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A small mod that might be useful. It adds a fullheal potion and a halfheal potion to the game.

License: WTFPL

Dependencies:
default
flowers
farming
vessels

Download:

crafting:




The fullheal potion heals 10 hearts, and the halfheal heals 5 hearts.

The textures are from http://icons.webtoolhub.com/icon-p0s2281-set.aspx
(From what I could decipher from the licenses and stuff I'm allowed to use them.)

Opinions please, second release.

Interesting idea, but where did you get the textures from? Also, it's better to use 16x16 textures.

Please use a different short name than “potions”; This name is already used here: https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?id=5549.

I think both potions are overpowered, because they heal you immediately. This can be very frustrating in combat, as it goes basically this way:
get hit
use full-heal potion
get hit
use full-heal potion

etc.
Unless you have a weapon which kills immediately I suppose it would be extremely hard, if not impossible, to kill a player with a lot of full-heal potions. You just have to use them faster than you are hit. I suppose you could even survive swimming in a lava lake if you just have enough full-heal potions. Since you are only hurt every second, but you can consume healing potions as fast as you can click.
I also think the current healing system in Minetest is just utterly flawed. It is obviously not optimized for gameplay. minetest.item_eat is overpowered. So it is not entirely your fault, after all. The sad thing is, currently all healing items I know are overpowered immediate healing items and it is just a matter of whoever runs out of healing items first. This is not true for very low healing items, like 1 half heart. This is because you may not click 19 times fast enough against a weapon which damages you by 4 hearts per hit.

By the way, do you plan to add more potions? You may be interested in my Player Effects mod.

I also planned to create potions. I think I will release such a mod maybe in 1 or 2 weeks.

@Evergreen the textures are from http://icons.webtoolhub.com/icon-p0s2281-set.aspx, I forgot to add that info, thank you for reminding me.

@Wuzzy I have fixed the name, and will probe the idea of a more balanced heal. please send me a link to your mod when it is done :)

Nice mod. I was hoping to find something like this. Though I do agree with Wuzzy as to the strength of the potions, I also must say that it is a GREAT mod, and I am excited to try it. P.S. Excellent textures!!

Possible idea: How about a Regen Potion? That is, a potion that continually heals you over a small period of time, say, 3-5 seconds. Then you could keep fighting while still being healed.

I'll do that... as soon as I figure out how

Good mod, but I wholly agree with HeroOfTheWinds. It would be good if you healed after a 3 or 5 seconds. If you could have a delayed healing, that would be great. I've tried the same thing and failed. So, keep trying! ;D

PS The textures are awesome!

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