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 What is Minetest?

Minetest is an infinite-world block sandbox game and a game engine, inspired by InfiniMiner, Minecraft and the like. It has been in development and use since October 2010. It is Free and Open Source Software, released under the LGPL 2.1 or later, available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.


Minetest is a voxel based engine, which is made for mods to define the game play. Minetest is bundled with a default subgame, called minetest_game

 

Since Minetest is based on modding/coding, Minetest has to have an easy-to-use API. Modding Structure and more on mods can be found at dev.minetest.net

 

Minetest is Open Source, and hosted on Github. You can make a commit toward to minetest, by pull request, you can report issues, or just download.




Minetest is designed to be simple, stable and portable. It is lightweight enough to run on fairly old hardware. It currently runs playably on a laptop with Intel 945GM graphics. Though, as for the CPU, dualcore is recommended.