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title: Supported Games
This feature is experimental
Why?
The supported/compatible games feature allows mods to specify the games that they work with, which improves user experience.
Support sources
mod.conf / texture_pack.conf
You can use supported_games to specify games that your mod/modpack/texture
pack is compatible with.
You can use unsupported_games to specify games that your package doesn't work
with, which is useful for overriding ContentDB's automatic detection.
Both of these are comma-separated lists of game technical ids. Any _game
suffixes are ignored, just like in Minetest.
supported_games = minetest_game, repixture
unsupported_games = lordofthetest, nodecore, whynot
If your package supports all games by default, you can put "*" in supported_games. You can still use unsupported_games to mark games as unsupported. You can also specify games that you've tested in supported_games.
# Should work with all games but I've only tested using Minetest Game:
supported_games = *, minetest_game
# But doesn't work in capturetheflag
unsupported_game = capturetheflag
Dependencies
ContentDB will analyse hard dependencies and work out which games a mod supports.
This uses a recursive algorithm that works out whether a dependency can be installed independently, or if it requires a certain game.
On ContentDB
You can define supported games on ContentDB, but using .conf is recommended instead.
Combining all the sources
.conf will override anything ContentDB detects. The manual override on ContentDB overrides .conf and dependencies.