Craftable NPCs

[Jonathan]

I not sure how possible this idea is as I am still not the best with using lua for minetest, but here it is:

A NPC (robot for instance) that will protect you, and that can be right clicked on to set the following settings:
Attack other players (On/Off)
Attack other player created NPCs (On/Off)
Attack neutral NPC (On/Off)
Guard position (On/off) - If "off" will wander around.

In order to create the NPC you would have to craft stuff like the arms and legs (out of materials like MESE and steel) and then put them together to create the NPC.

One issue I see is if people kept creating NPCs eventually steel and MESE would become very rare materials. So as a possible solution, when a NPC is destroyed, we could have it drop scrap metal that would have to be put in the furnace again to convert back to steel. We could also have the NPC drop the MESE used to create it, when destroyed.

This would be great if someone created a mod that did this! Then I could have an army of robots at my command :D

- Jonathan