Items are falling out of carts

[anton-tsyganenko]

I'm not sure if it's a bug (or a feature) of minetest or minetest_game. If I drop items to a cart in a mine and punch it so that it move to the exit by powered rails, some items can fall out from it somewhere on the way.

[paramat]

Items in carts was an intended feature, although a minor one. @SmallJoker

[SmallJoker]

Try forceloading all mapblocks where the rails go through. I believe this is caused when entities are getting unloaded, where the attachments gets lost.

[anton-tsyganenko]

How can I do that?

[SmallJoker]

Here's a mod that uses these forceload functions: https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?t=10006

[paramat]

So i guess unfixable?

[HybridDog]

You could forceload the places the cart moves to until the player who started the cart leaves the game.

[paramat]

@SmallJoker should we remove the feature of transporting items in carts due to this?

[SmallJoker]

@paramat We should rather try to fix the attachment handling so the attachment data is saved after unloading the mapblock.

[paramat]

Agreed.

[Wuzzy2]

It would also help if entities could have their own inventory.