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Actually, I decided to wait for #3476 to be decided upon before I do any more work on this...because from where I'm sitting, Minetest hasn't turned out to be the reliable foundation I hoped it would be.

I've just committed all drafts with my ideas. That means, theoretically the repository is now holding all the ideas I have on how to improve the current situation. But I'm afraid that it actually boils down to "people need to get stuff done and they need to do this in a more organized way"...

I've started working on the requested documents, however they are in a very early stage. I've just committed the first draft of the mission statement, I'm not quite happy with the others right now, so I will keep thinking them over. https://github.com/RobertZenz/minetest-mission-statement Feedback i...

> However, I certainly would be interested to see RobertZenz propose a mission statement, along with some kind of a hypothesis on how the particular mission statement would change the status quo. When I wrote #3476 I thought that would be enough, yes. In the mean time I've come to the conclusion tha...

> We are very understaffed... In my opinion, that is a symptom of the problems I've tried to outline. > PRs are always looked at, never ignored, if there is no comment added it may be a dev is neutral or has nothing to add. #1438 #1439 #1489 #1562 #1645 #1699 That's just from page 6, I don't see a r...

> Then why bother?

I'll be damned if I didn't at least try. I have very little hope, though.

I'd also ask everyone who is interested in this, to state their opinions, ideas and suggestions in #3476.

I've started working with Minetest over a year and a half ago. It took me quite some time to get up to speed with Lua and Minetest, but roughly a year ago I released the first code into the wild and have been constantly improving it. I've also made a few pull requests and tickets, but have been read...

I dislike the GNU licenses for this very reason, they are rather complicated in the name of "freedom", even though they are rather restrictive. Well, they are about *preserving* freedom, not granting absolute freedom. The BSD likes on the other side are about granting absolute freedom, wi...

The main principle of Minetest (and most of free software) is that it's completely disinterested. Proposing a lucrative job for Minetest is simply violating our principles. Uh, that is not quite correct for FLOSS in general. Pretty much every FLOSS license allows you to sell the software and/or ser...

There are actually now only two things remaining that I'd like to get done before I'll push a new update to the server, the correct flooding of caves close to the ocean, and #3358 , which is still pending for some reason. The good news is, because stone alone is boring, I've added wood to the invent...

Spawn Usher is allowing you to do this, all you have to do is adjust the configuration...well, except the static spawns, there is no save mechanism to remember the spawn per player. You'd have to code that yourself by providing a provider and using a callback, like this: -- Should be persisted some...

maikerumine wrote:I believe the core devs need to work more together and have meetings instead of contributing at random.

The whole of minetest would need a master plan instead of its current ad hock method of construction.

#3476

Forget it...shouldn't read the forum when sleepy.

I've just added that a random percentage of the inventory can be destroyed/retained upon death.

So a certain, random percentage of the inventory can be destroyed before it is dropped (and therefor unrecoverable lost), and another percentage can be retained, meaning the player keeps it.

Interesting approach, there have been similar projects in the past, see:

@stu I have a copy (with changes to the animations and cleaned of duplicate vertexes) in my player-model mod.

And there is Rius mod which has such functionality, the head moving I mean.

Currently it can be extended from the outside, the biome system I mean. I plan to add further support for that (even to allow to register more modules and inject them), so that would, in my opinion, need to find its way into the C++ version. But as said, that is currently all very theoretical...very...

Technically, there is no hindrance I guess, once it stabilizes I mean. Though, it does make a lot of assumptions which are not exactly compatible with the current biome system, and that will get only worse the further I go.

I'm posting an update because of, at least for some, an important change: Australopithecus is now licensed under LGPL v2.1, no longer under BSD. Note that this does only apply to the "core" of the game, all the mods that have a repository of their own will stay under a BSD license. In othe...

A mod which drops the complete inventory of the player if they die. That means that the contents are spread over a bigger area, and in the default configuration the stacks are split randomly. Version: There is no versioning/release scheme in place. License: Inventory Death Drop is licensed under 2-c...

A simple mod which hides the HUD (healthbar and hotbar) if there are no changes to them.

Version: There is no versioning/release scheme in place.

License: Auto HUD Hide is licensed under 2-clause BSD.

Source:

Without being a lawyer, no, it would not effect you in any way as long as the other party does not have a Europe wide, or even world wide trademark. If the trademark is registered in the UK, the other party (or sometimes it's enough if the servers are) must be in the UK, otherwise there's pretty muc...

Exactly that.

@paramat Without any hard feelings, intention to insult or something like that, you might be looking at the wrong subgame if you think like that. I *will* break such conventions in Australopithecus, that is by design, because I believe that such elements *can* make a great game if used correctly. Th...

Diamond knight wrote:i have made a new and improved fork of realtest that is 10 times more realistic than the original

i have made the mining speeds more realistic and added hunger and thrist

So, digging a block now takes half an hour?

It looks like that might be implemented soon: https://github.com/minetest/minetest/pull/3391 However, because of security concerns doesn't look like mods will be able to set completely custom shaders for now, just select from the already available ones. Yeah, that is not what the issue is about, th...

I really hate how the term "photo realistic" is used in the Minecraft community...well, and the gaming community as a whole. Anyway, there is #2937 which is about giving modders the possibility/ability to add their own shaders. So if that one is implemented, mods can roll their own, which ...

Yes, exactly. I've already added both models to worldgen-utils. I guess the next step will be to rewrite RampPlacer into a more generic tool, so that it can also be used to fix this. I already have an idea on how to do that and it is pretty much the next thing on my list to be done.

Thank you very much for this idea. This looks quite well, though there are a few glitches I need to sort out, but otherwise I like it.

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