[Mod] Towntest [towntest] - Grow a town in minetest.

[cornernote]

some bugs from IRC:

<RealBadAngel_> worker stops sometimes
<RealBadAngel_> or goes straight in one direction
<RealBadAngel_> far from construction site
<RealBadAngel_> ah, and he sometimes disappears
<RealBadAngel_> ive found the temporary solution
<RealBadAngel_> go away, force server to unload area
<RealBadAngel_> and come back

<RealBadAngel_> maybe you should call build() on_step instead of an abm

<RealBadAngel_> ah, one more thing
<RealBadAngel_> not only fences cannot be built
<RealBadAngel_> stairs, slabs too
<RealBadAngel_> thx to stairs plus
<RealBadAngel_> i think i know the solution
<RealBadAngel_> you could make just aliases for those mods

[PilzAdam]

<RealBadAngel_> or goes straight in one direction
<RealBadAngel_> far from construction site

This is a bug in the engine, I think. Entities sometimes duplicate or arent updated so they keep their velocity and dont react on player punching/rightclicking them.

[Gage]

Awesome Mod!!

downloaded it yesterday, but it took ages to get it to work having the same error as others are reporting.

finally found that by changing the 100000000000 to a lower value in towntest\init.lua below solved the problem for me

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-- unique game id, needed to cleanup npcs
towntest.game_id = math.random(100000000000)

what number did u change it to like 500 or somthing please tell me!!

[cornernote]

The number is gone now. Get the latest version and it should be right

[Gage]

thanks cornernote (: ill try it again now :P

[Gage]

all i had to do was take out the 3 town test folders and walla it works omg im stupid(: i had a blond moment there lol

[pandaro]

Fantastic!
I expect this mod ... and the concept is potentially greater than minecraft villagger! If I can help in any way the development of this mod, please contact me.

[PilzAdam]

Fantastic!
I expect this mod ... and the concept is potentially greater than minecraft villagger! If I can help in any way the development of this mod, please contact me.

Have you ideas how to create villages with the current API in mapgen?

[pandaro]

PilzAdam wrote:
Have you ideas how to create villages with the current API in mapgen?

No! I'm not a Codere. I know little python for personal use.
Mapgen do not know, but I might take a look.
Anyway, I thought we could do it in another way:
If there is an NPC who knows how to create a village, just place it in the appropriate place and with the right resources, he will build the village.
This is not what you intended to do with this mod?

[cornernote]

Pandaro, TownTest is at the moment more of a proof-of-concept that I can make an NPC do something like build a building. It just happens to be really fun so I released it as a mod. The inspiration was minecraft's millenaire.

I intend the NPCs will spawn on their own and you cannot move the chests. You will give them resources and they will build a village. They will also find their own resources and create their own materials.

I don't want every village to look the same, it should be somewhat random. All the buildings need to be close enough that it can be considered a "village", but they need to not overlap.

Once buildings are in place, NPCs should focus on roads and other infrastructure.

In addition to this, you will be able to ally with a village to gain rewards. Perhaps even lead a raid on neighboring villages. Could make a fun multi-player addon if each village is like a clan.

[MarkTraceur]

cornernote, is there any plan for making more NPCs, or should I dive in? It looks like there's some work on lumberjacks, but it's not clear whether it works. Ping me on IRC (I'm marktraceur), and I may be able to help.

[cornernote]

Hey MarkTraceur,

There is an intent, but don't have time to make it happen at the moment. Lumberjack is not done at all. I just put the name in there to remind myself that's the next NPC I wanted to make.

[MarkTraceur]

All right, next time I have some spare time (also seems like it may be a while), I'll whip something up :)

In the meantime, anyone else should feel free to hop in, I have no real plans for this now.

[kaeza]

The building A.I. could be optimized, by finding the nearest blocks that the builder has, and that needs to be put. That way I think you can eliminate most of those "walks" the NPC does from side to side on some large buildings.

I'm proposing something like this (in pseudo lua code):

for each material MAT in npc_inventory do
pos = find_nearest_node_in_building(MAT);
while (pos and npc_has_material(MAT)) do
walk_to_pos(pos);
put_node(pos, MAT);
pos = (search_adjacent_nodes(MAT) or find_nearest_node_in_building(MAT));
end
end

Hope you understand the concept.

It might be a good idea to optimize the Worldedit imports first. Right now large buildings take a considerable amount of time to build because the worker runs to and fro between walls on opposite sides. That does not matter with small decorative buildings. Large buildings take extremly long.

Some user reported this before, but no one replied him at least on this thread.

[BenAmaranth]

Sooo noob question...

How do I add my own buildings? Or is it complicated?

[BZab]

i think in mod's folder somewhere was subfolder for buildings in .we (worldedit) format
Ya need to put .we file in it (if ya use world edit, in game save region, then in world's folder look for: schems -> *your buildings name*.we) and copy it into towntest

[socramazibi]

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\minetest-0.4.4-d1-30b9a4d-win32\mods\minetest\towntest
\minetest-0.4.4-d1-30b9a4d-win32\mods\minetest\towntest_chest
\minetest-0.4.4-d1-30b9a4d-win32\mods\minetest\towntest_npc (home here in file *.we)

[BenAmaranth]

Thanks guys! I love this mod!

[jojoa1997]

could someone update this mod to have a 3d model make the buildings?

[Sokomine]

A 3d builder would be a great thing. With the new mobs out there (peaceful_npc and trader from mobf) this ought to work. I'm just afraid they usually won't be able to "fly" to their locations? Also the sorting of the nodes hasn't been done yet so it is only useful for small buildings.

[jojoa1997]

it would work because all we have to do is replace the testure with a model and make a moving animation and a standing still animation.

[lenkman1]

How do i get it to work, chest won't open

[Evergreen]

How do i get it to work, chest won't open

Please don't bump old topics.

[Sokomine]

To my knowledge, the mod still works. If a chest does not open, it sometimes helps to wait a few seconds after placing it.

In a way, the NPC framework mod may eventually offer something similar to towntest.

[freejack]

Why does this mod randomly put chests around a village that mapgen spawns? I turned it off due to this. I didn't want it out there for users to run across. Also the NPC does not show 3d with textures just an orange guy flat.......

[pandaro]

I am very sorry Freejack, but this mod is very full of problems since its development is suspended for a long time. Try another mod.

[Evergreen]

Try Nore's "mg" mod.

[cornernote]

Yeah, its been ages and ages without development. I see there are some other mods that took off there this one left off.

Eg:
[Modpack] NPC Framework [minetest-npcf] [WIP]

If anyone has any other resources please post them and I will update the mod homepage with links to the newer versions.

[Sokomine]

Why does this mod randomly put chests around a village that mapgen spawns? I turned it off due to this. I didn't want it out there for users to run across. Also the NPC does not show 3d with textures just an orange guy flat.......

The mod places those chests randomly on the map. Change towntest_chest/init.lua by disabling/removing the function minetest.register_on_generated if you don't want that.
I changed something else in my local version to get the 3d version of towntest. Setting "3dmodels = true" in your minetest.conf might work. The 3dbuilder looks a bit like a vombie.

Yeah, its been ages and ages without development. I see there are some other mods that took off there this one left off.

Glad to see you back! I still let these towntest-chests of yours spawn in my worlds (the poor builders seldom get the materials they want...they patiently continue waiting :-)).

The builder from the npcf-framework indeed seems to be a more modern version of your mod.

My own random_buildings mod will eventually contain something like a build chest as well. I decided against manually building mobs because I hope that the mod can eventually be used on servers. Moretree-trees are huge monsters - very nice trees, but not intended for cutting down - and obtaining their wood is too difficult. The lumberjacks might be willing to sell...if they get help in building a hut (mese axes are popular). At least that's what I'm currently working on.

[truthfoot]

Hi Guys , love this game . But for some reason I can't get this towntest mod to work in 4.9 . I do have other mods in that do work so I know it's in the right folder . I even tried to separate towntest, towntest_chest and towntest_npc from minetest-towntest-master. Only the towntest_chest will not load . Edited from Debug == ERROR FROM LUA == Failed to load and run script from ==.\mods\towntest_chest\init.lua:== ERROR[main]: ...0.4.9\minetest-0.4.9\bin\..\mods\towntest_chest\init.lua:26: invalid escape sequence near '''
Any one have a fix. Sorry if I've missed something in the previous post.