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Minetest

August, 2nd 2025 - 16 MB - Open Source

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Latest Version

Minetest 5.13.0 LATEST
Review by

Jack Taylor
Operating System

Windows 8 (64-bit) / Windows 10 (64-bit) / Windows 11
User Rating

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Author / Product

The Minetest Team / External Link
Filename

luanti-5.13.0-win64.zip

Minetest is a free and open-source alternative to the popular multiplayer sandbox simulation title Minecraft, offering users access to creative gameplay features such as exploration, resource gathering, crafting, the building of structures, and an untold amount of emerging gameplay options that can appear during free flow online gameplay.

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 2025, Minetest features an online library of over 2400 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

CONS

Multiplayer interactions may result in glitches
Absence of animals in the game
Repetitive gameplay mechanics
Limited interactions with in-game elements

Overall

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.

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What's new in this version:

Deprecations and compatibility notes:
- Vectors passed to C++ API functions may no longer have nil components.
- This change can reveal logic issues within mods.

Client / Audiovisuals:
- 9-slice formspec image buttons now display correctly with gui_scaling_filter
- Fixed an issue where main menu dialogs could overlap upon start
- Tabs in formspecs can now be changed using Ctrl(+Shift)+Tab
- The formspec element model[] now supports floating-point frames
- The minimap now correctly displays drawtype = "air" nodes
- Main menu ContentDB usability improvements
- Meshgen (i.e. visible mapblocks) code cleanups and improvements
- Add keybinding for world close key (keymap_close_world)
- Relaxed path checks in the main menu to allow downloading mods to symlinked directories

World / Server / Environment:
- The Luanti version is now printed after the ASCII logo
- Fix main menu hang caused by dropped DNS packets
- Fix newline conversion in formspecs on Windows (copy & paste)
- Fix crash caused by empty particle spawner texture

Script API / Modding:
- Various lua_api.md improvements
- Empty Voxel Manipulators can be created using VoxelManip:initialize()
- Fixed an issue where sizeless text input formspecs would incorrectly send ExitButton as text
- core.show_formspec now allows showing a player inventory
- core.get_node_raw is now a public API
- New API function core.get_mapgen_chunksize()
- Newly spawned entities now have a persistent GUID, see ObjectRef:get_guid()

Misc / Maintenance:
- Many various code improvements and cleanups
- Improved unit tests
- Model skeleton animation cleanups, test and documentation
- Header files are now added as CMake sources (useful for Visual Studio (Code))