freeminer/README.md

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.

Further documentation

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

Default controls

• WASD: 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

Compiling

Install dependencies. Here's an example for

Debian/Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install build-essential libirrlicht-dev cmake libbz2-dev libpng12-dev libjpeg8-dev libfreetype6-dev libxxf86vm-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libsqlite3-dev libvorbis-dev libopenal-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libluajit-5.1-dev  libleveldb-dev libsnappy-dev libgettextpo0

Fedora:

# the first five is the closest to Debian/Ubuntu build-essential
sudo yum install make automake gcc gcc-c++ kernel-devel irrlicht-devel bzip2-devel 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

Download source code:

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

Build it:

mkdir _build && cd _build
cmake .. -DRUN_IN_PLACE=1
make -j4

Play it!

cd ..
./bin/freeminer