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Basic_machines is a lightweight minetest automation mod/logic/electronics building. It has little impact on server performance. Relies only on default game.

License:
Sourcecode: GPL
Textures: CC BY-SA

Dependence: default

download: https://github.com/ac-minetest/basic_machines/

WIKI: https://github.com/ac-minetest/basic_machines/wiki

Where to play:

• Noob Academy
• The Sea is My Life - Build and survive in a water world based on Ocean Experiment
• Extreme Survival Minetest City - Try to build a city amid the hoards of mobs!
• T.T.Survival Server - A lightweight Survival Server
• Cash's World - A mobile device friendly world

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installation: copy "basic_machines" folder into your minetest /mods directory and add mod using menus (or edit /worlds/$WORLD/world.mt to include line "load_mod_basic_machines = true").

use instructions:
Craft mover (basic_machines:mover) with 6 mese crystals,2 stone, 1 wood. Set it up by punching (1. punch mover,2. punch source1, 3. punch source2, 4. punch target) to define box where to dig from and where to put.
Or set up by right click. For mover to work it needs nearby battery. Read ingame help (HELP button inside mover gui) for more info.

Craft keypad with stick and wood block. Set up by right click and enter target machine coordinate. Or setup interactively, by punch, then punch target machine.

Included machines
mover, keypad, detector, distributor, light block, recycler, grinder, battery, generator, clock generator, enviroment block, ball spawner



Examples:
factory complex powered solely by one generator, uses movers to transfer power crystals to batteries
and one detector to act as a clock for operations. It does: auto tree farming, lava stone generating, grinds stone into sand, smelts sand into glass



close up of tree farm ( one mover refuels battery from generator, one mover digs trees, one mover picks up saplings & apples, one mover plants saplings, distributor forwards activation signal from detector and activates all machines )


closeup of stone generator (one mover refuels battery from generator, one mover digs stone)

Is the keypad in the mod? Because your post only says movers are in the mod.

Mod contains mover ( very versatile machine) and keypad ( used for activation and can work like blinky plant)

Update:

mover:
-updated texture: now with orientation compass on top
updated gui: with help and better messages, radio button using internal inventory to select mode of operation

-keypad:
better messages and shows how many cycles left when operating

update:

-detector block can now detect nodes/players at specified location and trigger machines.It has
a customizable radius setting from 0 to 5. It has a builtin NOT mode. This is the only block with abm, its set to 5 seconds
- keypad can be set to turn machines on or off
- added light block, can be turned on or off

updates:
-better detector, can look inside chests to check for materials
-markers that show up when you right click machines, they timeout after 10 seconds

Screenshots
Here detector is set up to detect any player near position ( marker 1) and open door at position (marker 2)



setup details

update:
-distributor, passes input signal to up to 2 outputs. can negate signals
-ttl ( time to live ) for all signals, preventing problems like infinite recursion

Distributor setup (2 lights as output), input is keypad


Distributor passing signal from keypad onto 2 lights

Use of mover as teleporter ( from "Sea is my life" ocean server)
Only admin can set up long range teleporters/machines ( range > 5 )



Exchange shop made only with basic_machines
Mover picking up 2 minegeld and putting it in shop storage chest is highlighted.
5 extra parts ( detector, 2 movers, 1 fuel chest, distributor) could be hidden away somewhere in 10 radius

Please add something like this http://hgrm.sndimg.com/HGRM/2011/07/26/ ... 3x4_lg.jpg and even this http://blomandblom.com/wp-content/uploa ... 08x513.jpg as switches, that detectors will use as input, could be cool.

Also, ability to detect mobs by detector would be very handy! I got some very nice ideas about them :D

Also, I found a bug with two doors near each other (symmetrical) and two detectors, one door will turn correctly if used by detector or opened by hand, but another door on open by hand will rotate 180 deg and start turning spontaneously under detector control.

added toggle mode (2) for keypads - punching keypad turns it on/off
ability for mover to pick up items and put in chest ( like sand tube in pipeworks). Now you can finally do proper tree farms that pick up saplings automatically.

I would add detect mobs by detector but i dont see yet how to distinguish mobs from items lying around, they are both lua entities as in local lua_entity = obj:get_luaentity() ...

about bug: how does detector open door? if detector is activated if will activate target machine ( maybe target and source were same?) not sure what you mean

I would add detect mobs by detector but i dont see yet how to distinguish mobs from items lying around,

Just add "Mob/objects" that will detect mobs and other lua entities.

added:
- mover can dig blocks and return proper drops ( wheat plant drops seeds and wheat...)
- mover can exchange items between chests and blocks with inventory ( like furnaces, shops, ...)
- detector can detect mobs or objects lying on ground

Recycler may be broken.

And please add more explanation into HELP buttons. And update your first post.

added
- recycler: basically inverts crafting with a small loss of ingredients
- power outlet: power mover using free available power from nearby technic electric network
- several modifications of gui and functionality of machines (mover can move items between node inventories, ...)
for more info see first post and wiki

rnd wrote:added
- recycler: basically inverts crafting with a small loss of ingredients
[...]

Finally! I have been waiting for that soo long :)

New problem with farming, maike changed default farming to farming by TenPlus1 on ESM City, and my machines are not working correctly with them for some reason, can you look at it? (seeds are not growing anymore)

Grinder code is not in master. I had to comment out line 7 of init.

updates (added screenshots to first post):

new machines: grinder, battery, generator
updated: mover, detector, distributor, recycler, lights
external machines: standard furnace ( unmodified code) can now be powered by battery with accelerated smelting speed ( 2x speed boost)

most machines can be upgraded ( expensive ) to enhance abilities, use less energy, add more range, ...

rnd wrote:updates (added screenshots to first post):

new machines: grinder, battery, generator
updated: mover, detector, distributor, recycler, lights
external machines: standard furnace ( unmodified code) can now be powered by battery with accelerated smelting speed ( 2x speed boost)

most machines can be upgraded ( expensive ) to enhance abilities, use less energy, add more range, ...

+9*10^1000
THANK YOU for all the hard work you put into your mod, it is a server mist have for sure!

performance update:

new machine: clock generator ( only active machine that works in background, expensive)
detector: no longer background active, must be activated, burn-out against too fast activation protection
keypad: can no longer be activated by signal, burn-out against too fast activation protection

the battery + keypad + furnace combo causes this crash.

EDIT: heh seems i the issue is an unupdated minetest game. so just updated furnace.lua and now everything works

problem is outdated furnace code used on server, its missing
"on_metadata_inventory_put" for node "default:furnace", hence the error caused by


This is present in current 0.4.13dev. Added patch checks for presence, if not there furnaces wont auto start.

updated:
- wiki https://github.com/ac-minetest/basic_machines/wiki

keypad: can now work as a keyboard or text writer/setting changer device
enviroment block: can change physics settings & skybox for nearby players
ball_spawner: spawn an energy ball that can activate stuff and bounce around when moved with https://github.com/ac-minetest/basic_machines/wiki/mover mover

rnd wrote:updated:
- wiki https://github.com/ac-minetest/basic_machines/wiki

keypad: can now work as a keyboard or text writer/setting changer device
enviroment block: can change physics settings & skybox for nearby players
ball_spawner: spawn an energy ball that can activate stuff and bounce around when moved with https://github.com/ac-minetest/basic_machines/wiki/mover mover

Dang! You have been busy!
Thank you for the wiki, all minetest users need this for your awesome mod. I should update esm with this when I return.

now you can make cannon machine that fires projectiles with user adjustable projectile speed, projectiles bounce of walls and can activate targets


cannon machine itself: left keyboard to adjust projectile speed, right sound emitter, middle cannon ball spawner, below mover to fire projectile, top behind enviroment block to adjust ball gravity


worldedit file with made cannon

Add this around line 34 in protect.lua, otherwise typing anything in the terminal mode crashes everything:

added check

rnd wrote:[...] one mover refuels battery from generator[...]

For the love of it I can't get it to do that. What mode do you have to use, how do you set that up? I tried about everything, but really couldn't get it to work.

Have fun, noob101