Minetest

Minetest-c55 (often called Minetest) is a free open-source video game which uses the Irrlicht 3D engine, and is programmed in . It is intended to be similar to Minecraft, as it is also a sandbox-building independent video game. It was created by Perttu "celeron55" Ahola and by other contributors and is free software released under the LGPL.
Minetest-c55 is focused on creativity and building, allowing players to build constructions out of textured cubes in a 3D world, also known as a voxel world.
The Modding API is extensive, and because Minetest-c55 is split into an engine and the actual game, one can extend the game without affecting the engine that runs it. This makes it possible for someone to develop an entirely new game based around the engine, and which looks and acts in a totally different manner from the existing game. One could, for example, create a rudimentary first-person shooter, though the world would still be cube-based.
Since mods are installed and executed server-side,
These packs range from ones which simply supply imagery that a user might consider "better", to ones which increase the resolution but still maintain the default look of the game, to creating a whole new "theme" for the game, such as an alien world or a cartoon-like environment.
By default, the game supplies a basic set of 16×16 pixel textures made to invoke a roughly Earth-like environment.
Development
0.3
The 0.3 branch had two stable releases: 0.3.0 on November 1, 2011, and 0.3.1 on November 9, 2011.
0.3.1 was the last stable version before 0.4.0.<ref name="LinuxGameNews" /> The modding API had not yet been created, and the engine and game content had not yet been separated in this version, so third-party mods were not possible without modifying the core game code. Players were limited to the default content of the game.
0.4
0.4 is the current stable version. In the development of this version, the game has been split into an engine and the actual game content.<ref name="minetest.net" /> This has in turn made it trivial to add new mods or to modify the default game, provided the user has a working knowledge of Lua.
There are currently three stable releases of this version: 0.4.0, 0.4.1. and 0.4.3<ref name="ILoveUbuntu" />
0.4 added many new features to the game like falling nodes (such as sand and gravel), stairs or wool.<ref name="ILoveUbuntu" /> With the advent of the new modding API in the engine, a large number of new mods have been made by the Minetest community, which add more and varied features to the game, such as animals, beds or additional ores.
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