Minetest Classic is a fork of Minetest-c55, the 0.3 branch. Some people thought that the current Minetest. They want the “good old speedy” Minetest back. Rather than an engine for mods they want a single game.
They are backporting stuff from higher versions and add more features.
The homepage is on http://www.minetest-classic.com/.
I can confirm that Minetest Classic is very fast and it is faster than Minetest.
The 0.3 branch did not have mod support. It doesn’t look like they will be adding some form of modding support. Instead, they are hardcoding the blocks into the game.
I guess now they have above 200 blocks or so and there are already some interesting things in it. They have integrated crafting guide, they have roofs, already basic 3D mobs (sadly, they are rare atm) and 3D player models. They have added conifers and better apple trees. There is colored glass and glowglass. There is farming but I still haven’t understood how it works. There are books which you can actually place. There are a lot of nice small things in the game. Not much gameplay atm, it seems to be more tailored to creativity I guess. They basically copied a lot of mod ideas and added some of their own ideas.
The wood system is a bit different than in minetest_game. You have tree blocks, which you can make to wood, which you can make to planks (a craftitem), which you can make to sticks. This is quite interesting.
And the mese pick is the old overpowered pickaxe. Yes!
To give you an impression, I take you on a little tour on my small jungle wood hut:
(fog disabled on the 4th screenshot)
The documentation is outdated, so I give you some hints to help you getting started with Minetest Classic:
The most important crafting recipe:
Place 4 sticks in a crafting grid like this to get a crafting guide:
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S..To eat food, you have to place it with right click on the ground, then right click on the food when you are pointing it. I find this even more confusing than the Minetest way. I hope they change this bahaviour to something more intuitive.
I am actually quite positively surprised by Minetest Classic, as it already feels quite different than Minetest. I think Minetest Classic is a legitimate fork and I wish the devs the best for the future. Minetest Classic can probably never replace Minetest and vice versa. I see Minetest Classic more as a complemantary game. Minetest Classic wants to be an ultrafast finished game, Minetest wants to be a fast finished moddable game engine. Both goals are legitimate to me.
Sadly, I am supposedly not allowed to join the forums. The forum software tells me my e-mail adress is banned. :-(
What do you think about Minetest Classic?
