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Minetest is an infinite-world block sandbox game and a game engine, inspired by Infiniminer, Minecraft and the like.
The community is about the great and open source sandbox game writed in Lua, Minetest.
Feel free to call players for a multiplayer game or publish your project of a mod and everthing related.
Download the game. Check out the wiki.
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Minetest suffers from the same thing most open source projects suffer from; it's "good enough" for a programmer to enjoy.
It just doesn't have the polish to compare to the real thing.
Great you can add mods, but there are a million little 'attention to detail' things that don't exist, or won't exist.
It isn't suppose to be Minecraft. It is a separate game engine with lots of games and mods
Then why is the title "Why I prefer Minetest to Minecraft"?
Because that's the exact comparison being made here. It's built to emulate minecraft. To say it's not is a bald-faced lie. This excuse is constantly used when people point out how terrible it replicates the thing it's clearly trying to replicate.
You can't just use this excuse when people point out how bad it is. You can't even pretend it's better, because it really just isn't.
Voxelibre is built to emulate minecraft.
Minetest as of it's current release series is more an engine for games in the same genre as minecraft.