Wuzzy

Undersampling makes stars flicker

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##### Minetest version ``` 5.5.0 ``` (and 5.6.0-dev) ##### Summary If you activate the `undersampling` setting, set it to `8` and look at the night sky, the stars flicker on...

Texture overlay color of items is different as wielditem than in inventory/dropped item

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##### Minetest version ``` 2cf52642fa89a9497b0200f5a4637a25a82f9c3d (5.6.0-dev) ``` ##### Summary If you hold an item that uses a texture overlay color (with `color` in item meta), the item color will appear...

Add Aux2 key for games to use freely, and maybe Aux3, Aux4, etc.?

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## Problem Games don't have any key yet that they can freely use for their own purposes. Currently, most games use the Aux1 key. The most common use case is...

Add minetest.check_tree to prevent crashes because of invalid treedefs [L-system]

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Currently, if you feed an invalid tree definition into `minetest.spawn_tree`, Minetest crashes. Okay, not really, but it stops the server and throws a Lua error. For server operators, this is...

Crafting recipes may be silently overwritten

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Consider this Lua code: ``` for i=1,3 do minetest.register_craftitem("craft_bad:dummy"..i, { description = "Craft Testing Dummy Item "..i, inventory_image = "unknown_item", wield_image = "unknown_item", }) end minetest.register_craft({ recipe = {{"craft_bad:dummy3", "craft_bad:dummy3"}},...

Prevent damage avoidance in damage_per_second nodes

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## Problem Often, you can manage to avoid damage from nodes with `damage_per_second` even if you are inside. You just have to be inside those blocks at the right moment...

minetest.add_item and minetest.add_entity are unreliable

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While trying to debug my [Tutorial subgame](https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?t=10192), I have had trouble with using `minetest.add_item`. I use this function to spawn the items around the tutorial world. This function seems to...

Wieldhand is "detached" from player body

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## Problem This is an issue that affects most, but not all games. A lot of games need a hand, and they use it as the "default tool". And therefore...

Fixes #12369 by adding the missing documentation for that function. This PR doesn't touch any code, it just adds documentation for `lua_api.txt`. How to test: Read the diff. :-)

Expose minetest.parse_relative_number?

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A follow-up to #9588. I wonder if we should make the builtin-function `core.parse_relative_number` official, i.e. mentioning it in `lua_api.txt`. This might help standardize the tilde notation among mods. What do...