Time  Nick          Message
01:31 specing       What is input.width in get_craft_result() for?
01:31 specing       https://minetest.org/modbook/lua_api.html#groups-of-items
03:16 specing       Where are the minetest.setting_set /.setting_get settings configured for a singleplayer game?
03:16 specing       I've also put these settings into settingtypes.txt in the mod root, however the default values do not work
07:52 independent56 good morning
10:57 specing       > As of 5.0.0, while option value is not set by player manually, settings interface will show default value from settingtypes.txt but minetest.settings:get will return nil
10:57 specing       1) Why nil?
10:57 specing       2) I have a settingtypes.txt but I don't see any interface in 5.2.0
11:04 rubenwardy    Settingtypes is only for the main menu
11:04 rubenwardy    It's not used anywhere else
16:31 lmat          I have a bunch of dirt, but no grass is growing on it.
16:31 lmat          It's in the sun.
16:31 lmat          Is there anything else I need to do?
16:46 Peppy         lmat : grass nearby is required for it to spread
16:46 lmat          Peppy: Crap!
16:46 lmat          Peppy: I'm trying to terraform a dessert...
16:47 lmat          one HUGE bridge coming right up
16:48 lmat          Peppy: I don't think I'm allowed to add that to the wiki, can you?
16:48 Peppy         i can't
16:49 Peppy         some servers/mods do provide recipes for "dirt_with_grass", but i'm affraid default Minetest Game doesn't
16:50 lmat          Peppy: I have something that creates a fake dirt with grass...
16:50 lmat          I guess I should try that first.
16:50 specing       lmat: in my tests the grass only spread horizontally, so good luck with any vertical movement
16:51 lmat          specing: And fake grass? (dirt with leaves on top)?
16:52 lmat          specing: Oh, that's VERY helpful if I'm going to build a bridge all the way from the grassy land!!
16:52 specing       fake grass? That exists? just placing leaves on top will probably not work
16:53 specing       lmat: why not install ethereal mod or something that provides ffertiliser (bonemeal?) / jungle grass
16:53 specing       lmat: are you on some server?
16:53 specing       lmat: are you on some server that has few mods*?
16:54 lmat          https://imgur.com/1KFw948.png
16:54 lmat          specing: I'm on my server.
16:54 lmat          VanessaE: Does fake grass spread to nearby dirt? (see image above.)
16:54 jonadab       Don't install ethereal just to get bonemeal.  If you want bonemeal, install bonemeal.l
16:55 specing       lmat: singleplayer is boring:)
16:55 jonadab       Install Ethereal if you want bananas that grow individually up in the branches of trees like apples.
17:01 lmat          specing: I agree, but why do you mention it?
17:02 * lmat        looking up bonemeal
17:02 lmat          The wiki doesn't know about it :-( https://wiki.minetest.net/index.php?search=bone+meal&button=&title=Special%3ASearch  Oh well, I'm sure google knows.
17:06 lmat          jonadab: bonemeal looks too ... effective. Does it make the game less fun because you can create all kinds of stuff so easily? (saplings?)
17:06 specing       lmat: the best source of information are other players. That is why I (implicitly) suggestedto play multiplayer
17:10 jonadab       lmat: If you want really _effective_ fertilizer, you install Technic, and you make cottonseed oil fertilizer.
17:10 jonadab       But this is not advised unless you intend to automate a bunch of stuff.
17:17 jonadab       (And by automate, I mean you go afk and the luacontroller sends a signal to the deployer, causing it to plant a sapling, then sends a signal to the nodebreaker that makes it fertilize the sappling, then sends a signal to the other nodebreaker with the Mk II chainsaw, causing it to cut down the entire tree in one fell swoop, and then it starts over.  The vacuum pneumatic tubes pick up all the logs and
17:17 jonadab       leaves and saplings, and a sorting tube sends the saplings into the row of chests that is used to refill the deployer, and the leaves go into other processing that makes plastic or something, and the logs go into the row of chests that feeds the furnaces; the charcoal from the furnaces goes into the chests that feed the grinders, and the coal dust goes into the chests that feed the compressors, and the
17:17 jonadab       graphite goes into the chests that feed the furnaces, and the diamond seeds go into the chests that feed the next compressors, and the diamonds go into autocrafters, and their output goes into a row of chests, and you come back the next day and have several stacks of diamond blocks.  This is what Technic/Mesecons/Pipeworks is for, and this is the only reason you would ever need 100% effective
17:17 jonadab       fertilizer, IMO.
17:17 specing       or you can install TechPack and have the tubelib harvester do all that with no code required
17:18 jonadab       Ah?  Interesting.
17:19 specing       yes, you can try the BlockySurvival server, it has some unconventional mods (techpack, terumet)
17:22 jonadab       Ultimately, I kind of want to put together my own pack of mods.  I have some rather specific ideas about what I want.  Notably, I want to fork Ethereal, get rid of all the non-biome-related stuff, get rid of the three completely ridiculous biomes, make it depend on moretrees, and introduce some new biomes that use the moretrees trees...
17:22 jonadab       And make bamboo way less common.
17:23 jonadab       I also want to use lowercrossroads.
17:23 jonadab       And maybe modify it to place teleporters every few junctions that skip to the next junctions with the next teleporters, for true distance travel.
17:45 lmat          specing: My server is multiplayer!
17:46 lmat          jonadab: dude
17:49 Krock         which server is singleplayer?
17:49 lmat          Krock: I don't know. I am not sure why he talked about it like that.
17:49 specing       jonadab: have you talked to the ethereal developers?
18:12 jonadab       specing:  Not personally, no.
18:12 jonadab       The thing is, I want to like Ethereal, because its core idea is great.
18:13 jonadab       But the more I learn about it (mostly from playing on servers that have it), the more I don't like it, because of the details.
18:13 jonadab       The choices it makes.
19:11 fruitsnack    when creating a custom page in sfinv, with sfin.make_formspec(), is it possible to also specify position of the formspec? When setting a custom size with "size[]", it'll automatically recenter
19:11 fruitsnack    so the tabbar also jumps down or up if the height of the formspec is different
19:11 fruitsnack    I want it to stay in the same place, but making the bottom of the formspec shorter
19:17 rubenwardy    yes, you can prepend size with a position/anchor
19:17 rubenwardy    like   "position[0,0]size[3,5]"
21:39 MinetestBot   02[git] 04SeekingMeaning -> 03minetest/minetest: Fix build for Visual Studio (explicitly cast pointers) (#10256) 13d22fd6f https://git.io/JJrhY (152020-08-03T21:38:45Z)
23:41 b3            hello everyone
23:41 b3            I just start running a minetest server. Any advice ?
23:41 b3            Is there any tool to simplify it?
23:42 b3            Is there a too to install mod cleanly (resolving all dependencies at once for instance)?
23:42 b3            Is there a non graphical client (to manage stuff in it)?
23:48 SwissalpS     there are many ways to keep organized
23:48 SwissalpS     git repositories with submodules can work fine for testing and deployment stages