Minetest_game: Slightly faster boat

[paramat]

This was mentioned by sofar on IRC. Checking this, the boat has a maximum speed of 4.5 n/s, only slightly faster than walking speed of 4 n/s. I suggest 5 or 6? I don't think we should copy Minecraft and have an insanely fast boat.

[DonBatman]

I like the idea. Just a thought, can this be made into an api so we can have boats of different speeds? I am not asking for minetest_game too supply the boats. Just an easy way for mods to do it.

[paramat]

With some research, 5 m/s is the world record average speed for a single racing rowboat over 2000m. Obviously our boat is a crude raft but speed in Minetest is exaggerated so perhaps we can consider it a fast rowboat. Also, our nodes are a little less than 1m which allows us to push the speed a little higher.
5 n/s seems fine to me and importantly would be noticeably faster than walking.

[paramat]

I think it's best mods provide boats with different speeds, for the MTGame boat i can't see a need for variable speed, as faster would be ridiculous and slower would be boring.
Faster boats probably deserve new models (sailboats, motorboats etc.) so i think are best done by mods.

[C1ffisme]

@paramat

Also, our nodes are a little less than 1m

When I look around in Minetest, the blocks seem much too small to be a meter.

To me, it's more like 2.5 feet, maybe a yard, although that's an approximation. I haven't found the time to measure that distance.

Of course, it could be the fact that Minetest is on a screen... Or that my FOV is too low.

[Fixer-007]

Will it lag even more?

[paramat]

It won't lag more at 5n/s.
If you use the world average height for a human and equate it to the height of Minetest plyer model (1.8m?) you can work it out. Someone has done this and it was something like 0.9m i can't remember.

[paramat]

See #1036

[paramat]

1036 is merged.