Are player attributes getting removed in 5.0.0 ?

[davidthecreator]

Heard something about some sort of attributes being deprecated in MT 5.0.0 ...

Wasn't sure if those were player attributes, or if other entities could have attributes and will have them deprecated... But I've been messing a lot with player attributes in my upcoming projects and am just wondering if player attributes aren't getting removed or something

[rubenwardy]

Player Attributes are deprecated in 5.0.0, which means that you are encouraged to not use them in mods.
Player Attributes are replaced by player meta, which uses the same API as node and item meta, and mod storage.

Player Attributes may be removed in the future, but removing deprecated functions only tends to happen during major releases - eg: 6.0.0

Before:

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player:set_attribute("foo", "123")
print(tonumber(player:get_attribute("foo")))

After:

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local meta = player:get_meta()
meta:set_int("foo", 123)
print(meta:get_int("foo"))

It's worth noting that depends.txt and description.txt are also deprecated in 5.0.0, but we probably won't ever remove support for them.

[davidthecreator]

Player Attributes are deprecated, which means that you are encouraged to not use them in mods.
Player Attributes are replaced by player meta, which uses the same API as node and item meta, and mod storage.

Player Attributes may be removed in the future, but removing deprecated functions only tends to happen during major releases - eg: 6.0.0

Before:

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player:set_attribute("foo", "123")
print(tonumber(player:get_attribute("foo")))

After:

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local meta = player:get_meta()
meta:set_int("foo", 123)
print(meta:get_int("foo"))

It's worth noting that depends.txt and description.txt are also deprecated in 5.0.0, but we probably won't ever remove support for them.

Oh... Ok...

Thanks!

[Linuxdirk]

Are the player attributes already deprecated? I can't remember seeing deprecation warnings when using them in 0.4.17.1.

[rubenwardy]

Are the player attributes already deprecated? I can't remember seeing deprecation warnings when using them in 0.4.17.1.

In 5.0.0, yes

[Exilyth]

It's worth noting that depends.txt and description.txt are also deprecated in 5.0.0, but we probably won't ever remove support for them.

That's good to know. What's the new mechanism for mod/game dependencies then?

[micheal65536]

It's worth noting that depends.txt and description.txt are also deprecated in 5.0.0, but we probably won't ever remove support for them.

That's good to know. What's the new mechanism for mod/game dependencies then?

Not to derail the thread but the new format is mod.conf. Read the documentation here: https://github.com/minetest/minetest/bl ... i.txt#L155