Minecraft is one of the most popular geek games of recent times. To someone who has never heard of it, Minecraft may seem like an ugly 8-bit game these days of high-end graphics, but it's ruling geekdom like a boss.
Minecraft is an open world game where a player begins by placing blocks to build a world of their own. The game is available on almost all major platforms such as Windows, Linux, Mac, iOS, Android, XBox, PS3.
Although as you should know Minecraft is a paid game, So if you don't want to spend money, you can try the free and open source alternative to Minecraft, Minetest.
Minetest is heavily inspired by Minecraft and is strikingly similar to it in terms of gameplay, looks, and style.
About Minetest
Minetest is made up of two parts: the main engine and the mods. It is the mods that make the game more interesting.
The default world that comes with Minetest is basic. You have a good variety of materials and things you can make, but for example there are no animals or monsters.
This is by design: the creators of Minetest assume that it is the users who must adapt their experience, so they give you the bare minimum, and it is up to users to bring or create their own modifications.
Players can choose between two game modes: Survival, in which you have to collect all the raw materials by hand and creative, where the player possesses an infinite amount of all subjects raw and allowed to fly. Both modes can be played in single or multiplayer mode.
Technically the game focuses on two objectives: be easily modifiable (using Lua) and be able to run natively on both new and old computers. For this reason Minetest is implemented in C ++ and uses the Irrlicht 3D graphics engine.
However, if you want to get into some serious game before adaptation, head over to the Minetest website to see what's available.
Minetest Features:
- The open world game lets you do whatever you want.
- Multiplayer support for several players.
- Voxel-based dynamic lighting.
- Pretty good map generator (limited to + -51000 blocks in all directions at the moment)
- Multiplatform, even on iOS and Android.
- Minetest code is distributed under the LGPL license and game resources under CC BY-SA 3.0 license.
About the new version of Minetest 5.0.0
The release of Minetest 5.0.0 marked not only the transition to a new scheme numbering for versions (from 0.xy to xyz), but also a backward compatibility violation - 5.0.0 branch is not backward compatible.
Violation of compatibility manifests itself only at the level of interaction between clients and servers.
At the interface level for the development of mods, models, texture sets and worlds, compatibility is preserved (the old worlds can be used in the new version).
Regarding networks, 0.4.x clients will not be able to connect to 5.x servers, and 0.4.x servers will not be able to serve 5.x clients.
major developments
An online repository with content was launched through which you can download games, mods, texture sets. Access to the repository is provided directly through the menu in the minetest interface.
For mods, a new type of drawing is proposed: »disconnected nodeboxes» to create linked blocks and «plantlike_rooted» for underwater structures.
In addition, the Minetest code is translated to use the C ++ 11 standard instead of C ++ 03 and the support was improved for the Android platform, the ability to use the joystick was added.
How to install Minetest on Ubuntu and derivatives?
For those interested in installing Minetest on their system, you should know that it can be installed directly from the Ubuntu repositories.
Just open a terminal and type:
sudo apt install minetest
Although there is also a repository with which you can get updates faster.
This is added with:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:minetestdevs/stable sudo apt-get update
And they install with:
sudo apt install minetest
Finally, generally tIt can also be installed on any Linux distribution that supports Flatpak packages.
This installation can be done by executing the following in terminal:
flatpak install flathub net.minetest.Minetest
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