Minetest, the free and open source voxel game engine has a big new release out

The performance on Minetest, last time I tried it, was fantastic. The only thing that put me off playing more of it was exactly what they've fixed in this release - getting it from "engine" to "game" was pretty tedious. Now that they're bundling multiple mods under the "game" banner, I can't wait to give it another shot.

You're never too old to appreciate a game like this! :D

This is an early gift as I believe 5.0 wasn't due for another two weeks, last I checked. There are some bigger changes that players won't notice such as a new networking implementation.

You can see the full changelog here: https://dev.minetest.net/Changelog#0.4.16_.E2.86.92_5.0.0

Oh, is the actual 5.0 out already? Last I looked they were still testing the second release candidate.

Looking forward to returning to Minetest soon then.

Actually it should be Minetest 0.5.0, I don't get the version number change from the change logs :)
Because the game is still in alpha since it is not feature complete and has bugs.
So why change from 0.4.16 to 5.0 it hasn't even reached 1.0 yet :D

Also here is a link to all the new features of this version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8sXbYzWPP4


Last edited by coeseta on 6 March 2019 at 3:01 pm UTC

For an explanation of why Minetest has jumped from the 0.4 series to 5.0, this thread explains the thinking behind the new versioning system.

link

Basically it's a recognition that the core API is stable and has been for some time, and adoption of a more consistent versioning system without the baggage that a "1.0" release (assumption that it's "complete", etc.) generally carries with it.

Hurray! GJ devs!
A few months ago I actually set up a MT server to mess around with. I just created a secondary server with 5.0 along with some mods from the in-game browser and I must say it looks nice.
Can't wait to spend some time on it!

Hopefully it's feature-rich enough to at least be capable of being a vanilla Minecraft replacement. The core devs might not want to base their versioning around that but that's what most gamers are going to come there for, to see Minetest be at least capable of what vanilla Minecraft is.

The Mineclone game/mod Swiftpaw mentions is tantalizingly close to being good enough. If it's the one I'm thinking of, the redstone implementation is laggy (unfortunately I suspect that's inherent to the way Minetest does mods), and friendly mobs spawn at random - rather than there being large areas of pigs, sheep, horses etc., they're all mixed together - but at times, when I tried it a few months ago, I almost forgot I wasn't playing the real thing.

I'm getting and error updating minetest to 5.0 using the ubuntu/mint ppa

Get:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/minetestdevs/stable/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 minetest amd64 5.0.0-ppa0~ubuntu18.04.1 [7,982 kB]
Fetched 9,533 kB in 4s (2,379 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package libirrlicht1.8:amd64.
(Reading database ... 504674 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libirrlicht1.8_1.8.4+dfsg1-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libirrlicht1.8:amd64 (1.8.4+dfsg1-1) ...
Preparing to unpack .../minetest_5.0.0-ppa0~ubuntu18.04.1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking minetest (5.0.0-ppa0~ubuntu18.04.1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/minetest_5.0.0-ppa0~ubuntu18.04.1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/usr/share/doc/minetest/lua_api.txt.gz', which is also in package minetest-data 0.4.16+repack-4
dpkg-deb: error: paste subprocess was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/minetest_5.0.0-ppa0~ubuntu18.04.1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I'm getting and error updating minetest to 5.0 using the ubuntu/mint ppa

Get:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/minetestdevs/stable/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 minetest amd64 5.0.0-ppa0~ubuntu18.04.1 [7,982 kB]
Fetched 9,533 kB in 4s (2,379 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package libirrlicht1.8:amd64.
(Reading database ... 504674 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libirrlicht1.8_1.8.4+dfsg1-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libirrlicht1.8:amd64 (1.8.4+dfsg1-1) ...
Preparing to unpack .../minetest_5.0.0-ppa0~ubuntu18.04.1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking minetest (5.0.0-ppa0~ubuntu18.04.1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/minetest_5.0.0-ppa0~ubuntu18.04.1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/usr/share/doc/minetest/lua_api.txt.gz', which is also in package minetest-data 0.4.16+repack-4
dpkg-deb: error: paste subprocess was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/minetest_5.0.0-ppa0~ubuntu18.04.1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

You could always try the flatpak instead, since it's distro-agnostic.

https://flatpak.org/setup/Ubuntu/

Follow that to install flatpak, then I think it's just a:
flatpak install flathub net.minetest.Minetest

Thank you!

Finaly something new from this! I hope there's more built-in gameplay now :D At least it will be easier for newcomers to get mods and get going with the game :) Tnx for the article ^^

But
....
Does it have the Samsai modpack ?
:)

The Mineclone game/mod Swiftpaw mentions

Awesome to hear!

I've just now noticed I was actually replying to you, hence the weird wording. :)

I blame the plague, or whatever it is I've been suffering for the last couple of days...

This is happy to hear. I seldomly play Minetest with the kids, but it so happens that I did last weekend. They go back and forth between Minecraft and Minetest. They seem to like both. Nice to see that Minetest is still getting love!

MineClone looks to be a vanilla Minecraft game/mod and will support Minetest 5 in the next release. Currently it's not in the online content list.

https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=16407

MineClone 2 is a survival sandbox game. Survive, gather, hunt, build, explore, and do much more.
This goal of this project is to create a free clone of Minecraft.

MineClone 2 is on the content list now.

This is happy to hear. I seldomly play Minetest with the kids, but it so happens that I did last weekend. They go back and forth between Minecraft and Minetest. They seem to like both. Nice to see that Minetest is still getting love!

My son is the same way. There are certain mods that he loves in minecraft (tornado and weather) but he really loves the train mod in minetest. Traincraft in minecraft never works right for him. The trains go backwards etc, buggy and frustrating for him.

I have always had a soft spot for Minetest. I think it is a great game. And, we won't see an in game cash store built in to it just to buy more content.

Can somebody recommend a mod, where i can fight against Mobs like Minecraft? Wanny give Minetest a try but only with Monsters :)


Last edited by Spirimint on 24 May 2019 at 10:06 am UTC

Can somebody recommend a mod, where i can fight against Mobs like Minecraft? Wanny give Minetest a try but only with Monsters :)

https://wiki.minetest.net/Mods/Simple_Mobs

https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=16407

Can somebody recommend a mod, where i can fight against Mobs like Minecraft? Wanny give Minetest a try but only with Monsters :)

https://wiki.minetest.net/Mods/Simple_Mobs

https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=16407

Thanks yeah i tried it, and also some other Game Mods. I think the Combat System need some improvements. Once you hit the mob, you have to run away otherwise you don't hit the mob again. So its really hard to win.