Warr1024

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Warr1024 2022-10-18 15:10 UTC

Must-have for a "darkcore" world.

When I first saw this mod, I was uncertain about its value, since generally NodeCore encourages players to be methodical about lighting, and the light sources in this mod fill a very narrow niche once the player has unlocked Optics.

However, playing on Kimapr's "darkest NodeCore" server running Nodeternal Darkness, this mod is an extremely valuable addition to that world, and balances excellently with the darkness. Players tend to build their settlements at some distance apart, and avoid building networks of lighted areas to connect to each other, to defend against griefers and thieves. Portable light sources, relatively unimportant in Vanilla NodeCore, are the principal way for players to travel between settlements and avoid getting lost or falling in pits. Torches are a suitable emergency light source for getting started at the very beginning of the game, but the longer-lasting light sources make pre-optic living more tolerable, and the powerful Luxlamp is a reliable workhorse for long-distance travel and exploration.

On Vanilla, as well, while these tools don't play as vital of a role or take center stage in gameplay, they also do not really significantly unbalance the game, and can make things like finding lost tools dropped into a dark cave a little less painful, for players not looking for such unforgiving consequences for carelessness.

NodeCore Luminous Tools by Winter94 0 comments
Warr1024 2022-10-18 14:36 UTC

Majorly improved performance of my game/server

I maintain NodeCore, a very complex game spanning over 20k lines of code. For some time (apparently years), a serious performance issue had been slowly building up on my NodeCore server, causing bad lag spikes, and my players and I were having no luck figuring out the cause. Minetest's built-in profiler was no help, and I had tapped out its extremely limited abilities a long time ago.

After being pointed to the JIT Profiler, and figuring out how to use it and interpret the results (read the description carefully), it helped solve the performance problem very quickly (a raycast happening too early in a sequence of checks), and also identified other performance issues that I hadn't even detected yet (uncached privilege checks, dynamic lighting checks, and more).

I highly recommend all modders who care about quality use this tool and test performance of all their packages. It is a little complex to run but very much worth it.

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LuaJIT Profiler by jwmhjwmh 2 comments
Warr1024 2021-12-06 14:54 UTC
Fun, Engaging Addition

I run this mod on a family private server (where the gameplay is less "hardcore" than vanilla) and it's a nice and very natural-feeling extension of gameplay. It changes the gameplay balance, especially making ongoing lode supplies much cheaper, but compensates nicely by adding an engaging snake feeding and caretaking system.

Criticisms:
- The snake's pathfinding is really dumb, sometimes pathologically so. Snakes often naively trap themselves, even with plenty space to roam, and while this makes it easier to "hibernate" them to keep them from running out of food, it makes managing snakes sleep/wake status and food consumption more about periodic annoyance than puzzle solving and careful planning.
- ~~The snakes seem too rare, especially on small maps that NodeCore otherwise makes very viable.~~
- Snake heads are unpredictable, blend in with the body, and delicate, to the point where it can lead to "cheap shots" where the snake effectively suicides itself by running into your swinging pick while you're trying to expand its enclosure, and the cost of killing a snake can be catastrophic.
UPDATE: I'm revising my criticism, because, at least since the addition of Forms to the game, it is highly feasible to catch a snake and trap it in an enclosure that ensures it stays safe and healthy indefinitely, as long as the player remembers to keep it fed, which is not an error-prone process. Leaving design of such an enclosure as the player's responsibility is consistent with the challenge level of NodeCore.

Suggestions:
- ~~In addition to less self-trapping behavior,~~ richer pathfinding interactions might be nice, like certain kinds of nodes it avoids (igniters, radioactives, metals?)
- Reproduction/renewal mechanics, such as laying eggs if fed certain high-value resources. It would be nice to be able to keep dormant eggs in storage until needed, and then incubate them somehow to hatch them, esp. as mitigation for snake fragility.
NodeCore Snakes by Kimapr 1 comments
Warr1024 2021-08-21 12:25 UTC

Surreal mapgen compatible with multiple games

I tested this out with NodeCore, and while the resulting worlds it created are probably mostlly unplayable, it was fun to see some surreal results. There were worlds that were extremely radioactive, some that rapidly caught fire, some that were covered in dungeon stone, and some where pumwater was seeping out of every crevice. There were a lot of wet cement beaches, and trees made out of doors, and grassy fields transformed into a cornucopia of different ores and stones.

The method used to determine which nodes can substitute or be substituted uses a heuristic, so it works with every game ... but it's obvious it was only tested on a couple of games so far, as it misses a number of things; I'm pretty sure that liquids were not intended to be substituted for non-liquids, but not all liquids use the liquid drawtypes. The shuffle is also uniform-random, and ignores the relative rarity of some things (which is at least partly the point of the randomizer) but making extremely rare things become extremely common may cause some performance issues. Fine-tuning the heuristic with some more cross-game testing may help, and in extreme cases, maybe just white/black-listing certain problem cases that slip past the heuristic.

One feature that I'd love to see would be different randomization "zones" with different shuffles, maybe of configurable size...

There is a minor bug wherein tree leaves can be mostly substituted but occasionally some unsubstituted leaves are found at mapchunk boundaries. This is due to a limitation in how the engine works that would probably be difficult to fix without creating other issues.

N.B. make sure the mod is enabled before first creating the world, or else the first areas that generate will not be randomized. If you make a mistake on first startup, you can reset the world but keep the same seed by quitting, deleting map.sqlite, and restarting.

Randomizer by NO11 0 comments
Warr1024 2021-08-19 03:19 UTC

High-Flying Fun

I am not familiar with the aforementioned Slimesling mod this is adapting, but found it fun, interesting, and well balanced.

As far as a practical form of transportation goes, I haven't exactly figured that out yet, but in theory, one could setup a series of stations for "refueling" by crafting more replacement mudslings to continue a long journey. Getting the trajectory right, and not having problems with hitting an unloaded mapblock boundary, might be challenges. It would be interesting to see someone make something interesting like a travel network based on this.

Mudsling by Avicennia_g 0 comments
Warr1024 2021-07-08 01:55 UTC

Fun and Beautiful

As far as the tutorial content is concerned, I got pretty much what I expected. I really enjoyed the scavenger hunt mini-game though. The castle was well-made and had lots of fun nooks and crannies to discover.

Although the tutorial says it's not MTG-specific, it does focus mainly on MTG-likes, especially around the crafting and smelting systems. It is still a good starting point for things like general movement, liquid mechanics, digging/building common to the majority of major games for this platform, so still a good choice for players who haven't yet found a game they want to invest time in.

Tutorial by Wuzzy 1 comments
Warr1024 2021-07-01 12:39 UTC

Dark and Moody

This is my current favorite; it's a slightly different stylistic direction from the original WinterCore (also very good) but I consider it an upgrade. The blue fire is bold and striking. The smoother look of the optics in particular is very pleasant.

WinterCore -Dark- by Winter94 0 comments
Warr1024 2021-06-23 21:53 UTC

Great Concept, Well-Executed, Fun

This is great concept and well-executed. Once you get the hang of movement the rest is simple and easy to learn, but there is a smooth learning curve to the existing puzzles, and room for a lot of challenging puzzles in the future.

The game itself is short, but there are instructions on how to create and submit new levels right in the project README; adding a "puzzle creation mode" to the game itself might be a way to encourage players to submit more levels. It also feels like it could be easy to extend the concept with new mechanics, like spaces only the player (not boxes) can enter, one-way movement spaces, etc. I would very much like to see more of this in the future.

Box World 3D by Hume2 0 comments
Warr1024 2020-07-09 05:22 UTC

Excellent all around

Attractive design, especially stone and other earthy materials (which are a LOT of NodeCore). Faithful to the original, blends well with mod content even when not yet supported, while still providing a distinct and improved look. Immersive, actually makes the game feel colder.

WinterCore by Winter94 0 comments