• CollinTG@beehaw.org
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    How is mine test these days? I haven’t tried it since I was in a kid and couldn’t afford Minecraft

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      With the current fork of Mineclone 2 it’s identical to Minecraft (Mineclonia).

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        Considering what M$ has done to Minecraft, that’s immensely AWESOME to know! I really need to put some time into Minetest / mineclonia…

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          It’s a nice shot of nostalgia if you’ve dropped out of Minecraft for a while. I didn’t realize how hard the game was haha. Died so many times just trying to build a base.

          Had wood floors down and came back onto the server to find a lightning storm caused a fire and burnt down all my trees and exposed wood floors 😭

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        Oh cool, can you link to the github repo? Because I am not sure which fork we are talking about :P

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            you can just use the content tab to install minetest “games”, which is what they call the thing most people would probably call a “modpack”.

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          There’s no GitHub link, the add-on is inside Minetest when you search all available community plugins. Just type “mineclone” into the search bar and you’ll find two plugins. I use Mineclonia but Voxelibre is another one. Haven’t tried it though so can’t recommend.

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            btw, what texture pack do you use with Mineclonia to make it look more like Minecraft? Or you just use original textures?

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              I just use original textures. I’m sure there’s a texture pack that mimics Minecraft but I haven’t bothered

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        I’m also confused, in the mod browser I see Mineclonia and Mineclone2 but no Mineclonia2. Which is better?

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          I guess its named just Mineclonia. You can still try search it here: https://content.minetest.net/

          Mineclonia is a fork of MineClone2, last time I tried them, they were quite simmilar (obviously). As far my experience goes, the saves are not 100% compatible (textures broke, but it remembered blocks) and same with the mods, some work, some fail. I would try both.

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          That’s my bad. It’s Mineclonia that you want. I confused the names since Mineclonia is a fork of Mineclone2. You can also check out Voxelibre. Apparently it’s also a clone.

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      I’m probably the only person in the world who hasn’t played Minecraft.

      We have a family Minetest server runnning Asuna since Summer 2023. Usually based around just crafting different things. Even for a few months we just put on creative mode and built two huge cities about 8,000 blocks apart and sky train connecting them, and then a third underground cave city about 2,000 blocks away.

      We’ve had major upgrades of both Asuna and Minetest within the past few weeks so it’s pretty exciting.

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      Very good for certain games. Try VoxeLibre. Its a Minecraft clone turned fork with some differences. A lot of fun though.

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    Does minetest have factory mods like industrial craft and thermal expansion?

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      The traditional one is Technic, but there is also a newish one Techage. Technic has many more compatible extension mods due to it’s age.