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

---

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-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 msgpack msgpack-devel

---

Arch Linux:

sudo pacman -S curl irrlicht leveldb libvorbis luajit openal sqlite cmake
# From AUR
yaourt -S msgpack

Gentoo/Funtoo:

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

^{Recommended irrlicht version: 1.8.1}

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:

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

Play it!

cd ..
./bin/freeminer