Knowledge Base (Posts about mod)

New Luanti mod: firefighter

bgstack15 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:54:00 GMT

I wrote a new mod for Luanti! It is available on Internal ContentDB.

Description of mod `firefighter`

This mod is designed for three mainline Luanti games, and adds tools and commands for fighting fires.

The canonical scm repo is at https://bgstack15.ddns.net/cgit/luanti/firefighter, and an additional repo suitable for collaboration is at https://codeberg.org/bgstack15/firefighter.

Using

A fire extinguisher is crafted from black wool, iron block, compass (MCL/VL) or steel ingot, red dye, and a bucket of water. In Mineclonia/VoxeLibre, you can repair an extinguisher at an anvil using a bucket of water. You can use the extinguisher as a weak, blunt weapon against mobs, too!

A fire extinguisher is used by left-clicking/using a tool, and starts suppressing fires in a small area.

Chat commands

To use the chat commands, a user must have priv server.

suppress_fire [<radius>] [<max_delay>]. Around the player, a cube of radius radius, start suppressing fires. Max_delay is a nice effect for over time, with a default of 1.5 seconds, but set it to 0 to immediately stop fires.
call_firestorm. BURNINATE around the calling player for a medium radius. I hope you have fire resistance.

Screenshots

Recipe for Mineclonia/VoxeLibre

Recipe for Minetest Game

Settings

firefighter.particles Boolean. Show the particles of the foam and smoke of a fire being extinguished. Disabling this might improve performance. Default is true.
firefighter.extinguisher_uses Integer. Set how many uses an extinguisher has in survival mode. Default is 100.

Alternatives

https://content.luanti.org/packages/SkyBuilder1717/fire_extinguisher/ appears to be for Minetest Game only. I didn't try it.

New Luanti mod: mcl_villager_cheats

bgstack15 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:54:00 GMT

I wrote a new mod for Mineclonia (ContentDB), titled Villager Cheats for Mineclonia. It is available on Internal ContentDB.

Description

This mod adds some features related to villagers.

Users with server priv can restock villager trades. I found the native Mineclonia village restock times incomplete.
Users can craft villager spawn eggs, which are very expensive.

The canonical scm repo is at https://bgstack15.ddns.net/cgit/luanti/mcl_villager_cheats, and an additional repo suitable for collaboration is at https://codeberg.org/bgstack15/mcl_villager_cheats.

Using

See the [Settings][#Settings] section for the timer function and how to use it.

Recipes can be enabled for villager spawn eggs.

Chat commands

To use the chat commands, a user must have priv server.

/villie Dumps details about the pointed villager to the player chat.
/restock Restock the pointed villager.
/restock_all_villagers Finds all villagers in world and restocks them.

API

These functions are exposed under global namespace mcl_villager_cheats.

mcl_villager_cheats.get_villager_profession(object)
mcl_villager_cheats.restock_if_villager(object)
mcl_villager_cheats.restock_all_villagers()
mcl_villager_cheats.find_first_villie(playername, action) Action is describe or restock.

Screenshots

Recipe for villager spawn egg:

Emerald block, bread, emerald block
Any enchanted book, diamond hoe, cake
Diamond block, lectern, diamond block

Recipe for zombie villager spawn egg:

Emerald block, rotten flesh, emerald block
Any enchanted book, diamond hoe, cake
Diamond block, lectern, diamond block

Settings

mcl_villager_cheats.use_timer Boolean. If true, then will restock all villagers at the times specified in the next setting.
mcl_villager_cheats.times Comma-separated list of times to restock all villagers, in millihours. 6100 is the default value, and is approximately 06:05, which is right after the time a player wakes up from a bed.
mcl_villager_cheats.verbose Boolean. Send chat messages to all players when the timer restocks villagers. Default is false.
mcl_villager_cheats.recipes Boolean. Enables the recipes for the villager/zombie villager spawn eggs. Default is true.
mcl_villager_cheats.enable_village_build_tool Enable village build tool, in creative only. Default is true.

Alternatives

None found. This is novel.

Further research

This does not work as a client side mod (CSM) because a few methods are not available to the client api.

core.objects_by_guid
core.register_chatcommand despite it being listed as available in client_lua_api.md

Luanti mods that sound cool

bgstack15 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:24:00 GMT

This is intended to be a living list of mods that sound interesting but don't quite make the cut for essential mods.

Interesting mods for Mineclonia

These sound interesting. Some of these I have investigated or used or even contributed to. These are listed in no particular order, but probably in order than I came across them.

Inventory admin

This lets an admin view and change inventory of other players. Haha, like the stadium guards checking those clear bags! This is from the same guy who wrote inventory_pouches, so it must be good! I haven't actually tried this one; I haven't needed to moderate players' inventories.

ContentDB scm

Extra Woolstuff

In case I want to add stairs and slabs made of wool. I haven't wanted those in my worlds yet, but I might. Same guy as Inventory Admin above! I like his work.

ContentDB scm

Protector

This sounds like the big, popular protection mod. I haven't needed protection on my servers because we have live moderators, but if I needed this, I would check this out first.

ContentDB scm

Magicsquare

I like this one, and use it on a few servers, but it's not essential. It would simplify survival games, for moving animals around, but I can play without it if I had to. It is a rapid replacement of its slightly earlier version known as "mobcrate." When I use this, I use my own fork with patches which have not yet been merged into upstream.

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(no contentdb entry) Forum post scm: upstream mine

Invisiblocks

From TenPlus1 again (like Protector), this mod sounds more useful for creative mode, when making a game or puzzle map or something. The mob wall item works with Mobs Redo but not Mineclonia mobs. I wouldn't even want to waste my time asking Mineclonia devs to support it because it's not related to Mineclonia directly so they'd decline immediately. The invisible barrier and invisible light blocks are pretty great though.

I love this idea and implementation, but it's not directly related to survival gameplay, so it's hardly essential. Man, if I could get the MCL animals to obey the mob walls, I probably would put this on my survival servers. But fences work too (minus the mobs lag-jumping over them).

ContentDB scm

Ancient Stuff

A random idea from another supercreator michi16bit: some more armor and tools with a cool design!

ContentDB scm: no upstream mine

Italian Food for VoxeLibre

I helped this author with some mineclonia-related modding questions. I personally don't see the need for a million food mods in my survival worlds, but if I start adding any, I would start here.

ContentDB scm

Automatic Storage & Retrieval System

This adds a nifty way to throw tons of items in a single location and you can sort and search. You wouldn't to track individual boxes anymore. This works in Mineclonia, but it doesn't quite fit with the style of gameplay for it.

ContentDB scm

Whiter List (whitelist)

This uses a file in the world directory to manage a whitelist of users who can join the world. If I need this feature, this is the one I would use. There are a host of alternatives but this one uses a local file which appeals to me, instead of mod storage which is more obtuse to manage.

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ContentDB scm

Bulldozer

Obvious. It has no recipe, because it's so powerful, so it is for creative mode only.

ContentDB scm

Updates

Crafty fonts (crafty_fonts)

added 2026-04-16

This adds familiar pixel fonts for any Luanti game. This helps the immersion in Mineclonia! The fonts get used automatically by the game when the mod is enabled for your world.

ContentDB scm

New Luanti mod: mcl_ruby_stuff

bgstack15 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:07:00 GMT

I wrote another clone of mcl_emerald_stuff, which I named mcl_ruby_stuff. I also previously wrote mcl_lapis_stuff but I failed to have a separate post for that.

This mod today is only for Mineclonia and VoxeLibre. It is published in official ContentDB and in the internal ContentDB.

Description

You have to fashion rubies before you can make the gear.

Not only is this gear scaled for very late-game play, it also looks fashionable because it is red.

Using

Craft rubies based on the recipe chosen by the server admin. Craft with rubies to fashion all the ordinary gear like tools, armors, and horse armor. Equip the tools and armor!

Screenshots

Screenshot of armor and tools made with rubies

Screenshot of horse armor on a horse

Optional support

Mod farmtools has been requested to support this mod.

Alternatives

For a Minetest Game ruby experience, use mod Ruby Tools+. That mod is entirely unrelated to this one.

Settings

Once at installation time, configure the build recipe in minetest.conf, entry mcl_ruby_stuff.recipe. The options are the following. The recipe affects the strength of the equipment.

emerald_and_redstone_dust: 1 emerald + 1 redstone dust.

eight_redstone_dust: 8 redstone dust.

nine_redstone_blocks: 9 redstone blocks. This will make the strength of the equipment 2x that of emerald equipment.

Mod for Luanti: Highlighter Pen

bgstack15 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:19:00 GMT

I wrote a novel Luanti mod, that works in any game. I have tested it specifically in the following games.

Description

This mod for Luanti adds highlighter pen tools. A player can highlight nodes, and erase highlights. The highlights persist after a safe server restart.

The canonical scm repo for this mod is at https://bgstack15.ddns.net/cgit/luanti/highlighter_pen, and an additional repo suitable for collaboration is at https://gitlab.com/bgsack15/highlighter_pen.

Using

Craft a highlighter pen. Right-click a node with the tool to set a highlight. Left-click to remove a highlight on a node.

Craft and use a blotter to remove highlights in a small radius (default radius is 3).

Dependencies

Vendors node_highlighter because that is not in ContentDB. You can also use that mod, and it will load that instead of using the vendored components.

Optional dependencies

Unifieddyes

Screenshots

Crafting recipe for a highlighter pen

Crafting recipe for a blotter

Screenshot of some highlight strokes in the world

Settings

How many nodes can a highlighter pen be used in survival mode on before the pen runs out (default 200)
Highlighter pen can erase all highlight-colors from a node (default true)
Using a highlighter in the air (an empty node) erases this color entirely, on all nodes (default false)
Blotter radius, where 1 is the single node that was right-clicked (default 3)

Current weaknesses

The blotter is the only component that respects core.is_protected, and only on the center of the usage.
Unifieddyes does not produce highlighter pens for each color variant for creative mode inventory; you have to craft them.

Script to stay synced to upstreams for Luanti mods

bgstack15 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:27:00 GMT

I added a script to my repo for initializing a Mineclonia installation that uses a separate location to synchronize my local repositories to the upstream paths, if they still exist.

files/2026/listings/mod-upstreams.sh (Source)

	`#!/bin/sh`
	`# Startdate: 2026-01-30-6 13:35`
	`# Purpose: List and track git remotes for Luanti mods I care about`

	`# Config`
	`host="http://server3/git/luanti"`
	`WORKDIR="${WORKDIR:-${HOME}/mod-upstreams}"`

	`# Functions`

	`ginit() {`
	`err() {`
	`printf '%s\n' "${@}" 1>&2`
	`}`
	`err "# ginit ${*}"`
	`if test "${#}" -lt 1 ;`
	`then`
	`err "Usage: ginit <repository_url> [branch_name] [dirname]"`
	`return 1`
	`fi`
	`REPO_URL="${1}"`
	`REPO_DIR="$( basename "${REPO_URL}" .git )"`
	`BRANCH_NAME="${2}"`
	`DIRNAME="${3}"`
	`if test -n "${DIRNAME}" ; then REPO_DIR="${DIRNAME}" ; fi`
	`if test -d "${REPO_DIR}" ;`
	`then`
	`err "Directory ${REPO_DIR} already exists. Changing directory to it."`
	`cd "${REPO_DIR}" \|\| return`
	`if test -n "${BRANCH_NAME}" ;`
	`then`
	`err "Switching to branch ${BRANCH_NAME}"`
	`git fetch --all`
	`# my old redirect trick to filter stderr`
	`{`
	`{`
	`# Use 'git switch' (modern) or 'git checkout' (older versions)`
	`# 'git switch -c' creates and switches to a new branch if it doesn't exist locally`
	`git switch -c "${BRANCH_NAME}" "origin/${BRANCH_NAME}" \|\| \`
	`git checkout -b "${BRANCH_NAME}" "origin/${BRANCH_NAME}" \|\| \`
	`git checkout "${BRANCH_NAME}"`
	`} 2>&1 1>&3 \| sed -r -e '/fatal: a branch named.*already exists/d' 1>&2`
	`} 3>&1`
	`fi`
	`else`
	`if test -n "${BRANCH_NAME}" ;`
	`then`
	`err "Cloning branch ${BRANCH_NAME} into ${REPO_DIR}"`
	`git clone -b "${BRANCH_NAME}" "${REPO_URL}" "${REPO_DIR}"`
	`else`
	`err "Cloning default branch into ${REPO_DIR}"`
	`git clone "${REPO_URL}" "${REPO_DIR}"`
	`fi`
	`if test -d "${REPO_DIR}" ;`
	`then`
	`cd "${REPO_DIR}" \|\| return`
	`git pull`
	`err "Changed directory to ${REPO_DIR}"`
	`else`
	`err "Failed to clone repository"`
	`return 1`
	`fi`
	`fi`
	`}`

	`sync_repos() {`
	`_origin="${1}"`
	`_dest="${2}"`
	`_branches="${3}"`
	`cd "${WORKDIR}"`
	`if ginit "${_origin}" ;`
	`then`
	`{ {`
	`git remote add dest "${_dest}"`
	`} 2>&1 1>&3 \| sed -r -e '/error: remote.*already exists/d' 1>&2 ; } 3>&1`
	`git pull --all`
	`echo "${_branches},main,master" \| tr ',' '\n' \| awk '!x[$0]++' \| while read branch ;`
	`do`
	`{ {`
	`git switch -c "${branch}" "origin/${branch}" \|\| \`
	`git checkout -b "${branch}" "origin/${branch}" \|\| \`
	`git checkout "${branch}"`
	`git push dest "${branch}"`
	`} 2>&1 1>&3 \| sed -r -e '/fatal: a branch named.*already exists/d' 1>&2 ; } 3>&1`
	`done`
	`fi`
	`}`

	`# sync_repos origin dest "branches,comma-separated"`
	`sync_repos https://github.com/JamesClarke7283/enchantments_extractor "${host}/enchantments_extractor" "main"`
	`# enchantments_workbench is mine`
	`sync_repos https://codeberg.org/camelia/farmtools "${host}/farmtools" "main"`
	`sync_repos https://codeberg.org/Wuzzy/minetest_inventory_icon "${host}/minetest_inventory_icon"`
	`sync_repos https://github.com/JamesClarke7283/inventory_pouches "${host}/inventory_pouches"`
	`sync_repos https://github.com/ketwaroo/minetest-k-ambient-light "${host}-readonly/minetest-k-ambient-light" "main"`
	`sync_repos https://github.com/ketwaroo/minetest-k-recycler "${host}-readonly/minetest-k-recycler" "main"`
	`# lava_furnace is mine`
	`sync_repos https://codeberg.org/SilverSandstone/leads "${host}-readonly/leads" "main"`
	`# list_to_file is mine`
	`sync_repos https://github.com/minetest-mapserver/mapserver_mod "${host}-readonly/mapserver_mod" "master"`
	`# mcl_chiseled_bookshelf is mine`
	`# mcl_colored_chests is mine`
	`sync_repos https://codeberg.org/TomCon/mcl_copper_stuff "${host}-readonly/mcl_copper_stuff" "master"`
	`sync_repos https://codeberg.org/rudzik8/mcl_cozy "${host}/mcl_cozy" "master"`
	`sync_repos https://codeberg.org/rudzik8/mcl_decor "${host}-readonly/mcl_decor" "master"`
	`sync_repos https://codeberg.org/rudzik8/mcl_emerald_stuff "${host}/mcl_emerald_stuff" "main"`
	`# mcl_lapis_stuff is mine`
	`sync_repos https://github.com/ketwaroo/minetest-mcl-misk-recipes "${host}/mcl_misk_recipes" "main"`
	`sync_repos https://codeberg.org/rudzik8/mcl_morefood "${host}/mcl_morefood" "main"`
	`# milk_potion is mine`
	`# molten_sailor_mcl is mine`
	`sync_repos https://git.0x7be.net/dirk/mtimer "${host}/mtimer" "main"`
	`sync_repos https://github.com/minetest-go/mtui_mod "${host}-readonly/mtui_mod" "master"`
	`# obsidian_extra is mine`
	`sync_repos https://github.com/LizzyFleckenstein03/playerlist "${host}/playerlist" "main"`
	`sync_repos https://github.com/acmgit/minetest_poi "${host}/minetest_poi"`
	`# privs_per_world is mine`
	`sync_repos https://gitlab.com/cronvel/mt-respawn "${host}/mt-respawn"`
	`# safe_chest upstream is gone, so I guess I am upstream now.`
	`# sync_repos https://github.com/smnoe01/safe_chest "${host}/safe_chest"`
	`sync_repos https://github.com/mt-historical/snippets "${host}-readonly/snippets"`
	`sync_repos https://github.com/DonBatman/myairwand "${host}-readonly/myairwand"`
	`sync_repos https://github.com/Twinsonian/magicsquare "${host}/magicsquare" "main"`

The purpose of this script is to make synchronizing to upstream easy. I tend to have very small changes to upstream. On occasion my changes get merged into upstream, and I don't need any feature branches! For some of these, I have private patches that have been declined by upstream or never sent to them in the first place.

This script also documents the mods I care about. Any of the "readonly" ones are ones for which I have no changes at all. I have changed my mind and have had to move some around, when I realized I wanted to patch them after all.

New Luanti csm: node_inv_read

bgstack15 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:13:00 GMT

I wrote a new client side mod for Luanti that is an inventory cheat. Technically it doesn't work in Minetest Game, so it only works in Mineclonia. I couldn't figure that out.

This mod lets you punch any node, and if it has inventory, it will show all the inventories to you. I have tested it with up to 6 inventories. And if a node does not use the allow_metadata_inventory_put functions, you can even move items around!

Get the code.

My necessary Luanti mods for Minetest Game

bgstack15 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 14:15:00 GMT

Overview

I recently published my list of mods for Mineclonia, and here is my list of mods I want for Minetest Game (ContentDB).

It's been said that most Minetest Game servers are just a mod soup that the admin wants. Well, it's true.

Mods I use for Minetest Game

Airutils

This is a dependency library and helper components for the specific airplanes added by other mods. I do not have any patches for this.

ContentDB scm

Automobiles Pack (automobiles_pck)

Written by the same prolific Luanti mod author Apercy as the previous mod, this one adds a bunch of cool ground vehicles. I never sent any patches, but I did submit a single bug report. I want automobiles, and this seemed to be the premiere way to get them!

ContentDB scm

My necessary Luanti mods for Mineclonia

bgstack15 — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 13:44:00 GMT

Overview

I like the Free Software game Luanti. You can play in a sandbox world, with a great base for mods in Minetest Game (ContentDB). You can even get a premium experience with Mineclonia (ContentDB).

While Mineclonia can be played without mods because it already bundles many mods in with it, mods improve it even more. And I would definitely want to add mods to MTG. Here is my official list of mods to use in Mineclonia, in alphabetical order. I have even written about some of these before, particuarly the ones I wrote. I will publish my list of MTG mods next time.

Any additional mods that sound cool but aren't necessary will be documented in a future post.

Mods I use for Mineclonia

Enchantments extractor (enchantments_extractor)

Enchantments extractor is a nifty object that lets you strip enchantments from objects into books, or splits an object with multiple enchantments into each individual enchanted book. This is very useful to remove the scavenged items with random enchantments, for further use.

ContentDB scm: upstream mine

Enchantments workbench (enchantments_workbench)

I wrote this one. This was directly inspired by the enchantments extractor, and it gives you an object that lets you upgrade enchanted books and duplicate them: These abilities are very useful in a survival world.

ContentDB scm

New Luanti mod: privs_per_world

bgstack15 — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 13:10:00 GMT

I wrote a novel mod for Luanti, specifically for Mineclonia. This mod is named privs_per_world (codeberg, ContentDB) and it is an engine for automatically granting and revoking privileges based on entering and leaving the various worlds (Overworld, Nether, End) of Mineclonia.

The default settings grant fast, fly, noclip to players entering the Nether, and revokes these privileges upon leaving.

The server admin can configure settings in minetest.conf. See settingtypes.txt, but it is easier to use settings.lua.

I know that the Mineclonia guys tend to adapt existing mods, so if there's some "worlds" mod that facilitates different "dimensions" and the transport to and from them, this might be useful elsewhere but I don't have any test environments for that.

Here is the default settings, which are useful for a Mineclonia survival server.

ppw.settings = {
    nether = {
        enter = { 
            give = core.settings:get("privs_per_world.nether_enter_give") or "fly,noclip,fast",
            take = core.settings:get("privs_per_world.nether_enter_take") or "",
        },
        leave = {
            give = core.settings:get("privs_per_world.nether_leave_give") or "",
            take = core.settings:get("privs_per_world.nether_leave_take") or "fly,noclip,fast",
        },
    },
    overworld = {
        enter = {
            give = core.settings:get("privs_per_world.overworld_enter_give") or "",
            take = core.settings:get("privs_per_world.overworld_enter_take") or "",
        },
        leave = {
            give = core.settings:get("privs_per_world.overworld_leave_give") or "",
            take = core.settings:get("privs_per_world.overworld_leave_take") or "",
        },
    }
}

Future improvements

I might need to use mod storage to store privileges of user before entering/leaving the world, so we can restore them. But this would lose any privileges that change while the user is in the world. So register_on_grant_priv might be useful, if this mod's own set_privileges does not trigger those.

Knowledge Base (Posts about mod)

New Luanti mod: firefighter

Description of mod firefighter

Using

Chat commands

Screenshots

Recipe for Mineclonia/VoxeLibre

Recipe for Minetest Game

Settings

Alternatives

New Luanti mod: mcl_villager_cheats

Description

Using

Chat commands

API

Screenshots

Settings

Alternatives

Further research

Luanti mods that sound cool

Interesting mods for Mineclonia

Inventory admin

Extra Woolstuff

Protector

Magicsquare

Invisiblocks

Ancient Stuff

Italian Food for VoxeLibre

Automatic Storage & Retrieval System

Whiter List (whitelist)

Bulldozer

Updates

Crafty fonts (crafty_fonts)

added 2026-04-16

New Luanti mod: mcl_ruby_stuff

Description

Using

Screenshots

Optional support

Alternatives

Settings

Mod for Luanti: Highlighter Pen

Description

Using

Dependencies

Optional dependencies

Screenshots

Settings

Current weaknesses

Script to stay synced to upstreams for Luanti mods

New Luanti csm: node_inv_read

My necessary Luanti mods for Minetest Game

Overview

Mods I use for Minetest Game

Airutils

Automobiles Pack (automobiles_pck)

My necessary Luanti mods for Mineclonia

Overview

Mods I use for Mineclonia

Enchantments extractor (enchantments_extractor)

Enchantments workbench (enchantments_workbench)

New Luanti mod: privs_per_world

Future improvements

Description of mod `firefighter`