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It's ugly, it's buggy, but it's something to build upon! Installation: 1. Start Eclipse 2. Install LDT (Lua plugin for Eclipse) 3. In eclipse go to Window -> Preferences -> Lua -> Editor -> Templates -> Import Choose templates.xml Usage: Type the first few letters of a minetest function and press Co...

By now I've found several ways to add minetest specific custom autocompletion to eclipse. 1. Lua Execution Environment EEs like described here are too complicated for me. I don't have the time, nor the know how of doing it. 2. Editor Templates That would be more my thing because it's entirely based ...

Hi,

is there a lua library that can be imported into Eclipse to use autocompletion with minetest api methods?

The library might need to look like described in this post:

https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/t/651455/

Finally got debugging with eclipse to work (see screenshot)!

But I also tested ZeroBrane with wintermutes plugin and I like the autocompletion with the help texts. That is really helpful.

If you want to debug your embedded scripts same way you would debug a native application, give it a try.

That one line is taken from the minetest dev link I provided. It sounds like some kind of deeper mod debugging is possible with eclipse. I really should give it another try...

Sorry for OT..

What I mean by debugging is, that I want to trace my script step by step, see why it runs through ifs or elses, set breaking points, see variables and their values, and so on. It seems like eclipse can do it: http://dev.minetest.net/Intro#Integrated_development_environments But I could not get it to...

@4aiman

Can you provide a tutorial (or link) how to integrate minetest into geany and debug mods with geany?

Well, after some research I solved the problem myself. :-) My mod consists of two lua files; init.lua (of course) and build.lua (which contains the code from OP). build_item is defined in init.lua as local and is obviously not accessible from build.lua. So the variable build_item in build.lua is nil...

Hi there, currently I'm working on a little mod that places a mts schem when the player reaches a certain location and has a specific item in his inventory. I read the inventory in the following section: minetest.register_globalstep(function(dtime) timer = timer + dtime; if timer >= 5 and built == 0...

Sorry for ressurrecting this thread, but smooth lighting still seems broken.
With smooth lighting, light shines trough touching nodes. With smooth lighting disabled, the roof looks solid as it should.

Doesn't matter if shaders are enabled or not.

Great mod so far!

Two wishes though:
1. could you split up creatures_races_default/init.lua into several files for each mob or race? This way it would be easier to keep track of the whole thing.
2. could you implement reproduction of mobs (by feeding them special items)?

Update: So, I guess it is no mod problem but something I added to minetest.conf to get higher mountains. mgv6_np_terrain_base = -4, 30, (750, 750, 750), 82341, 6, 0.65 mgv6_np_terrain_higher = 10, 64, (750, 750, 750), 85039, 8, 0.6 Since I removed those two lines, no more buildings in holes appeared...

FYI:
A lot of houses and some villages spawn in holes in the ground.
Sometimes it looks cool, like a village in a hidden valley. Sometimes it's just disturbing ;-) (see attachment)

Yes, I do love AdventureTest as well. That got villages that feel really alive, while mg_villages villages are too static without mobs roaming around. As mobf_trader was always intended to be of use for other mob mods and just provide the trading interface, I've added overrides for on_rightclick fo...

Is there an option to decrease the number of villages and/or random buildings or increase the space between them? I found mg_villages.VILLAGE_CHANCE in config.lua and it seems, increasing the value helped with the villages. But for my taste, there are still too many single houses on the map. Can't w...

Maybe it's the wrong thread but are you planning to spawn these traders in their workplaces in mg_villages? It would make the villages feel more alive. I recently tried the game Adventuretest and liked the populated villages very, very much. Here is how Adventuretest does it (line 427). ---------- E...

@whateveralias I fully agree to everything you said in your two posts! You can't attract new player if you don't give them something to feel attracted to. Sadly, most of the decission-maker here disagree. Minetest is like giving someone a plain white paper and some crayons and tell them "now yo...

Would it be possible (and legal) to make a mob set out of this?

https://rymdnisse.net/downloads/minecra ... r-rig.html

Here is the zombie converted from creatures mod to mobs redo. Just unzip and copy all files and folders to the official mobs redo folder and add this line to init.lua dofile(minetest.get_modpath("mobs").."/zombie.lua") An overall finetuning has to be done (armor, hps), but in gen...

Nathan.S wrote:Quick question, are you accepting any more animals/mobs to add to this mod? I have a few that I'd try my hand at making if they'd be put to use.

Speaking of which, i ported the zombie from creatures to mobs redo. If anybody is interested.

This is my first (releaseable) mod and adds a clock of the ingame time in the upper right corner of the hud. So even if no sun is around, I always know what time it is. It is a fork of Pitriss' hudclock and adds a clock icon. Depends - default Download - https://github.com/Rochambeau/mthudclock/arch...

I can see their point. A lot of the people submitting bug reports can hardly figure out what game they are playing, let alone press specific function keys. People with this level of knowledge won't have much fun with minetest, because if it is too hard to press one button, how do they handle the in...

Well, I see this topic was already discussed among the devs. Of course, in the case of a bug report, they want as much info as they can get. As a player, I still would like to have the option to disable this string to keep the hud clean, for example as an opt-out implemention. Wouldn't it be suffici...

Hi,

how can I hide the display of the version number in the upper left corner?

R.

*blush* Yep, right, thank you...

Hi, I'm trying to create a mod, where certain mobs should spawn in certain areas. For that, I created a special node and want to spawn - for example - a NPC on that node. My code looks like this, but on a 10x10 field of cobblespawn, not a single NPC is spawning. minetest.register_node("testmod:...

How do I get a saddle off a horse? Right click gets me up on the horse, left click adds it (the horse itself!) to my inventory

Now that it's harder to get wool on the first day of survival (because of iron shears), sheeps should drop wool when killed.

To pass/survive the first night, a bed is pretty important.

Casimir wrote:

Gael de Sailly wrote:I agree. Mapgen v6 is disappointing, boring.

v6 is awesome, if you have the right settings. What is boring are the default settings.

Could you please share your settings with us? I'm still looking for the best minetest mapgen.

I started a new map with paragenv7 because I like the generated landscape very much. The problem is, in new biomes, the mobs from this mob do not spawn, because of unknown ground (paragenv7:dirt, paragenv7:grass, and so on). Could you change the spawn function from working with nodes to working with...