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Minetest

  -  16.1 MB  -  Open Source
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  • Latest Version

    Minetest 5.14.0 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-5.14.0-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:
- Removed broken interlaced 3D rendering mode (3d_mode = interlaced)

Client / Audiovisuals:
- Android: open input dialog on double tap with physical keyboard
- Speed up of texture loading (by caching search paths)
- The minimap now correctly shows the color of overlay tiles
- 3D models: Interpolated bone positions do work again

- Fixed a minor memory leak
- World buttons are no longer shown when no world is selected
- Text inputs now handle Ctrl+Shift+Left/Right inputs for text selection
- Chat messages and server connections are now logged

World / Server / Environment:
- core.parse_coordinates now returns a vector object
- Supported backends are shown in the --help output.
- Reliability improvement on mapblock loading/unloading during generation
- Node dig particles are sent to all other players.
- Improved networking for batch particle sending

Script API / Modding:
- The callback on_timer(...) now provides node and timeout information.
- Add back the missing endElement in parseTag for <action>
- Allow floating-point numbers for HTTPRequest.timeout
- Add API to cancel async jobs
- Additional control in core.dynamic_add_media(...) to hint client to save media to the cache
- Improvements to the mod profiler, Capture Tracy zones (DS)
- Add exclude_player (filter) to ParticleSpawner
- Add core.strip_escapes(...)
- core.generate_decorations(...) may now use the correct biome map
- New feature to scale nametags by distance

Misc / Maintenance:
- Build system maintenance
- Lua API improvements
- Code cleanup and bugfixes
- Memory optimization of “empty” blocks
- Additional safety checks

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