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1. Would you rather have the techmod implement their own item transport system (think pushers from technic), or use an established mod like logistica

5. How do you feel about technic's oil system? Where you need to manage 6 different petro chemicals. How do you imagine the ideal oil progression ...

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You're rotating the vel around the global x axis. You probably instead want to rotate around whatever axis points right (or left). You can get this with a cross product (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_product?useskin=vector>): vector.cross(dir, vector.new(0,1,0))
(But beware of edge cases, i.e ...

Thinking of cheat codes, I just had an idea for compromise: What if Luanti added a little "secret" setting that, if turned on, allowed to hide ALL HUDs? Could not only be for "cheating" but also for devs in case the game HUDs malfunction badly. I mean, trying to prevent clientside cheats from the ...

Very experimental SSCSM (see doc/ssscm_api.md ). Not sure what we can do with it atm. I don’t see any functions to display something on the screen (which is probably the main "selling point" of SSCSMs?). No promise of stability is made, we should expect breakage. I guess this feature is too ...

Why is this in Offtopic and not General Discussion?


Not directly relevant enough to the game engine; also, topics like this that tend to get heated are better off not listed in search engines, they attract people to sign up for an account just to comment on something not even related to a ...

Es hängt eigentlich stark vom Spiel ab, das man spielen will. In einem unternehmerischen Setting (z.B. man spielt einen Angestellten einer Firma) ist das Sie offensichtlich angebrachter. Wenn man einen Adligen spielt, sollte man sogar ge-Ihr-t werden.

Aber hier geht es ja um die Anrede in von der ...

AndPherb wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 31, 2026 18:43

I learned I needed to create several versions of the pickaxes, but I don't know how to make the pickaxe swap out for an identical pickaxe with the same wear.

There's set_tool_capabilities nowadays, so you don't need to register several picks.
For wear there's set_wear.

You mean abm, not abs. And yes, you can just call it before or after calling register_node for your node.

To call other files, use dofile, see <https://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#pdf-dofile>.

(You might also want to look into at the source code of other mods, to take them as examples.)

Very tangential, but I've always wondered about this : core.after has a third parameter, data that will be passed to the callback when it is called by the engine. This is a well-known pattern in C/C++, which have (or had, for C++) no support for closures . But Lua does. What is recommended? Using ...

I got the diggable information from the official API .


Oopsi, sorry! I forgot that we have this now. (Anyways, this won't help you, as was said already.)



Visual Studio Code is slow? I thought that being lightwheight would make it faster...

Aha, earlier you said Visual Studio, now you are ...

The init.lua is executed at load time. At this point, nothing of the map is loaded. set_node doesn't work in not loaded blocks. (See also compare_block_status for more info on blocks.)

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~~Nodedefs have no `diggable` field. Where did you get this misinformation from?~~
Edit: Wrong. Oopsi, I ...

Please provide more info. What's the param2 of the nodes, how did you place them, what direction are you looking in, and what's the node def?

>I don't know why the fields are deleted after a couple of seconds

Probably the object is deactivated and activated again. (Should not happen if player stays near. Idk how minetestlover tested.)

>ai_tracker[ai_uid] = {ai_name = ai_name, ai_pos = ai_pos, ai_obj = ai_obj}

Please note that objrefs ...

I'm working on a design for a Technic centrifuge array, and I could use some feedback. I'm not sure whether there's an easier way to do it. (I know that the overflow return loops are too close to adjacent tubes, but I normally do those vertically to avoid that issue.)


Pretty picture!

It's a ...

The assert:
<https://github.com/luanti-org/luanti/blob/stable-0.4/builtin/game/auth.lua#L30>

You can just comment out the assert line. The assert depends on the iteration order of pairs, so it's wrong.

The PR that fixed the test: https://github.com/luanti-org/luanti/pull/9184

Nowadays it is ...

Related: My lavaplop mod does roughly the same: viewtopic.php?t=30876 (But the implementation differs a lot.)

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FYI, there has been this PR (incomplete, not merged): https://github.com/luanti-org/luanti/pull/15386

Luanti opens the default device.

Bug tracker is here: https://github.com/luanti-org/luanti/issues
Search for existing similar issues, and if not found, open one and fill out the template.

For now, you can change this line and recompile:
https://github.com/luanti-org/luanti/blob/29490cb0f7d0f3314d953ead7f440945c10c471d/src/client/render/anaglyph.cpp#L67


How do I do this with the actual portable windows build or the android build? I do not have any idea on how I would be able ...

Try debugging your code. E.g. add print (or core.log) statements to see what things get executed, and with witch values. That should guide you towards the thing that is not working.

For now, you can change this line and recompile:
https://github.com/luanti-org/luanti/bl ... ph.cpp#L67

OP opened issue: https://github.com/luanti-org/luanti/issues/16421


I do have another rather low end device that I could try though. And if I read your complaint correct, you'd like us to test more with lower end devices. Maybe I'll do that later. TODO (Would be interesting if there are other ...

If you really need to get or manipulate nodes in unloaded areas, there's core.load_area(). (Before that existed, there was also the hack to create a vmanip, mesecon.get_node_force() uses this for example.)

The while loop you tried doesn't work because mods are running in the same thread as the code ...