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+ BlockMen
+ Craig Robbins (Zeno)
+ Loic Blot (nerzhul/nrz)
+ Paramat
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Active Contributors
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+ - SmallJoker
+ - est31
+ - gregorycu
+ - Andrew Ward (rubenwardy)
+ - TriBlade9
+ - Zefram
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Previous Contributors
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+ - Vanessa Ezekowitz (VanessaE)
+ - Jurgen Doser (doserj)
+ - Jeija
+ - MirceaKitsune aka Taoki
+ - dannydark
+ - 0gb.us
+ - proller
+ - Ilya Zhuravlev (xyz)
+ - Guiseppe Bilotta (oblomov)
+ - Jonathan Neuschäfer
+ - Nils Dagsson Moskopp (erlehmann)
+ - Constantin Wenger (SpeedProg)
+ - matttpt
+ - JacobF
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+ More info can be found at ohloh.
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+ Want to contribute?
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+ Thank you for trying out Minetest.
+ Are you a new user?
+ Have a look at our Getting Started, FAQ and Tutorials pages on our wiki.
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+ You may also want to look at some subgames. Subgames form a foundation for the game using Lua scripts. Different subgames have different objectives, such as survival, building or Player vs Player.
+ Usually Minetest comes with minetest_game, to supply the default items and blocks.
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+ Changelog from 0.4.11 to 0.4.12
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Windows
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Works on Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 and 10.
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MSVC builds (recommended)
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+ Help on getting Minetest for Windows
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Unofficial builds
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Get the latest development version of Minetest from builds made by community members. These builds are more recent than the officially released builds and contain new features (at the cost of stability).
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OS X
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OS X 10.8 or later is recommended.
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GNU/Linux
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Packages (stable)
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Those may be out of date at times. If they are too out of date, you can build from source.
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Android
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Android 4.0 or later is recommended.
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+ Android versions of Minetest are still in development and have bugs.
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+ Minetest-0.4.12-11-android.apk (works with most devices)
+ You can also install it easily from the Google Play Store or from F-Droid.
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Note: Please do not download unofficial Minetest builds from the Google Play app store. The builds found there may contain excessive adverts or spyware. They may be distributed under proprietary terms, without the source code, which makes them illegal to develop. They may be old or unsupported.
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FreeBSD
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There is a FreeBSD port.
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You can compile minetest and minetest_game from sources or use pkg (on FreeBSD 9.1 and newer).
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Compilation method
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You can compile minetest and choose easily minetest options using the FreeBSD port dialogs.
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+ cd /usr/ports/games/minetest
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+ cd /usr/ports/games/minetest_game
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Package method
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FreeBSD official packages have their own pre-built packages: pkg install minetest minetest_game
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Source code
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The Minetest engine source code is at GitHub.
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See README.txt for details on how to compile.
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Lean and fast.
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About
- Powered by the Irrlicht Engine,
- Minetest delivers great performance on all kinds of systems.
+ Minetest is an infinite-world block sandbox game and a game engine, inspired by InfiniMiner, Minecraft and the like.
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Freedom to play.
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- Minetest is both gratis and libre. This means you can download it at no
- cost, and you have the freedom to use it for any purpose, to study how it
- works, distribute copies of it and to distribute modified copies.
+ Minetest is available natively for Windows, OS X, GNU/Linux, Android, FreeBSD, and is Free/Libre and Open Source Software, released under the LGPL 2.1 or later.
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Infinitely moddable.
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Features
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- With its Lua-powered modding support, accelerated by LuaJIT, Minetest lets
- you play and create mods in unexpected ways. You can install mods that just
- add decorative blocks, but you can also get mobs, transportation systems,
- additional chat commands and much more.
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Near-infinite maps
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With a 620003 playing area, there's no running out of space. Yes, the world height is also near-infinite.
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Multiplayer support
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Play locally with your friends, or play online with dozens of players on a server.
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Multiple subgames
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Want to install dozens of mods at once. You can. Want to play Hunger Games? No problem!
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Modding API
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Modify the game and add new content using the Lua programming language.
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Beautiful map generators
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With our three in-house v5, v6, v7, play on three different map generation systems, each of them featuring several biomes.
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Gallery
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