[Mod] Minecraft-like railway corridors [railcorridors]

[Joz]

Info:
This is my first mod, it adds corridors with rails starting from a dirty main cave, trying to immitate Minecraft's rail corridors.
I tried to make modifying a bit user friendlier with a parameter section in the init.lua.
Maybe the parameters have to be adjusted to be more minecraft like, please let me know if you find good params.
Download:
either
https://github.com/UgnilJoZ/RailCorrido ... master.zip
or
https://github.com/UgnilJoZ/RailCorrido ... all/master
Install:
Put the extracted directory into the "mods" subfolder of your minetest directory.
Github: (pull requests are always welcome)
https://github.com/UgnilJoZ/RailCorridors
License:
WTFPL!
Screenshots:

[MaxPower]

Very good, will definitely keep this mod. Cheers

Would be nice to have a mine entrance, I don't find MC mineshaft very logical as it should have at least one entrance.

[rubenwardy]

You need to rename Depends to depends.txt

[Joz]

@Rubenwardy: Now corrected.
@MaxPower: Thanks. Do you mean an entrance to a staircase?

[Krock]

Downlad from Github / pull code: (But the code is horrible)

I like this mod and created a pull request for you :)

[jp]

Good work, the cavegen is not affected or slowed by your code. It's simple & fast.

Just replace the download link by this : https://github.com/UgnilJoZ/RailCorrido ... master.zip (and use only the small caracters for your mod name folder : RailCorridors -> railcorridors).

I hope that your mod will have a good evolution ;)

[MaxPower]

@MaxPower: Thanks. Do you mean an entrance to a staircase?

I mean just a way to get to the mineshaft, but hidden or half burried (see attachement)

[tima_gt]

good work!

[Joz]

@MaxPower:
That's difficult, but good. I will think about it.
@tima_gt:
Thank you ;)
@Krock:
Thank you for cleaning up! (Your code had first an issue)

[Sokomine]

Nice mod! There's a similar one out there, but that happens with all mods. Hope it will be developed further.

Would be nice to have a mine entrance, I don't find MC mineshaft very logical as it should have at least one entrance.

Entrances (vertically and/or horizontally) would be really great. Right now, finding a mine by chance is prett unlikely. It might be due to the far higher amount of vertical space MT has to offer. Finding entrances on the surface would be great. Players could keep looking for those entrances. One or two per mine might be enough. They may be simple shafts connecting mine and surface, with ladders or ropes for climbing up and down, either 1x1 or 3x3 in diameter. Something like that would be nice for my random_buildings and mg_villages mod as well.

[Minetestforfun]

Good work ! thank you ! :)

[ExeterDad]

Whoah!
Very interesting! Gonna play with this one in the morning :D

[Joz]

Update: I corrected the directions of the torches.

[Joz]

I just added chests and these wooden crossings:

[Joz]

Here is a fork which aproaches better chests' content: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=10339

[srifqi]

+1
Like the wooden crossing.

BTW, What's that texture pack?

[Minetestforfun]

@srifqi

It's HDX VanessaE texture pack (256px or 512px)

[Joz]

I rewrote the mod and the generation is now more randomly, the wooden crossings can have two levels and sometimes water or lava flows out of the walls.

[srifqi]

I rewrote the mod and the generation is now more randomly,

More random nicer

the wooden crossings can have two levels

Wow!

and sometimes water or lava flows out of the walls.

*silent
Will lava burn the corridors?

[Joz]

The wood is burned as far the lava flows.
But unfortunately, the rails in minetest_game are not burned by lava and not flushed away by water whcih looks sometimes weird.

[Shammmmmm]

I always encounter unknown item ....... can fix it?

[cHyper]

I always encounter unknown item ....... can fix it?

anyone knows how to fix that problem?

[TeTpaAka]

I always encounter unknown item ....... can fix it?

I think the most promising item that could be unknown is "tnt:tnt" (Given in chests.lua at line 15). The mod should add "tnt" as a dependencie.
If I am right, it should work if you update your minetest_game.

[cHyper]

what about this? optimize your entry of the corridors! Where does the entry points appear normaly?

[Napiophelios]

Sokomine's MinesWithShafts is pretty badass,
Its like railcorridors mod but more concentrated so to speak.
its got some quirks but they are easy to tweak

[Sokomine]

Sokomine's MinesWithShafts is pretty badass,
Its like railcorridors mod but more concentrated so to speak.
its got some quirks but they are easy to tweak

I'm glad you like it :-) I planned to add it to the vilalges, but I'm afraid it's not good enough yet. There needs to be a better method on deciding where to actually put a mine, and there are bugs in it. There need to be more vertical shafts as well.

Ah, if anyone wants to try: mines_with_shafts