nodecore-cd2025/docs/issues.txt

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ISSUES: Bugs, Cleanup and Refinements
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- Consider using waypoint HUDs for punchtips instead, now that
  https://github.com/minetest/minetest/pull/9480 is merged in 5.3+

- Chop frames, ladders, staves back down into sticks?

- Automation reliability issues
	- Switch door ablation propulsion to run on a node timer instead of
	  an abm, so it responds faster and more consistently?
	- Quicker optic path updates.
		- Record which nodes are blocking optic paths, and which are
		  used by optic paths, in-memory, for quicker recalcs?

- falling_node pillars settle out of order!
	- Also anectodal issues with falling nodes sometimes
	  tunneling WAY upwards now, as observed with BXS's
	  mine on NCC where gravel tunneled all the way up
	  the ladder

- Delayed hint witnessing?
	- Store credit for soaking recipe in node metadata, give it to
	  the first person to punch it later.
	- Use for witnessing fermentation recipes like peat/humus,
	  humus/dirt, dirt/sand.

- Should we create "recipe groups" to make it easier to specify
  equivalent recipes for hint purposes?

- Tote issues:
	- Tote recycling is possible but has no hint.
		- Should recipe be changed?  Heat it back into a cube if empty?
		- Consider updating tote recipe.
	- Totes should do face-connected search for totables; don't pick up
	  shelves only touching via a corner.

- Item ent merge should use logic consistent with nodecore.stack_merge,
  which handles item families.

- Flammables should respond via AISM when bathed in fire or igniting
  liquids like molten glass or rock.

- Need to find a way to make AISMs work with falling_node.
	- Create ItemStack, run hooks, try to convert back to node
	  (assume node and item meta map 1:1) and if it fails then
	  spawn an item_ent.
	- Need this for amalgamation remelting.
	- Would it make sense to unify the item and falling_node ents?

- Can we automatically dump a TP overrides.txt file?
	- Move this, and translate hook, to a chat command?

- NodeCore Spreading ABM API
	- Eligibility check
	- Time cumulative process like soaking
	- Push excess to adjacent nodes if eligible
	- Don't trigger immediately; wait for next cycle

- API for map-seed-deterministic scatter.
	- Given minp, maxp, seed and density, find all positions.
	- Use for sponges, lava/water springs, etc.

- Offline sponge spreading.
	- Similar to grass spreading.

- Replacement for mkreg, a.k.a. register_generic():
	- Allow lazy registration, i.e. a register method that can
	  register for things not yet defined, and allow later registration
	  of the registration definition that will pick up those missed.
	- Allow unregistering things...?

- Unify sponge growth logic so it can be used for mapgen, to ensure
  that spawned sponges match naturally-grown ones?

- Design doc needs another shakedown.

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