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At last a real factions plug-in for Minetest, easily extensible and easy to use.
Code: WTFPL
Assets: no assets at the moment.
Mod dependencies: banners (though this one can be easily removed)
Source+download: https://github.com/shamoanjac/factions
This mod at last brings real factions to Minetest servers, with faction wars (still a WIP but almost done), claiming based on power, faction chat, customizable ranks, etc.

Basic use:

• /f : shows the faction you're in.
• /f create <name>: create a faction with yourself as the leader.
• /f claim : claim the parcel you're on, provided that you've got enough power.
• /f disband : disband your faction
• /f join <faction>: join an existing faction, provided that you are invited (or the faction is open).
• /f invite <player>: invite a player (feature warning: the player has to be online) to your faction.
• /f help: lists all available commands, including the many that are not included here.

Some features:

• Doing stuff within factions require different permissions, which are given to different ranks (see commands /f newrank, /f promote, /f ranks, etc.)
• Default ranks are "leader", "moderator" and "member", but you can add new ones with custom privileges
• Factions can be free-to-join (see commands /f close and /f open)
• Power is given by crafting power banners (by default, each one of them gives 10 power)
• Claiming a parcel costs, by default, 0.5 power (customizable with a single variable in factions.lua)
• You can claim parcels from a faction which has negative power
• War banners can be placed on an enemy parcel, allowing editing in it for your team until it is removed (WIP, still not working)

Additional notes:

• Parcels are 16x16 columns of nodes.
• Testing MP modes in SP isn't easy, bugs are to be expected.
• As a design decision (though this can be overriden with a single variable), parcel protection only works down to Y=-512.

Seems awesome. I can't wait to see a server using it :D

Awesome! Can't wait to see it on servers.

Looks nice. For war servers its a good mod!

Update:
- Power banners now don't increase power, but rather maximum power
- Power is slowly regenerated over time (settings in factions.lua) until it reaches the maximum power value
- Power is lost by dying

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awesome!

This is really badly needed, and is also exceedingly well written. Also lol: https://github.com/shamoanjac/factions/ ... ter/log#L4

Good work, it looks very extensible and easy to integrate into a larger framework.

kaen wrote:This [...] is also exceedingly well written

Wow, this is the first time anyone compliments me on my code, thanks! :D

i just watched it... he is true! the code is very nicely written! well presented; easy to read; light; simple... great job!

A factions mod!
Wow, now all we need is some servers use it. :)