Original commit by t4im, rebased and developed by paramat.
Fix CONTENT_IGNORE being replaced by falling nodes or causing large
areas of sand to collapse into itself.
Format some conditional code for clarity.
Add and clarify some comments.
The fallback vector is in case 'wallmounted to dir' is nil due
to voxelmanip placing a wallmounted node without resetting a
pre-existing param2 value that is out-of-range for wallmounted.
The fallback vector corresponds to param2 = 0.
This seems very little cost and matches the old behavior more
closely. This will cause some more falling nodes to get added
to falling clusters. With the efficiency of the algorithm, this
really doesn't do much damage.
This took me a while to figure out. We no longer visit all 9 block
around and with the touched node, but instead visit adjacent plus
self. We then walk -non- recursively through all neigbors and if
they cause a nodeupdate, we just keep walking until it ends. On
the way back we prune the tail.
I've tested this with 8000+ sand nodes. Video result is here:
https://youtu.be/liKKgLefhFQ
Took ~ 10 seconds to process and return to normal.
2016-03-27 15:47:01: ERROR[Main]: ServerError: Lua: Runtime error from mod '*builtin*' in callback luaentity_Step(): Node name is not set or is not a string!
2016-03-27 15:47:01: ERROR[Main]: stack traceback:
2016-03-27 15:47:01: ERROR[Main]: [C]: in function 'add_node'
2016-03-27 15:47:01: ERROR[Main]: /usr/share/minetest/builtin/game/falling.lua:96: in function </usr/share/minetest/builtin/game/falling.lua:43>
Commit
65c09a96f41705bb8e75fc5ff4276342be91ed11 "Set acceleration only once in falling node"
has made the acceleration being set only once.
But this has introduced a regression.
Fix#3884.
