It's the light level incident on the rush itself, not
in the space above, that we care about. We also
don't need air above the rush, because there's air
IN the rush node.
The problem was pointed out by Josh
(gitlab.com/krazy-j) in merge request !22.
Apparently MT is not very smart about marking
mapblocks dirty to send to clients based on
calling mt.set_node(), i.e. it will mark them
dirty presumptively even if you set the node to
the same value it had already been.
This behavior can be confirmed by registering
an ABM against a common node like grass and
setting action = minetest.set_node. This
causes every mapblock containing that node
to be invalidated every interval, causing a big
spike in the packets received each interval
that you can clearly see on the F5 graph.
Rather than just fixing it for the most easily
observed case (fire checks), add utlity functions
to check this for ALL node change situations,
and apply it more or less universally anywhere
that we are not certain that the node is being
changed and we don't need to worry about the
extra overhead cost of the check.
Note that we don't need a
nodecore.set_loud_check call, as set_loud was
only ever being used already in cases where
we were pretty sure we were actually changing
a node.
Placing a sedge into a container via right-click would
randomly transform the sedge to one of the 5 different
random stages of growth, same as placing on the
ground would, causing non-sedge_1 sedge items to
exist which don't stack with normal sedge_1 anymore.
Instead, simplify the growth feature to apply the
change to the sedge in node form after it's been
placed, instead of manipulating items.
- Made grass from peat more common
- Flowers spontaneously grow on humus under sun
- Sedges spontaneously grow on grass
- Rushes can spawn near water and sedges
- 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.
Instead of trying to always drop a sedge, then sometimes drop
another (didn't seem to work), just drop 2 sedges 25% of the time,
and 1 sedge the rest of the time if the 2 didn't drop.
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).
Simpler, fixed-probability-based, mutate into
nearby phenotypes only. Mutation rate is
greatly reduced, should make flower breeding
into a challenging idle minigame.
Lock more things behind prerequisite hints, even if
they're not absolutely strictly necessary to complete
in that order, if they would commonly be done in
that order. This reduces players being overwhelmed
by available hints very early in the game, and avoids
red herrings like "find lux" which can technically be
accomplished but yields no useful results until the
player can act on them.
- Wilted flowers can be planted but will
disintegrate if plucked.
- Flowers can be washed away by water.
- Destroying flowers/sedges uses the same
particle effects as pumice.
