![]() Minecraft gamers eagerly anticipate the Minecraft updates, and there are amateur and commercial servers all over the place that propagate the Minecraft experience as well as tweak and modify it, on a much grander scale than Minetest can deliver. Minecraft has momentum that Minetest cannot easily replicate. It delivers a carbon copy of the Minecraft experience, completely free of charge.īut there’s a difference between the two. Alternately, if you are burning with curiosity and want to know what the Minecraft thing is all about, try out Minetest and you will be extremely pleased. If you don’t want to fork out $25 for Minecraft and your son/daughter really wants to try it, Minetest is exactly what you need. For example where on one screen the characters seemed like they were facing each other, on the other screen the character was in a different spot. One potentially serious flaw, however, occurs in multiplayer, where at times interaction between players can be laggy and/or glitchy.Setting up and/or joining a server: a breeze with Minetest.If you know what blocks/elements to combine to create a tool in Minecraft, it works the exact same way in Minetest. Tool-making is apparently exactly the same in the two games.Also, invariably, there are quite a bit more mods for Minecraft that are out there and being created. Except installing these is significantly easier with Minetest. Mods: as Minecraft has hobbyists creating mods and tweaking the game experience, so with Minetest.Apparently random baddies (especially during nighttime) are a lot more frequent occurrence in Minecraft than they are in Minetest. ![]() The one overarching difference? It is much harder to die, in Minetest, than in Minecraft, I am told.no oxygen gauge in Minetest for when you’re underwater, more animations in the original Minecraft, contact with some negative objects, like cacti, sustains less damage. Behavior: very similar in most ways, but every now and then something will behave differently (e.g.His first reaction: “wow, I hope there’s a Minecraft texture pack like this” First off, my son was very impressed with the default Minetest texture pack.Here are some impressions from my expert: What I learned from him is that Minetest and Minecraft are remarkably similar, not in the sense that, say, Chimps share 99% of human DNA, but more like if a handful of aspects of Minetest were tweaked it would be the exact same game, verbatim. My son (age ten) is obsessed with Minecraft (for good or for ill), and knows the game well. I consulted a Minecraft expert in order to get to grips with Minetest. (Or, I should say, as good of a copy of the real deal that you could ever hope to get). ![]() Minetest, on the other hand, is the real deal, for free. And so is Minetest, I am happy to say.Īlthough we’ve written about how you can play Minecraft free, the free version is a limited, early development version that delivers a limited subset of the mature Minecraft experience. Minecraft is also multiplayer game, with numerous players simultaneously exploring the same worlds, and communities creating mods, skins, and tweaks. Minecraft is a virtual environment that you can interact with, where the objectives, if there are any, are open ended, and where you can alter the environment using the LEGO style blocks that make up the Minecraft world to build your own structures and combine them to make useful tools and objects. Minetest is a project that has been going on for 10 years or so, so it has had a lot of time to be finessed and perfected, and it shows.īut let’s start at the beginning: you will have heard of Minecraft, an indie game which has become a global phenomenon. So much so that most people would probably have to look closely and/or do a double take to realize that it is not the actual Minecraft. ![]() If imitation is the highest form of flattery, Minetest is flattery done really well.
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