Freeminer

Freeminer is an open source sandbox game inspired by Minecraft.

Freeminer is based on Minetest which is developed by a number of contributors from all over the globe.

It aims to make the game fun while trading off some bits of perfectionism.

Installing

• Android:

  • Google Play - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.freeminer.freeminer
  • F-droid - https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.freeminer.freeminer

• Windows: https://github.com/freeminer/freeminer/releases

• Ubuntu: Install http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/ppa/getdeb_games and run:

  sudo apt-get install freeminer
  

• Arch Linux:

  yaourt -S freeminer
  

  ^{Stable version}

  yaourt -S freeminer-git
  

  ^{Development version}

• FreeBSD:

  cd /usr/ports/games/freeminer-default && sudo make install clean
  

• openSUSE: https://software.opensuse.org/package/freeminer

Further documentation

• Website: http://freeminer.org/
• Forums: http://forum.freeminer.org/

Default controls

• W A S D: move
• Space: jump/climb
• Shift: sneak/go down
• Q: drop item
• I: inventory
• Mouse: turn/look
• Mouse left: dig/punch
• Mouse right: place/use
• Mouse wheel: select item
• Esc: pause menu
• T: chat
• Z: zoom
• Tab: player list
• ~: toggle console

Compiling

Install dependencies. Here's an example for

Debian/Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install build-essential libirrlicht-dev cmake libbz2-dev libgettextpo0 \
libsqlite3-dev libleveldb-dev libsnappy-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libluajit-5.1-dev libgmp-dev libspatialindex-dev \
libpng12-dev libjpeg-dev libfreetype6-dev libxxf86vm-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libvorbis-dev libopenal-dev
# First  - needed always
# Second - recommended for servers and singleplayer
# Third  - needed for client only

# optional:
sudo apt-get install libhiredis-dev cmake-curses-gui

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Fedora:

# the first five is the closest to Debian/Ubuntu build-essential
sudo yum install make automake gcc gcc-c++ kernel-devel cmake \
irrlicht-devel bzip2-libs libpng-devel libjpeg-turbo-devel freetype-devel \
libXxf86vm-devel mesa-libGL-devel sqlite-devel libvorbis-devel \
openal-soft-devel libcurl-devel luajit-devel leveldb-devel snappy-devel \
gettext-devel msgpack msgpack-devel spatialindex-devel bzip2-devel

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Arch Linux:

sudo pacman -S curl irrlicht leveldb libvorbis luajit openal sqlite cmake msgpack-c freetype2

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Gentoo/Funtoo:

emerge -av media-libs/libvorbis media-libs/openal dev-games/irrlicht \
dev-libs/msgpack dev-libs/leveldb sci-libs/libspatialindex

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OS X:

brew install cmake freetype gettext hiredis irrlicht jpeg leveldb libogg \
libvorbis luajit msgpack

^{Recommended irrlicht version: 1.8.2}

Download source code:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/freeminer/freeminer.git
cd freeminer

^{Recommended minimum compiler version: gcc 4.8 or clang 3.3}

Build it (GNU/Linux):

mkdir _build && cd _build
cmake ..
nice make -j $(nproc || sysctl -n hw.ncpu || echo 2)

or for debian based:

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/freeminer/freeminer/master/build/debian_ogles.sh | sh

Build it (OS X):

mkdir _build && cd _build
cmake .. -DGETTEXT_LIBRARY=/usr/local/opt/gettext/lib/libgettextlib.dylib -DGETTEXT_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/local/opt/gettext/include
make -j8 package

(if the make command doesn't work on OS X install bsdmake)

Build it (windows):

vs2013

vs2015

Play it!

cd ..
bin/freeminer