-(SPHERE_SIZE*4),(SPHERE_SIZE*4) do

which makes more eliptical/saucer-ish shapes, if you uncomment be sure to comment out or delete the line above:

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     for y=-SPHERE_SIZE,SPHERE_SIZE do

but if you get the idea then you can stretch/shrink spheres along any axis, the example above gave me something more dome-ish than spheric

and to answer @NakedFurys question: you only specify the blocktype/nodename when youre ready to run /sphere or /hollowsphere. ive listed the commands in order, radius and thickness are optional and thickness is only for /hollowsphere anyhoo.

[cornernote]

this looks awesome, any chance of a download link soon?

[PilzAdam]

i dont know about licensing stuff and permissions, i would be nice if someone can tell me what to do regarding this matter. i haven't uploaded the mods yet.

You can use WTFPL (http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/). It easy to understand and says evereyone can do everything with your mod.

[Nick]

Whoa, this looks great. Any chance of these being released? (please? )

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[cornellius]

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