Placing Block Under Yourself

[LionsDen]

I have been playing a game recently that is a voxel game but isn't minecraft (have never played it) and they have a neat workaround for placing a block where you are standing. When you right-click to place the block where you are standing, the block is placed and your character jumps. I find this to make placing blocks beneath myself a LOT easier and seems better than requiring me to jump and timing the block placement perfectly. I think this should probably be implemented in minetest as it is better than just stopping the block placement.

[paramat]

EDIT
Sorry, i just realised jump speed was indeed returned to it's previous value recently.

[rubenwardy]

That isn't really what he was talking about, although it is related. He is talking about the player jumping up automatically when a block is placed at their feet. I like this idea. You would have to make sure that the don't bump their head. If the can't jump, you would still need to block the placement.

[LionsDen]

Yup, rubenwardy has it right. I don't think the check for a block over their head would add hardly anything to the processing speed and shouldn't slow the game at all.

[paramat]

Yes i understand the idea and i like it.

[Sokomine]

You would have to make sure that the don't bump their head.

Players are used to that. Not beeing able to place a block where you stand is just one thing: terribly annoying for people who build with nodeboxes. It is also annoying when pillaring up in order to build upper parts of a house. At least the code can be edited so that Minetest works again.

[emugod]

The inability to easily pillar up is definitely noticed and felt, coming from minecraft. I think I'd personally prefer that it just be 'fixed' (made more minecraft-like, but I can't think of any major problems with having an auto-pillar option as well (when placing blocks below you automatically move you on top of it).