[Modpack] Animals Modpack [2.5] -- 2.6 approaching

[sapier]

@dannydark thanks it's allways good to hear someone likes it

parrots and monkeys ... random movement wouldn't be enough for them I'll probably need to design a new, more sophisticated target based movement generator to make this possible. I'll add it to the todo list. But it's not on top priority.

I can't reproduce the sheer bug if I klick the sheered sheep to often it's killed. Can you supply a step by step description how to cause it?

[rinoux]

... and simple frog on the water-lilies and near water.

ps: I also like your mod !

[sapier]

rahonejm requested making vombies catchable. I don't wanna make it catchable with rope, but what about adding a special tool for catching undead animals?

eg mese-rope (quick solution)

Another idea is adding some sort of ghost buster like catching tool that throws plasma balls if they hit a vombie for example it transforms to a imobilized collectable entity. This would be another mod completly unrelated to animals and I'm not sure when it will be finished, hopfully it wouldn't be too much work adapting throwing mod to do this.

[neko259]

Maybe make a box that turns a mob into a 'box with a mob' (box with the mob icon on its sides) on collision. It can emit light for example. And you can place it just like a sipmle node, but when destroyed, it releases the mob.

[dannydark]

Maybe make a box that turns a mob into a 'box with a mob' (box with the mob icon on its sides) on collision. It can emit light for example. And you can place it just like a sipmle node, but when destroyed, it releases the mob.

+1 YES ^_^

[rinoux]

TODO:
1-better/completed graphics for rat,fish,chicken and vampires
2-names for remaining 2 fishes
3-improove documentation
...

1: should i make the complete rat graphics ?
2:.. sorry I don't know
3:Your job :-)

[sapier]

1) I'd be glad if you did and gull side view please too

2) they need names to be added ;-) there are already two animals with dummy names (because I needed them to test code)
@all suggestions for the remaining fish rinoux draw!

3) I know ;-) but i think this will be an endless todo by definition ;-)

btw im going to call this "mod" a modpack for next release. It contains several mods (animals and engine) and I don't wanna release each of it separatly ;-).
animalmaterials on the other hand won't be included anymore. I m hoping to get it into official minetest release.

[rinoux]

a kind of rat

[redcrab]

Thanks for latest great evolution of animals mod (0.9.11)
For those tester guy ..
You may play with it on redcrab staging server at minetest.suret.net port 30001

enjoy

[rinoux]

a much smaller egg

[sapier]

Finaly here it is Version 1.0.0.

If someone can upload the screenshots I added as zip I'd like to add them to first post. I can't do it atm myself as someone seems to have abused the dynamic ip I'm now at on tinypic.

I assume you wanna know how to breed sheep ;-) It's simple:
1) craft a barn
2) fill it with leaves
3) wait some time

Catching vombies:
1) kill a clownfish
2) craft a trap
3) put trap next to vombie
4) wait till it gets glowing green

[neko259]

Great!

[Jordach]

awesome, will try it!

[neko259]

I can't figure how to use barns. Can you make a scheme or a screenshot? Also, they have a very strange texture: visible from 1 side, invisible from other.

[neko259]

Ah, I understood. 'fill it with leaves' means LMB. But the texture is still very strange!

[neko259]

Also, I think a barn should be walkable.

[sapier]

I know about the textures sadly there's not much I can do about this on lua side creating a "nice" barn need's changes in minetest. Minetests luaentity drawtypes are still limited to cube and sprite ... and sprite barns would be even worse ;-)

EDIT1: thats the reason it isn't walkable too entitys can't be not walkable ;-(

And it needs to be a entity as barn is doing the breeding. Ok I know that's not exactly as in real world but there are some good reasons to do this:

-breading is not a way to add animals but a player triggered feature
-if animal would trigger breading ANY animal even those far away from any barn would need to scan their location permanently for other animals and barns ->lots of avoidable computation effort.
-it's a simple solution

ok it's not perfect but good enough to get some experience how to do or not to do next version

[rahonejm]

Hey sapier, did you read my pm about the Walking Dead barn that i've did? xD

[sapier]

Yes I did hope the vombie trap is what you needed? ;-)

EDIT1: If anyone spots a gull please tell me they're intended to be rare but I hope not too rare :-)

[neko259]

Your breeding is just fine for the game purposes. But I think you should add childhood. For example, newly born animal is 1/3 of the normal size, it can't be sheared and gives nothing when killed. But in some time (10 min I think) it becomes normal.

And maybe make vombies drop bones even when died from the sun? Just drop on the ground.

[sapier]

Newly born sheep are already lamb's that can't be sheered they grow up to sheep after 30 minutes. I know the texture needs to be improoved to make the difference between sheep and lamb more obvious.

I'm not sure about the bones there would be huge amount of bones out there if any vombie droped them on sundeath.
Does anyone else support this suggestion?

[rinoux]

We just saw one bird

[sapier]

Thx for the info so spawning algorithm is working :-)

[rinoux]

The sheep I put in a park just disappear after some time, is it normal ? (chicken also)

ps:I think that the egg is much too big, its 1/2 of a chicken ;-)

[neko259]

Newly born sheep are already lamb's that can't be sheered they grow up to sheep after 30 minutes. I know the texture needs to be improoved to make the difference between sheep and lamb more obvious.

Oh, sorry. I didn't wait no see a newly borned sheep :)

[sapier]

@rinoux there's a bug in client/server entity handling sometimes client shows entities at locations where there isn't one. It's same the other way round, client not showing enities where there should be. The problem is restarting client only doesn't fix it. If this is the case for you you need to restart both.

btw NOT playerspawned animals vanish if there are to many within a certain distance.

[dannydark]

I'm not sure about the bones there would be huge amount of bones out there if any vombie droped them on sundeath.
Does anyone else support this suggestion?

I would like this too however, like you said there could end up being a lot of bones lying around the place, would it not be possible to have some ABM running that cleans them up after a certain amount or time? or would this cause too much lag?

[neko259]

Maybe make them create a 'bones batch' entity on the ground that disappears in some time, and gives a bone when punched?

[Nemo08]

please, add bears!

[rinoux]

Special russian mod pack


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