Maidroid

This mod is inspired littleMaidMob mod from another voxel game, it provides maid robots called "maidroid".

These robots automatize some daily in-game tasks depending on the items you give them.

How to Use

Recipes

Maidroid Egg	Capture rod	Nametag

Usage

1. Create a maidroid egg and use it in world to spawn a maid.
2. Tame maidroid punching it with one gold block
3. You can colorize them by punching dyes

5. They will sit down and take a pause if you punch them with activation item
   • Paper by default
   • Sugar if farming redo available
6. To activate open their inventory with right-click and put tool and stuff inside.

Basic		Maidroids follow owner or any player when wild, if this player have taming item in hand. When they don't follow anyone they just wander Defaut if no other core selected
Farming		Any item from hoe group select this core. Maidroid will plant the seeds or make seed from plants if they can. Maidroid harvests mature plants. Surrounded their land with fences or xpanes, as they are not jumpable by farmers.
OCR		Maidroid needs a written book written in their inventory. If the bookname is main, program is read. start: sleep 1 beep jump 0.9 jmp start
Torcher		Maidroids with torches in inventory will follow a player, and put torch if it is dark.
Stockbreeder		An empty bucket or shears select this core Stockbreeder will try to feed milkable animals, and then milk them If they have shears they will also try to shear sheep If they also have a sword in inventory they will try to manage poultries population If they have shovel in inventory they can collect poops

New features

• Automatic core selection
• Paintable with dyes
• Strong ownership for maidroids
  • You need to tame new maidroids
  • You can view any maidroid content
  • You can only take and put items in your maidroids
  • Maidroid privilege allows to
    • kill any maidroid
    • interact with any maidroids
    • set any maidroid owner with nametag
• Farming
  • Fields separator can be xpanes or fences
    • through fences maidroid were harvesting plants from nearby fields
    • only in old maidroid version, now it seems better
  • Support for all farming redo crops and plants
    • Craft seeds for many plants: garlic, melon, pepper, pineapple, pumpkin
      • Melon and pumpkin require cutting board in inventory
    • Pepper can be harvested in three states:
    • Melons and pumpkins can now harvested
  • Support for cucina_vegana
• Offline mode: droid continue to work even owner is offline
• Protected areas support
• Internationalization
• Health
  • Status in info
  • Egg bar in maidroid menu
  • Can be healed
    • punching with tin lump
    • punching with mese fragment
    • Or just put those items in inventory for auto-healing
    • Drops all inventory items and some base material on death
• Older version backward compatiblity
• Nametag right-click sets owner name
• Support for pipeworks teleport tubes: overflow management
• Inventory
  • Sneak click
  • 3D model view

Code enhancement

• Behaviors core: deported code from initial cores
  • Follow: still to enhance but bit better than before
  • Wander:
    • Try to go back to spawn point if too far from it
    • Randomly jump when wandering
  • Path: follow path after path_finding
  • More flexibility to extend or change behavior management
• This version is less cpu greedy than older ones
  • Less pathfinding pathes called
  • Wielded item do not leak and survive server restart, even they were cleaned at restart

More features to come, look at TODO

Migration guide

If you already installed an old version of maidroid

1. Before launching edit your minetest.conf
   • set "maidroid_compat = true"
2. Launch your world and ensure you activate every maidroid on the map or captured egg from inventories
3. When migration is finished edit your minetest.conf and remove maidroid_compat
4. For a new install you should set above config
5. If you used this version you can't go back to old versions
   • no forward compatibility !!!
6. Original tagicar and forks were modpacks, everything is now contained in a single mod, CDB still provide modpack but with single mod inside.
   • you have to remove load_mod_maidroid_core and load_mod_maidroid_tools from your world.mt, else there will be startup warnings
7. Cores are now mandatory some will not load when dependency not loaded
8. You can set maidroid_enable_capture_rod = false in your world.mt to disable loading of capture rod

Dependencies

All dependencies were made optional

• bucket
• default
• dye
• farming or farming redo
• wool
• animalia
• cucina_vegana
• ethereal
• mobs_animal
• pdisc: without this mod OCR-reader core will be disabled
• petz
• pipeworks

Requirements

• Minetest 5.3.0

About older versions

This mod fork is based on Bingfeng version Minetest Forum

• IFRFSX

Merged patchset

• thePlasm
• HybridDog
• Desour

Original tacigar version Minetest Forum

• tacigar's Origin Version

The source code of Maidroid is available under the LGPLv2.1 or later license.

The resouces included in Maidroid are available under the CC-BY-SA 4.0 or later license.