Cave Tools [cavetools]

Some useful tools for exploring caves.

By David G (kestral246@gmail.com)

A compilation of some of my other mods focused on making cave exploration easier.

A set of flash lamps that momentarily light up the direction the player is pointed.

• Flash Lamp
• Flash Wand
• Super Flash Lamp

A set of depth finders that probe depth in the direction the player is pointed.

• Flint Depth Finder
• Diamond Depth Finder

An override to the default ladders to allow them to be easily extended down by just right clicking a ladder with another ladder.

• This can create freestanding ladders. If the lack of ladder thickness bothers you, you can use Linuxdirks redef mod, which provides 3-d ladders.
• The ropes mod by FaceDeer has a similar option for ladders, but extends them upward. Cave Tools' ladder override will conflict with this, but can be disabled (see configuration below).

Configuration

Each separate feature can be selectively enabled or disabled in the minetest.conf file.

• cavetool_flashlamps = true/false
• cavetool_depthfinders = true/false
• cavetool_ladders = true/false

Dependencies

• Ladder overrides only enabled if default exists.
• Craft recipes optionally depend on default and tnt.
• Wand also optionally depends on mana.

Craft Recipes

Licenses

Source code

The MIT License (MIT)

Media (textures)

Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0)

• Flint texture copied from default_flint.png by Gambit.
• Diamond texture copied from default_diamond.png by BlockMen.
• Stick texture copied from default_stick.png by BlockMen.