[Mod] Spears [1.0] [spears]

[Echoes91]

Spears
By Echoes

This mod adds spears to Minetest games. They are versatile weapons that can be used to attack like a normal sword, even if slower, or safely thrown to the bad ones from the distance.
These are the spears I introduced within throwing enhanced, now with improved code, and here is where I'll continue their development.

+ Screenshot

Get the latest release here
To install, unzip the archive into a folder named 'spears' inside your mod folder, or run

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git clone https://gitlab.com/echoes91/spears.git

directly from your mod folder so that you can track changes by running

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git pull

after any update.
Browse the code

Dependencies: default

License:
Code under LGPLv2.1
Textures and sounds under CC-BY 3.0

+ Instructions

Use a spear like a sword for melee attacks; all spears weight about the same so they share the same full_punch_interval, which is slower than any sword's one. Spears' damage and resistance depends on material with similar proportion to default's tools. They have also limited digging capabilities (like a weak pickaxe).
You can disable/enable any spear by creating a text file named spear.conf and looking at the example, please avoid editing other files for such purpose 'cause they get overwritten by git updates.
Throw a spear with the drop key, that's 'Q' by default; spears follow a ballistic trajectory and slowly decelerate due to drag. They will damage any entity they shall hit for an amount that's more than linearly proportional to speed and depends also on the material.
Place a spear on the ground with the place key, that's right click by default. Unluckily these two commands cannot be inverted due to API limitations.
Spears will wear after any use, also by throwing.
Please note that spears are entities which collide with other entities such as dungeon master's fireballs and mese monster's fragments, so if you can't kill them just look at logs: spears are fine but you're not hitting the target.

+ Contents and recipes

All recipes work also horizontally mirrored. Any member of the same group can be used.

Stone spear: Lowest damage and resistance, easiest and cheapest to craft.
| wood | wood | stone |

Steel spear: Good damage and resistance, like steel tools.
| wood | wood | steel |

Copper spear: Softer than the steel one, but lasts longer.
| wood | wood | copper |

Bronze spear: Like bronze tools, it's as powerful as steel and lasts longer.
| wood | wood | bronze |

Obsidian spear: It deals the same damage of a diamond spear but last as long as a steel spear.
| wood | wood | obsidian |

Diamond spear: Best damage and resistance, like diamond tools.
| wood | wood | diamond |

Future goals are to make spear look better while being thrown and also stick into nodes.
Please read all information before trying them or posting issues, they'll save you some time.
Have fun!

[Don]

+1

[Echoes91]

Added screenshot and fixed a bug causing spears that hit a mob and a node at the same time to duplicate.

[Don]

Looks awesome. If you don't mind I am going to use this in my subgame.

[Echoes91]

Looks awesome. If you don't mind I am going to use this in my subgame.

Have fun!

[DS-minetest]

the mod looks interesting

[Echoes91]

Fixed spears that used to self repair while being thrown after reaching maximum wear. Reorganized code files for better visualization.

the mod looks interesting

I hope so :)

[Krock]

Why did I not see this mod earlier?!
The throw function works fine but I would like to throw them using the LMB, like with snowballs and shuriken.

[Echoes91]

Why did I not see this mod earlier?!
The throw function works fine but I would like to throw them using the LMB, like with snowballs and shuriken.

Because it appeared few days ago :) they were introduced within my older mod but it was turning into a big mess.
Assigning a function to the LMB would remove the tool's capabilities (dig and melee attack), while at the RMB would work only if pointing at something (close enough to get a selected target). These are API limitations.

[Napiophelios]

I made some 32px textures for this awhile back if you want to use them

spears_textures_32px.zip

License:WTFPL

(3.42 KiB) Downloaded 85 times

spearz32.png (7.12 KiB) Viewed 2343 times

[Minetestforfun]

I made some 32px textures for this awhile back if you want to use them

spearz32.png

We also made our 32px textures https://github.com/MinetestForFun/serve ... s/textures
Feel free to re-used them.

[Echoes91]

I made some 32px textures for this awhile back if you want to use them

spears_textures_32px.zip

spearz32.png

Nice! I prefer to keep it as coherent as possible with default game, using 16x16 textures with similar look and feel, however of course everybody must feel free to replace them, you just have to give them the same names and put them into the texture folder.

I made some 32px textures for this awhile back if you want to use them

spearz32.png

We also made our 32px textures https://github.com/MinetestForFun/serve ... s/textures
Feel free to re-used them.

OMG you have the earliest snapshot, where i didn't even finish to rewrite the README.txt XD. I'd really suggest you to upgrade to the latest release since there was quite some mess that has been fixed.

[Minetestforfun]

OMG you have the earliest snapshot, where i didn't even finish to rewrite the README.txt XD. I'd really suggest you to upgrade to the latest release since there was quite some mess that has been fixed.

Yes, as you can see here https://github.com/MinetestForFun/serve ... issues/304 we planned to update the mod but we haven't updated the mod for the moment.

My earlier post wasn't for your advice on our updates cycle, but was on the 32px textures we made/use and we want to share with you. ;)

[swordpaint12]

I believe I use your throwing mod. Kind of a shame they aren't being developed together anymore, but kind of makes sense. +1

[Echoes91]

My earlier post wasn't for your advice on our updates cycle, but was on the 32px textures we made/use and we want to share with you. ;)

Of course, but I felt quite guilty for having published such an unpolished snapshot so I'm hoping for any of its tracks to disappear as soon as possible...

I believe I use your throwing mod. Kind of a shame they aren't being developed together anymore, but kind of makes sense. +1

Actually i split them because i noticed that developing one set of features (like spears) wasn't bringing improvements to the others anymore, but just increasing the mess. I thought that spears would have been similar to arrows but now they don't share a single function anymore.
Once all of its sets will be functional and polished as themselves, so that one can concentrate testing and development easily on one without breaking any other, throwing enhanced will probably survive as a modpack.

[swordpaint12]

Yes. That makes lots of sense. Maybe eventually you'll upgrade it to a weapons modpack. I dunno. Best of luck!

[npx]

Amazing! I love your work!

[Echoes91]

Updated to 1.0
Since I've not been able to animate spear's flight any better through using API, this first stable version won't bring any drastic change.
However, apart of knowing that everything works good, this release brings a small buff to spears' speed and, consequently, damage at range, two new spears were added and inventory images now are oriented like all the other default's tools.
I've been testing for some hours now, also hosting (and playing) multiplayer, no issue have emerged so far.

[Dalethejr]

Sorry for copying your mod dude, I hadn't seen this before... I'll put a link in my mod so ppl can come see this one

[Dalethejr]

Also, would you like to combine our mods? https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=14044

[Echoes91]

Sorry for copying your mod dude, I hadn't seen this before... I'll put a link in my mod so ppl can come see this one

Also, would you like to combine our mods? https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=14044

If you had not seen this one you can't have copied it, so your work is totally yours. Spears are a really ancient weapon so nobody can't patent such an idea :)
I have not enough time to develop mods right now, however i released them as free software (see the licence) which means that anybody can look at the code, modify it and publish it again as long as is under the same licence (and possibly with some credits to the author).
If you would like to improve my work or merge some features into yours you're welcome, surely it's better to join forces instead of developing something redundant.
I see that your mod has more features other than spears and since mines are older (so probably more refined) you could create a modpack containing my repo cloned among with your new weapons.

[Dalethejr]

Sorry for copying your mod dude, I hadn't seen this before... I'll put a link in my mod so ppl can come see this one

Also, would you like to combine our mods? https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=14044

If you had not seen this one you can't have copied it, so your work is totally yours. Spears are a really ancient weapon so nobody can't patent such an idea :)
I have not enough time to develop mods right now, however i released them as free software (see the licence) which means that anybody can look at the code, modify it and publish it again as long as is under the same licence (and possibly with some credits to the author).
If you would like to improve my work or merge some features into yours you're welcome, surely it's better to join forces instead of developing something redundant.
I see that your mod has more features other than spears and since mines are older (so probably more refined) you could create a modpack containing my repo cloned among with your new weapons.

Well, thanks dude, I'm kinda new to the forum and was just checking. Thanks.