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Description
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0. About
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Minetest is a free and open source voxel-game engine, it provides the foundation
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for creating, modifying and running multiplayer voxel-games. At its core beats
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a C++ engine which is controled with Lua scripts.
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1. Multiplayer by default
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The very core is designed for multiplayer games, of course one can play offline
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and all on their own, but Minetest makes it extremely easy to just start a server
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and invite friends over. This comes at no additional cost for the developer,
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mods and games for Minetest are automatically single- and multiplayer ready.
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2. Moddable by default
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Minetest games are structured in multiple mods, which are simple directories
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which contain the Lua code which is run. A game can consist of one or multiple
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mods and the user has always the possibiliy to remove or add additional mods
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without much effort.
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This also means that Minetest allows you to build your own game by simply adding
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the mods that you would like to use, no programming required.
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3. Lua and simplicity
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The combination of Lua and the simplicity of the API make it a joy to use. With
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only a few lines of code functionality can be implemented and an existing game
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extended. The API allows control over nearly every aspect of the engine, and
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getting started with it is as easy as adding a single file and writing a few
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lines of Lua.
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