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In essence, MTG is a Big Empty Sandbox that Jim-Stephanie Sterling talked about on the Jimquisition. The biggest problem, tho, is that MTG just 'feels' incomplete. I have been a long-time vocal critic of MTG, and for a number of reasons. Very bad as a standalone game, shouldn't be default game.

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That said, if you are planning to code something better, you should still have a copy of minetest_game at hand - just in case you need some example code for a feature that isn't too well documented. It might be possible to get an okay-ish experience playing on a small server ran by someone with taste, but most servers for this are giant boring malls, overloaded with ill-fitting content, and usually just being an excuse for the admin to show off his creative mode builds.

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There isn't enough of a game in this to set a bar for quality, or a solid direction, so the mods will never fit one another too well.

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You can install as many mods as you like, but it will always feel like something important is missing. You could say it's a modding base, but it's hard for mods to improve something that has almost no base gameplay. Your fate will then be decided by how many apples you are carrying, and how fast you can devour them while rapidly clicking the other guy. If you're feeling really adventurous, you can duel another player to the death. Don't worry, nobody is guarding that anyway. Travel vast landscapes while thinking of all the cool things you would do in them, if they were implemented.Д®xplore dark dungeons for treasures such as: used shovel, a few cotton strings, some old apples and a bar of iron. Or you could write expletives on wooden signs. You can also pick some flowers, farm some cotton and make crude sprites. Make huge ghost towns where the only interesting thing to do is to find the tallest building, climb it, then jump from it to your death. No threats to the player other than the player himself.Д¬reated by cargo-culting all the design decisions of Minecraft, but not executing them as well, this game is bound to bore you to death. Nothing interesting in the game that could become an objective.

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Because the more it gets shipped by default, the more likely modders will create mods depending on it, rooting it into the status quo even more, creating more bad advertising and pushing away more potential players.ДЄnd in all honesty, we don't need another Minecraft: pragmatically speaking, people nowadays are not taught the difference between proprietary and free software in school, and definitely it's not a hot topic in general. So, if some developers keep denying that Minetest and Minecraft are the same (paramat actually called it Minecraft-like), this should be at least not be shipped by default. This is 'create your personal Minecraft without sweating too much. I don't have data, but if I had to guess how many people uninstalled MT after the first experience into a MTG world, it'd be a lot.ДЄlso, I understand MT actually was born as a game, but that idea evidently failed, because this is NOT a game, this is THE FOUNDATION to create a very specific game (Minecraft, which afaik it was the initial goal). As I stated multiple times, this is very very very bad advertising. Hence the uninstalling and the very bad first impression. This because, what people expect from a game/engine which resembles MineCRAFT starting by its very name, is to play a MineCRAFT clone by default.

But it's not: Minetest Game is the greatest factor pushing new players away, as it's shipped by default with Minetest, having people thinking it's Minetest itself.Д®very time I have someone downloading Minetest - and I'd like to stretch every time - I have to warn them to NOT play in singleplayer, at least not without having downloaded something from ContentDB first. If the game was called 'Minetest Modding Base', 'Minetest Core' or whatever, and people were warned it's just a base, it'd be fine. This is not a game, it's bad advertising and it's constraining