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Jordach wrote:"Modding API has been deprecated in favour of a new one."

Does it mean we'll have to convert all our mods to the new api ?
/me hides...

Zeg9 wrote:

Jordach wrote:"Modding API has been deprecated in favour of a new one."

Does it mean we'll have to convert all our mods to the new api ?
/me hides...

I was using a fake past tense.

TNT from latest commit explodes immediately after I hit it with torch. Is it bug or feature? Minetest 0.4.7

AndDT wrote:TNT from latest commit explodes immediately after I hit it with torch. Is it bug or feature? Minetest 0.4.7

It works for me...

What about adding mese crystal to the recipe?It resembles sulfur,and adding it also prevents abuse of TNT(it's super easy to get coal and gravel)

Is there a way to make it drop Mese and Diamonds? As of now it just destroys/removes them when it explodes.

Tedypig wrote:Is there a way to make it drop Mese and Diamonds? As of now it just destroys/removes them when it explodes.

1/3 of all nodes are dropped as items.

PilzAdam wrote:

Tedypig wrote:Is there a way to make it drop Mese and Diamonds? As of now it just destroys/removes them when it explodes.

1/3 of all nodes are dropped as items.

Is there a way to make it drop 100% of removed nodes as items?

Tedypig wrote:

PilzAdam wrote:

Tedypig wrote:Is there a way to make it drop Mese and Diamonds? As of now it just destroys/removes them when it explodes.

1/3 of all nodes are dropped as items.

Is there a way to make it drop 100% of removed nodes as items?

Yes, at least this seemed to work for me when I just tried it. In the init.lua file, lines 10, 11 and 12 need to be commented out so it looks like this.



EDIT: Bolded the filename.

Is there any way to make it more powerful? I was thinking of doing a mod which includes an explosive and I was wondering how to make the explosion of this bigger. I will give credit to PilzAdam and whoever can help.

Dan Duncombe wrote:Is there any way to make it more powerful? I was thinking of doing a mod which includes an explosive and I was wondering how to make the explosion of this bigger. I will give credit to PilzAdam and whoever can help.

I have looked and tested and think I have found out the answer. You may not like it though. Lines 63, 64 and 65 control the size of the damage. they are part of the boom function in init.lua. They look like the following:



They are the x, y and z sizes of the file. I haven't played with the -1 value in the dy variable so I'm not sure what that does. Currently, the explosion damages nodes 5 nodes wide, 5 nodes deep and 5 nodes high. For my first test, I changed the 2's to 10's and tried it out. Ouch! My system slowed to a super crawl. Snails that are bedridden could move faster. That's because I was blowing up an area 21 wide by 21 deep by 21 nodes high which means the code was deciding what got sent on which trajectory and for how far as well as if any particular node survived the explosion. This was a total of 9,261 nodes that needed to be checked and managed. I had to kill Minetest because I would have been waiting for hours for it to finish. :)

I next tried a smaller number, 4 in place of each 2 and that was far more reasonable. That still gave me an area 9 by 9 by 9 or 729 nodes to check for. This ran much smoother. So if you want really big explosions, you will need to change quite a bit of code and likely at least remove the node drops and velocity calculations or something.


P.S. If you want to remove every node in the area affected, you will need to delete line 79 through 82, look below, but that just leaves a cube.



If you want to leave less nodes in the explosion area but still leave some you could change the 5 to a larger number like 10 and the 4 to 1 less than the number chose which in my example would be 9. This would likely leave 1 node for every 10 damaged. If the code is left alone as is, it leaves 1 node out of every 5.


Hope this helps you out.

EDIT: Had to remove one line of code or it would have not been good. :) I accidentally put line 83 in the last code segment I was showing, you don't want to delete that if you do delete it. :)

EDIT #2: Just realized, if you do delete those lines, you wont remove any nodes at all. :D lol You do need them, just modify the numbers to be 5 and 5 or 1 and 1 and it will always remove a node. :)

LionsDen wrote: I haven't played with the -1 value in the dy variable so I'm not sure what that does

It's the step size for the `for' loop.
If you look, both x and z increase the value each iteration (from -2 to 2), but y does the inverse (from 2 to -2), so the "step" (increment) must be negative (default is 1 if not specified). For more info, I suggest you read the Lua Manual (see §2.4.5).

I see people have fun with my code :-)

I have set the explosion radius to 5 and drop chance to 1/3 to make the TNT not too overpowered.

Thankyou! I will probably make it not drop many items. Just so you know, the idea is going to be a part of my mod that only loads if this mod is installed, that adds 'condensed explosives'. i.e. Several TNT compacted into one.
Quick Question: Is there any way of making it not fall when lit? My explosive is intended to be like c4 in MW3- so it sticks to whatever surface you put it on, then blows up.

Dan Duncombe wrote:Thankyou! I will probably make it not drop many items. Just so you know, the idea is going to be a part of my mod that only loads if this mod is installed, that adds 'condensed explosives'. i.e. Several TNT compacted into one.
Quick Question: Is there any way of making it not fall when lit? My explosive is intended to be like c4 in MW3- so it sticks to whatever surface you put it on, then blows up.

I have the TNT mod installed and the TNT stays wherever I put it. I have yet to have it fall whether it is lit or unlit.

Oh! I didn't know that! Thanks for all this help, everyone!

The TNT makes everything disappear. The blocks should be put in place where it exploded disassembled

ModError: Failed to load and run
C:\Users\prosper\Desktop\Minetest\bin\..\mods\TNT\init.lua

darthvader wrote:ModError: Failed to load and run
C:\Users\prosper\Desktop\Minetest\bin\..\mods\TNT\init.lua

Rename the mod folder "tnt" not "TNT"

Hi,
i'm workin on a Minetest - Game and i have your tnt turn in to a Terrabomb.
There dosnt destroy blocks but removed it to default dirt.


simply insert Line
minetest.set_node(pos, {name="default:dirt"})
and delete the dropsection

I hope ist ok for you?
A have a lot of other questions.. because i use other Mods from you like Mobs. But i cant send PM...
There write "conntact a Admin" when u cant send a pm..but how i can conntact when i cant send pm's?
My english is so poor and i cant figure it out
So i try it on this way to conntact you.
Sorry
So pls pm me..an do it on german ;)

Awesome mod

I noticed the 0.4.10 standard game includes a variation of this mod. I'm wondering where all that radius code came from.

Hi Adam (not calling you Pilz <--- please take note of this), anyone else who knows,

Is there a way to make other nodes respond to burning gunpowder? I'm working on a mod that logically should go boom if in contact with a string of burning gunpowder, see... (well, according to cartoon logic, anyway, which is the best kind of logic).

I mean, I know there are ways, there always are ways... but is there something you specifically recommend I do?

Solutions like checking adjacent nodes ever n ticks seem kinda... lag-inducing...

TIA!

Greetz.
DD.

KzoneDD, you can use ABMs for that. I don't know how well they perform but that's the way how the tnt mod does it.

Besides, the tnt mod already has a “string” of gunpowder (it does not look like a string but behaves like one), just place gunpowder on the ground and ignite it with torch. I don't know why you want to make another mod for the same feature.
Note that Minetest Game also has a tnt mod. In this one there are actual gunpowder strings.

By the way:
I just looked into the Minetest Game tnt mod and noticed that gunpowder is actually only ignited by lava and fire, hardcoded. It would have been better if groups are used IMO.

ACDC-TNT

BOOOOOOM!
Can you make it respond to mesecon, or is it already?

I actually want to use the existing mod. :)

An ABM seems like an 'always-on' solution, which in my limited understanding == extra lag.

That's why I was wondering if there was a 'on demand' solution.

Check this out guys!
Realistic TNT explosion demo
I will continue improving it, I know there is still room, but I feel the devs really should take a look.
Also, don't talk about lag before actually testing my mod. I personally find it less laggy than many default blasts I've experienced.

Simple red TNT has default in game