Pretty good improvements for a pretty good game.
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.
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?
Check out the server list:
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?
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.
Third party launchers are the LAST thing we need, and would provide no benefit that the game itself doesn’t already provide.
Minecraft needs launchers because of the lack of built-in mod support and the fact that its closed source. Minetest is the opposite of these things.
I mean for the UI. I want to be able to make a libadwaita app that works like the current UI. It should create a space the engine can render in.
Not really. A few of their developers have been redeveloping the menus. They redesigned the settings menu and it looks great. They’re redesigning the content db pages and home pages. Some designs have been put out and I wouldn’t be surprised if we saw something in the next few versions.
Edit: Changes are pretty close now:
If there is one think gnome has going for it is careful UI design. They spend years perfecting something.
You might be waiting for a few decades.
UI redesign should be coming in 5.10.
I don’t think UI design is what foss is known for (outside of gnome)
? There’s many more DEs (and not only) with beautiful design. Gnome is not something incredible here. And I can even argue about libadwaita being beautiful.
What would be cool is of they could make Minetest support third party launchers.
Why would you need that? What benefits outside of using other UI framework like GTK it can provide?
It’s gradually getting there. The settings redesign was introduced a few versions ago, and the online content menu redesign will hopefully land in the next version (and potentially replace the current content tab after that). I agree that the main menu redesign might be a while away though.
From someone out of the loop, what is Minetest?
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.
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)?
