octacian/powertools

A Minetest mod allowing players to assign chatcommands to items in their hotbar.

PowerTools [powertools]

• GitHub: https://github.com/octacian/powertools
• Download: https://github.com/octacian/powertools/archive/master.zip
• Forum: https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=17602

PowerTools allows players with the powertools privilege to assign a chatcommand to any item in their hotbar which will be executed whenever they punch any node. This allows quickly assigning things like /time 6000 to an item which will be executed whenever you punch anything.

Any instances of @p inside the chatcommand to be called are replaced with the player's current position, while instances of @n are replaced with the position of the node punched, allowing dynamic commands to be assigned to the items.

When a PowerTool is assigned, the description of the item is changed to display both that it is a PowerTool and the command assigned to it. Whenever a PowerTool is dropped and picked up by another player who is not the owner, the tool will not work and instead the PowerTools status will be removed. Note: PowerTools do not allows players to execute chatcommands without privileges, so the above is simply a safeguard.

PowerTools can only be assigned or unassigned if they are selected in the player's hotbar as the get_wielded_item methods are used to reference the itemstack which is to be modified as a PowerTool.

Usage

/powertool <chatcommand/"unset">

Chatcommand is the chatcommand to be executed when punching a node with the tool in hand (with beginning slash) or "unset", causing the PowerTool status of the item held to be removed. Note: If unset is called on a non-powertool item nothing will be changed.

powertools's Issues

Allow making a kick axe

As far as l can see, currently it's possible to pass the player position and the node position to param. You could allow passing the other player's name when punching them.
https://github.com/minetest/minetest/blob/master/doc/lua_api.txt#L1077
https://github.com/minetest/minetest/blob/master/doc/lua_api.txt#L2098