Luanti Major Breakages List

This document contains a list of breaking changes to be made in the next major version. This list is largely advisory and items may be reevaluated once the time comes.

• remove attachment space multiplier (*10)
• remove space multiplier for models (*10)
• remove player gravity multiplier (*2)
• get_sky() returns a table (without arg)
• remove fog from get/set_sky() and introduce get/set_fog()
  • https://github.com/luanti-org/luanti/pull/16725#issuecomment-3622450532
• game.conf name/id mess
• remove depends.txt / description.txt (would simplify ContentDB and Luanti code a little)
• rotate moon texture by 180°, making it coherent with the sun
  • https://github.com/luanti-org/luanti/pull/11902
• remove undocumented set_physics_override(num, num, num)
• remove special handling of ${key} syntax in metadata values
• remove old_move
• change physics_override sneak to disable the speed change and not just the node clipping
  • https://github.com/luanti-org/luanti/issues/13699
• migrate from player names to UUIDs, this would enable renaming of accounts and unicode player names (if desired)
• harmonize use_texture_alpha between entities & nodes, change default to 'opaque' and remove bool compat code
• merge sound and sounds table in itemdef
• remove DIR_DELIM from Lua
• stop reading initial properties from bare entity def
• change particle default blend mode to clip
• remove built-in knockback and related functions entirely
• remove safe parameter from core.serialize, always enforce safe = true. possibly error when loadstring calls are encountered in core.deserialize.
• introduce strict type checking for all instances of v3s16 / v3f read from Lua