From 1416f6e6157b0307439831aebc4e380d13d73052 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: tenplus1 <kinsellaja@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2025 08:09:55 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] add setting to disable weeds

---
 README.md        |  2 +-
 settingtypes.txt |  2 ++
 soil.lua         | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++----------------
 3 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index fbf763d..a850824 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ on an older map are enabled and growing properly.
 
 ### Changelog:
 
-- 1.49 - Added {eatable=1} groups to food items with the value giving HP when eaten, improved mineclone support, separated foods from crop files, hoes can deal damage. Add weed and weed bale.
+- 1.49 - Added {eatable=1} groups to food items with the value giving HP when eaten, improved mineclone support, separated foods from crop files, hoes can deal damage. Add weed and weed bale (with setting to disable weed growth).
 - 1.48 - added 'farming_use_utensils' setting to enable/disable utensils in recipes, added mayonnaise (thx felfa), added gingerbread man, Added MineClone2 compatibility
 - 1.47 - Now blueberries can make blue dye, tweak soil types to work better with older 0.4.x clients and add spanish translation (thx mckaygerhard), add trellis setting to registered_crops and fix pea and soy crop names (thx nixnoxus), add strawberries if ethereal mod not active, added asparagus; spinach; eggplant (thx Atlante for new textures), Sugar Cube
 - 1.46 - Added min/max default light settings, added lettuce and blackberries with food items (thanks OgelGames), added soya, vanilla and sunflowers (thanks Felfa), added tofu, added salt crystals (thanks gorlock)
diff --git a/settingtypes.txt b/settingtypes.txt
index 7573de9..6eded44 100644
--- a/settingtypes.txt
+++ b/settingtypes.txt
@@ -2,3 +2,5 @@
 farming_stage_length (Farming Stage Length) float 160.0
 
 farming_use_utensils (Use utensil recipes) bool true
+
+farming_disable_weeds (Disable Weed growth) bool false
diff --git a/soil.lua b/soil.lua
index cf983db..aa6a2c9 100644
--- a/soil.lua
+++ b/soil.lua
@@ -197,23 +197,27 @@ minetest.register_abm({
 
 -- those darn weeds
 
-minetest.register_abm({
-	nodenames = {"group:field"},
-	neighbors = {"air"},
-	interval = 50,
-	chance = 35,
-	catch_up = false,
+if minetest.settings:get_bool("farming_disable_weeds") ~= true then
 
-	action = function(pos, node)
+	minetest.register_abm({
+		nodenames = {"group:field"},
+		neighbors = {"air"},
+		interval = 50,
+		chance = 35,
+		catch_up = false,
 
-		if minetest.find_node_near(pos, 4, {"farming:scarecrow_bottom"}) then
-			return
+		action = function(pos, node)
+
+			if minetest.find_node_near(pos, 4, {"farming:scarecrow_bottom"}) then
+				return
+			end
+
+			pos.y = pos.y + 1
+
+			if minetest.get_node(pos).name == "air" then
+				minetest.set_node(pos, {name = "farming:weed", param2 = 2})
+			end
 		end
+	})
+end
 
-		pos.y = pos.y + 1
-
-		if minetest.get_node(pos).name == "air" then
-			minetest.set_node(pos, {name = "farming:weed", param2 = 2})
-		end
-	end
-})