Et Cetera (abbreviated Etc) is a general-purpose library mod for the Minetest engine that provides numerous tweaks, new mechanics, and gameplay content targeted at MTG as well as a myriad of common utilities and helpers for mod developers.
For Players: Feature Overview
Etc provides the following modules, which are individually configurable feature sets that can be completely disabled if needed.
- Basic Resources: Provides miscellaneous craftitems for use in recipes by other mods and modules.
- Craft Grid Tools: Tools that can be used in the craft grid and will automatically handle durability
- Wrought Iron: Adds a new decorative material
- Slime: Adds slime balls and bouncy slime blocks, similar to another block game
- Treated Wood: Adds some new wood types made from wood and pine tar
- Corrosion: Metals can corrode when in water, producing new decorative variants
- Bees: Adds bees, apiaries, honey, and wax
- Gems: Adds a variety of decorative gem items
- Item Cosmetic Stations: A pair of tables that can be used to rename and recolor items
- Mortar and Pestle: A node-item pair used for crushing and grinding
- Duststone: A new decorative stone type with a variety of variants
- Anvil: A crafting station and accompanying hammer for repairing tools, and also makes tools not dissapear when broken
- Chalk: Colored sticks of chalk that can draw symbols on hard surfaces
- Fluid Bottles: Allows placing water and lava into bottles, which are decorative nodes. The lava bottle can also be thrown, which can start fires!
- All-In-One Tools: Universal digging tools made of the basic materials. Also supports moreores!
- Falling Tweaks: Changes the properties of various nodes to do more or less fall damage, and makes beds bouncy
- Sneaking Tweaks: Makes sneaking/crouching more immersive by changing the player's camera height and hitbox height, and disabling footstep sounds and nametags for sneaking players
- More Dungeon Loot: Adds numerous items from MTG and other modules to dungeon loot tables
- Farming Tweaks: A bunch of additions to make farming more fun, including composting, a watering can, right-click harvesting (with larger radius when holding a hoe!) and support for farming redo
- Wood Type Variants: Versions of 'wooden' nodes from MTG with new variannts for the different wood types, such as ladders, doors, and trapdoors
- Door Tweaks: Double doors open in pairs, and trapdoors open in a flat radius and can be climbed
- More Recipe Types: Adds new recipe types to the craft guides from Unified Inventory or I3 to show fuel efficiency, dungeon loot generation and ore generation
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Etc has a built-in documentation page that runs locally in your browser, which is the official source for documentation on Et Cetera APIs. It is located at doc/main.html.
Some (not all) of the Utilities provided:
Some (not all) of the Utilities provided:
- Automatic mod boilerplate generation for registering items and so on
- Basic player utilities such as setting the camera direction
- A player 'sitting' system
- Tools for handling nodeboxes
- Easy creation of entities for displaying nodes, items, and beam/pole-like things
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Dependencies:
Required: None
Optional: default, vessels, fire, farming, beds, wool, technic, moreores, unified_inventory, i3, doors, boats
License of code: Apache 2.0; License of media: CC-BY-SA 4.0