- New near_unloaded API that supports custom
distance parameter, map bounds check, and
some optimizations.
- Add area automatic unload check support to ABM
API and add to applicable ABMs, replacing many
old manual checks.
Note that the explicit unload check is only strictly
necessary when something will happen due to
a node NOT being present in the area, e.g. something
igniting due to absent coolant, or soaking quantity
being reset due to missing sources. In simple cases
where the absence of a thing causes the ABM to do
nothing, then the standard check can work because
the default action is to do nothing anyway.
Got through a bunch of mods, up next is optics.
- Try to use crafting recipes rather than resources as
the criteria for completing a hint.
- It's okay to use simple item observation for specific
cases of transient things like pliant concrete.
- It's also okay to still use simple observations for the
eligibility checks.
- Simple observation is also okay for naturally occuring
e.g. decay processes, like wilting flowers, as opposed
to crafts that need to be completed.
Witness checks include data about the node in
place at the time that the witness even occurred,
so players are not awarded credit if the node they
see there was changed again afterwards. A lot of
old witness code inserted the witness right
before the node was changed, since the node
change was done as a tail call, but this does not
work with delayed witnessing because the
delayed witness data would be tied to the old
node, not the replacement one.
Moving witness to after node setting should fix
a number of broken hints that should have been
delayed-witnessable, e.g. brick bonding.
Use all base concrete materials in dungeon gen.
- From y=+32 to y=+64, transition from stone to a 50/50 mix
of adobe and sandstone.
- From y=-640 to y=-768, transition from stone to tarstone.
Adds some more variety and reason to explore dungeons.
Some users may use filtering but not have the "clean transparent"
filter enabled in the Minetest engine config. Bake this filter
into all images to (1) avoid the consequences of this (i.e. black
halos), and (2) possibly speed up startup time (the filter will
converge immediately).
- New fluid wandering API, mostly unified logic, only needs
some parameters, plus the "generation check".
- More sophisticated behavior seeking down-slopes beyond simple
immediate flowing node reach ("subtle slope" detection).
- More reliable timing using DNTs.
- Set firm movement rate of concrete, molten glass.
- Reduce molten glass generations, since it can now be more
reliably directed.
- For inventory and wield images, this is already
possible via override.txt since 5.3.
- For special tiles, this will be possible in 5.4.
- This complicates things, and introduces warning
messages into mods built without awareness of
this feaure.
- As far as I know, no texture packs have actually
ever used this feature.
- Apply logic as first-class support so we can still
have custom after_dig_node hooks.
- Shared flag nodecore.silktouch_digging that can
be used in after_dig_node callbacks to determine
if we're in the middle of a silk-touch dig.
- Add coal particles to tarstone digging if the coal
is destroyed/dispersed during the dig operation.
Once coal is mixed into the stone, it's "locked"
away. Breaking the hardened stone releases the
coal as a fine powder that's not recoverable.
I'd rather violate the 1st law of thermodynamics and
not preserve the coal here than violate the 2nd law
and have it neatly "unmix" itself back into a lump.
While I'd like these to be opaque, The MT
engine unfortunately does not allow this
without introducing dark shadows inside the
node the fluid occupies, which is evident if
flowing opaque liquid is up against the side
of a container.
Hints themselves have not been tided up
much, but this makes the project of fixing the
hints for each mod a little more manageable
and breaks up the hard-to-navigate single
monolithic hints file in the old guide mod.
The old guide mod has now been completely
retired. Hints are now a full-fledged API-layer
standard feature.
Hughes Ross has started to work on a PR for this
(https://github.com/minetest/minetest/pull/10140)
but it doesn't look like it will be ready until 5.4 at
least, and we will support pre-5.4 versions for
some time yet. The ability for TP artists to
override special_tiles is necessary to allow things
like flowing liquid textures to be customized in
texture packs.
Add a hack for these, similar to how we did the
inventory/wield image hacks.
Note that we are also forcing overrides for special
tiles, since there may be cases where we reuse a
base image without modifiers but TP artists may
still want an independent override.
This makes mass-production of etched concrete
nodes a lot less tedious and more interesting.
There's now an incentive to manage multiple
separate styluses for larger projects.
By restricting the recipes we check based
on the name of the central object being
checked, we can do many fewer craft
checks per item and avoid expensive
checks.
Register a "rootmatch" property for all
recipes that represents a broader, quicker
test for recipe eligibility. False positives are
allowed but false negatives are not.
Since most recipes are eligible, we can
use this to build an index for fast lookups
of subsets of recipes to run and skip most
of the other ones.
When 3rd-party mods try to register extensions, don't
crash on trying to register in wrong namespace.
Keep registrations to original mod namespace for now,
as I'm not certain whether I actually made assumptions
about mod name in some logic.
