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A spawn command for Minetest without needing a fixed point -- singpleayer rejoice!

Players are each given their own randomized spawn point on first joining.

If no static_spawnpoint is defined in minetest.conf, the origin is 0,0,0.

If a static spawn point is defined, that point is used as origin instead.

If `spawn_anywhere = true` is set in minetest.conf, any new player will be given a randomized spawn point, somewhere around the entire world map. On server, two players might never meet eachother for a looong time...

* A normal game in singleplayer mode will still allow the player access to a spawn location
* Player will respawn at their spawnpoint if they die.
* Players will respawn at their bed if this option is active (default: bedspawn = true)
* Their /spawn location will still be the randomized location.
* The /spawn command requires a 'spawn' privilege.
* Players will not spawn in spaces that are protected by any other player than the Server Admin.
* Additional commands
* Players can request a new spawn point by typing /newspawn if they have the newspawn privilege.
* Players can set their spawn point by typeing /setspawn if they have the setspawn privelege.

* Github
* Zip download

Very nice +1

New feature - spawn_anywhere

New players will be assigned a spawn point somewhere in the vastness of the world... and may not meet another soul for ages.... ;-)

taikedz wrote:New feature - spawn_anywhere

New players will be assigned a spawn point somewhere in the vastness of the world... and may not meet another soul for ages.... ;-)

Excellent, I was thinking of suggesting something like that. :) How about a way to specify a list of "spawn regions" to be randomly picked from, so that for example you could set up a couple of different towns and have players randomly be citizens of a particular one?

Tons of error on install?
"Runtime error from mod 'rspawn' in callback environment_Step()
builtin/common/helpers.lua:515...
init.lua:41 'newspawn'
177: in function 'func'

etc

Hmm bizarre

Check your debug.log pls and paste the actual error text?

What version of minetest?

Line 41 is a debug line, I've turned it off in the latest code version, please try that.

If you are still getting issues, you should have a debug.txt log file in your minetest folder. Go to the end of the file to find the corresponding errors, and paste the exact messages here, or open an issue at https://github.com/taikedz/minetest-rspawn/issues

FaceDeer wrote:

taikedz wrote:New feature - spawn_anywhere

New players will be assigned a spawn point somewhere in the vastness of the world... and may not meet another soul for ages.... ;-)

Excellent, I was thinking of suggesting something like that. :) How about a way to specify a list of "spawn regions" to be randomly picked from, so that for example you could set up a couple of different towns and have players randomly be citizens of a particular one?

That would be neat. Not sure I want to burden this version with yet another type of spawning though :-P

It would be fairly easily done though - maintain a table of position & radius pairs, pick one, then kick off the randomized spawn with that position as the target....