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Luanti is an infinite-world block sandbox game and a game engine, inspired by Infiniminer, Minecraft and the like.

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Client mods vs. server mods: Is there a difference? (like a Bukkit API) (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by time2mine@lemm.ee to c/minetest@lemmy.ml

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I want to create some cool multiplayer games on a server (operating on top of VoxeLibre or Mineclonia) but am still new to Luanti. I am familiar with creating Minecraft servers and server mods (like Bukkit plugins) but am not quite sure what it looks like with Luanti.

I've been playing around with VoxeLibre and Mineclonia for a while now, and I of course understand that they are games implemented in Lua under the Luanti engine, but I am not quite sure if there is a distinction between "client" mods and "server" mods in the Luanti ecosystem.

I found the Luanti modding book, but it does not mention there being a difference between client mods and server mods.

What I am aiming to do in the mod is:

Manipulate blocks in the world
Run a timer that changes the world state every X minutes
Handle events (like lava place, etc.) server-side
Give players items
Introduce special mechanics for certain items (for example, a fishing rod which teleports you to the bobber location)
Spawn chests with items in them

This all has to be controlled on the server end, and I hope that it does not require clients to have a copy of the code since I am planning to make frequent updates on the server end only.

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[–] Mantar@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

That's all server-side code, which is the normal thing for luanti mods and games.

Client-side modding is currently a bit crude and limited, and requires a bit of funky manual installation, but allows you to read and alter some things on the client that aren't available to the server code. Client-side modding (CSM) was added a bit prematurely and is still in kind of a proof-of-concept stage; it was intended to be a step towards server-sent client-side modding (SSCSM) which will allow games to customize the behavior of the client.

For Exile we have an optional CSM for handling special keypresses, since reading key sequences can be difficult with lag over multiplayer, but 99.9% of our code is just the regular server-side code.

[–] time2mine@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Thank you for the insight! Yes, I am interested in making server-side code.

Since games consist of mods, does this mean that all games (when played on a server) have to send textures for items and blocks to the clients? Presumably the core Luanti doesn't have all the items you would use in your game.

Also: Do VoxeLibre/Mineclonia have an API that makes modding them easier, like a "bed event listener" I can define to control when beds are usable? What I am hoping is that I do not have to do "surgery" on the game code for my modifications.

[–] Mantar@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago

I'd like to take a moment to thank Lemmy for logging me out so I never saw the notice that you'd replied. :D

Yes, Luanti sends textures and sounds to the clients, though they are cached so it's only the first time you connect to a server.

Those games have an api of their own, though I don't know about "easier," and I'm not familiar with the specifics there as I don't particularly care for Minecraft. Odds are you'll need to override the beds behavior somehow, but I doubt you'll need to alter Voxelibre or Mineclonia to do it.