FOSS gamedev and creative worlds

⋅ Any good way to find out if player's wielded item is a tool (and not a block)? ⋅ Any good way to find out which of the registered items are tools (basically, get a list of available tools)? There is minetest.registered_tools which is a table of all the registered tools. You ca...

burli wrote:How can I add "shift click" to move item stacks between inventories like in the chest? I can't find any reason why it works for a chest, but not in my mod

You need to set up a list ring in your formspec definition.

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Climbing speed should be settable on a per-block basis (with fallback to a configurable default) and shoud not be a global hardcoded value. This would enable mod makers to create all kinds of climbable nodes. "Rocket start" nodes with a climb speed that is default*50. Or steel ladders that...

nrz wrote:We have defined we will maintain protocol versions for two years.

Sounds awesome! Maybe not only for protocol but for all of the APIs, too? This would speed up the improvement of Minetest a lot!

Yes, this is INDEED the dawn of X-ray cheat and it is not only non-preventable but also undetectable. Plus, it is freaking officially supported by Minetest! WTF? [[...]] There are many, many ways to protect against these type of issues. But minetest_game doesn't implement them. [...] I could write ...

And I think the X-ray cheat will be the least of our worries. I'm worried that it will also be used to implement all other kinds of client-sided cheats. Like displaying the minimap, even if the server disabled it, and tons of other information the player is normally not supposed to see. Not that it...

ABJ wrote:Linuxdirk, are you seriously suggesting that the devs would implement a cheat?

No. I'm seriously asking if this could be possible.

The attitude of quite a lot of Minetesters and devs is just sad. "Minetest is not Minecraft. STFU and GTFO. Period. We don't give a damn what you 12-year-old creeperheads want." I don't know if you're being serious but I don't think this is accurate. Not exactly like that, but I've seen s...

What's with that client-side modding? Does that mean that players now can mod their client and trick the server?

The release version should totally be compatible with current MT release. For dev stuff there should be a dev branch.

Wuzzy wrote:Rare biomes in Minetest Game. Today: Tundra

How rare is it really? Every 2-3 flat testing worlds I create are tundra …

texmex wrote:phpBB was written in the year 2000 and with the online discussion design paradigms of that time.

And it is coded like that and behaves like that. phpBB has anything modern forum software should avoid.

Sergey wrote:This is strange.

Thanks to the weird messed up damage system not even the devs want or can really explain. :D

http://dev.minetest.net/Damage_system

Why are you guys always so fascinated over the 9 crafting slots? How many recipes are there that use all of them? It’s more like 4-8 objects per recipe on average. The number should be even, it should be dividable by 10 without any leftovers and it should be large enough to hold a lot of objects wit...

Instead of discussing this into oblivion knowing that it won’t change any time soon I just created and use this mod. -- Set this value to the stack size you want. If lowering the value already -- existing larger stacks won’t be affected – you just can’t fill them to their -- original size. -- -- Set...

Nothing bad with 3D ladders, I guess …

BBmine wrote:This is not a bug, it is an AWESOME feature. I'm going to github now to tell sfan5 that.

This is totally NOT a feature. It’s a functionality caused by a shit-ton of hacks involved for sneaking and I am so happy that those hacks are finally replaced by something more sane.

XtremeHacker wrote:Problem is, while this started out as a bug, a core dev decided to, instead of fixing it, made it toggleable, moving it from "Cool bug", to "awesome feature".

This happens when devs don’t use the software they write.

Finally some actually gameplay-related bugfixes!

Making it possible to climb faster on steel ladders would be awesome (and it would make sense because steel is more rigid).

Thanks! :)

The node box in combination with the texture works out very well.

Not sure if this has been mentioned yet but we should also consider what Minetest is lacking as a modding platform compared to Minecraft Forge, since that is the main platform for Minecraft mods. We don’t even need to compare it to Forge. Just have a look on what Resource Packs are capable of doing...

TumeniNodes wrote:I still say Bob is my vote

What? You can't name a game Bob!

To get all the repositories in sync I am to lazy, so I has written an update script for me. I did the same. Not as complex as yours and no automatic detection (because I have Git managed stuff there I don’t want to be updated because I am the maintainer by myself). #! /usr/bin/env luajit local base...

[I] strongly oppose doing this. And so the last bit of hope for horizontally larger worlds in MT is gone forever :( This way we can have a 'Nether' and 'Aether' But you’re against those, too, and thus those won’t be in the default game either because they would break backwards compatibility, right?

kaeza wrote:Have you checked these topics already?

I did. They’re either from 2014 or do not cover the particular question I have.

Lets do the obvious thing and lets compare Minetest and the commercial Microsoft-owned game with the same idea. Scaled by :6000 due to file size in RAM, click and view full size image and zoom to the top left. Light grey: Minetest, dark grey: Minecraft http://i.imgur.com/fz54Z0al.png Minetest: 61840...

toby109tt wrote:Nice I like the seat cushions alot :)

Haha, yeah ... They're quite "hacky". You place them on top of the chair nodebox and because of their own nodebox definition they appear as if they would be placed on the seat.

A nice table with chairs (seat cushions are optional and come in all wool colors) that both have proper proportions in relation to eachother and can be crafted from all default nodes … http://i.imgur.com/I2eiWGTm.png … a modular office table with side extensions … http://i.imgur.com/pGWYa5Lm.png … a...

Can’t reproduce with the version provided by Arch Linux. $ minetest --version Minetest 0.4.15 (Linux) Using Irrlicht 1.8.4 Build info: VER=0.4.15 BUILD_TYPE=Release RUN_IN_PLACE=0 USE_GETTEXT=1 USE_SOUND=1 USE_CURL=1 USE_FREETYPE=1 USE_LUAJIT=1 STATIC_SHAREDIR="/usr/share/minetest" $ lua5....

The day you can run the Linux kernel in it, you won the modding game ;)

(You can run Linux in JavaScript so Lua should be able to do that, too ...)