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Hello I tried to make a basic mod (used rope mod as initial state) which creates a directed explosion to aid in tunnel building. So far it works but looks ugly and detonates once you hit it, but I fear to make it better I have to dig into lua a lot deeper.

Gitorious Link:
https://gitorious.org/chlue-minetest-mods/mod-shapedcharge

The code was written against dev version ‘celeron55-minetest-6957930’

Making the charge:


Placing (Yes placeholder icon is stupid, but this was the first one I found of which I know it is not used for blocks)


The result


I have put the files on Gitorious trying to copy the method randomproof is using.

Hope someone enjoys this

I think this is realy good idea! But maybe to call it "drill" and change the recipe? =)

Make the block depends on lua_furnace, that works on the coal and make the tunnels like:

0 0 9 0 0
0 9 9 9 0
9 9 9 9 9
0 9 9 9 0
0 0 9 0 0

Thats realistic and cool.

Hackeridze wrote:Make the block depends on lua_furnace, that works on the coal and make the tunnels like:

0 0 9 0 0
0 9 9 9 0
9 9 9 9 9
0 9 9 9 0
0 0 9 0 0

Thats realistic and cool.

Hello not sure what you mean with the depend part.

Regarding the shape:
The idea was to get a quicker way to build tunnels compared to digging, so the 3x3 shape must stay :-), but after seeing an mesa pickaxle in action I thing the depth should be increased from 5 to something like 10 (variable d_c_max in the lua file).

You should look to the lua-furnace experimental mod or to brick oven in baking mod. thats for the drill working on coal(may be mese) and the tunnel's depth should be depends on the amount of fuel in the drill. now you understood me?

i really like this mod great job:)

The icon fits great, I like it!

Keep in mind the "heart" icon is from Misa's texture pack and that it is 64x64 - you should make a new texture with a 16x16 tile size.

EDIT: Quick texture I made: [img=tunnel]http://ompldr.org/vYndnOQ/tunnel.png[/img]

Why 16x16???

Because all block/item textures in the vanilla game are 16x16. Also, you need to ask Misa's permission to use that heart icon.

And... a heart doesn't really fit there.

Calinou wrote:need to ask Misa's permission to use that heart icon

In my country, the goverment fuck copyrights. Ебал в рот я ваши копирайты.

:D funny cause i can read Russian.

Calinou wrote:Because all block/item textures in the vanilla game are 16x16. Also, you need to ask Misa's permission to use that heart icon.

And... a heart doesn't really fit there.

Before this leads to some useless discussion. So far no texture is included at all in the mod folder, it just uses the current default heart item and I was using a modified version of 'misa-minetest-pack-v5' when doing the screenshot.

I will add an own 16x16 texture later, but currently I use my laptop and can't get the game running properly.

I have modified this Mod to work with 4.10. The crafting is the same. It works the same except it now removes all blocks that are not "useful". Also, I provided a custom texture that I created. Feel free to modify/distribute this as you want. I am not going to continue to maintain this. I just wanted to try my hand at modifying an existing mod. I think all you have to do is rename the directory to: "shapedcharge".

Joe