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Looks like the API does not support to change the movement speed?

What I ultimately want is different movement speeds for the player depending on the direction. So walking backwards is slower than walking forwards. This hopefully makes hostile mobs more dangerous in my survival game. Also making the player slower if health gets low would be nice.

The dev wiki is incomplete. Please use lua-api.txt if you cant find a function in the wiki.

qznc wrote:
What I ultimately want is different movement speeds for the player depending on the direction. So walking backwards is slower than walking forwards. This hopefully makes hostile mobs more dangerous in my survival game.

Not really possible unless playing with very low latencies, since the speeds are set server-side.

qznc wrote:Also making the player slower if health gets low would be nice.

This is probably more doable.

I found "player.set_physics_override", which apparently can change the players walking speed.

However, I did not find a callback for player movement, direction change, button press, or something similiar.

qznc wrote:However, I did not find a callback for player movement, direction change, button press, or something similiar.

No. This is because scripts are server side and immense lag would be caused.

Player movement

What you can do is make a global on step that records player positions, and see if it has moved from the last check.

To do this, store each player in a table with their position. In the global on step, check though each entry to see if they have moved.



Button press
currently not possible, sorry.

rubenwardy wrote:Button press
currently not possible, sorry.

Well, while you cannot get an event when a button is pressed, you CAN poll the player's controls using the get_player_control() or get_player_control_bits() methods of a player object. This may miss presses, but it can be useful in some contexts.