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@celeron55: I think you should move all the game features to default mod, so that it could be replaced by other one, making the game completely different. Different map generator, different recipes, mods, physics. You will still maintain the default mod, but it will be only one way of all existing ...

'furnace_burntime = 5,' is deprecated: minetest.register_craft({ type = "fuel", recipe = "ropes:rope", burntime = 5, }) And you don't need the extra quotes in the output: minetest.register_craft({ output = 'ropes:rope 9', recipe = { {'', 'tree', ''}, {'', 'tree', ''}, {'', 'tree', ''}, } }) Also, I ...

It seems to me that there is a lot of coal compared to iron. Looking at the code in mapgen.cpp around line 2217 I'd suggest trying to flip the if ... then .. else part. This would give iron presidence over coal when the map is generated. /* Add others */ { u16 a = mineralrandom.range(0,15); a = a*a*...

Scott wrote:if this were to take place then i would need a fix to my individual problem. when ever i log in, i spawn about 3 blocks below where i logged out, so online, i use flying to free myself

That server must be using version 0.3. That problem has been fix in version 0.4

randomproof , Also, register_globalstep calls every 0.03-0.05 seconds, so your AllPlayersInBed check should be called rarely. And you can make this check faster if you'll check only count of players. I agree. I will add something so it only checks every 10-30 seconds. I would love to check just pla...

I don't know if anyone has suggested this yet or not, but it would be nice if the different animals or groups of animals were in mods or even just separate files so that there was an easy way to have some but not all. For example, say I just wanted farm animals and not fish.

rinoux wrote:

Is that correct ?

No, generally textures are square. Look in data/default/textures for examples.

rinoux wrote:quick bed texture... same size as mincraft one.

If you could convert that in to the format used by minetest for textures, that would be great.

rinoux wrote:what about this recipe:

wool,wool,wool
wood,wood,wood
wood,nothing,wood

Where do you get wool?

kahrl wrote:I see in the diff that you use dug_item, which doesn't work anymore (I think?). The field is now called drop, e.g.
drop = 'mineral_detector:detector 1'
and so on.

Thank you. Now fixed.

16:59:23: ERROR[ServerThread]: ERROR: An unhandled exception occurred: LuaError: error: ....dev-20120122-1-win32\bin\..\data\mods\beds\init.lua:34: attempt to call method 'set_timeofday' (a nil value) 16:59:23: ERROR[ServerThread]: stack traceback: In thread 16f4: C:\tmp\minetest\src\server.cpp:113...

rinoux wrote:texture dimension ?

It is a standard node cube, so whatever.

Quick bed mod Here is my quickly done beds mod. It needs someone to made a texture for the bed. There is also no crafting recipe as I couldn't think of a good one for this. It works by having players standing on top of the bed and the system will count you as being "in bed". Every globalstep the mo...

You would need to turn off free_move before you could seriously think about doing this.

I noticed that chests with stuff in them disappear in the client if they are dug. They stay in the server but not in the client.

Won't that break a number of mods, for example mesecons? Okay, they've been broken by itemdef, fair enough :) This is my patch, BTW: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/540203/ You are right. I noticed that my doors mod needs the node placed by the time that function is called so it can get the metadata. I...

Won't that break a number of mods, for example mesecons? Okay, they've been broken by itemdef, fair enough :) This is my patch, BTW: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/540203/ You are right. I noticed that my doors mod needs the node placed by the time that function is called so it can get the metadata. I...

@randomproof: Oops, shut off my brain there. Of course what I wrote won't work, for the reasons you point out. I'll make a patch so minetest.node_dig can be overridden by mods. I changed the node_ownership mod to include a change to builtin.lua so that the functions minetest.item_place_node and min...

Figured it out. What I am doing here is overwritten in builtin.lua minetest.item_place_node.

for some reason i this in not working for me: minetest.register_on_placenode(function(pos, newnode, placer) if not IsPlayerNodeOwner(pos, placer:get_player_name()) then minetest.chat_send_player(placer:get_player_name(), "You can not place nodes here.") --add node back into placer's inv leftover = p...

@randomproof Updated the list. About node ownership, the new version allows something like that (it might be a little bit of a hack though). local old_node_dig = minetest.node_dig function minetest.node_dig(pos, node, digger) if (digger is allowed to dig at pos) then old_node_dig(pos, node, digger)...

I've updated a few of my mods: Clock Mod Mineral Detector Simple Doors 'baking' is abandoned (There is a better mod available) 'growing' needs no change and i think, like with baking, there is a different, more up-to-date, version available 'node ownership' is on hold until there are native function...

Just pushed the update for the new code changes.

Do you get something like this when you run the server: steven@debian:~/working/minetest/bin$ ./minetestserver signal_handler_init() Using relative paths (RUN_IN_PLACE) path_data = /home/steven/working/minetest/bin/../data path_userdata = /home/steven/working/minetest/bin/.. Debug streams initialize...

Have you tried running the server on the command line? You can then run the client any way you want and set the server address as localhost. Or you can just run the client with a blank server address and the server will be started in the background.

Hmm, noticed that my changes are causing you to be "respawned" when you login instead of being placed where you were when you logout.

EDIT: Ok, fixed it.

Most of the mod functions are done in callbacks from the server, so running each mod in a separate thread really doesn't make sense. You would also have problems with two or more threads reading/writing the map at once. It would be a locking nightmare (only one thread could read or write to the map ...

My guess is that line 204: "local l_above = minetest.env:get_node_light({x = pos.x,y=pos.y+2,z=pos.z}, nil)" is returning nil because that pos wasn't generated or loaded from disk yet. It should be noted that any of the minetest.env functions could return nil for unloaded mapblocks. For most mods yo...

I'd like to add saving of custom defined parameters to luaentities. I've thought about multiple options: A) The "full" solution means include support for nested tables. Easyest way to support it would be using xml. This most likely would add a library depencence. But it would preserve world compati...

Great idea, but i personally would like to see that with a cornerstone-block and a sign instead of the commands. I don't like the idea of an actual cornerstone-block. You need to points to define a 3d area so you would need two blocks and one would be floating in the air. I wanted a 3d area because...