So what is Minetest Game? It is the “default” subgame which ships by default with Minetest (well, at least for some Minetest releases). If you are completely new to Minetest, it is a good entry point into the world of Minetest. You may want to read the Getting Started guide on the community wiki before proceeding.
Minetest Game will, from what I know, be developed alongside Minetest (the game engine). Minetest Game wants also to be easily extendable by mods, from which you find plenty in the Modding General and Mod Releases subforums. Not all mods are exclusively for Minetest Game. There are other Minetest Games as well, which you may try out later as well.
To get a vague idea about the goals/concepts of Minetest Game, see here
But now for the most important thing here, a list of features:
The world
- 3 main biomes: plains, desert, jungle
- underground dungeons
- small underground caves
- underground lava pockets
- 6 minerals: coal, iron, copper, gold, mese crystal, diamond, used to craft tools and stuff
- Rare mese block at below Y=-1024 (equals 9 mese crystals)
- Mese is used to create tools and weird stuff (to be used by mods)
- 3 tree types: normal, apple tree, jungle tree, includes saplings to grow new trees
- 6 flowers (used to create colors)
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Craftable tools
- Tools to destroy blocks: Pickaxe (for stones), shovel (for dirt and sand), axe (for wood and trees)
- Swords
- Screwdriver (used to rotate stuff)
- Bucket for collecting liquids like water
- TNT and gunpowder
Special gameplay features
- Go over the sea with boats
- Use the furnace to smelt ores to ingots, use ingots to craft new stuff
- When a player dies, a bones block is generated with all the player’s items in it.
- Fire!
- Basic farming: Till soil with a hoe, plant wheat and cotton seed, put water nearby and watch them grow
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Special blocks
- colored wool
- Stairs and slabs to prevent you jumping all the time
- basic stuff for homebuilding: doors (also lockable), fences, trapdoors, chests (also lockable), signs, bookshelves, glass panes, …
- decorational stuff: glasses, bottles, iron bars, rails.
- copper, iron, bronze, gold, mese and diamond blocks
- brick blocks (for houses), created from stone, clay bricks, sandstone, …
- 2 extremely rare surprise blocks
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Here is a couple of useful resources all about minetest_game:
Documentation
- Wiki entry with basic information about Minetest Game
- List of blocks
- Smelting recipes
- List of items
- List of itemstrings (useful for modders and /giveme [explanation here])
- GitHub project page
- Issue tracker (place for bug reports and feature requests)
Screenshots
- The thread “Post your Screenshots” tends to have a lot of screenshots of minetest_game (although not exclusively).
Here is the obligatory game info:
Name: Minetest Game [minetest_game]
Latest stable minetest_game version: 0.4.15
Runs on: Minetest 0.4.15
Supported mapgen: v6
License of code: GNU GPL 2.1 or later (!)
License of media: CC-BY-SA 3.0 with one exception (CC-BY 3.0)
License details see here.
Download link:
0.4.15 (the latest stable version for Minetest 0.4.15)
master (the very latest bleeding-edge version)
Moderators: Feel free to edit this post at will.
