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by **zoropig** » Thu Jun 27, 2013 14:47

i know that the title does not make sense. but heres what i mean. so if i delete all the minetest things in its folder and replace them with the .minecraft folder stuff will minetest play as minecraft?

by **Dan Duncombe** » Thu Jun 27, 2013 15:03

No. Minecraft is a java application and to play Minecraft you would need to download the Minecraft launcher, buy an account, and play. In other words Minecraft uses a completely different programming language to Minetest.

by **sfan5** » Thu Jun 27, 2013 15:17

Thats like putting a Gameboy Cartridge into a NES...

by **Dan Duncombe** » Thu Jun 27, 2013 15:18

sfan5 wrote:Thats like putting a Gameboy Cartridge into a NES...

Or a disk in a tape cassette drive...

Edit by sfan5: Can't you just put your answer under the quote section like normal people do?

by **Hamguy** » Thu Jun 27, 2013 19:14

sfan5 wrote:Thats like putting a Gameboy Cartridge into a NES...

the NES had a converter cartridge where you could do that.

thats like eating out the toilet and expecting chocolate.

by **RealBadAngel** » Fri Jun 28, 2013 08:49

lol, that topic has been selected for "The most stupid topic of the year" award ;)

by **kaeza** » Fri Jun 28, 2013 09:35

RealBadAngel wrote:lol, that topic has been selected for "The most stupid topic of the year" award ;)

+1

by **Thermal_Shock** » Fri Jun 28, 2013 09:53

zoropig wrote:i know that the title does not make sense. but heres what i mean. so if i delete all the minetest things in its folder and replace them with the .minecraft folder stuff will minetest play as minecraft?

Sort of. All you need to do is place the Minecraft application file inside the games folder of Minetest. After that, run the Minecraft application and you will now be running Minecraft inside Minetest.

by **MirceaKitsune** » Fri Jun 28, 2013 10:18

The way you're thinking of doing this, absolutely impossible. Minecraft is a completely different architecture, with completely different functions and methods for every single component, not to mention a different programming language (Java over C++).

If you want to get Minecraft in Minetest however, it's still very possible. You just need to make a minecraft_game which has the same tools, items, biomes, animals, functionality, etc. Someone is already working on that of course, but it's far from complete. Unless they use the original textures and sounds from Minecraft, it should also be legal enough. Of course there will be a lot of moral complaints never the less ;)

by **onpon4** » Fri Jun 28, 2013 14:10

It's not like putting a GB cartridge into an NES (the adapter, the Super Game Boy, was for the SNES, by the way, not the NES). It's like putting the save data for SMB3 into the SRAM of an SMW cartridge and expecting to be able to play like SMB3.

".minetest" is just a save directory. It records things like maps, mods, and custom textures. It has nothing to do with how the game works (the engine), which is different between Minecraft and Minetest. The programming language has nothing to do with this either, by the way. Project: Starfighter is also written in C++, but I think it's obvious that its engine is not the same as Minetest's engine.

by **Johnyknowhow** » Fri Jun 28, 2013 15:01

Its more like trying to put your foot in a shoe 5 size smaller than you.
not to say that minetest is 5 sizes smaller the minecraft...

by **Josh** » Sat Jun 29, 2013 02:55

sfan5 wrote:Thats like putting a Gameboy Cartridge into a NES...

Lol, Exactly.

by **Hamguy** » Sun Jun 30, 2013 08:13

it was for snes

by **markveidemanis** » Sun Jun 30, 2013 08:34

If you completely replace all minetest stuff with stuff inside .minecraft it will be like renaming .minecraft to minetest so yes, it will work, just not quite in the way you expected.

by **MirceaKitsune** » Sun Jun 30, 2013 09:05

markveidemanis wrote:If you completely replace all minetest stuff with stuff inside .minecraft it will be like renaming .minecraft to minetest so yes, it will work, just not quite in the way you expected.

It will work in the sense that Minetest will ignore the Minecraft files there and generate its own over them, resulting in a larger and messier user data dir without any different functionality :)

Anyway, I found the link for the MC in MT game again. That is the proper and only way to get what you're looking for.

by **kaeza** » Sun Jun 30, 2013 09:12

MirceaKitsune wrote:
markveidemanis wrote:If you completely replace all minetest stuff with stuff inside .minecraft it will be like renaming .minecraft to minetest so yes, it will work, just not quite in the way you expected.

It will work in the sense that Minetest will ignore the Minecraft files there and generate its own over them, resulting in a larger and messier user data dir without any different functionality :)

Anyway, I found the link for the MC in MT game again. That is the proper and only way to get what you're looking for.

That's a texture pack. PilzAdam's MiniTest tries to imitate Minecraft gameplay in Minetest.

by **grisha** » Mon Jul 08, 2013 13:08

you just wait... quick! somebody, build a combuter with mesecons in minetest and program it to show minecraft on the display!

by **Evergreen** » Mon Jul 08, 2013 13:12

RealBadAngel wrote:lol, that topic has been selected for "The most stupid topic of the year" award ;)

This is also voted for the *facepalm* of the year award as well.

List of my mods · by **PilzAdam** » Mon Jul 08, 2013 13:32

Evergreen wrote:
RealBadAngel wrote:lol, that topic has been selected for "The most stupid topic of the year" award ;)
This is also voted for the *facepalm* of the year award as well.

The facepalm of the year goes, as always, to the christians who think that science is wrong and everything that is in the bible is true (without evidence at all).

by **Evergreen** » Mon Jul 08, 2013 13:53

PilzAdam wrote:
Evergreen wrote:
RealBadAngel wrote:lol, that topic has been selected for "The most stupid topic of the year" award ;)
This is also voted for the *facepalm* of the year award as well.

The facepalm of the year goes, as always, to the christians who think that science is wrong and everything that is in the bible is true (without evidence at all).

Listen, this is not the time to start a religious war. -_-

by **MirceaKitsune** » Mon Jul 08, 2013 14:31

PilzAdam wrote:The facepalm of the year goes, as always, to the christians who think that science is wrong and everything that is in the bible is true (without evidence at all).

We should buy a spot in the bible and add a chapter about Minetest, so at least we won't have that problem with them. Kinda how things were done during the course of history to make things more or less popular or accepted, so why not :)

by **Dan Duncombe** » Mon Jul 08, 2013 14:56

REMEMBER- ONLY SOME PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT THE BIBLE IS THE COMPLETE TRUTH- MANY CHRISTIANS BELIEVE IN THE BIG BANG THEORY AS WELL AS CHRISTIANITY.

List of my mods · by **PilzAdam** » Mon Jul 08, 2013 15:01

Achievement get: Successfully troll a topic in the Minetest forums.

by **mauvebic** » Mon Jul 08, 2013 16:12

Evergreen wrote:Listen, this is not the time to start a religious war. -_-

The irony is whether people drone on about christianity or opensource, the level of zealotry is about the same lol

by **Mito551** » Mon Jul 08, 2013 17:19

PilzAdam wrote:Achievement get: Successfully troll a topic in the Minetest forums.

well done, mate

by **MirceaKitsune** » Mon Jul 08, 2013 17:36

PilzAdam wrote:Achievement get: Successfully troll a topic in the Minetest forums.

You'd probably be a server admin similar to this guy :)

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