I've written several experimental bits of code that revolve around the
need for a consistent calendar, but implementing one is extremely hard
in mods due to time changes and mods overriding core.get_timeofday(),
which will conflict.
The second part of the problem is that doing this from a mod requires
constant maintenance of a settings file.
An implementation in core is trivial, however, and solves all of
these problems at virtually no cost: No extra branches in server
steps, and a single branch when minetest.set_time_of_day(), which is
entirely reasonable.
We store the day_count value in env_meta.txt.
The use case is obvious: This change allows mods to create an actual
virtual calendar, or properly account for seasonal changes, etc..
We add a "/days" chatcommand that displays the current day count. No
permissions are needed. It can only retrieve the day count, not
modify it.
Lower water table where base humidity is low.
Alter heat and humidity to compensate for river humidity and altitude
chill.
Correct misuse of surface_max_y in generateTerrain.
Remove sand trails in the water at river mouths.
Remove river water below water_level.
Correct heat/humidity calculations where noises are less than zero.
Correct heightmap errors as much as possible.
Make humidity calculations more readable.
In the calculation of y_start,
when 'column height max' was large it caused
nmin.Y + max_height > nmax.Y - max_height
Now, in this situation y_start is set to the
midpoint between nmin.Y and nmax.Y
Limit y0 and y1 to between nmin.Y and nmax.Y,
otherwise index calculation, which has no checks for limits,
places them at unwanted locations in the voxelmanip
As stated in this forum thread [1], I noticed that there is a
2 second interval in which inventory changes are shown on the
client. @yyt16384 found the source of these 2 seconds:
m_nothing_to_send_pause_timer is set to 2.0 every time there
are no changes to make, but this timer is not reset when
SetBlockNotSent or setBlocksNotSent are invoked. So in worst
case, the changed block will be sent over 2 seconds too late.
With this change, changed inventories are updated almost
immediately, but it causes additional connection load.
This allows mods to perform both asynchronous and synchronous HTTP
requests. Mods are only granted access to HTTP APIs if either mod
security is disabled or if they are whitelisted in any of the
the secure.http_mods and secure.trusted_mods settings.
Adds httpfetch_caller_alloc_secure to generate random, non-predictable
caller IDs so that lua mods cannot spy on each others HTTP queries.
Previously you could steal a secure environment from a trusted mod by wrapping
request_insecure_environment with some code like this:
local rie_cp = minetest.request_insecure_environment
local stolen_ie
function minetest.request_insecure_environment()
local ie = rie_cp()
stolen_ie = stolen_ie or ie
return ie
end
'cam_pos_nodes -/+ box_nodes_d' can exceed the range of v3s16
when a player is near the world edge using a large view range
This previously caused world to disappear
Create new function getBlocksInViewRange() called from
updateDrawList() and renderMap()
Correct code style throughout updateDrawList() and renderMap()
