r-Spawn for Minetest

A spawn engine for Minetest without needing a fixed point.

Players are each given their own randomized spawn point near the spawn origin on first joining.

If static_spawnpoint is defined in minetest.conf, that point is used as spawn point instead (compatibility)

Features

• Player is assigned randomized spawnpoint on joining
• Player will respawn at their spawnpoint if they die.
  • If beds spawning is active, then beds can be used to reset the players' spawn point.
• Players will not spawn in spaces that are protected by any other player than the Server Admin.
• Commands
  • Players can return to their spawn point with the /spawn command if they have spawn privilege.
  • Players can request a new spawn point by typing /newspawn if they have the newspawn privilege.
  • Players can set their spawn point by typing /setspawn if they have the setspawn privelege.
  • Players can assign a new random spawn for another player using /playerspawn if they have the spawnadmin privilege.

In the case of a server, players can be given spawns very far from eachother, and maybe not meet anybody for a long time ...!

KNOWN ISSUE - Any player not yet registered with a spawn point will be given a spawn point anywhere in the world. If applying retroactively to a server, this will cause existing players to be re-spawned once.

Settings

Note that the spawn generation is performed in the background on a timer, allowing storing a collection of random spawn points to be generated ahead of time.

Generic settings used

• name - on servers, sets the name of the admin, players can spawn in areas protected by the admin.
• water_level - Spawns are always set above water level, default 1
• static_spawnpoint - main plce the player will start at, default {0,0,0}
• enable_bed_respawn - from beds mod - if active, then respawning will happen at beds, instead of randomized spawnpoint

rSpawn-specific settings

• Settings related to spawn generation
  • rspawn.max_pregen - maximum number of spawn points to pre-generate, default 5
  • rspawn.search_radius - lateral radius around random point, within which a spawn poitn will be sought, default 32
  • rspawn.gen_frequency - how frequently (in seconds) to generate a new spawn point, default 30
• rspawn.spawn_anywhere - whether to spawn anywhere in the world at sea level
  • default true
  • if false, will randomize around the static spawn point
• rspawn.kick_on_fail - whether to kick the player if a randomized spawn cannot be set, default false
• rspawn.debug - whether to print debugging messages, default false

License

(C) 2017 Tai "DuCake" Kedzierski based originally on the mod uploaded by everamzah

Provided under the terms of the LGPL v3.0