breakages.md

Minetest 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)
• game.conf name/id mess
• remove depends.txt / description.txt (would simplify ContentDB and Minetest code a little)
• rotate moon texture by 180°, making it coherent with the sun
  • minetest#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
  • minetest#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