This sort of thing seems to happen far too often since Microsoft took over.
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provomeister@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Another one bites the dust. Sad to see Mojang digging their grave like every other company these past few weeks… I keep seeing MineTest poping up, might have to give it a try soon enough.
dan1101@lemmy.world 10 months ago
tev@pawb.social 10 months ago
is minetest good? i remember it being kinda shit
Smokeydope@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Minetest is confusingly both a game engine and a playable game. You probably only ever played the basic sandbox game it comes with by default and thought that was it had to offer. There exist much more feature rich and developed games on the minetest engine. many many games and mods and texture packs.
You may be interested to know about the game ‘mineclone2’ developed on the minetest engine, which aims to be a faithful FOSS clone of minecraft specifically. I am actually a dev of mineclone2 and can tell you I believe that it is the next best thing to the real deal. A lot of hard work and time and polish has gone into the game by many talented people. Its not perfect, there are rough edges, some things still need work, but its a stable and faithful vanilla experience. Its far superior to minecraft in both performance and modability. Plus bugs are getting squashed and more features are getting added all the time both to mineclone2 and the minetest game engine. git.minetest.land/MineClone2/MineClone2 www.minetest.net
nortorc@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I feel like Minetest could do with a good starter’s guide for people who want something as close to the vanilla minecraft experience as possible. I heard about it before, spent maybe 15 or so minutes looking through the website out of curiosity, and came out with the impression that you’d need to spend time managing tens or possibly hundreds of mods for the full experience. Maybe that was an unfair assessment, but I feel like I wouldn’t be the only one inclined to think that way at a glance. Don’t mean to rag on it, maybe I’ll install it and actually give it a shot.
Smokeydope@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Unfortunately minetest devs would never allow such a guide on the official site. I would be happy to write up such a guide but unsure where else it could be put for people to easily find it. We have talked about porting mineclone2 as a standalone game to digital game distributor like itch.io or gog. Perhaps I can make a getting started YouTube video and submit it to the official mineclone2 channel.
tev@pawb.social 10 months ago
is there shaders?
Smokeydope@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yes enable dynamic shading in settings and install the wield light mod to have holding a torch light up the surrounding area
tev@pawb.social 10 months ago
will try that out