FOSS gamedev and creative worlds

Ideas:
Ruines of towns
Red-colored plants for food. (may be poisonous to humans)
Crystals for lighting
The throne of Hades. A fort that is extra dangerous.

I also coded something similar for minequest. It can be found in the givestuff folder (or something similar). Feel free to use it (under GPL terms, attribution and relicense under GPL).

@NakedFury
Does it work using the default texture pack?

For background music I would use [url]opengameart.org[/url]

I was interested if there was an open source clone clone of minecraft, so I googled it. I found minetest and manic digger. I chose minetest for the following reasons ⋅ I didn't see a lot of activity in manic digger. ⋅ According to the title page it tried to be different from mine...

As far as I know, there is no sound-pack folder.
games\minetest_game\mods\default\sounds can be used for sounds (is different for different mods)
(works but it is a bit ugly)

1. Download the mods, mentioned above. 2. Go to the root directory of your minetest installation. (the folder with {bin, builtin, cache, games, locale, misc, mods, textures, util and worlds}) 3. Go to mods 4. Use a zip program (like 7zip) to extract the content of the archive in that directory. Dire...

Good point. Here are my requirements for a mod list. True, as a user I want to know: ⋅ What is this mod supposed to do? ⋅ Is it working? ⋅ License ⋅ For what version is this mod? ⋅ Are there updates? (notifications) The rest (opinions, edc) is a prob...

I have been busy with a new game in the minetest engine (like meseint). I called it minequest. http://stevenw.nl/c55/mq_screen.jpeg Implemented Features: ⋅ Starting equipment ⋅ Removed wooden equipment, since it makes no sense. ⋅ Added damage from falling blocks ⋅&...

Here is the code. minetest.register_on_dieplayer(function(player) listnames = {'main', 'craft', 'craftpreview', 'craftresult'} for listnum, listname in pairs(listnames) do IList = player:get_inventory():get_list(listname) for num, item in pairs(IList) do if item ~= nil and item ~= "" then player:get...

Thanks everybody, I have found the bug.
Item is a string containing the item defenition. e.g. 'default:dirt 98'. I assumed wrongly it was an ItemStack.

I will try to put the final script here tomorrow. (for those who want to play with death penalty)

I was trying to make a dead penatly function minetest.register_on_dieplayer(function(player) IList = player:get_inventory():get_list(player:get_wield_list()) for num, item in pairs(IList) do item:clear() -- this line crashes end end) However, it crashes abrubtly. Error log: 18:57:54: INFO[ServerThre...

randomproof wrote:Here is a generic version of the growing mod.

What is the license? GPL compatible?
I want to use it, but need to know the license.

My first release of the (incomplete) texture pack

Default (for players, not tested though)
Armour (for those brave enough to make armour wieldable by players)
Rest (for modders, wanting to add extra items. Has e.g. sickles, hoes, mitrall and knifes.)

Death Dealer wrote:if you could use that armor it would be sweet...

If you refer to the picture, you can (cc-by). As far as I know, armor is not implemented in the c55 engine yet.

I was trying to improve the appeareance of the tools. (Included some new ones as well). I don't know where this project will take me. This is what I've got so far: http://www.stevenw.nl/c55/tools.png My questions are: ⋅ What do you think about it? ⋅ What tools do you like to see?...

Dont you think getting 20 blocks is a bit too much.

(Considering balance, I would limit them to 2.)

Secondly, consider adding the blocks to the creative inventory.

I think the maker of this site meant it very good by a fan. Look at the advantages. Pro's: * The nice graphical design will attract more players. * Shows the content in a convinent way. Con: * We as a community do not have access to it. Conclusion: We should try to make contact and work together. Wh...

How about this? An air meter for when your under water. So you can drown. Great Idea, but is should be possible to get a temporary immunity to drowning (not having to breath), by eating a special item. I was also wondering if it would be possible to have different textures for the same block. I won...

Good mod, I think some (of the) recepies from here should be in the base game when it is finished.

However, I think that for compatibility with other mods, crafting normal sticks out of cacti would have been better than a special one.

Thanks a lot

I would like to add items made of materials from other mods (e.g. bronze and obsidian), but I do not want to add additional dependencies. Is there an easy way to find out if a mod is loaded? I am looking for something like: if (mod_loaded("obsidian")){ minetest.register_craft(...) }

sdzen wrote:for a multiplayer hardcore mode maybe it takes away build and any other priv to the dead making them spectators

Why only for multiplayer. Why can't you walk arround like a spirit in your single player maps. As a second suggesion, make the number of lives configurable.

Lunarhiro wrote:A timed chest holding your lost possessions upon death. Make it back, open the chest, get your stuff or else it's gone when that time hits 0. Idk, just thinking of some other way to do it.

Make it appear like a grave. That makes much more sense.

I agree, rain does not add a lot of gameplay. It basically means that the night is longer than you expect and that is just annoying.

I think snow biomes are no fun eighter. I don't mind it being added with some kind of season system, but that is too much work for now.

Maybe adding an option in lua to tell that a node cannot be placed in a liquid.

My conclusion when reading this article:
1. Iron is a bit rare.
2. Iron should be better distributed over the map. The patches are too large. (Better 4 patches with 5 iron than 1 with 20)
3. It is unclear where you should mine to iron.

I think server admins should be considered to be owner of any placed item (currently only chests). I think this means:

• They can look inside, usable if you suspect that someone is cheating
• They can destroy chests

PS: I would change the text to "Owner: " + getOwner()

3D as minecraft or 3D as (insert random modern 3D game here)?

For the first: I have [url=stevenw.nl/c55/3dmodel.cpp]some ideas for code[/url].
For the second: opengameart.org, may provide us with some models

Created a picture for spikes:

Secondly, Iron bars are a good idea but you make them far too expensive. (they are only decoration anyway)
I suggest 8 iron => 20 bars, or 1 iron => 2 bars.