miney 0.5.8

The python interface to Luanti

Miney - The python interface to Luanti

Miney is the Python API to Luanti/Minetest.

Miney connects locally, over network or internet with the Luanti protocol and provides a pythonic interface to the server, players, blocks and more.

• PyPI <https://pypi.org/project/miney/>_

• Luanti ContentDB <https://content.luanti.org/packages/Miney/miney/>_

Documentation

https://miney.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Status

https://miney.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changelog.html

With version 0.5 we removed mineysocket and talking now directly to the server over the Luanti protocol.

Miney is still in beta, so expect breaking changes.

Requirement

• Python 3.6+ (tested on 3.12)
• Installed "miney" mod in the server.

Development

Clone the repo:

git clone https://github.com/miney-py/miney.git

TODO

A list of things i'm planning to do. There will be no fixed timeline.

Feel free to contribute!

• Github-Actions
  • run tests
  • Tests for pull requests
  • Build and push to pypi for tagged commits
  • Build and push to Luanti ContentDB for tagged commits
• Callbacks
  • Basic API and some callbacks implemented
  • Implement more "register_on_..." functions
• Mesecons: Add a python script processor that executes python code.
• Documentation:
  • Better first steps guide
  • Python learning lessons that build on each other
  • Education material for beginners, teachers and students
  • Multilanguage
• Native client
  • Get chunks, blocks and positions of surrounding entities like a normal client
    • Could be interesting for machine learning and bots to make them aware of their surroundings
  • Normal player movement without using lua
  • Player interactions like punching and interacting with blocks and entities
• Asyncio
• Python driven mobs?