Traps

[ghost]

Adds various traps for CTF. Namely,

• Ghost stone

• Ghost cobblestone

• Ghost dirt

• Spikes

• Fake/Damage Cobblestone

Related to #35

[ClobberXD]

Lots of indents using spaces. Please convert all of them to tab-indents. Will test in a couple of days.

[Thomas--S]

👎 except for spikes because all other traps will probably be mainly used by griefers.

👍 for spikes.

Edit: Neutral on damage cobble

[ghost]

The damaging cobble cannot be used by griefers as it will only damage the opponent team

[ghost]

I don't think I should add these traps to ctf_treasure as it will be much more easier for the griefers ( generally noobs) to get them. Currently having the traps being able to craft is the best option to reduce those griefers.

[ClobberXD]

This mod depends on ctf mod for retrieving the damaging-cobble's placer's team.

Please create a depends.txt for traps, and add ctf in it. Since the mod depends on ctf, please rename it to ctf_traps.

[ClobberXD]

I performed my first round of testing, and here are my thoughts:

• The fall-through nodes are very noticeable due to their yellow-green border. They could be subtler.
• The spikes could be made a bit taller, to be more noticeable.

[ghost]

Yup

[ClobberXD]

Textures look good to me. 👍

I suspect the damage cobble might be abused by tunnellers. On the other hand, that's alright, because the defending team should've protected their flag against tunnellers anyway. I feel this needs to be given more thought.

[ghost]

Well same can be said for the defending team because you can make a hole below and cover it all with dmg cobble. Also you can mine around it to get passed it.

[ClobberXD]

Alright, makes sense (sorta). 👍 from me.

[ClobberXD]

However it's worth gathering more opinions about the textures of the fake nodes before merging. I'm finding them well-balanced with respect to subtlety and ability to differentiate them in the dark as well (using default display_gamma)

[bewlay]

I can only make Spikes, the ghost and damage blocks seem to have misspelled ingredients.

[ghost]

@bewlay Thanks for that, did some silly mistakes and it should be fixed now

[ClobberXD]

lol

[bewlay]

The fact that damage cobble looks always the same (regardless which team placed it) could be a problem. In some ways, that would be similar as if all blocks damaged you, as you don't want to dig a damage cobble block of which you don't know the origin (except maybe directly at the base, where you have time to heal anyway).

Good work otherwise, btw.

[ClobberXD]

The fact that damage cobble looks always the same (regardless which team placed it) could be a problem.

I'd consider that a part of the challenge. Traps can be compared to a double-edged sword, which can damage the wielder as well.

[ghost]

The fact that damage cobble looks always the same (regardless which team placed it) could be a problem. In some ways, that would be similar as if all blocks damaged you, as you don't want to dig a damage cobble block of which you don't know the origin (except maybe directly at the base, where you have time to heal anyway).

If players would be able to differentiate then they would just mine around that cobble and there would be no point in having it.

[ghost]

I think the mod is complete but if anyone wants to test it and send any feedbacks then that would be helpful

[ClobberXD]

Needs to be rebased to fix merge conflicts.

git checkout traps
git pull upstream master --rebase
# where upstream is the MT-CTF/capturetheflag base repo

[ghost]

Doesn't work :| . It can't find the 'MT-CTF/capturetheflag' git repository

[ClobberXD]

Ok... can you paste the output of git remote -v?

[ghost]

Here

origin https://github.com/MinetestSam/capturetheflag (fetch)
origin https://github.com/MinetestSam/capturetheflag (push)

[rubenwardy]

I can rebase this before merging

[ghost]

Thanks

[rubenwardy]

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