As ContentDb grows It's incredibly useful to have these metadata mods that allow us to manage all the complexity. For example, I've been able to create a new version of my mob_biome_mapper mod that allows mobs to spawn in biomes that their authors never even considered. I can see many uses in mods for this, for example allowing users to customize and improve biome mods as well. I'm sure there will be all kinds of uses for BiomeDb going forward. Thanks you EmptyStar for creating this!
Thanks for the suggestion. I've changed it so dungeon masters will now only spawn below -500 in caves and lowered the light back down.
mob_spawn({
name = "mobs_monster:dungeon_master",
nodes = {"group:cave_floor"},
max_light = 5, --5
chance = 9000/monster_spawn_chance_multiplier,
active_object_count = 1,
max_height = -500,
})
However they will still spawn in volcanic and backroom biomes at any height with a max_light of 7.
I made a similar fix for mese monsters. Let me know if you want me to adjust the height or light value in caves more.
Note, all this mod does is change where mobs spawn, it does not change their behavior or the damage they take. Before, skeletons would not spawn as often in caves underground, so now you're noticing that they take damage from torch light. You need to go back to the creator of the skeleton mod to get them to change that.
Certain falling nodes should cause damage to the player. This mod adds that important functionality. Though it only adds for certain nodes. I ask that it be allowed to be used for adding fall damage to any node other modders would like to add.
Edit: Based on TenPlus1's comment adding the following code to your mod will allow you to add fall damage to any node:
local function add_fall_damage(node, damage)
local function add_fall_damage(node, damage)
if minetest.registered_nodes[node] then
local group = minetest.registered_nodes[node].groups
group.falling_node_damage = damage
minetest.override_item(node, {groups = group})
else
print (node .. " not found to add falling_node_damage to")
end
end
add_fall_damage("my_mod:my_node", 3)
Thanks for adjusting your review. You're right that I will be tweaking this in the future, but it's going to be a while, because I'm working on mine level generation code, and that is going to take a while because there's a lot to do. I like breaking my games into modules because it lets people use the individual components in ways I couldn't even imagine. I'm going to create a generic mine digging api for this next phase that people will be able to use in many different ways, but I'll use it to create levels for the H.E.R.O. game.
Did you read the Mod description or the README file? The first line in the description says: hero_jetpack is a fork of sum_jetpack mod by Sumi (info@sumianvoice.com). (This credit is also at the top of the README file.) It explains that the point is that the flight mechanic is changed to make it challenging. It is to mimic the gameplay of the game H.E.R.O., and will be part of a bunch of other mods that will recreate the game H.E.R.O. The reason to download this is that the flight mechanic is much more fun, and if you want to play the game H.E.R.O. as pieces get added to it. Play around with this mod vs. the original mod, and try to land on different objects using both mods. It's a completely different experience. Then play the free hero game here https://www.retrogames.cz/play_228-Atari2600.php?language=EN to see where I'm going with this.
It's better to think of Minetest Mods as a set of legos. They allow the players to combine them in any ways they want. So to have a game that is fun for the player, they pick the biome mods they want, and then they pick the mob mods that they want too see in those biomes. And then by enabling my mob_biome_mapper mod, the mobs just work in those biomes. If you see any that I haven't coded for yet, just ask me and I add them. If SaKeL were to add mobs to his Everness Biomes mod, then it would be like super-gluing your legos together, meaning everyone is stuck with those same mobs in those biomes. It's better when we give players choice of what they want to see. Plus that allows modders to specialize in what they are good at. Some excel in creating biomes, others in creating mobs.
Minetest feels a bit empty and dead. This makes your world feel more real and alive by adding villagers and their dwellings. The attention to detail in the buildings and the villagers themselves is very good here. Nice artistic touches. Fits seamlessly into Minetest. There is a good variety of dwelling & villager types to go into a wide variety of biomes. Though one problem is that there are new biome mods being created all the time, and this only spawns villages in some of them.
The sheer number of mobs allows you to have a nice set of creatures to inhabit any biome. Most of the models and animations are very good with a few exceptions like the rat which could have a better texture and model. The interations between mobs are also fun and add an interesting dynamic to the game. For the most part the animal sounds are done well, my only complaint would be that a few of the sounds are too loud (Viper & wolf being examples). Makes playing Minetest so much more interesting. There are lots of new biome mods coming out every day so if you want to use this mod with them, then check out the mob_biome_mapper mod https://content.minetest.net/packages/Neuromancer/mob_biome_mapper/ that I wrote. I tend to make this Animal World mod a priority when making it work with new biomes because I like it so much.
I love this mod. So much attention to detail and wide variety of biomes & trees. The variety of fruits is cool too. My only complaint is the harshness of the orange textures.
Try these changes to nodes.lua and let me know what you think: Make it a softer dustier orange.
minetest.register_node("australia:red_dirt", {
description = "Red Dirt",
--tiles = {"aus_red_dirt.png"},
tiles = {"default_dirt.png^[colorize:sienna:175^[colorize:red:40"},
groups = {crumbly=3,soil=1},
sounds = default.node_sound_dirt_defaults(),
})
If you use the mob_biome_mapper mod + the animal_world mod you should get some animals. Though if you can give me the name of the animal plus the name of the node it should spawn on I could alter my mob_biome_mapper mod to add more animals from animal world.
This is the single most important mod to have. Being able to see without having to clutter the landscape with torches is essential to fun gameplay. A million thanks for making my favorite most useful mod.
Adds a more beautiful desert biome. Canyons look so much more compelling.
Would you be willing to make the following changes:
node_stone = "default:desert_stone",
& ore = "default:stone_with_gold",
wherein = "default:desert_stone",
?
It would then work out of the box with my petroglyphs mod, and also mob_biome_mapper/animal world mods. Those mob mods would allow caves to be filled with bats, spiders, scorpions, rats, lizards, snakes.
You could leave the stone_with_gold ore as is, or create a new node desert_stone_with_gold that could drop gold.
The magma conduits mod needs to use the following settings:
Minimum volcano peak elevation = 20
Region mapblocks =8
Probability of active volcano in region = 0.7
I'll continue to tweak and create mods to make this Tropical Island Paradise even better.
I tried to get this to work with the island mods, but even when I changed the fill_ratio to 0.1 for minetest.register_decoration where decoration = "magma:volcano", I still didn't see any volcanos.
I thought Piranesi was a popular video game so I went on YouTube searching for gameplay, but came up empty. This is because the inspiration for this video game came from a Minetest Game Jam video game. But in my searching I discovered that Piranesi is a fantasy book written by Susanna Clarke which definitely sounds like it's worth a read. Piranesi is also an italian artist who seems to be a combination of MC Escher and Edgar Allen Poe. Oh and the game is worth a try as well, but I haven't made much progress in it. This game, the book, and the artist are all related in some way. I'll leave it to you to figure out how.
Цель этого мода — попытаться добавить немного утонченной красоты природы. Если вы хотите смелого разнообразия, я бы посоветовал объединить этот мод с модом Variety от Atlante. https://content.minetest.net/packages/Atlante/variety/
I created a phonics library that allows you to take letters/characters, and have them make sounds when punched. It also allows for sounding out phonics in succession to pronounce words, writing commands on pages of text, and crafting recipies to reward you for spelling words. It would be cool to have more languages like japanese. https://content.minetest.net/packages/Neuromancer/phonics_lib/
Thank you. I will continue to maintain and add crafting recipies for english and spanish. Unfortunately I only know Spanish and English. If someone who knows Japanese, they can fork my mod and make a Japanese version of it. Yona is already working on a tsalagi learn to read mod. https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=29843
He's essentially saying we should create our own games using Minetest's built in game functionality. I think that there should be a default bare bones minetest_game as it already exists. But then there should be a better game that also ships with much more functionality, a game that is actually fun to play even when no mods are added.
I'd like to hear your stories on how you use this mod. I've added settings that allow you to adjust how often the phonics spawn in stone. Is it more fun if the phonics spawn more rarely? Is the "/w" chat command useful? Is anyone learning to read with this? Any other creative uses for this mod?
The Lua2Mts mod (https://content.minetest.net/packages/Neuromancer/lua2mts/) allows you to manually modify schematic files in lua and then convert them back to mts. So you basically get what you are looking for here. It fills the gap in the Schematic Editor mod.
As ContentDb grows It's incredibly useful to have these metadata mods that allow us to manage all the complexity. For example, I've been able to create a new version of my mob_biome_mapper mod that allows mobs to spawn in biomes that their authors never even considered. I can see many uses in mods for this, for example allowing users to customize and improve biome mods as well. I'm sure there will be all kinds of uses for BiomeDb going forward. Thanks you EmptyStar for creating this!
Thanks for the suggestion. I've changed it so dungeon masters will now only spawn below -500 in caves and lowered the light back down. mob_spawn({ name = "mobs_monster:dungeon_master", nodes = {"group:cave_floor"}, max_light = 5, --5 chance = 9000/monster_spawn_chance_multiplier, active_object_count = 1, max_height = -500, }) However they will still spawn in volcanic and backroom biomes at any height with a max_light of 7.
I made a similar fix for mese monsters. Let me know if you want me to adjust the height or light value in caves more.
Note, all this mod does is change where mobs spawn, it does not change their behavior or the damage they take. Before, skeletons would not spawn as often in caves underground, so now you're noticing that they take damage from torch light. You need to go back to the creator of the skeleton mod to get them to change that.
I decided to make it more generic so that it could eventually work for all biome mods and all mob mods. If you want specific mobs added to specific biomes let me know which ones: https://content.minetest.net/packages/Neuromancer/mob_biome_mapper/
Thanks! Updated my comment.
Edit: not needed. See comments in my review.
Certain falling nodes should cause damage to the player. This mod adds that important functionality. Though it only adds for certain nodes. I ask that it be allowed to be used for adding fall damage to any node other modders would like to add.
Edit: Based on TenPlus1's comment adding the following code to your mod will allow you to add fall damage to any node: local function add_fall_damage(node, damage)
Glad you liked it. Always interesting to hear what people are using my mods for. I removed the depends on default.
Thanks for adjusting your review. You're right that I will be tweaking this in the future, but it's going to be a while, because I'm working on mine level generation code, and that is going to take a while because there's a lot to do. I like breaking my games into modules because it lets people use the individual components in ways I couldn't even imagine. I'm going to create a generic mine digging api for this next phase that people will be able to use in many different ways, but I'll use it to create levels for the H.E.R.O. game.
Did you read the Mod description or the README file? The first line in the description says: hero_jetpack is a fork of sum_jetpack mod by Sumi (info@sumianvoice.com). (This credit is also at the top of the README file.) It explains that the point is that the flight mechanic is changed to make it challenging. It is to mimic the gameplay of the game H.E.R.O., and will be part of a bunch of other mods that will recreate the game H.E.R.O. The reason to download this is that the flight mechanic is much more fun, and if you want to play the game H.E.R.O. as pieces get added to it. Play around with this mod vs. the original mod, and try to land on different objects using both mods. It's a completely different experience. Then play the free hero game here https://www.retrogames.cz/play_228-Atari2600.php?language=EN to see where I'm going with this.
It's better to think of Minetest Mods as a set of legos. They allow the players to combine them in any ways they want. So to have a game that is fun for the player, they pick the biome mods they want, and then they pick the mob mods that they want too see in those biomes. And then by enabling my mob_biome_mapper mod, the mobs just work in those biomes. If you see any that I haven't coded for yet, just ask me and I add them. If SaKeL were to add mobs to his Everness Biomes mod, then it would be like super-gluing your legos together, meaning everyone is stuck with those same mobs in those biomes. It's better when we give players choice of what they want to see. Plus that allows modders to specialize in what they are good at. Some excel in creating biomes, others in creating mobs.
Minetest feels a bit empty and dead. This makes your world feel more real and alive by adding villagers and their dwellings. The attention to detail in the buildings and the villagers themselves is very good here. Nice artistic touches. Fits seamlessly into Minetest. There is a good variety of dwelling & villager types to go into a wide variety of biomes. Though one problem is that there are new biome mods being created all the time, and this only spawns villages in some of them.
The sheer number of mobs allows you to have a nice set of creatures to inhabit any biome. Most of the models and animations are very good with a few exceptions like the rat which could have a better texture and model. The interations between mobs are also fun and add an interesting dynamic to the game. For the most part the animal sounds are done well, my only complaint would be that a few of the sounds are too loud (Viper & wolf being examples). Makes playing Minetest so much more interesting. There are lots of new biome mods coming out every day so if you want to use this mod with them, then check out the mob_biome_mapper mod https://content.minetest.net/packages/Neuromancer/mob_biome_mapper/ that I wrote. I tend to make this Animal World mod a priority when making it work with new biomes because I like it so much.
If you want mobs added to any biome just use mob_biome_mapper mod, and whatever mob mod you want. If it hasn't been added yet, let me know which mobs you want added. https://content.minetest.net/packages/Neuromancer/mob_biome_mapper/
I love this mod. So much attention to detail and wide variety of biomes & trees. The variety of fruits is cool too. My only complaint is the harshness of the orange textures.
Try these changes to nodes.lua and let me know what you think: Make it a softer dustier orange. minetest.register_node("australia:red_dirt", { description = "Red Dirt", --tiles = {"aus_red_dirt.png"}, tiles = {"default_dirt.png^[colorize:sienna:175^[colorize:red:40"}, groups = {crumbly=3,soil=1}, sounds = default.node_sound_dirt_defaults(), })
minetest.register_node("australia:red_sand", { description = "Red Sand", --tiles = {"aus_red_sand.png"}, tiles = {"default_sand.png^[colorize:sienna:175^[colorize:red:40"}, groups = {crumbly=3, falling_node=1, sand=1}, sounds = default.node_sound_sand_defaults(), })
minetest.register_node("australia:red_gravel", { description = "Red Gravel", --tiles = {"aus_red_gravel.png"}, tiles = {"default_gravel.png^[colorize:sienna:175^[colorize:red:40"}, --tiles = {"aus_red_gravel.png^[colorize:sienna:75^[colorize:red:30"}, groups = {crumbly=2, falling_node=1}, sounds = default.node_sound_dirt_defaults({ footstep = {name="default_gravel_footstep", gain=0.5}, dug = {name="default_gravel_footstep", gain=1.0}, }), })
If you use the mob_biome_mapper mod + the animal_world mod you should get some animals. Though if you can give me the name of the animal plus the name of the node it should spawn on I could alter my mob_biome_mapper mod to add more animals from animal world.
This is the single most important mod to have. Being able to see without having to clutter the landscape with torches is essential to fun gameplay. A million thanks for making my favorite most useful mod.
Adds a more beautiful desert biome. Canyons look so much more compelling.
Would you be willing to make the following changes: node_stone = "default:desert_stone", & ore = "default:stone_with_gold", wherein = "default:desert_stone", ? It would then work out of the box with my petroglyphs mod, and also mob_biome_mapper/animal world mods. Those mob mods would allow caves to be filled with bats, spiders, scorpions, rats, lizards, snakes.
You could leave the stone_with_gold ore as is, or create a new node desert_stone_with_gold that could drop gold.
I loved the vibe of this Islands mod. I turned it into an exciting adventure by adding the following mods in this collection: https://content.minetest.net/collections/Neuromancer/tropical_islands/ But there still were a few gaps, so I created a mod to add coconut trees with edible coconuts, and it allows you to craft thatch blocks for building from the leaves. Also I created a pineapple mod for variety in food. https://content.minetest.net/packages/Neuromancer/coconut_tree/ https://content.minetest.net/packages/Neuromancer/pineapple/
The magma conduits mod needs to use the following settings: Minimum volcano peak elevation = 20 Region mapblocks =8 Probability of active volcano in region = 0.7
I'll continue to tweak and create mods to make this Tropical Island Paradise even better.
Nice Mod. Thanks for the quick response. Hoping the conflict will be resolved.
You can eat the coconuts in the "cool trees" mod. Can you make these edible also? Like if you hit them with a sword they break into coconut chunks?
I tried to get this to work with the island mods, but even when I changed the fill_ratio to 0.1 for minetest.register_decoration where decoration = "magma:volcano", I still didn't see any volcanos.
I thought Piranesi was a popular video game so I went on YouTube searching for gameplay, but came up empty. This is because the inspiration for this video game came from a Minetest Game Jam video game. But in my searching I discovered that Piranesi is a fantasy book written by Susanna Clarke which definitely sounds like it's worth a read. Piranesi is also an italian artist who seems to be a combination of MC Escher and Edgar Allen Poe. Oh and the game is worth a try as well, but I haven't made much progress in it. This game, the book, and the artist are all related in some way. I'll leave it to you to figure out how.
Цель этого мода — попытаться добавить немного утонченной красоты природы. Если вы хотите смелого разнообразия, я бы посоветовал объединить этот мод с модом Variety от Atlante. https://content.minetest.net/packages/Atlante/variety/
In Backrooms try Mobs Ghost Redo, or Mobs Monster, Dmobs. I like ghost the best.
It would be nice to see these randomly spawn all over the world, especially in caves.
You're welcome. Let me know if you have any questions on how to use it.
I created a phonics library that allows you to take letters/characters, and have them make sounds when punched. It also allows for sounding out phonics in succession to pronounce words, writing commands on pages of text, and crafting recipies to reward you for spelling words. It would be cool to have more languages like japanese. https://content.minetest.net/packages/Neuromancer/phonics_lib/
Do I need to add one? Or is it fine without it? (ContentDb just creates one automatically?)
Done. Though it was working for me before doing this. (wsor4035 had changed the technical name to phonics_spanish and it stopped crashing.)
Done thanks!
done thanks!
I changed this mod to use the phonics_lib mod, and the name change is needed so that this mod does not crash.
I changed my phonics language mods to use a library mod that requires the rename for the mod to not crash.
Great way to learn Cherokee/Tsalagi language. Language sounds and characters are really well done.
Cherokee or Tsalagi is an endangered Iroquoian language and the native language of the Cherokee people. Yona created that mod.
Thank you. I will continue to maintain and add crafting recipies for english and spanish. Unfortunately I only know Spanish and English. If someone who knows Japanese, they can fork my mod and make a Japanese version of it. Yona is already working on a tsalagi learn to read mod. https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=29843
He's essentially saying we should create our own games using Minetest's built in game functionality. I think that there should be a default bare bones minetest_game as it already exists. But then there should be a better game that also ships with much more functionality, a game that is actually fun to play even when no mods are added.
I'd like to hear your stories on how you use this mod. I've added settings that allow you to adjust how often the phonics spawn in stone. Is it more fun if the phonics spawn more rarely? Is the "/w" chat command useful? Is anyone learning to read with this? Any other creative uses for this mod?
The Lua2Mts mod (https://content.minetest.net/packages/Neuromancer/lua2mts/) allows you to manually modify schematic files in lua and then convert them back to mts. So you basically get what you are looking for here. It fills the gap in the Schematic Editor mod.
Is it a public server? I'd like to check it out if it is. What's the connect info?