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Introducing Our New Name

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beeflet ◴[] No.41832369[source]
The new name isn't great (too many vowels in the same place, you couldn't spell it if you heard it) but at least it's original and doesn't sound like it's a knockoff test implementation of minecraft anymore.

Minetest is kind of a unique experiment in how modular a voxel game can be with mods. It's pretty cool. You just visit another server and it downloads and sets up all of the server's mods. You have dependencies and stuff so not every mod has to reinvent the wheel. Much better experience than minecraft modding.

Minetest should lean into this and make the core gamemode more different than minecraft. Change up the artstyle, and make the physics feel better.

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mschuster91 ◴[] No.41836482[source]
> You just visit another server and it downloads and sets up all of the server's mods. You have dependencies and stuff so not every mod has to reinvent the wheel. Much better experience than minecraft modding.

Reminds me of Unreal Tournament 2004, that was pretty much the same experience.

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1. Workaccount2 ◴[] No.41837403[source]
Counter-strike too