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I think the setting is meant for align_style="user" tiles.
Just like the connected_glass setting which only changes glasslike_framed_optional nodes.

I don't know why it can be set to "force_solid" or "force_nodebox".
It's only a force enable. A force disable, which you want, does not exit.

("force ...

It looks like some stairs have align_style = "world" in their tile definition, in particular the wooden ones.
See: https://github.com/luanti-org/minetest_game/pull/2219/files#diff-2ce1f830f208a7430151369277efa506bffd53a6e6d48260f9a5e3b0ec9763fc

According to the code I linked in my last post the ...

The setting description even says Note though that that is considered EXPERIMENTAL and may not work properly.

Reentering the game after changing the setting should be enough to update the textures. You don't have to clear any cache.

I looked into the code, the logic is here if you are interested ...

j8810kkw wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 25, 2026 04:21

I found this part in the Luanti version and I'm kind of curious as to what this is.

https://github.com/luanti-org/luanti/pull/17336

Oh right. Hm maybe it's an engine problem, I haven't really used the "new" mapgen environment.
Maybe https://github.com/luanti-org/luanti/issues/15759 since you use core.generate_decorations

I suppose you have to use the old core.register_on_generated to fix it with write_to_map/fix_light.
Or not ...

I think you are missing vm:write_to_map() at the end, it also sets the light.

That's still a lot. It only counts memory managed by the Lua garbage collector, so the other 12 gb are stored elsewhere, but you may still find the problem by comparing two reference snapshots, since you see if any Lua data structures get substantially bigger over time.

You could profile the memory ...

Just counting the reference is sufficient, usually. https://github.com/yaukeywang/LuaMemorySnapshotDump does work well for me. It can also compare the memory dumps.
I even have a script to format the output and convert it to a flamegraph, but just looking at the raw output should be enough to find ...

I just compiled Luanti 5.16.1, and it still works fine on my machine. I can dig all things as usual and the hand ranks increase. I can't reproduce the bug, so I can't really solve it.


I suspect that a mod may be responsible for the issue, but it's not clear, it would require testing every ...

I just compiled Luanti 5.16.1, and it still works fine on my machine. I can dig all things as usual and the hand ranks increase. I can't reproduce the bug, so I can't really solve it.

So you can do what, watermark your server or game? You really think something so trivial should need people to go compile from source or depend on "cheat client" type people?


Please stay civil and don't resort to straw man arguments, I did never say such a thing.
Also, you are getting close the ...

It needs to be a client mod because people might want to take clean screenshots on servers, too.


Oh, yes, thanks. Of course clients shouldn't be able to remove them with CSM, that's cheating!

The whole point of this feature it to prevent players from having a clear view, just like you don't ...

If you want to. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I suspect this is an engine problem, because it only happens for some mapblocks. I don't think it should be possible for the cavegen to happen after core.register_on_generated .

You could try to use core.register_mapgen_script(path) .
https://github.com/luanti-org/luanti/blob/master/doc/lua_api.md ...

Looks like it happens right at the mapblock border, and the cave gets randomly filled with cobblestone and mossy cobblestone.

You can probably use overlay_tiles i.e.
core.register_node('mossworld:glimmering_sand', {
description = 'Glimmering Sand',
tiles = {"mossworld_sand.png"},
overlay_tiles = {{
name= "mossworld_glimmering.png",
animation = {
type = "vertical_frames",
aspect_w = 16,
aspect_h = 16,
length = 3.0 ...

... I'm at a real loss as to how to solve this.

I also had this problem before with my storage system mod that I never released, and in my inventorybags mod where opening remote chests with the Item Teleportation Bag doesn't work.

You are relying too much on the engines inventory system, just ...

Hi, one thing you can do is to generate single nodes and let them place the semantic at a later point, such that the bordering mapblocks are already generated.

The caverealms mod does this and moretrees did it in the past (now it uses decorations).
https://github.com/mt-mods/moretrees/blob/master ...

I just compiled luanti 5.14 and indeed I couldn't dig anything.

I think the mod was made with version 5.7.0, and I'm sure it worked back then.
Weird maybe there was an engine regression, but if there were I should know about it.
The only thing I can think of is https://github.com/luanti-org/luanti ...

I just redownloaded the mod and tried it on a new world, it still works fine on my machine.

Have you tried to execute the /handranks command, does it show proper numbers?
Maybe also try to force update the rank /sethandranks 1000 .

Which minetest/luanti version are you using?
It may not work on ...

You can if you want. I currently can't reproduce the bug, so there is nothing I can do to fix it.

You can also try to find the conflicting mod yourself, by iteratively enabling/disabling suspicious mods.

Which game are you using? It may not work with other games besides Minetest Game.
Also, it may conflict with other mods that overwrite the hand.

You download them, unzip them if necessary, and put them into your mods folder.

The mods folder is usually in the home dictionary i.e. /home/<user>/.minetest/mods/
or in .../minetest/mods/ for run in place installations.
If you don't know your home, executing echo $HOME may help.

You can also add ...

But if you really want to, you could use no_texture.png (which is a simple no alpha channel 16x16 pixels image) and colorize it to be completely white ( no_texture.png^[colorize:#ffffff:255 ).

As said before, you don't need a texture file, not even no_texture.png , just write tiles = {"[fill:1x1 ...

Alternatively, you can change the path, e.g running this
env MINETEST_USER_PATH=/root/luanti/bin /root/luanti/bin/luantiserver --gameid minetest_game --worldname RotateThis
should work in your case.