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[–] CollinTG@beehaw.org 25 points 3 months ago (3 children)

How is mine test these days? I haven’t tried it since I was in a kid and couldn’t afford Minecraft

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 25 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

With the current fork of Mineclone 2 it’s identical to Minecraft (Mineclonia).

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Considering what M$ has done to Minecraft, that's immensely AWESOME to know! I really need to put some time into Minetest / mineclonia...

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago

It’s a nice shot of nostalgia if you’ve dropped out of Minecraft for a while. I didn’t realize how hard the game was haha. Died so many times just trying to build a base.

Had wood floors down and came back onto the server to find a lightning storm caused a fire and burnt down all my trees and exposed wood floors 😭

[–] Ascend910@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Oh cool, can you link to the github repo? Because I am not sure which fork we are talking about :P

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

There’s no GitHub link, the add-on is inside Minetest when you search all available community plugins. Just type “mineclone” into the search bar and you’ll find two plugins. I use Mineclonia but Voxelibre is another one. Haven’t tried it though so can’t recommend.

[–] Ascend910@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

After trying both, I think Mineclonia is the better recreation

[–] Ascend910@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

btw, what texture pack do you use with Mineclonia to make it look more like Minecraft? Or you just use original textures?

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

I just use original textures. I’m sure there’s a texture pack that mimics Minecraft but I haven’t bothered

[–] Nemoder@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'm also confused, in the mod browser I see Mineclonia and Mineclone2 but no Mineclonia2. Which is better?

[–] TruePe4rl@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

I guess its named just Mineclonia. You can still try search it here: https://content.minetest.net/

Mineclonia is a fork of MineClone2, last time I tried them, they were quite simmilar (obviously). As far my experience goes, the saves are not 100% compatible (textures broke, but it remembered blocks) and same with the mods, some work, some fail. I would try both.

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

That’s my bad. It’s Mineclonia that you want. I confused the names since Mineclonia is a fork of Mineclone2. You can also check out Voxelibre. Apparently it’s also a clone.

[–] SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.net 9 points 3 months ago

I'm probably the only person in the world who hasn't played Minecraft.

We have a family Minetest server runnning Asuna since Summer 2023. Usually based around just crafting different things. Even for a few months we just put on creative mode and built two huge cities about 8,000 blocks apart and sky train connecting them, and then a third underground cave city about 2,000 blocks away.

We've had major upgrades of both Asuna and Minetest within the past few weeks so it's pretty exciting.

[–] CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

Very good for certain games. Try VoxeLibre. Its a Minecraft clone turned fork with some differences. A lot of fun though.

[–] rotopenguin@infosec.pub 10 points 3 months ago

I just fired it up on an N4000 potato, the whole thing is amazing!

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Does minetest have factory mods like industrial craft and thermal expansion?

[–] 56_@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago

The traditional one is Technic, but there is also a newish one Techage. Technic has many more compatible extension mods due to it's age.

[–] Discover5164@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

are Minecraft mods compatible?