After a good bit of trial and error, and asking questions... I have rewritten the override code and it works. (tested, slabs can now be used to make composters and barrels with this method.)
Fixed Stripped Bamboo Block Description.
Added in Bamboo Plank Recipe that uses Stripped Bamboo Blocks.
Removed double translation of "Bamboo Sign" in sign registration. (Caused the Bamboo Sign Errors.)
Added bamboo plank slabs to the group "wood_slabs" so that the barrel recipe works oob.
* Remove `leaves` group from mangrove roots node registration. Mangrove
roots should not decay like leaves do.
* Fix some formatting weirdness.
* Add a "fixme" comment to some duplicated code that causes luacheck to
complain.
* This group is no longer used and is removed from leaves node groups.
* Since it was never added to GROUPS.md, nothing needs changed there.
* Remove the `leafdecay_distance` parameter from node registrations.
* The leaf decay ABM no longer scans all leaves nodes. Now only
"orphaned" leaves are decayed. These nodes are placed by callbacks
in tree trunk nodes upon their destruction.
* This commit also removes the tree trunk node caching system and an
abm throttling mechanism and its associated globalstep function.
* Add "orphaned" leaves nodes, these are copies of the regular leaves
nodes whose sole purpose is to replace leaves nodes when no more tree
trunks are present nearby. The orphaned nodes are swapped in by a
callback on destruction of tree trunk nodes and will be decayed by a
dedicated abm that processes all nodes in `group:leaves_orphan`.
* Add `mcl_core.update_leaves()` function, a `after_destruct` callback
handler for tree trunk nodes. The function finds leaves nodes nearby
destroyed tree trunk nodes and swaps these for orphaned leaves nodes
if no other tree trunk nodes remain near them.
* Add `after_destruct` callbacks to tree trunk node registrations in
mcl_core/nodes_trees.lua and mcl_mangrove/init.lua to update orphaned
leaves.
* Add entry for group `leaves_orphan` to GROUPS.md
* Also add entry for group `leaves` to GROUPS.md (it was missing).
The /ver command now has error handling, so that it will work regardless of minetest version, and will tell the user to update the minetest version for support.
Also updated the mod.conf to have the author field filled out.
todo: still needs translation files.
