User:Wuzzy

It’s me, Wuzzy!

I speak German and English.

I am active in this Wiki and in the Minetest forums (same user name). I'm the author of countless mods and even a few games. I make sure the German translation of Minetest stays up-to-date. I sometimes did a few small contributions to Minetest itself, enough to appear as “active contributor” in the Minetest credits in version 0.4.16. :-)

In Minetest, I usually only play in Minetest, but I sometimes appear in a few servers as well.

You can contact me via XMPP: Wuzzy2@jabber.ccc.de

E-mail: Wuzzy@disroot.org

My creations

Games I work or worked on

Completed

Glitch: You're a bit lost in cyberspace. Collect electrons, slide through the sectors and find the path to your true destination. My 2022 Minetest Game Jam entry.
Repixture (This is a project by kaadmy that I picked up)
The RealTest Game (Minetest 5 Edition) (I resurrected a game by sda97)
Tutorial: Learn how to play Minetest!

WIP

Hades Revisited

Abandoned

MineClone 2 (development taken over by other people. This was my largest game project so far)
Weird (too ambitious, never really took off, mainly because of lack of inspiration, good ideas and motivation to work out a good and detailed game design [it's harder than you think!])
Lazarr!: Be a pirate, solve laser puzzles to unlock treasure! My (failed) entry for the 2021 Minetest Game Jam. Doesn't have a lot of levels.

Other

I also have collaborated quite a while with GunshipPenguin on Hungry Games Plus. And there's a couple of projects which never really took off so far.

Mods I have created

I have made a large number of mods. Mods on which I'm most proud of are in bold.

Gameplay mods

Orienteering [orienteering]: Craftable tools for find your place in the world
Easy Vending Machines [easyvend]: Buy and sell items from other players in vending and depositing machines or place your own
Flying Carpet [flying_carpet]: Fly over the world!
Point Teleporter [teletool]: Teleport to whereever you point to
Mirror of Returning [returnmirror]: Teleport back to a place you've been previously
Pep: Player Effects Potions [pep]: Simple potions giving you useful or harmful status effects
Realistic Suffocation [real_suffocation]: Lose breath while you're stuck in solid blocks
Slow Eater [sloweater]: After eating, player must wait 5 seconds before eating again
Mesecons Windows [mesecons_window]: Mesecons extension which adds blocks which turn transparent when powered
Magic Beans—Wuzzy’s Fork [magicbeans_w]: Find magic beans, jump higher, run faster, fly, plant a giant beanstalk
Watering Can [wateringcan]: Water your farming lands

Map generation

Rail corridors + treasures [tsm_railcorridors]: Simple underground corridor systems with rails and a few treasure chests
Pyramids + treasures [tsm_pyramids]: Generates pyramids in the desert, with random rooms, treasures and dangers inside
Dungeon Treasure Chests [tsm_chests_dungeon]
Spawn Builder [spawnbuilder]: Spawns a basic starter platform, useful for empty worlds
Indestructible Bedrock Layer [bedrock2]

Blocks / decorative items

Color Cubes [colorcubes]: Colorful blocks
Minetest Game Plus [mtg_plus]: Lots of new craftable decoration blocks for Minetest Game
Slime blocks and liquids [slimenodes]: Sticky, bouncy, gooey slimey blocks.
Dice [dice2]: Funny dice which rotate randomly

GUI mods

Help modpack [doc]: Learn everything what you always wanted to know about the game, blocks, items and more
HUD bars [hudbars]: Replace the statbars with progress bar-like bars
Inventory Icon [inventory_icon]: See your inventory fullness
Show Wielded Item [show_wielded_item]: Show the name of the wielded item above hotbar
Simple Fast Inventory Buttons [sfinv_buttons]: Buttons for Minetest Game's inventory screen

Mod development tools

These mods are for mod developers:

Schematics Editor [schemedit]: Create, load, place and edit schematics
Perlin Explorer [perlin_explorer]: Experiment with Perlin noises and visualize them with nodes
L-System Tree Utility [ltool]: Helps you understanding and creating L-system trees for Minetest
Get Item [getitem]: Quickly get all items of the game (even those hidden in the Creative Inventory)
Find Biome [findbiome]: Find a biome and teleport to it

Architecture mods

These mods are not really useful in their own, but they can be depended on by modders to get a framework for interesting features.

Mana [mana]: Players get a new mana attribute which can be used for magical spells, items, etc.
Player Effects [playereffects]: Status effects for players
Central Message [central_message]: Write a message in the center of the screen
Galaxy Skybox [galaxybox]: Turn the sky into deep space
Select Item [select_item]: Item selection dialog
Player Physics API [playerphysics]: Makes it possible for multiple mods to modify player physics without conflict

Abandoned mods

These are mods which either never got completed, I no langer care much about about finishing them or they simply have become obsolete:

Basic HUD [basic_hud]: (no usage/demand seen since years)
Player Model [playermodel]: Player model as a standalone mod (obsolete since 5.0.0; MTG comes with player_api mod)
Shifted Blocks [shifted_blocks] (lost interest after 1st release)
Pseudo-Nodes [pseudonodes] (lost interest)
Surprise Blocks [tsm_surprise] (lost interest)
The Origin [origin] (somewhat deprecated by Spawn Builder)
Disable sneak glitch [no_sneak_glitch] (obsolete)
Allow zooming [allow_zoom] (obsoleted in 5.0.0)
Player Tools [playertools] (I believe this is my very first mod. Now outdated, clashes with core commands, I am no longer happy with the command structure and there are tons of better command mods out there)
Treasurer [treasurer]: Random treasure/loot selection framework

Work on Minetest

I have contributed various smaller and larger features and bugfixes to Minetest (the engine) over the years, although I am not a core developer. Some of the more notable changes include:

Various improvements to the Lua API documentation
Made builtin translatable
Complete rework of Minimal development test to include many more useful and structured things to test, including example nodes, tools, items, commands etc. Renamed it to Development Test
German translation
Lua API improvements:
- Fix broken pathfinder (minetest.find_path)
- Fix incorrect rotation of falling nodes
- Decoupled liquid/flowingliquid drawtypes from liquidtype
- Allow to modify and disable fall damage per-player with armor group
- Item group disable_repair
- Added disable_settings to game.conf
- wallmounted support for plantlike and plantlike_rooted nodes
- minetest.is_creative_enabled
- Item eating sound
- New paramtype2: 4dir and color4dir

See my list of closed PRs for a complete list (note: not all of these were actually accepted).