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[lunisol]

That looks right to me. Are you using a recent version of minetest? I wonder if mesecons has changes to it that requires the latest git or something. I haven't used mesecons, pipeworks or technic for a while now because my system is just too slow for all of the abms and such.

As far as i know I have the latest version it says minetest-c55 0.4.3 in the credits

edit:
Ah, I just looked and I see that I dont have the latest version, latest build is 0.4.7. But i could have sworn I downloaded it straight from minetest.net just a couple weeks ago

edit again: I just downloaded the lastest version. I feel like such an idiot now, everything seems to work just fine now. thank you so much lionsden! I feel like I should facepalm for my ignorance at forgetting to double check for lastest build.

[Zane]

hey can somone make a halo mod?

[Exilyth]

hey can somone make a halo mod?

Have you tried [slabrealm]? See https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?id=5686

[addi]

a fast question:

what is the counterpart of player:get_player_name() ?

i want to get the playerobject from the playername string.

[Exilyth]

a fast question:

what is the counterpart of player:get_player_name() ?

i want to get the playerobject from the playername string.

http://dev.minetest.net/minetest.get_connected_players gives you a list of players. You'd have to compare the player name with the names of the players in this list.

[stu]

a fast question:

what is the counterpart of player:get_player_name() ?

i want to get the playerobject from the playername string.

See: get_player_by_name() http://dev.minetest.net/EnvRef

[addi]

a fast question:

what is the counterpart of player:get_player_name() ?

i want to get the playerobject from the playername string.

See: get_player_by_name() http://dev.minetest.net/EnvRef

this is what i mean. lot of thanks :)

[philipbenr]

how do you have a craftitem heal some hearts?

I know how to satiate health, but not healing.

reason: I am making a complex food mod with over 15 desserts, and 5 drinks and many foods. I am making medicine right now, so I need to know how to restore health.

[paramat]

hey can somone make a halo mod?

Also slabworld mod is a mini-ringworld generator https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?id=6726
Wow you have a choice of 2!

[philipbenr]

how do you have a craftitem heal some hearts?

I know how to satiate health, but not healing.

reason: I am making a complex food mod with over 15 desserts, and 5 drinks and many foods. I am making medicine right now, so I need to know how to restore health.

scratch that, I want to know how to help hunger.

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    on_use = minetest.item_eat(5.5),


Isn't that how to satiate hunger? In my game, it recover hearts, not hunger

[Mossmanikin]

I want to know how to help hunger.

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    on_use = minetest.item_eat(5.5),


Isn't that how to satiate hunger? In my game, it recover hearts, not hunger

AFAIK minetest.item_eat() is only (or at least primarily) about health.
Maybe you should take a closer look at the code of BlockMen's Better HUD (and hunger) mod.

[philipbenr]

I'll try...

[CaptainCanti]

Could someone look at my LUA, and tell me what it's problem is? I can't get the mod to load.

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-- Blocks

minetest.register_node("coloredwood:white_wood", {
    description = S("White Wood"),
    tiles = {"white_wood.png", "white_wood.png", "white_wood.png", "white_wood.png", "white_wood.png^[transformR90", "white_wood.png^[transformR90"},
    paramtype2 = "facedir",
    groups = {snappy=1,choppy=2,oddly_breakable_by_hand=2,flammable=3},
    sounds = default.node_sound_wood_defaults(),
})

minetest.register_node("coloredwood:black_wood", {
    description = S{"Black Wood"),
    tiles = {"black_wood.png", "black_wood.png", "black_wood.png", "black_wood.png", "black_wood.png^[transformR90", "black_wood.png^[transformR90"},
    paramtype2 = "facedir",
    groups = {snappy=1,choppy=2,oddly_breakable_by_hand=2,flammable=3},
    sounds = default.node_sound_wood_defaults(),
})

minetest.register_node("coloredwood:red_wood", {
    description = S{"Red Wood"),
    tiles = {"red_wood.png", "red_wood.png", "red_wood.png", "red_wood.png", "red_wood.png^[transformR90", "red_wood.png^[transformR90"},
    paramtype2 = "facedir",
    groups = {snappy=1,choppy=2,oddly_breakable_by_hand=2,flammable=3},
    sounds = default.node_sound_wood_defaults(),
})

[Evergreen]

Could someone look at my LUA, and tell me what it's problem is? I can't get the mod to load.

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-- Blocks

minetest.register_node("coloredwood:white_wood", {
    description = S("White Wood"),
    tiles = {"white_wood.png", "white_wood.png", "white_wood.png", "white_wood.png", "white_wood.png^[transformR90", "white_wood.png^[transformR90"},
    paramtype2 = "facedir",
    groups = {snappy=1,choppy=2,oddly_breakable_by_hand=2,flammable=3},
    sounds = default.node_sound_wood_defaults(),
})

minetest.register_node("coloredwood:black_wood", {
    description = S{"Black Wood"),
    tiles = {"black_wood.png", "black_wood.png", "black_wood.png", "black_wood.png", "black_wood.png^[transformR90", "black_wood.png^[transformR90"},
    paramtype2 = "facedir",
    groups = {snappy=1,choppy=2,oddly_breakable_by_hand=2,flammable=3},
    sounds = default.node_sound_wood_defaults(),
})

minetest.register_node("coloredwood:red_wood", {
    description = S{"Red Wood"),
    tiles = {"red_wood.png", "red_wood.png", "red_wood.png", "red_wood.png", "red_wood.png^[transformR90", "red_wood.png^[transformR90"},
    paramtype2 = "facedir",
    groups = {snappy=1,choppy=2,oddly_breakable_by_hand=2,flammable=3},
    sounds = default.node_sound_wood_defaults(),
})

Someone actually made a colored wood mod already, but I don't have time atm to check the code.

[Mossmanikin]

Could someone look at my LUA, and tell me what it's problem is? I can't get the mod to load.

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-- Blocks

minetest.register_node("coloredwood:white_wood", {
    description = S("White Wood"),
    tiles = {"white_wood.png", "white_wood.png", "white_wood.png", "white_wood.png", "white_wood.png^[transformR90", "white_wood.png^[transformR90"},
    paramtype2 = "facedir",
    groups = {snappy=1,choppy=2,oddly_breakable_by_hand=2,flammable=3},
    sounds = default.node_sound_wood_defaults(),
})

minetest.register_node("coloredwood:black_wood", {
    description = S{"Black Wood"),
    tiles = {"black_wood.png", "black_wood.png", "black_wood.png", "black_wood.png", "black_wood.png^[transformR90", "black_wood.png^[transformR90"},
    paramtype2 = "facedir",
    groups = {snappy=1,choppy=2,oddly_breakable_by_hand=2,flammable=3},
    sounds = default.node_sound_wood_defaults(),
})

minetest.register_node("coloredwood:red_wood", {
    description = S{"Red Wood"),
    tiles = {"red_wood.png", "red_wood.png", "red_wood.png", "red_wood.png", "red_wood.png^[transformR90", "red_wood.png^[transformR90"},
    paramtype2 = "facedir",
    groups = {snappy=1,choppy=2,oddly_breakable_by_hand=2,flammable=3},
    sounds = default.node_sound_wood_defaults(),
})

Looks like there's something wrong with the descriptions.
A simple string should do it in this case, for example:

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description = "White Wood",

[Dan Duncombe]

Could someone look at my LUA, and tell me what it's problem is? I can't get the mod to load.

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-- Blocks

minetest.register_node("coloredwood:white_wood", {
    description = S("White Wood"),
    tiles = {"white_wood.png", "white_wood.png", "white_wood.png", "white_wood.png", "white_wood.png^[transformR90", "white_wood.png^[transformR90"},
    paramtype2 = "facedir",
    groups = {snappy=1,choppy=2,oddly_breakable_by_hand=2,flammable=3},
    sounds = default.node_sound_wood_defaults(),
})

minetest.register_node("coloredwood:black_wood", {
    description = S{"Black Wood"),
    tiles = {"black_wood.png", "black_wood.png", "black_wood.png", "black_wood.png", "black_wood.png^[transformR90", "black_wood.png^[transformR90"},
    paramtype2 = "facedir",
    groups = {snappy=1,choppy=2,oddly_breakable_by_hand=2,flammable=3},
    sounds = default.node_sound_wood_defaults(),
})

minetest.register_node("coloredwood:red_wood", {
    description = S{"Red Wood"),
    tiles = {"red_wood.png", "red_wood.png", "red_wood.png", "red_wood.png", "red_wood.png^[transformR90", "red_wood.png^[transformR90"},
    paramtype2 = "facedir",
    groups = {snappy=1,choppy=2,oddly_breakable_by_hand=2,flammable=3},
    sounds = default.node_sound_wood_defaults(),
})

Have you added 'default' to the depends.txt? It won't work if not.

[webdesigner97]

No, this is the problem:

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 description = S{"Red Wood"),


It has to be:

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 description = S("Red Wood"),


Edit: replace the { after S with (

[philipbenr]

I want to know how to help hunger.

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    on_use = minetest.item_eat(5.5),


Isn't that how to satiate hunger? In my game, it recover hearts, not hunger

AFAIK minetest.item_eat() is only (or at least primarily) about health.
Maybe you should take a closer look at the code of BlockMen's Better HUD (and hunger) mod.

Well, I did and I can't find anything... I copied the hunger points out of Pilz-Adam's farming mod from his bread.

[EllisGL]

Hey all,

Probably a stupid question, but how do you use cURL in mods? I have a cURL enabled build, tried the docs for LUA_cURL, but to no avail.

[Likwid H-Craft]

What would I, do make the nodebox size, same like Minecraft Heads?

I keep ending up with odd, sizes.

[Gambit]

I've been playing with the idea of cobwebs spawning in caves that could drop string. However, I've been wondering how to regulate the amount it spawns in an area. During testing I've come across too many (I feel) and was wondering how to make them less common. Any suggestions?

Here's my small code.

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minetest.register_node("test:webspawn", {
    description = "Cobweb",
    drawtype = "plantlike",
    tiles = {"test_web.png"},
    inventory_image = "test_web.png",
    buildable_to = true,
    visual_scale = 1.0,
    paramtype = "light",
    walkable = false,
    groups = {snappy=2,dig_immediate=3,flammable=2,attached_node=1},
    drop = 'farming:string',
})

minetest.register_ore({
    ore_type       = "scatter",
    ore            = "test:webspawn",
    clust_scarcity = 9*9*9,
    clust_num_ores = 4,
    clust_size     = 3,
    height_min     = -630000,
    height_max     = -16,
})

[Evergreen]

I've been playing with the idea of cobwebs spawning in caves that could drop string. However, I've been wondering how to regulate the amount it spawns in an area. During testing I've come across too many (I feel) and was wondering how to make them less common. Any suggestions?

Here's my small code.

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minetest.register_node("test:webspawn", {
    description = "Cobweb",
    drawtype = "plantlike",
    tiles = {"test_web.png"},
    inventory_image = "test_web.png",
    buildable_to = true,
    visual_scale = 1.0,
    paramtype = "light",
    walkable = false,
    groups = {snappy=2,dig_immediate=3,flammable=2,attached_node=1},
    drop = 'farming:string',
})

minetest.register_ore({
    ore_type       = "scatter",
    ore            = "test:webspawn",
    clust_scarcity = 9*9*9,
    clust_num_ores = 4,
    clust_size     = 3,
    height_min     = -630000,
    height_max     = -16,
})

I think the way you would do that is just make them rarer. Lower the clust_size, maybe grow the clust_scarcity, stuff like that.

[PenguinDad]

How do I make a node that has a formspec that is equivalent to the creative inventory?

[ch98]

Can you change an texture of node in game? Also, can you change texture of an liquid?

[Evergreen]

Can you change an texture of node in game? Also, can you change texture of an liquid?

No, sadly you can't change the texture of a node while in game. (unless it is an animation) And what exactly do you mean by changing the texture of a liquid?

[ch98]

Can you change an texture of node in game? Also, can you change texture of an liquid?

No, sadly you can't change the texture of a node while in game. (unless it is an animation) And what exactly do you mean by changing the texture of a liquid?

example is to make lava suddenly look like water. Also, I want to know if it is possible to add/remove very small amount of liquid, and make, read, and write text files on world folder.

[playzooki]

help please

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dofile(minetest.get_modpath("default").."/functions.lua")

minetest.register_node("rickroll:rickroll", {
    description = "You just got Rickrolled!",
    tiles = {"rickroll.png"},
    is_ground_content = true,
    groups = {hot=3, cracky=2},
    drop = 'rickroll:rickroll',
    legacy_mineral = true,
    sounds = default.node_sound_rick_defaults(),
    walkable = false,
    damage_per_second = 8*2
})

[Dan Duncombe]

help please

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dofile(minetest.get_modpath("default").."/functions.lua")

minetest.register_node("rickroll:rickroll", {
    description = "You just got Rickrolled!",
    tiles = {"rickroll.png"},
    is_ground_content = true,
    groups = {hot=3, cracky=2},
    drop = 'rickroll:rickroll',
    legacy_mineral = true,
    sounds = default.node_sound_rick_defaults(),
    walkable = false,
    damage_per_second = 8*2
})

Try adding a comma after damage_per_second = 8*2

[kaeza]

sounds = default.node_sound_rick_defaults(),

This line is wrong. There's no function with that name.
You probably want one of those:

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default.node_sound_wood_defaults(),
default.node_sound_grass_defaults(),
default.node_sound_glass_defaults(),
default.node_sound_stone_defaults(),
default.node_sound_dirt_defaults(),
default.node_sound_leaves_defaults(),
default.node_sound_sand_defaults(),


[Dan Duncombe]

sounds = default.node_sound_rick_defaults(),

This line is wrong. There's no function with that name.
You probably want one of those:

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default.node_sound_wood_defaults(),
default.node_sound_grass_defaults(),
default.node_sound_glass_defaults(),
default.node_sound_stone_defaults(),
default.node_sound_dirt_defaults(),
default.node_sound_leaves_defaults(),
default.node_sound_sand_defaults(),


Also, you need default as a dependency to use these