Elephant Veins

A mod for Luanti https://www.luanti.org that modifies ore generation to replace the small sporadic ore pockets with sparse, gigantic ore veins.

The size, density, and frequency of ore veins are configurable in the settings menu.

Currently compatible with the following games:

• Minetest Game - https://content.luanti.org/packages/Minetest/minetest_game
• Mineclonia - https://content.luanti.org/packages/ryvnf/mineclonia

It should theoretically work with VoxeLibre https://content.luanti.org/packages/Wuzzy/mineclone2 too, but it only seems to generate iron and copper in the overworld.

When playing with Mineclonia, I recommend using the following settings instead of the defaults:

• Vein scarcity multiplier - 350.
• Vein ore count multiplier - 1000.
• Vein size multiplier - 10.

How to install

You can install it from ContentDB https://content.luanti.org/packages/ona-li-toki-e-jan-Epiphany-tawa-mi/elephant_veins.

Or, you can place this directory, or symlink it, into the mods folder in your Minetest directory.

How to test

Dependencies:

• luacheck - https://github.com/lunarmodules/luacheck

There is a flake.nix you can use with nix develop to generate a development enviroment.

Then, run the following command(s):

luacheck .

API

There is an API for other mods to register their ores with Elephant Veins, see src/api.lua for details.

Release notes

• Switched from minetest namespace to core.
• Replaced error logging in API and elsewhere with assertions.
• Set development state to maintenence only.