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Minetest 5.9.1 LATEST
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The game mimics a wide variety of features present in the original Minecraft title, only here, players are able to enjoy the world of Minetest for free, without the restrictions placed by distant dev teams.
Like the original title, Minetest can be played in multiple gameplay modes, and can be experienced in both offline solo and online play.
Main features
It was built from the ground up by the open-source focused Minetest Team of developers who have strived to provide a robust alternative to Minecraft without compromising on any gameplay element this influential game was introduced to the market in now distant 2011.
The voxel game includes both free-flowing exploration mode, survival mode, online cooperative game, and support for truly enormous maps that are 62,000 × 62,000 × 62,000 blocks in size. The functionality and visual presentation of the game can easily be enhanced with a wide array of community-created mods (such as high-quality texture packs).
As of early 2024, Minetest features an online library of over 2000 community source mods that are focused on game elements such as UI, combat, inventory management, game economy, sounds and music, online play, weapons, armors, the introduction of new minigames, and much more.
The open-source development approach has enabled players to take direct control over all aspects of this title, with built-in support for LUA API, several map generators, and access to the full open-source database.
PROS
- Multiplayer functionality
- Stunning game graphics
- Lively and vivid color palettes
- Soothing and calming gameplay experience
- Multiplayer interactions may result in glitches
- Absence of animals in the game
- Repetitive gameplay mechanics
- Limited interactions with in-game elements
Minetest is 100% FREE and can be played on all modern versions of Windows OS. Due to its simple visual style and optimized rendering, it can easily be enjoyed even on PCs with aging components, including old laptops.
What's new in this version:
Client / Audiovisuals:
- Reverted rendering optimizations that caused anomalies with certain hardware
- Main menu: Mapgen flags starting with "no*" are no longer shown
- Android: Fixed input issues
- Android: The minimap can again be proportional to the screen sizeup-to-date server)
- Sneak-sumping onto a stack of 2 nodes is again possible
- Clouds no longer disappear when approaching them
- The CSM help dialogue now uses "." instead of "/"
- Windows: disabled touchscreen autodetection due to lack of support of the non-SDL build
World / Server / Environment:
- Network improvements for slow connections
Script API / Modding:
- yawsprite entities now work on OpenGL ES 2
- Fixed animation not playing back on upright sprite entities on most systems
- Bone overrides again return the same angles that were specified by mods to ease motion interpolation
- Fixed animations not being restartable appgurueu)
- minetest.show_formspec with an empty formspec name is no longer marked as deprecated
Misc / Maintenance:
- macOS 12 support
- Various fixes
- Build fixes
- Windows: removed symlink that caused issues while extracting the game archive
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