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Silver is a very good antimicrobial agent, and it even destroys viruses. You know MoreOres adds silver, but there aren't many uses for it other than money at this point. It would be cool to make silver medicine a feature of this mod - so that silver can have a good use, and so that players can preve...

The tools' ability to mine a node would depend on its dig level number for that group - for example, cracky 3 is stuff like stone and cobble, and all tools which can mine one of them can also mine the other. The mining speed would be independent of the dig level. If for example you make a coarse gra...

If I want to make a mod with a special machine that processes materials into a liquid form, mixes said materials in any arbitrary ratio, and produces items or nodes that retain that same ratio of materials, they would all have to have the same texture and dig groups. If I wanted each possible ratio ...

I've thought for quite some time that it would be useful to set the dig group level time of a node by its own properties, instead of the tool being used to dig it. This would be particularly useful if for example you want a tool to be able to dig two different nodes which are at the same dig group l...

Nevermind the flat wrapped world idea, spheretest is much better and accomplishes this perfectly. If I set the radius to a large enough value, it will be too difficult to see the spherical distortion, right?

Many games including some of the earlier Final Fantasy games implement a world where every edge is connected seamlessly to the opposite edge, so you can go to the other side of the world by traveling in a straight line past an edge. I was thinking about that and I figured that it would be nice if a ...

Under the full editor window when you go to post a topic (also maybe when you edit one; not sure) there are three tabs, for "Options", "Upload Attachment" and "Poll Creation". The third one is what you are looking for.

I intend that the system will be efficient; if its efficiency is anything of or less than that of technic, people wouldn't be able to use it without having lots of lag for just a few players. It will have to run smoothly on systems that aren't fastest. It is a misconception that the system I propose...

I tried to do a search for a monster called "op ness monster" and found no results! You can guess by the name of such a monster that it would be heavily overpowered, possibly being able to one-hit-kill a player wearing full diamond armor. It would be nice if a mod were made to add such a h...

It would take a normal human a long time to read all of the minetest code and understand what everything does. Who would do that instead of working on a mod or something else that is more useful than reading all of that stuff?

It would be nice if textures for nodes and items were controlled by metadata fields, but that would necessitate some radical changes, such as itemstacks having a metadata key-value store rather than just a single string. If this were implemented, you could change the metadata table entry for the tex...

I thought I said that my network would only update when the nodes connected to it are changed, for example being broken or exploded. Instead of using a switching node as the center, any node which can be a producer is the center, so it would have some of the benefits of the Technic system. It would ...

cx384 wrote:It is nearly everywhere

Is it air?
If you go really high up into the sky, you can get an "air" item
Don't spread this too much, its supposed to be secret

If you're using the PPA to install Minetest, then it would probably be less work, because you wouldn't have to edit any files in the game directory, as long as the software update scripts don't overwrite your mods folder as well; but if you install the game the old way, you have to copy all of your ...

Wool is difficult to burn, even though it is flammable. It generally doesn't burn hot enough to keep the reaction going (it is not a sustained chain reaction). Cotton however, which is actually the fabric made from plants, is very flammable and burns quickly. Silk burns even faster than cotton. This...

You should not worry about the performance of those checks. It's highly unlikely you will get any meaningful performance improvement. That said, I suggest something like this: local function do_something_fast(x, y) return x+y end local function typecheck(t, v) local vt = type(v) return assert(t == ...

The system I was describing would have a controlling node, but it is not limited to one per network. All provider nodes are controlling nodes, and only control whatever is on the output side. If it has an input side (as would a power storage device) then it can also partially be controlled by anothe...

Try a linux-based OS; Windows is very insecure, and as a result there are many viruses made for it; Linux is a lot more difficult to infect, unless you do something wrong and create a vulnerability. Of course, there are some viruses for Linux systems, but they generally require that the user gives p...

Why would you have to edit the subgame every release, instead of just copying the subgame's folder from the older version?

The noise is there to produce distorted spheres. Your 'spread' is 128 nodes, if noise is varying on a scale of 128 nodes it won't be varying much over the small scale of a single blob, try a 'spread' similar to blob size, then readjust 'scale' and 'offset'. For performance you only need 1 octave of...

Some of these optimizations will be very useful for a mod I will be making soon. This mod won't just iterate through a table each time a new chunk is generated. It will be iterating every tenth of a second orso. And it won't just be iterating through one table - it will have to iterate through sever...

I won't be changing the interface significantly, ever; the parameters of my functions are tangible things that anyone can understand (like "id", "strength", "density", and so on), and if anything changes it will be for making the system more efficient, and not what the ...

Tip: assert(cond, msg) Works like if not cond then error(msg) end Should make your code nicer. You could define a like: local function a(name, var, type) assert(type(var) == type, "incorrect parameter type: " .. name .. " should be " .. type) end Used like: a("foo", fo...

minetest.get_current_modname is a thing too That may also be useful, in the event that a developer wants to be able to change their mod's folder name without causing any errors within. However, it is much longer than simply doing modname = <mod name>, unless your mod's name is more than 17 characte...

I've noticed this is still the case, any suggestions on a workaround to rather having to modify any updates everytime! Hi had a bit of a problem trying to register an mv machine to be used in another mod, and found the following code changed fixed the naming convention error I kept getting in /tech...

This mod has become so awesome! I will look into replacing the player inventory crafting system with the code from this mod, for my server in the future if I ever get around to creating it. Since the player inventory can be modified as it is written in Lua, it is likely possible to do this - and in ...

I'm currently working on a mod which involves functions. Some of these functions can take many parameters. For debugging purposes, the functions always "verify" the type of each parameter, and if any are incorrect, it will throw an error message. Currently, this is done with code that look...

You can if you want, but with a mod you don't need to rewrite your changes each time MTGame is updated. The clearing and re-registering of biomes, decorations and ores by mod is the intended standard practice for customising these. It would be useful if it were to be distributed for others to use, ...

I think that justly a computer can do all the math, but try to emulate a "reality" is something out of the range... That idea of the plants is good, i should admit... It may be possible to implement a plant growth system like that already. However, the plant node would have to check the &...

Cutoffs are due to the relationship between noise_params, noise_threshold and clust_size, noise can make the blob exceed it's allowed cubic volume defined by clust_size. Try altering noise_threshold. Thank you, I did not know that this was causing the problem. Do you know why the blob pattern produ...

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