A function to detect if a node is inside the active block radius?

[Hume2]

Is there any such function to do this? Of course that I can iterate over all players and check the distance ... but ... there should be a better option. Minetest should somehow know which chunks are active and which aren't so I shouldn't need to calculate it myself.

[CalebJ]

You can use an Active Block Modifier? Maybe I'm misunderstanding.

[Hume2]

No, I have a postion and I want to check if the node at the position is active, regardless of what kind of node it is.

[CalebJ]

Ah, to check if it is *inside* the active block range. Not sure there :/

[sorcerykid]

It might be best to just check minetest.get_node_or_nil(). That won't tell if the mapblock is in the active block radius, but it will at least tell if the mapblock is loaded which is usually the same thing iirc.

[Hume2]

It's not quite the same. The default radius of loaded chunks is 10 while the radius of active chunks is 3.

[Termos]

You could iterate over connected players and return true on the first found within 3 block radius.

[Hume2]

That's what I wrote in the OP. I'm asking if there is a better solution because Minetest somehow has to know that anyway so I see no point of calculating it myself.