Minetest_game: Water lilies shouldn't spawn on river water

Created on 26 Jun 2016 · 10Comments · Source: minetest/minetest_game

It looks odd when water lilies spawn in floating river water. They dig a hole in the water surface

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MarkuBu

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Yeah we might have 'on flood' callbacks in future, that would work.

paramat on 27 Jun 2016

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I think they're being placed correctly at sea level, then after mapgen the river water starts to flow and flows around them, because they are nodes. This only happens at river mouths.

paramat on 26 Jun 2016

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Yeah i don't know how to fix yet but will keep it in mind. I'm not sure it can be called a bug, more a request for better behaviour. Luckily it's rare.

paramat on 27 Jun 2016

Maybe remove them in floating water. There was a discussion to remove torches in floating water. I don't know what was the result of this discussion, but maybe it is a good idea to implement a generic system that removes specific nodes in floating water like torches, water lilies, mushrooms and so on

MarkuBu on 27 Jun 2016

Yeah we might have 'on flood' callbacks in future, that would work.

paramat on 27 Jun 2016

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Surely lilies should spawn on fresh water rather than salt. An on_flood callback would be useful.

0-afflatus on 29 Jun 2016

Many Minetest lakes at y = 1 may actually be freshwater, default:water is not necessarily salt water, however river water certainly is. Spawing water lilies on rivers would multiply this problem, and some parts of rivers are unsuitable due to steep slope and 'fast flow'.

paramat on 30 Jun 2016