Could have been a plugin, doesn't offer international format
Overriding the default chat experience is okay for a tiny little server where chat is kind of slow and a chat handling mod with a framework may be considered overkill. Bigger servers will want something like Beerchat, with multiple channels and features like channel bans, colourisation, mutes. This could have been a plugin for Beerchat which would offer an even better experience. It's incompatible as-is. Of course, it's no problem to provide a standalone version of the mod as well.
Regardless of complaints about plugins let's focus the review on what the mod provides if you're just going to use it and not use plugins. There are two date formats on offer: mm/dd/yyyy and dd/mm/yyyy. I appreciate that the author wanted to cater to an international audience - those are the most popular formats in the Anglosphere at least. Other countries use other punctuation like - or . for the separators, and this might have helped disambiguation. For instance, the German format is usually dd.mm.yyyy. The fact of using dots instead of slashes could help a new user with at least a little clue on which format is being used.
Timezone is also another issue; the user can't always easily relate the server time to their own. A UTC option may have been a decent option, but it may also just be incumbent on the server to let people know what their timezone is. Some servers are set to UTC and others are set to local time of the datacentre.
With this mod you can build a ship that can go anywhere in the world. It does have a problem though, if you use multible jumpdrives linked together that don't all go at once. This makes sense from a game perspecitive but it would be nice to have a ship disappear and reappear. I also find it limiting to only work in cubes and that makes for ugly creations.
I love how it works like a star trek style transporter and it combines nicely with other technic devices to make a fully functional ship. One nitpick though, the UI is pretty unintuitive and takes some time to figure out how to use.
It rots and becomes useless, you cant craft anything with it or use it as fuel. It would be nice if they had any recipes after that but it doesnt, its just some simple decorative blocks
Its the best wax candles mod available here. It also includes a lot of other decoration blocks but if you dont want them you can just disable them. Its odd that some of them emit light even they dont usually do that in real life but it helps to lighten up your churches. Some tombstones arent craftable
An interesting and cool way to fly in survival settings
Very fun! I like these jetpacks mainly because they have a sort of "old equipment" steampunk vibe to them, which I love and wish more minetest mods had. But they also fly well, are pretty simple to figure out, and have good models and animations. They can also hover, unlike elytras, and have better effects and models then the Ta4 jetpack (which is cool in its own way :) )
Some things that could be improvements:
A better way to start/wear them? At the moment they are an inventory item that you rightclick to enable. But that is a little unrealistic/unusual for something so large and mechanical, and I find that to be a more like a parachute/glider effect. Maybe like elytras and the Ta4 jetpack they could be a chestplate item?
Maybe better movement effects like slight drifting, shaking, and the jetpack losing it's fuel and sputtering out slowly instead of just disappearing?
Better sounds? At the moment the sounds are pretty cool, and the jetpack warns you with a sci-fi like alarm when it's about to run out of fuel. But they are very quiet compared to other minetest sounds. It would be really neat to hear them louder with more crackly and less smooth noise, encouraging that kind of "old equipment" effect :)
Also, could there be a description of how to use them in the ContentDB page please? I couldn't get it to work months ago when I first tried it and only just this weekend tried it again and got it to work.
For anyone else who was wondering:
Rightclick while falling from about 10 blocks up to start.
Sneak to make it disappear.
Spacebar to go up, direction keys to go around, and E to go down.
This mod saves a lot of time when developing mods that use schematics.
I have repeatedly used this mod to make schematics for my mods, and it has been very useful and has saved a lot of time.
Its function is very similar to the Structure Block from Minecraft.
An idea for how it could be improved would be to add a block similar to the Jigsaw Block from Minecraft, which would be useful for making large modular structures.
It's great to have the added variety of smaller plants filling in the world. When used with moretrees, it really makes the ecosystem feel more complete.
It definitely adds some nice variety, but if can also be a bit overwhelming with how it completely reshapes the world. Some biomes feel like they are more common than they should be (for example, the mushroom and sakura). Also, as someone else mentioned, the onions are a little OP - if you're farming for survival, you don't need any other crop.
I love that tools level up; it encourages keeping better track of their status and repairing them, not to mention that they're faster and stronger too!
Of course, it also means that losing a tool is all that much more painful...
This is the best and most favorite game for minetest so far. Because this game dares to adopt/imitate the theme of the most popular game in the world, namely Minecraft. I hope there are more cool games like this:).
Just don't download this. It's useless and not something I believe would have ever wanted as a kid.
REMOVED BY STAFF
This is not a game for kids. It's just a window that pops up, asks you if you're a boy or a girl, and then has an option to change into a mermaid. Anything else you can get easily and better made with other mods in default minetest. The game is useless, the sexual stereotyping is not needed and only starts fights and insults people, the textures are ugly, it isn't educational, and it really has no need to exist.
The idea, to make a own funktion, to make a new tool kind is very nice.
I only noticed one error:
It is impossible to craft deepslate stuff. That's because the crafting recipes already exists for stone stuff.
Just why do u need to make the progression like this?
I do truely believe that this game has a lot of potential, and it can probably be a lot of fun.
But i just don't get, why you want to make the game more complicated than it actaully is
As soon u know how to craft stuff, u will just do it. But getting the knowledge about how to craft the different stuff, is just by reading "guides" thats more like riddles.
But why does it has to be like this? If u really want people to play this way, which is not working for the majority of people, then make it into a gamemode.
Just look at minecraft, it started out with no recipe book, but later they added it. Why? because people used the wiki. But this game is too unpopular to have a community work on the wiki and niether does the developer.
Its such a shame man. I will probably continue playing this as a pursue that potential the game has. But it just saddens me that I have to struggle through the game.
The basic gameplay is still about as boring as vanilla Minetest Game … but world generation details, node textures, models, all the parts of Parity of the Minor Bearing [alpha] that seem actually finished just look incredible. The crafting interface still needs some work, but already offers the simplicity of Repixture. If this is what passes for ”unpolished and jank”, Sumianvoice (the author) has admirable standards. I like the explicit anti-grind stance in the README a lot!
Nevertheless … I can not recommend this game, simply because of the author's warning:
Expect […] game-breaking, world corrupting updates to happen indiscriminately and at random.
Other game and mod developers, take note: This is what being honest to users looks like.
@Sumianvoice I hope you finish this. When/if you do, I plan to adjust my review.
I love all of the features of this mod with one little caveat: Could it be a selective mod? The spiders make such a mess everywhere with their webs. I left my game running overnight and when I came back the next morning, I had to spend several hours cleaning up all of the webs. I'd like to turn off spiders. Thanks!
Could have been a plugin, doesn't offer international format
Overriding the default chat experience is okay for a tiny little server where chat is kind of slow and a chat handling mod with a framework may be considered overkill. Bigger servers will want something like Beerchat, with multiple channels and features like channel bans, colourisation, mutes. This could have been a plugin for Beerchat which would offer an even better experience. It's incompatible as-is. Of course, it's no problem to provide a standalone version of the mod as well.
Regardless of complaints about plugins let's focus the review on what the mod provides if you're just going to use it and not use plugins. There are two date formats on offer:
mm/dd/yyyyanddd/mm/yyyy. I appreciate that the author wanted to cater to an international audience - those are the most popular formats in the Anglosphere at least. Other countries use other punctuation like-or.for the separators, and this might have helped disambiguation. For instance, the German format is usuallydd.mm.yyyy. The fact of using dots instead of slashes could help a new user with at least a little clue on which format is being used.Timezone is also another issue; the user can't always easily relate the server time to their own. A UTC option may have been a decent option, but it may also just be incumbent on the server to let people know what their timezone is. Some servers are set to UTC and others are set to local time of the datacentre.
Useful but undocumented
This mod has some cool items but it seems to have been abandoned and lacks documentation.
This mod makes scifi like ships possible
With this mod you can build a ship that can go anywhere in the world. It does have a problem though, if you use multible jumpdrives linked together that don't all go at once. This makes sense from a game perspecitive but it would be nice to have a ship disappear and reappear. I also find it limiting to only work in cubes and that makes for ugly creations.
This mod is so flipping cool!
I love how it works like a star trek style transporter and it combines nicely with other technic devices to make a fully functional ship. One nitpick though, the UI is pretty unintuitive and takes some time to figure out how to use.
Use this after unistalling an ore or mob mod
To cleanse the world of unknowns and errors! And destroy the error messages when you start a game. It has a tutorial on the github page.
Dont wet your wood
It rots and becomes useless, you cant craft anything with it or use it as fuel. It would be nice if they had any recipes after that but it doesnt, its just some simple decorative blocks
Candles!
Its the best wax candles mod available here. It also includes a lot of other decoration blocks but if you dont want them you can just disable them. Its odd that some of them emit light even they dont usually do that in real life but it helps to lighten up your churches. Some tombstones arent craftable
Cool
Nice mod. But why it has a gambling flag?
An interesting and cool way to fly in survival settings
Very fun! I like these jetpacks mainly because they have a sort of "old equipment" steampunk vibe to them, which I love and wish more minetest mods had. But they also fly well, are pretty simple to figure out, and have good models and animations. They can also hover, unlike elytras, and have better effects and models then the Ta4 jetpack (which is cool in its own way :) )
Some things that could be improvements:
A better way to start/wear them? At the moment they are an inventory item that you rightclick to enable. But that is a little unrealistic/unusual for something so large and mechanical, and I find that to be a more like a parachute/glider effect. Maybe like elytras and the Ta4 jetpack they could be a chestplate item?
Maybe better movement effects like slight drifting, shaking, and the jetpack losing it's fuel and sputtering out slowly instead of just disappearing?
Better sounds? At the moment the sounds are pretty cool, and the jetpack warns you with a sci-fi like alarm when it's about to run out of fuel. But they are very quiet compared to other minetest sounds. It would be really neat to hear them louder with more crackly and less smooth noise, encouraging that kind of "old equipment" effect :)
Also, could there be a description of how to use them in the ContentDB page please? I couldn't get it to work months ago when I first tried it and only just this weekend tried it again and got it to work.
For anyone else who was wondering:
I like these a lot! 100% recommended.
This mod saves a lot of time when developing mods that use schematics.
I have repeatedly used this mod to make schematics for my mods, and it has been very useful and has saved a lot of time.
Its function is very similar to the Structure Block from Minecraft.
An idea for how it could be improved would be to add a block similar to the Jigsaw Block from Minecraft, which would be useful for making large modular structures.
Very useful
I love a simple, straightforward mod. It does what it says and nothing more.
Nice addition to the world
It's great to have the added variety of smaller plants filling in the world. When used with moretrees, it really makes the ecosystem feel more complete.
Great for complex building
The added blocks and shapes are great and really make the world look a lot better.
A fun addition
I like having the option to be able to build colorful things with wood rather than relying on solely wool.
A very handy mod
Who doesn't want a more colorful world? There's really not much more to say; it's great.
It's pretty fun
It definitely adds some nice variety, but if can also be a bit overwhelming with how it completely reshapes the world. Some biomes feel like they are more common than they should be (for example, the mushroom and sakura). Also, as someone else mentioned, the onions are a little OP - if you're farming for survival, you don't need any other crop.
Adds a great new gameplay element
I love that tools level up; it encourages keeping better track of their status and repairing them, not to mention that they're faster and stronger too!
Of course, it also means that losing a tool is all that much more painful...
Отлично
Лучший модпак который я встречал в minetest. Нужно больше обновлений и поддержки!
Хорошо
Хорошо, но я бы добавил больше разнообразия в сами биомы и их самих.
Ресурс пак
Отличный пакет ресурсов для строительства!
Really nice and intricated, i like it. But i perfer more primitive (Personally).
It's pretty epic, but by chance do you know or have other more primitive mods, like the Stone Age, the Copper Age, and the Bronze Age. Thanks.
Minecraft game but free and Simple
Minecraft game but Free and Simple Version
This is the best and most favorite game for minetest so far. Because this game dares to adopt/imitate the theme of the most popular game in the world, namely Minecraft. I hope there are more cool games like this:).
Makes exploring underground very fun
I really enjoy exploring underground, and with this mod, it's better than ever!
Great addition
I love the added variety of all the new tree species.
Very nice GUI change
I prefer the look of these bars to the default row of icons.
A solid addition to the default game
It's great having access to these additional ores, and of course the mithril is a nice touch.
Мусорка
Мусорка которая удаляет предметы. Хорошо, что есть крафт!
Функциональный мод
Очент функциональный мод и удобный в использовании! Можно строить удобнее чем это в оригинале. Обязательный мод для игры!
Less Dirt
или же Better Grass из оптифайна. Отличная функция приятная глазу!
Деревья
Много разных деревьев. Которые можно было бы использовать в других модах.
бекрумы
Ну бекрумы, много комнат для теста. Хочу чтобы больше развивали этот мод.
Just don't download this. It's useless and not something I believe would have ever wanted as a kid.
REMOVED BY STAFF
This is not a game for kids. It's just a window that pops up, asks you if you're a boy or a girl, and then has an option to change into a mermaid. Anything else you can get easily and better made with other mods in default minetest. The game is useless, the sexual stereotyping is not needed and only starts fights and insults people, the textures are ugly, it isn't educational, and it really has no need to exist.
Manual operation
it can be useful when the player needs/wants to stop at any position, like at a construction, or a vertical service tunnel, etc.
Good Mod
The idea, to make a own funktion, to make a new tool kind is very nice. I only noticed one error: It is impossible to craft deepslate stuff. That's because the crafting recipes already exists for stone stuff.
Much success for your first mod on ContentDB! :)
Just why do u need to make the progression like this?
I do truely believe that this game has a lot of potential, and it can probably be a lot of fun.
But i just don't get, why you want to make the game more complicated than it actaully is
As soon u know how to craft stuff, u will just do it. But getting the knowledge about how to craft the different stuff, is just by reading "guides" thats more like riddles. But why does it has to be like this? If u really want people to play this way, which is not working for the majority of people, then make it into a gamemode.
Just look at minecraft, it started out with no recipe book, but later they added it. Why? because people used the wiki. But this game is too unpopular to have a community work on the wiki and niether does the developer.
Its such a shame man. I will probably continue playing this as a pursue that potential the game has. But it just saddens me that I have to struggle through the game.
The color feel less toyish and it has the best unified inventory icon
I just pushed this texture color pack on my server as i enjoy a lots its toned down ambience. I hope it will be merged with
unified inventory theme.For now, the theme dosen't fully support
unified inventory plus. I'm trying to redo the huge arrow. If my change work, i will send it. :)And the lack of transparency provides better visibility.
Thank a lot :)
Beaches look better
Any sandy area looks immediately better with this mod. Hoping for a more accurate color scheme for the trees...
Unfinished, but beautiful.
The basic gameplay is still about as boring as vanilla
Minetest Game… but world generation details, node textures, models, all the parts ofParity of the Minor Bearing [alpha]that seem actually finished just look incredible. The crafting interface still needs some work, but already offers the simplicity ofRepixture. If this is what passes for ”unpolished and jank”, Sumianvoice (the author) has admirable standards. I like the explicit anti-grind stance in the README a lot!Nevertheless … I can not recommend this game, simply because of the author's warning:
Other game and mod developers, take note: This is what being honest to users looks like.
@Sumianvoice I hope you finish this. When/if you do, I plan to adjust my review.
The item magnet tool picks up all items in range when used.
The
item_magnetmod adds the item magnet, a tool craftable with 5 lumps of iron in a ”V” shape ifMinetest Gameis installed.Using the item magnet picks up all items inside the configured radius instantly and adds wear if anything was picked up.
When you want to blow up part of the world using TNT, the item magnet is useful to gather the remains.
This mod becomes much more useful in games in which dug nodes drop as items.
Great mod with one recommendation
I love all of the features of this mod with one little caveat: Could it be a selective mod? The spiders make such a mess everywhere with their webs. I left my game running overnight and when I came back the next morning, I had to spend several hours cleaning up all of the webs. I'd like to turn off spiders. Thanks!