Wishes for Minetest 0.4.11 (or 0.5)

[emugod]

better in-game statistics and info panels (even a full statistical menu, all variable, modifiable in real time, look-based node/block picking and readout/modification), block border highlights of some kind (including occluded but loaded blocks)

real dream would be actual documentation

[rubenwardy]

What do you mean by 'actual documentation'?

[GhostGTO]

Wishes for 0.4.11:

General:
*Better optimization
*Radios (Minetest's counterpart to Jukeboxes, but i want to choose my music or listen to shoutcast radio)
*Alternatives to Minecraft's Redstone

Android-specific:
*Joypad and Mouse support. (Mapable joypad like in Dead Trigger 2, Please)
*Better Keyboard Support (Some keys like slash and tilde does not work)

[Krock]

*Alternatives to Minecraft's Redstone

There isn't any redstone in Minetest. I think you mean alternatives for mesecons.

[sfan5]

*Radios (Minetest's counterpart to Jukeboxes, but i want to choose my music or listen to shoutcast radio)

That functionality belongs to a music player, not a game.

[TenPlus1]

The ability to play .mod or .midi files within a game to set mood for a specific area or action like fighting a mob boss...

[PeterKabin]

Voxel cone traced lighting, depth of field, motion blur opengl and opengl_es shaders.
Crafting like in the minecraft:pocket edition.

[rubberduck]

i would like to see better textures for the default ores, they have the same shape except for the mese-ore

[PeterKabin]

i would like to see better textures for the default ores, they have the same shape except for the mese-ore

Use texture packs for it.

[maikerumine]

A feature to raise and lower the water_level at random after a world is created, would be nice.

[Krock]

A feature to raise and lower the water_level at random after a world is created, would be nice.

[maikerumine]

A feature to raise and lower the water_level at random after a world is created, would be nice.

Sweet! What I had meant to say is the master water level at the same time, so you could tailor sea level to the landscape as you see fit.

[ExeterDad]

I'd like to see the player models head move according to what the player is looking at. At least up and down. Not only would it look cool, it could be useful to get an idea what a person is looking at. A nice by-product would be the ability of nodding to someone.

[rubberduck]

i would like to see better textures for the default ores, they have the same shape except for the mese-ore

Use texture packs for it.

there are still a lot of users using the default texture pack or a texture pack based on the default pack.
For example the bumpyblocks-texturepack is based on the default and is used very often.
Both have the same shape for ore-textures and moreores uses this shape too.
(you have to replace the ores in the default pack, the bumpyblocks pack and in moreores too)

the new included game minetest next added a lot of improved textures too,
for example: cobblestone, jungle tree, wooden planks, gold block and diamond block.

also the combination of the default ores and ores added by moreores makes it harder to recognize the right ore in some cases.

[brep]

I think faster load times for games that are heavily modded would be excellent. Maybe we could find out how minecraft accomplishes this,.

[rubenwardy]

Brep, mods in Minecraft are patches. Once the patch is applied, it is as if it is part of the game.

MC loads faster because the client needs to have the same mods installed, so the server doesn't need to send resources. Minetest will never do this, as it takes away one of the advantages of MT. Server side control.

Minetest could compress the images it sends, or combine into a single image. Or use a faster protocol. Or use other servers to download (dedicated resource servers). Or only send required items.

Bench marking is needed to solve this. Is most of the loading time when a client is connecting to the server spent waiting for resources to download, or processing those resources?

[brep]

I'm not talking about servers over the internet, I am talking about local worlds. It makes sense why the servers take so long, but why should local worlds take so long to load?

[HeroOfTheWinds]

What madness even is this? MT still loads faster than Minecraft Pocket Edition.

[brep]

I haven't tried the pocket edition, but I can say for sure that minetest loads significantly slower than minecraft computer edition, even for modded worlds on a person's computer.

[Krock]

I haven't tried the pocket edition, but I can say for sure that minetest loads significantly slower than minecraft computer edition, even for modded worlds on a person's computer.

Possibly you haven't built in LuaJIT, it speeds up many parts of the mods.

[Calinou]

I haven't tried the pocket edition, but I can say for sure that minetest loads significantly slower than minecraft computer edition, even for modded worlds on a person's computer.

Disable “Preload item visuals” in the options.

Remember that unlike Minecraft, you don't have to log in to a central server every time you play. There's no splash screen either.

[jp]

One of my wishes for 0.4.11 : a smart highlighting (semi-transparent bright field) instead of a collisionbox & dark edges.

[onpon4]

What exactly does preloading item visuals do, anyway? I didn't notice a difference in appearence when I disabled it at one time to make it load faster. Maybe it should be disabled by default?

[Krock]

What exactly does preloading item visuals do, anyway? I didn't notice a difference in appearence when I disabled it at one time to make it load faster. Maybe it should be disabled by default?

It preloads the textures of nodes/items.
Already disabled: https://github.com/minetest/minetest/commit/d7bcde6

[Casimir]

For the next version I would like to see many bugfixes, better support for mobs and to include several subgames (and mods) by default.
For mobs a engine side tool wear out would be enough for me to consider them usable. (At least 2D ones.)

[playzooki]

Id like to see waves at sea, probably aint gonna happen. Maybe bring back dungeons, but rarer and bigger so its like a boss battle.

[Kilarin]

Currently, when flowing fluid hits unloaded blocks it acts as if it hit a solid barrier and starts to flow along it. This creates very strange phenomenon with the sky filled with water or lava. AND, since it has a tendency to create phantom sources, just loading the blocks beneath the stoppage will not correct the problem. You have to actually pass through or build into each of the phantom sources.

It occurred to me today that there MIGHT be a simple solution that would greatly reduce the annoyance of this problem. What if, when fluids hit an unloaded block, they simply stopped flowing? And didn't start flowing again until all of the blocks around them were loaded again.

Now, obviously, this wouldn't be a perfect solution. But it would stop fluids in the sky from being "OH NO! It's going everywhere and is going to flood/burn EVERYTHING!" to, "Hmmm, that water/lava fall stopped. Guess I'll have to build a bridge up there to get it flowing again."

[HeroOfTheWinds]

Currently, when flowing fluid hits unloaded blocks it acts as if it hit a solid barrier and starts to flow along it. This creates very strange phenomenon with the sky filled with water or lava. AND, since it has a tendency to create phantom sources, just loading the blocks beneath the stoppage will not correct the problem. You have to actually pass through or build into each of the phantom sources.

It occurred to me today that there MIGHT be a simple solution that would greatly reduce the annoyance of this problem. What if, when fluids hit an unloaded block, they simply stopped flowing? And didn't start flowing again until all of the blocks around them were loaded again.

Now, obviously, this wouldn't be a perfect solution. But it would stop fluids in the sky from being "OH NO! It's going everywhere and is going to flood/burn EVERYTHING!" to, "Hmmm, that water/lava fall stopped. Guess I'll have to build a bridge up there to get it flowing again."

YES, this! Really not that hard to code either, as far as I could guess.

Another idea would be a slightly more toned-down cavegen in mgv6. It's ridiculous to have the world grief itself...

[TenPlus1]

+1 on stopping fluids falling into unloaded areas...

[HeroOfTheWinds]

Made a report of the issue of GitHub: https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/1558

Seems like requests such as these get answered quicker by the right people when they are posted on GitHub rather than here...

EDIT: Also reported the cavegen issue: https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/1559