Its a pretty good minecraft replacement. The LotR mod is pretty amazing, along with mineclone2, and they have some automation mods as well.
Minetest with mods is good, but the graphics are not good. I feel like they are too much like the cheap knock offs of minecraft and if a random person saw someone playing minetest you would be hard pressed to find someone who thinks there’s more to minetest than being just another mineclone. The selling point is just being open source, and unless you don’t want to play minecraft or want to support an open source game then there isn’t much of a reason to play. Again I love the game but I think that it wont be ready to interest normal people for at least another couple years.
I’d agree that by default its not as pretty (just started playing again a few days ago). Mineclone2 isn’t bad visually, with the exception of some mobs. However, it seems most mods aren’t compatible with mineclone, since it doesn’t export “default”. There are some impressive mods coming out though (techage), so I’ll definitely be playing a bit and keeping an eye on it.
One thing IMO it does better is mods (which makes sense). Just took a look at Minecraft after ~6-7 years and mods are still multiple versions behind. When I played, I recall they were going " improve" the situation.
Has anyone done Minetest with random player-created structures littered around the autogen? I want to explore
You may want to look through the games available here: https://content.minetest.net/packages/?type=game&sort=score&order=desc
I believe some are meant for adventure.
I heard of Minetest a while back, it looked pretty alpha. Looking at it now it looks really good, I’ll have to try it. I’d love a game that can recreate the Minecraft experience but be FOSS. If it’s a pretty similar clone of Minecraft, I’d be happy.
Edit: Hmm, it is definitely missing a lot compared to Minecraft, as a game on it’s own it seems like it’d be great. But I cannot help but compare it to Minecraft and unfortunately it just does not seem to be there yet. Animations are not similar, it’s missing a ton of the content Minecraft currently has. It feels like an early version of Minecraft, which is understandable but I don’t know if I can ever say I’d play this when Minecraft exists. Which is a shame because I want to like it, but eh. It needs work.
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I kinda figured that, maybe I’d be interested if there was a multiplayer server where it was a clone of Minecraft. I didn’t really look into the mods much. I figured you can change the texture pack, but that doesn’t do a whole lot. I’ll have to look more.
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With I believe >v5.x, contentDB is baked directly in the game launcher. So all you have to do is go to the content tab and download mods with their deps without ever leaving the game.
Thank you, yeah I don’t really like creative mode. I’ll definitely look around, I’m sure Minetest is great with friends. Thank you!
As the other person says, it’s modular by design. It has tonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnss of mods, that make it equal to, or much more feature rich than vanilla minecraft. It’s just a matter of a learning curve, finding the things you want and loading them in.
Yes of course, it’s just finding those mods to make it equal to Minecraft. And that is given it has the mods to re-create that experience, and stay fairly up to date. Again, I haven’t looked too deep into it, but I wouldn’t be surprised if someone made a modpack which is essentially a collection of mods to clone Minecraft.
As others have pointed out, Minetest itself is basically just an engine. To have actual fun, you need to download a “game” for Minetest. There was a big debate on the Minetest forum some time ago, discussing whether Minetest should come with a game preinstalled or not. Reason being, new players are usually not aware of game modules and default Minetest - let’s be honest - is kind of boring and tends to drive them away. Personally, I feel like this is still a problem. But anyway.
Give Lord of the Test a shot. I’ve had reasonable amounts of fun with it. It’s not Minecraft, but rather its own thing. I rather liked it.
