Why I Prefer Minetest To Minecraft

Haven’t watched the video - just my thoughts…

Minetest (specifically Mineclone2) is an impressive feat, and a very faithful reproduction of the original. I pretty much used the Minecraft fandom wiki to progress through the game. Hours of fun was had without handing money to M$.

I only really stopped because the redstone functionality wasn’t fully implemented.

Hats off to the devs on that project regardless

Just fyi Minclone2 changed its name to Voxellibre

And it is no longer trying to clone Minecraft. They are moving beyond.

And there’s a separate effort called Mineclonia.

I haven’t had the urge to play it recently, so I haven’t tried it since the name change. I heard they were diverging a bit from being a Minecraft clone, are there many large changes?

The redstone is a large feat indeed. I started working on that but had to stop due to time constraints. Its still in my head though.

All in all there is just too much great stuff someone with a little drive and a little coding knowledge can do in the foss ecosphere.

Anyone got a summary? I really wish people would stop posting links to videos without providing a synopsis.

TLDR: The creator prefers minetest to minecraft.

Hope this was helpful.

Thanks, friend! Also, are you saying the creator of Minecraft, the creator of Minetest, or the creator of the video?

Curse you, syntactic ambiguity!!! xD

As it clearly states it is obviously god, who is often referred to as the creator.

Congrats, you’re now ready for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban

Notes while I’m watching:

The “vibe” is different - in my head I translated this to “he likes the GUI more”
Minetest has zero “story” / progression (so no Ender Dragon to gear up for & fight) - it’s purely a sandbox experience.
better performance, apparently runs on potato laptops pretty well
Mods are built-in, and don’t require tools like Forge or whatever to tweak a jar file ⬅️ THIS is cool!
Customization via the Settings menu

The “built-in support for mods” caught my eye. That’s pretty slick, and a headache with MC.

tl;dr - it runs on just about everything, and focuses on giving the player an easy-to-mod “sandbox” to play in.

All the mods are written with Lua and run in a sandbox afaik so it isn’t really the same as Minecraft mods

Thanks for the tl;dr!

I primarily prefer it because it does pretty much all the Minecraft stuff I want it to do, and it’s got other games available as well. Plus, completely Linux compatible and no Microsoft account!

And you have no telemetry, no chat restrictions and its free.

Exactly! Better all around for me. The player base isn’t as big, but I’m not really an online player.

I agree that the playerbase isnt huge. I do think a small dedicated playerbase is pretty nice though.

It isn’t that Minetest is good. It is that Minecraft as enshitified

Maybe Bedrock Edition. I’ve had zero problems with the Java version. Then again, I play alone. Lol.

Idk I run my own PO3 server on Java and everything but the launcher is fine. I’m sure Bedrock is completely molested though.

But don’t you need an account?

I completely get where people are coming from with that opinion, but I’ve been playing MC for almost 15 years, and I’m having just as much if not more fun with the game now as I did at any other point in its development.

Minetest is super cool and can be very fun. I play a bit on it as well, but exclusively advertising for it on the platform of hur dur mineshit sucks, which isn’t necessarily what you’re doing, I just see that a lot, definitely isn’t the best way to go.

Probably not but I hate that Minecraft us so complicated now. I have the old version

Yes, it’s certainly changed for the worse since I’ve played it. I quit fairly soon after they announced that I would need to eventually migrate to a Microsoft account. Seeing some of the things they’ve done since then doesn’t make me miss it!

Sounds super cool :o … Am still kinda salty about M$ blocking my account and holding my copy of Minecraft (that I paid Mojang for, well before it was Microsoft’s!) hostage because they want my phone number, though. 😠

… Also I kinda wanna know if it’s got the moddage I love about Minecraft, but am afraid to ask because I’m stuck on a laptop that can’t really run much without getting all melty 😅

Yep, I didn’t convert either of my accounts over as well.

I would just try it and see what you think of it! It’s completely free. Minetest is the program you install on your computer, and then there are lots of different games that you can download and try inside of Minetest. There’s more besides Minecraft-likes that you can try, and there are definitely mods available. I never modded Minecraft though, so I’m not sure how they compare.

As to system requirements, it could run pretty well on a six year old Android phone the last I tried. It might be worth a shot on your laptop! Be aware that it’ll probably be a somewhat different experience than Minecraft, but not necessarily in a bad way!

I played quite a bit of solo mineclone2/voxelibre. Really good stuff with a surprisingly short wishlist on my part.

It’s silly, but one of my favorite things is that it fires up the launcher in under a second. Reminds me of when software wasn’t bloated halfway to hell. 😁

The game takes a minute or two to launch though

Really? Mine launches in a few seconds. Maybe I haven’t explored enough. 😁

Its been a while since I played Minetest but I remember exploration being very subpar compared to Minecraft but the engineering aspects (I think the redstone equivalent is called mese?) to be far better.

It is what ever you want it to be. Minetest is just a Voxel engine. You install games separately

For me, the lack of shaders was always the main turnoff. It looks so bad compared to Minecraft with shaders.

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