playerfactions

A simple mod which allows player created factions. Not very useful on its own, it becomes very powerful when combined with other mods.

Usage

We can choose a mode : single or multi factions. By default players can only be in one faction at a time. If you want to allow players to join multiple factions at once, add player_factions.mode_unique_faction = false to minetest.conf

Parameters marked with square brackets ([]) are optional; most of these are only used if mode_unique_faction is false.

There is an admin privs to enable every functions for every faction : playerfactions_admin

These commands can be used by anyone:

• /factions create <faction> <password>: Create a new faction
• /factions list: List available factions
• /factions info <faction>: See information on a faction. For faction with lot of member we can choose the length of the member's list that's going to be shown by adding player_factions.max_members_list = int to minetest.conf, default is 50.
• /factions join <faction> <password>: Join an existing faction
• /factions leave [faction]: Leave your faction

These commands can only be used by faction owners and players with the playerfactions_admin privilege:

• /factions kick <player> [faction]: Kick someone from your faction
• /factions disband <password> [faction]: Disband your faction
• /factions passwd <password> [faction]: Change your faction's password
• /factions chown <player> <password> [faction]: Transfer ownership of your faction

This command can only be used by players with the playerfactions_admin privilege:

• /factions invite <player> <faction>: Add player to a faction

Translations

As mentioned below, this mod has support for intllib! If you know English and another language, please submit a translation! It would be greatly appreciated, and your name will be added to the acknowledgements at the bottom of this page. Thanks!

Mod integration

The following mods have optional support for playerfactions:

• areas: Protect faction territory using areas. link
• protector: Allow faction to be added as a member to protection blocks. link

Additionally, playerfactions can optionally depend on the following mods:

• intllib: Provide localizations for different languages

Using playerfactions in your own mod

I strongly recommend reading through the init.lua file; the functions at the top give you a pretty good idea of how to use it, but just in case you're short on time I'll list the most important functions below.

• factions.version is a variable made to check the version of the playerfactions mod to assert compatibility:

• factions.version == nil for firsts version of playerfactions mod
• factions.version == 2 is the first time this variable is added, with adding multi-faction mode

• player_is_in_faction(fname, player_name): true if the player is in the faction, nil in other cases (faction or player doesn't exists or player is not a member of the faction)
• get_facts(): Get a copied table with all data. The structure is :

{["name_of_faction1"]={
      ["owner"]=name_of_the_owner,
      ["members"]={["name_of_a_member1"]=true, ["name_of_a_member2"]=true}
  }}

• get_player_faction(player): Get a string with the faction a player belongs to, nil if they haven't joined a faction. In multi-faction mode, it will return the oldest created faction which player is into. (it's not necessarily the one they joined first. It checks the facts variable from the top)
• get_player_factions(player): Get a table with the faction(s) a player belongs to, nil if they haven't joined a faction. The structure is: {name_of_faction1, name_of_faction2}
• get_owned_factions(player): Get a table with the faction(s) owned by a player, nil if they have the ownership of no faction. The structure is: {name_of_faction1, name_of_faction2}
• get_owner(faction): Get the owner of a faction
• chown(fname, owner): Change the owner of a faction
• register_faction(faction, player, password): Create a new faction
• disband_faction(faction): Disband a faction
• get_password(faction): Gets a faction's password
• set_password(faction, password): Sets a faction's password
• join_faction(faction, player): Sets the given player as belonging to this faction
• leave_faction(faction, player): Remove the given player from the specified faction

Note that all of these functions have sanity checks : if faction or player does not exists, it return false. If operation succeed, it return true or the needed value.

Acknowledgements

This mod is loosely based off of the (unmaintained) factions mod made by Jonjeg.