FOSS gamedev and creative worlds

I have been playing a different voxel game, where the ore nodes are different from the normal block.
I wanted to mod Minetest to do the same.
Is there a way to have the world generator stick a blender created voxel in that location instead of the default voxel?

Entirely yes, just create said mesh and then moddify the init.lua in the default mod to reflect the mesh rather than just drawing a node, alternately you could create a new mod and override the more nodes to display them as the meshes.

Honestly, I am looking in the init.lua and I don't see any code for setting up a mesh instead of the normal node.
Should I be looking in Nodes.lua, or mapgen.lua?

metaspy wrote:Honestly, I am looking in the init.lua and I don't see any code for setting up a mesh instead of the normal node.
Should I be looking in Nodes.lua, or mapgen.lua?

Until now, none of Minetest Vanilla's block (a.k.a. node) that uses mesh. (Correct me if I'm wrong)

If the game currently doesnt force a specific mesh for the default block, how would i go about implementing a custom mesh for a block?

Like this.

thank you sir!