FOSS gamedev and creative worlds

If you have many mod installed, the creative inventory is too full . if you have 30pages it takes ages to find an item. My idea was to add folders: one for building materials, one for plants.... What do you think about this?

Do you really mean the inventory? Or rather the craft guide? Against lack of space in the inventory, we do have the bags that come with unified_inventory. As to the craft guide, I thought about having something like tabs as well - but in a slightly diffrent context. Crafting on a phone/tablet is not so easy as when using a proper mouse. Having bookmarks for often-crafted items and some kind of ordered craft guide in combination with the "copy craft receipe to craft grid" feature unified_inventory comes with might help. I've got enough other things to do so that I don't get around to implementing this; perhaps someone else has time.

Sokomine wrote:Do you really mean the inventory? Or rather the craft guide? Against lack of space in the inventory, we do have the bags that come with unified_inventory. As to the craft guide, I thought about having something like tabs as well - but in a slightly diffrent context. Crafting on a phone/tablet is not so easy as when using a proper mouse. Having bookmarks for often-crafted items and some kind of ordered craft guide in combination with the "copy craft receipe to craft grid" feature unified_inventory comes with might help. I've got enough other things to do so that I don't get around to implementing this; perhaps someone else has time.

He means the creative inventory!
But you have to write it, jbb!

I edited the text to "creative inventory".
Sorry,
I wrote the text with my moble phone and after the browser once crashed i just wrote this small version of the text and i forgot this then.

Ah, creative inventory. I never really use that. It's either survival (due to the better interface) or unified_inventory right away. Took some time to get used to that, but it turned out to be very comftable in the end. At least on the desktop. Folders/tabs are a good idea, but you do need sort critera for them. Tools, ores, wood, furniture...hard to tell what might go well together. Even more tricky if other mods than default are involved I'm afraid.

Minetest Plus already has exactly what we're looking for. You could copy/get inspiration there.

ABJ wrote:Minetest Plus already has exactly what we're looking for. You could copy/get inspiration there.

I found that if I copy the creative mod out of this subgame https://github.com/BlockMen/minetest_plus and enable it as a mod that it does give us inventory tabs and searching. However there are some issues. First of all I like to use Zeg9's skins & craft guide, the only way I can get the 2 icons to appear for that to work is to click on the up or down arrow on the right side. Then there is the problem that there aren't enough tabs/categories. There should also be categories for Plants, Weapons, and Creatures/Spawners. Also most items are misfiled. We almost need to have a standard property that modders can use called itemCategory which would allow them to easilly be sorted into tabs. This may sound like nit picking, but the problem is that once you add a lot of mods, the biggest problem is scrolling through the inventory trying to find what you want. It honestly is the single most annoying part about playing Minetest. A good creative inventory system would be the biggest gameplay improvement that could be added.

Neuromancer wrote:A good creative inventory system would be the biggest gameplay improvement that could be added.

You should update your Minetest Game. Creative now has a search bar.
https://github.com/minetest/minetest_game/pull/736


It would be cool if it was a little bigger so you could see more at one time

Napiophelios wrote:You should update your Minetest Game. Creative now has a search bar.
https://github.com/minetest/minetest_game/pull/736

This is exactly what I was looking for! Thanks much!