- Push early activation externally.
- Fix bug with ents fooling visinv checker into
thinking pos is handled even when marked
for removal
- Eliminate a redundant stack_get call
This should cause maps that have the same
seeds to have much more similar results
than before, e.g. sponge deposits will be in
the same places determined by seed and not
random each regeneration of the map.
- Mapgen shared now provides an RNG which
will be deterministic when feasible, for
repeatable mapgen results.
- Make existing rng-using mapgen hooks use
the new deterministic RNG.
- Mapgen shared hooks are also run in
deterministic order too.
- Tidy up mapgen_shared API a little more.
- Flowing lava quenches to pumice
- Pumice can spontaneously melt back to flowing
lava, when touching lava, and sometimes even
when still quenched.
- Pumice cannot be harvested or moved, it's
utterly destroyed by digging.
When digging a node that defines both a drop_in_place
and a drop (e.g. tarstone) silktouch wasn't canceling the
drop as well as the drop_in_place.
When we're using silktouch, assume that both drop and
drop_in_place are meant to be canceled, and move
the drop into a new drop_non_silktouch member, so
the builtin/engine doesn't process the drop.
Defer and coalesce visinv entity creation/removal
checks until the next tick, so we can process them more
efficiently in a batch.
The spawn area of the Community MP server was
lagging to something like 6x the dedicated step size,
due to the huge number of dropped items. This code,
on the same machine, seems to appear the same to the
player, but produces almost no measurable lag.
Apparently some users have had problems installing NodeCore because
they assumed it was a modpack and just copied the mods/* into
~/.minetest/mods and enabled them in an MTG game world. The result
apparently didn't immediately crash but wasn't really playable
either.
Detect NodeCore being combined with a mod named "default" and
throw an error immediately. This should catch like 90% of the
games out there. Some like LoTT or IKEA don't use a default, but
they're also not the ones that players would naively try to run
arbitrary mods on top of.
- Nerf effect by 50% to be less disruptive
- Effect can be avoided by not being in a
swimming position (matching model anim)
- Refactor swimming check into API
- Special checking and handling for linkdead
players, for whom client knockback
wouldn't work anyway.
NodeCore vanilla shouldn't be affected, since things that are
damaging are already not diggable, but for mods, this allows
some nodes to be damaging if punched, but diggable with the right
tool. Note that they will have to drop something other than
themselves because touch damage will still apply to carrying the
item in inventory (i.e. "hot potato" mechanic).
Don't reuse damage_per_second for damage on punch and radiant
damage. This allows these to be defined separately, i.e. no longer
assuming that all damage is from "heat" and can radiate. This
allows for things like thorny plants that hurt if you touch them
or stand in them but not if you stand near them.
Thanks to WintersKnight94 for reporting this.
If a player has sufficient upward velocity, then the gravity
reduction meant to slow downward acceleration instead slows upward
deceleration and the player flies ridiculously high. Doesn't
happen normally in vanilla, but can happen with mods.
Thanks to Lone_Wolf for reporting this.
NodeCore was already using sounds this way, i.e. assuming
they can't meaningfully be managed (may not be heard by
players just entering the area) so might as well get the
supposed performance benefit.
Added an override to allow sounds to be marked as NOT
ephemeral just in case it's needed.
- Storeboxes are now scalable.
- Standardize touch-hurt operation.
- Touch-hurt damage on scaling.
- Now possible to alter scaling time via scaling_time
group (percent of original scaling time)
Sadly I don't have a way to make fog color texture
pack customizable, so it will have to be hard-coded
for now, and TP artists may want to advise players
to just disable fog if they can, or maybe a CSM could
work...
This removes the day/night cycle from NodeCore,
which experience seems to suggest may be more of
an annoyance than a useful and interesting gameplay
feature.
Some aspects of gameplay are notably altered, such
as the balance between artificial and natural light,
and the operation of optics (no more solar lenses).
The overall atmosphere of the game is also deeply
changed by this, taking on a timeless, dream-like
quality. It remains to be seen whether this change is
beneficial or even tolerable.
- Lenses no longer produce light from sun at all;
artificial light is always needed.
- Grass and trees survive, don't do dual-time check.
- Breeze sounds work in twilight.
- Sponge drying only requires twilight, now also can
happen under artificial light.
- Peat to grass happens under twilight.
