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Hi there,

as i read, adm's can cause perfomance trouble for the game - now i read about globalstep.
I am wondering what the differences are exactly between them and if globalstep is faster than abm.

ABMs are run ON nodes. So they may be called multiple times per tick if you have multiple nodes matching the query.

Global steps run ONCE a tick - a tick is a step. So the function runs once every global server step.

Minetest.after is recommended if you want to run a function at intervals that isn't every server step

Timers run ON a single node's position

The speed depends on the actions triggered.
ABMs only run within 3 mapblocks (48 nodes) of players.
The globalstep is 10-20 times per second.

Thank you both, i think it helped me to understand :)