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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.
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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.
~~It initially started as Minetest clone but it hasn't tried to be one for many years.~~ There are mods that try but not all of them do. There are a lot of mods and games for it on contentdb.
The video doesn't say that Minetest is a Minecraft clone. The title doesn't say that either. You can prefer chess to checkers without checkers being a chess clone.
Also with that same logic you could say Minecraft is just a Infiniminer clone. For that matter you could argue that any voxel based game is a Infiniminer clone. Think Veloren, cube world, Roblox and the like.
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I also forgot to mention that Minetest predates Minecraft (Minecraft is from 2011 and Minetest is from 2010)
Minecraft was available to play since 2009 btw. It just wasn't finished till 2011. Minetest absolutely took inspiration from it.