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It shoul be useful for 'More Ores' and 'Gemstones' mods.

Very cheap yo, most people are not looking to cheat the game.

How is this related to cheating?

What's this lua Funtion do? Teleport to ground level?

It makes ores stay below the Y coordinate of 0. So no more gemstones where dirt should be :P

IPushButton2653 wrote:It makes ores stay below the Y coordinate of 0. So no more gemstones where dirt should be :P

Mmm... this can be a problem because of the fact of mountains that are way above Y=0. So a mountain, that would normally have a few or a lot gemstones/ores, would no longer have them.

Although this could be good, or again, it could not be. Its all situational.

While yes, this makes it generally more realistic, in other cases, such as the mountain stated above; It would make it unrealistic.

Since both cases will happen on a server, I cannot really justify using it.

It just dawned on me, but couldn't this also be used to make an ore-like material, for say, fossils, appear under a certain depth?

IPushButton2653 wrote:It just dawned on me, but couldn't this also be used to make an ore-like material, for say, fossils, appear under a certain depth?

In theory, yes. By logic, if you can force ores to only show up when Y<0, then certainly you can make fossils appear when Y<X.

Only way to be 100% sure is to test it :D

Oooooo. Interesting....

well if you think about it gemstones should be deep in the ground anyway so their somewhat hard to get to

Gatharoth wrote:Mmm... this can be a problem because of the fact of mountains that are way above Y=0. So a mountain, that would normally have a few or a lot gemstones/ores, would no longer have them.

My function solves exactly this problem. It return ground level. You want to know mountains height, right?

sdzen wrote:well if you think about it gemstones should be deep in the ground anyway so their somewhat hard to get to

Yes, they should. Here is how I do it: https://github.com/inkelyad/zlovespancakes-minetest-mods/blob/use_get_ground_level/gemstones/init.lua

Unfortunately, I can't seem to compile on my computer. But if anyone has a windows version with this in it, I'd be thankful if they'd share it with me.

What is the exact error message you get?