Recommended maximum tool range?

[Wuzzy]

What's the recommendation for the maximum range of tools and other items?
The range determines how far you can use the tool to punch, dig, etc.
I noticed if you use very large values for range, Minetest slows down significantly while you wield the item. So I wonder if there is some guideline I could use. For this, I need answers from other people as my own machine alone does not tell me much about other people's machines. ;-)

On my machine (Laptop: Dell Inspiron 15) a range of 10 is still relatively safe (60 FPS), Minetest becomes notably slower at a range of 50 (35-40 FPS) and pretty much unplayable at a range of 200 (5-10 FPS).

I'd also like to hear input from the Minetest developers.

[rubenwardy]

There's are currently two pull requests pending that both implement a similar optimisation. When they are merged, you'll be able to set the range to hundreds with no problems.

[azekill_DIABLO]

yeah! a giant star fury that kills everyone in the line to 40000 meters!

[Krock]

As rubenwardy already mentioned, these pulls try to reach the same thing. To make it more efficient.
There's a huge difference in the CPU load with and without the pull, can be seen here. That's also the reason why I compile that commit into my Win32 builds until one of these two pulls gets merged into the Minetest core.

[ErrorNull]

is it possible to i change the current tool range for tools and even for an empty hand punch to be shorter range? Is that possible?

[kaeza]

is it possible to i change the current tool range for tools and even for an empty hand punch to be shorter range? Is that possible?

See how e.g. creative does it.

[ErrorNull]

awesome! thanks kaeza.