From 7a7bfdca7c2dcbfe40467f64544112551abd7316 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: sfan5 <sfan5@live.de>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 20:32:04 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] minetest,get_connected_players: Return empty table at load
 time (#9493)

---
 src/script/lua_api/l_env.cpp | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/script/lua_api/l_env.cpp b/src/script/lua_api/l_env.cpp
index 352c75fb2..3169fa4cf 100644
--- a/src/script/lua_api/l_env.cpp
+++ b/src/script/lua_api/l_env.cpp
@@ -643,7 +643,13 @@ int ModApiEnvMod::l_add_item(lua_State *L)
 // get_connected_players()
 int ModApiEnvMod::l_get_connected_players(lua_State *L)
 {
-	GET_ENV_PTR;
+	ServerEnvironment *env = (ServerEnvironment *) getEnv(L);
+	if (!env) {
+		log_deprecated(L, "Calling get_connected_players() at mod load time"
+				" is deprecated");
+		lua_createtable(L, 0, 0);
+		return 1;
+	}
 
 	lua_createtable(L, env->getPlayerCount(), 0);
 	u32 i = 0;