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    <h1>Meet Minetest.</h1>
    <h3>A free, open source voxel game engine and game. Fully extendable. You are in control.</h3>
    <p><a class="btn btn-primary btn-lg" href="#about">Tell me more</a> <a class="btn btn-success btn-lg" href="/downloads/">Download</a></p>
    <p><small><strong>News:</strong> 0.4.13 released (August 20<sup>th</sup> 2015)</small></p>
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  <h1 id="about">About</h1>

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    <strong>Minetest is a near-infinite-world block sandbox game and a game engine</strong>, inspired by InfiniMiner, Minecraft, and the like.
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    Minetest is available natively for Windows, OS X, GNU/Linux, Android, and FreeBSD. It is Free/Libre and Open Source Software, released under the LGPL 2.1 or later.
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  <h1 id="features">Features</h1>

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      <h4>Near-infinite maps</h4>
      <p>With a 62000<sup>3</sup> block playing area, there's no running out of space. Yes, the world height is also near-infinite.</p>
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      <h4>Multiplayer support</h4>
      <p>Play by yourself, locally with your friends, or online with dozens of players on a server.</p>
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      <h4>Multiple <em>subgames</em></h4>
      <p>Want to install dozens of mods at once? You can. Want to play Hunger Games? No problem!</p>
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      <h4>Modding API</h4>
      <p><a href="http://dev.minetest.net/Intro">Modify the game and add new content</a> using the <a href="//www.lua.org/">Lua</a> programming language.</p>
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      <h4>Texture packs</h4>
      <p>Not happy at the look of the textures? <a href="/customize/#texture-packs">Change the textures!</a></p>
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      <h4>Beautiful map generators</h4>
      <p>Choose from three different in-house map generators, <em>v5</em>, <em>v6</em> and <em>v7</em>, each of them featuring several biomes.</p>
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