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From someone out of the loop, what is Minetest?
Voxel engine with lots of different games
I was gonna ask for a link but the post itself is the link. Gonna try it now. Minecraft-like? So does it have all Minecraft basic stuff? Day/night, basic mods, tools, etc? I mean, can you do what Minecraft 1.7.10 can do (more or less)?
Open source Minecraft
It's more than that, it's a whole engine and launcher combo for (mostly) voxel games, most of which again are Minecraft like, but some are very different. It's made some huge leaps recently, graphics wise and functionality wise. The promise of the engine is also being fulfilled with more original game projects being developed for it.
More like open source engine for Minecraft-like games and more.
Awaited menu redesign and Minetest will be perfect.
You might be waiting for a few decades. I don't think UI design is what foss is known for (outside of gnome)
What would be cool is of they could make Minetest support third party launchers.
Are there any mods for it? How's performance compared to minecraft?
My brother in Christ, the entire game is mod based. The default unmaintained Minetest Game isn't even preinstalled in new versions.
Performance wise it will blow Minecraft out of the water usually. However, keep in mind it still doesn't scale between cores very well. Before it was all single core but now it has support for multi core although performance is still limited on high core count CPUs.
Can it do splitscreen natively without requiring things a 5 year old couldn't do?
Not without significant modifications. The best way for now is to have a server with multiple client devices such as tablets.
Love Minetest. Unfortunately, though, like with many other FOSS projects, it’s hard to find anyone else using it…
Anyone got a server for us lemmings?
There are plenty of servers. Also, you can get others on it. If someone is into Minecraft modding Minetest is dream.
Pretty good improvements for a pretty good game.
I thought so. I am really excited to see what comes next.
I hope they fix redstone and other interactive stuff like doors. They do get stuck and redstone gets reset very often.
That's not Minetest. That's just on game running on the Minetest engine. There are tons of games and mods. The Minetest development team doesn't necessarily make mods.
I believe it's an issue with the tick system (internal clock) being done completely wrong. I doubt it's the mod's issue.
I don't think so as Redstone is just a mod. Also other mods don't have issues