Minetest_game: Digging stone with picaxe in creative mode is slower than with bare hand

[MarkuBu]

I noticed that in creative mode digging stone with the picaxe is slower than digging stone with any other item or bar hand

Digging wood with an axe is also slower with other items. Same with shovel and dirt. But you need a stone shovel to see a difference.

A diamond shovel is much faster than normal creative speed, but a diamond picaxe is not fast

[asl97]

Imo, this is a engine problem.
maybe it can check for creative (privs) when it figuring out how long it should be digging.

https://github.com/minetest/minetest/blob/d767f025cb0d5cca29c1f2147d2a0931a088b717/src/game.cpp#L3985

[paramat]

i've noticed weird dig times in creative too, should all be one optimised time.

[MarkuBu]

Then I will reopen my first issue in minetest

[paramat]

https://github.com/minetest/minetest_game/blob/master/mods/creative/init.lua#L223
I see that the hand is given a quick dig time in creative, looks like the intent is for players to use the hand for everything, this would explain why it's faster than many tools.
So i'm not too bothered about tool behaviour since the hand should be used. In creative mode only the hand dig times are modified so the idea is to not use tools.

The change in hand dig time i noticed is perhaps because dig time seems to be affected by node level, this is the thing that could possibly be changed in the engine.

[paramat]

See discussion in https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/4462

[paramat]

See #1268

It would be too complex to try to redefine all tool capabilities when in creative mode, so i consider this issue not a bug, the hand is meant to be used in creative mode.

If you want to request engine changes to detect creative mode and change tool behaviour then please pursue that in the engine issue. I think this issue could be closed.

[paramat]

1268 merged.

[paramat]

Closing for above reasons.