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That's a bit rough isn't it? It's very, very rough. I think the times I think about minetest are correlated with the times I'm in a certain mood (boredom, frustration, thinking about failure...) which makes me resent the game more than it deserves, so I'm probably super biased. With that in mind, I...

I agree with everything you said. As far as I am aware, Minetest is an horrible failure at any decent goal I could imagine for it. If it really is the best open-source game there is to find, then the open-source game making community sucks (as far as I'm aware, this isn't true). I think the best thi...

I think the main issue is that Minetest lacks coherence. It's not anything that a well-made subgame couldn't tackle, but none so far have as much content as Minecraft with as much coherence as Minecraft does. Ever since I read this, I wondered how long it would take for someone to achieve what c55 ...

Minetest isn't exactly Youtube-friendly, especially when compared to Minecraft. The sound design in particular is pretty horrible.

I am somewhat amused by the unending debates about whether or not mobs should be added to the game. It's like if someone were making an arcade FLOSS multiplayer FPS, with only melee weapons and grenades implemented yet, and people were debating "Hey, should we consider adding guns to the game ?...

You do know that MineCraft is now owned by MicroSoft right? As far as giving them money in the hopes that you are supporting development... If history is any indicator, you will never see another update to MineCraft nor will you ever see a MineCraft2. If the game is not an XBox exclusive MicroSoft ...

Yeah, nudity is annoying. Also, giant penis-shaped buildings. Those really annoy me. Players should either have a permanent construction permit or need to have a mod watching over them at all time before placing any node. Also, players placing signs should only be allowed to use words that are withi...

I don't really have experience making video game stories, so don't quote me on this, but I'm 99% sure that's the wrong way to make a story for a minetest game. The story of a game should be built and tweaked at the same time as it's gameplay and its technical aspects. Making a finished game designed...

We can't work out why this happens, it's not fetching from inchra.net anymore. This may be a dumb question, but have you made a computer search for the strings "inchra", "inchra.net", "amun", "piwik.js", etc... in the website's files ? You might have forgot t...

Thread bump.

I'm a bit surprised this hasn't been fixed yet. "The game's website triggers an antivirus alert every time you open one of its pages" is kind of a big deal, and a good way to repel potential new players.

@ benrob0329, @PolgnardAzur, Oh, please, ignore RubenWardy's tries to oppress me. He just loves me and my natural charisma :) Just look at his messages: 4aiman this, 4aiman that... Oh, those fans of mine are restless... You're being just as rude as he was : when you want someone to know you don't l...

I've never tried to make a mod with it so I can't speak from experience, but almost every serious Minecraft mod uses it now. If there are things you can't do in it (aside from make an open-source game), I'm not aware of them. I've seen mods which do everything from creating portals which accurately...

I have to say, I agree with paramat, the dungeons add to Minetest's character and origanalism...in my opinion at least. You don't need bugs to make a game original. Actually, you don't even need to actually try to make it original, especially if doing so detracts from the game's quality. The proces...

4aiman : My information comes from reading the code source (in the master branch of the github repository). It's either accurate or, at worst, recently outdated. As for the Valve comparison, Minetest is similar to Valve games in that you can do basically everything with the tools they've given you, ...

Nope, still there.

ctrl+f5 makes avast complain again. I'll try again tomorrow.

Getting back to the problem of subgames being mostly minecraft clones, I think one of the main reason this problem exists is the structure of the game itself. Minetest basically takes the Valve approach to making an engine : what the developers want is hard-coded in, with a few tools and options to ...

Nope, still got the same warning message :(

It the script still hosted on amun.inchra.net ?

I'm on Windows 7 and I use the Avast antivirus software. My main browser is firefox, but I seem to have the same problems with chrome. Whenever I open minetest.net (but not forum.minetest.net ), Avast pops-up, makes an alert sound, tells me "A menace has been detected", and vaguely explain...

Spending XP helps to balance that. Enchanting artificially lowers the amount of XP by letting ppl trade their XP for the buff they need. Moreover, spending ANY kind of XP for enchantment brings even more balance - even some farmer will be able to gain a good armour and weapon to protect him/her sel...

Generally people don't act by pure nastiness. When someone makes something bad, there is almost always a reason. Money is one of the main reasons. Sure. My point was, a lot of people are assuming that Microsoft is going to take whatever course of actions hurts the most people at the same time as th...

First of all, I've been playing MC and MT since almost the begginig of both. So it is hard to see anything "original" in both of them, when those are based on other games (infiniminer, dwarf fortress) and have such a basic concept like, life itself. [...] https://forum.minetest.net/viewto...

There are lots of original subgames, I think our definitions or "original" differ. Like, can you find me three finished (or at least, semi-finished and not abandoned) subgames that do not revolve around destroying nodes with tools you craft for resources you amass ? and the "team&quo...

Minetest is missing a lot of things, and has a lot of problems that won't be fixed by making a todo-list and dumping in to the developers. I'm not that familiar with the community and the game itself, but from my peripheral view of it, I notice two big problems : - The subgames are too similar. Basi...

A lot of people here seem to assume that Microsoft is lead by a bunch of moustache-twirling villains who enjoy nothing more that eating live puppies at breakfast and playing kitty baseball. I mean, sure, Microsoft is evil (like all big companies owned by shareholders), but they're trying to make loa...

-Your wheel layout sounds promising, but what about touchscreens and people without a wheel? People without a wheel can change the settings. They are rare enough that default settings shouldn't take them into account. On the other hand, people without side buttons on their mouse are much more commo...

That's all i want in next version. Too much mods slows down my game so i have 3 mods only. When you say 'the next version', you mean of minetest_game ? It's not developed anymore, everyone uses mods instead. Otherwise, what do you mean by 'too much mods slows down my game' ? The framerate of the ga...

I'm often torn between amusement and despair when I see people endlessly repeating that Minetest is better that Minecraft because making mods is 'easier'. No, it's not. Or, to be more precise, while making a shitty mod is infinitely easier in Minetest, making a great mod is slightly easier in Minecr...

My take on the problem : In minecraft-type games, there are two classes of buttons : those triggering an 'aimed action' (punching, placing blocks, anything that requires aiming), and those triggering a 'free action' (jumping, sneaking, etc). Intuitively, all the aimed buttons should be on the mouse...

Others have said it, I'll say it again because it should be repeated more : you are a one-man reason for minetest to exist. To bad you seem to be the only one :(

Still, it's inspiring. I intend to work on minetest and I can only hope to be as awesome as you.

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