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Two questions. How do I disable entity selection boxes? How can I make it so a player's nametag disappears when they are a certain distance away? I heard that in the newest Minetest version, both of these "settings" were available as settings, but can't seem to find them.

endev15 wrote:How do I disable entity selection boxes?

endev15 wrote:How can I make it so a player's nametag disappears when they are a certain distance away?

The minetest.conf setting is called "player_transfer_distance = 0". The number is the maximal palyer distance in blocks (16m*16m*16m).
So this will hide all nametags that are further away than 64m:

Make sure that the setting "unlimited_player_transfer_distance" does not exist in your minetest.conf file because it would override the other setting.

Please have a look at the example file or into the new settings tab (mainmenu) next time. Both contain the information you need to know.

The entity selection box option didn't seem to work when I set it on the server. Even after making sure I had the newest version of Minetest. Wonder if it's client side..

Is there a way to manually (and simply) disable / enable this through a mod (without just using minetest.conf, something that can be toggled in game by admins)?

The setting "show_entity_selectionbox" is per-player. You can't control the settings file of other players, using a mod will not change the situation.

OK, thanks. I figured out that it was client side only. Somehow I didn't see either setting in the example config file, though I can't believe I missed it with how obvious they are.