Minetest VS irrlicht

Compare Minetest vs irrlicht and see what are their differences.

Minetest

Minetest is an open source voxel game-creation platform with easy modding and game creation (by minetest)

irrlicht

Minetest's fork of Irrlicht (by minetest)
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Minetest irrlicht
121 4
10,031 113
1.3% 2.7%
9.8 9.3
4 days ago 5 days ago
C++ C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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Minetest

Posts with mentions or reviews of Minetest. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-10.

irrlicht

Posts with mentions or reviews of irrlicht. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-13.
  • trying to deploy docker from linuxserver.io - Keeps restarting
    3 projects | /r/Minetest | 13 Feb 2023
    git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/minetest/irrlicht.git lib/irrlichtmt
  • Trying to Build 5.6.1 Minetest Bare Server
    3 projects | /r/Minetest | 25 Oct 2022
    #!/bin/bash # Minetest Installation Script cd /mnt/server && # Install installation dependencies apt update && apt -y install unzip wget build-essential libirrlicht-dev cmake libbz2-dev libjpeg-dev libxxf86vm-dev libsqlite3-dev libopenal-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev libfreetype6-dev zlib1g-dev libgmp-dev libjsoncpp-dev luajit libncurses5-dev && #touch test && # Download, compile and prepare the engine wget -Osrc.zip https://github.com/minetest/minetest/archive/"${MTVERSION}".zip && unzip ./src.zip && rm ./src.zip && cd ./minetest-"${MTVERSION}" && cmake . -DRUN_IN_PLACE=TRUE -DBUILD_CLIENT=FALSE -DBUILD_SERVER=TRUE -DENABLE_GLES=OFF -DENABLE_POSTGRESQL=OFF -DENABLE_REDIS=OFF -DENABLE_SOUND=OFF -DENABLE_LEVELDB=OFF -DENABLE_SPATIAL=OFF -DIRRLICHT_INCLUDE_DIR=./lib/irrlichtmt/include && make -j$(nproc) && make package && mv ./minetest-"${MTVERSION}"-linux.tar.gz ../ && cd .. && rm -rf ./minetest-"${MTVERSION}" && tar xfz ./minetest-"${MTVERSION}"-linux.tar.gz && rm minetest-"${MTVERSION}"-linux.tar.gz && mv ./minetest-"${MTVERSION}"-linux/* ./ && rm -rf minetest-"${MTVERSION}"-linux && touch ./minetest.conf && #Download and prepare IrrlichtMt cd ./lib && wget https://github.com/minetest/irrlicht/archive/master.tar.gz && tar xf ./master.tar.gz && mv ./irrlicht-master irrlichtmt && cd .. && # Download and prepare the game cd ./games && wget -Ominetest_game.zip https://github.com/minetest/minetest_game/archive/"${MTVERSION}".zip && unzip minetest_game.zip && #rm minetest_game.zip && mv minetest_game-"${MTVERSION}" minetest_game && cd .. && # Clean up a bit rm -rf clientmods unix doc client fonts textures && # Done! echo "Installation was successfully completed!"
  • Help building Minetest on Linux Mint
    3 projects | /r/Minetest | 1 Dec 2021
    Try running git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/minetest/irrlicht lib/irrlichtmt inside the minetest directory (instead of just git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/minetest/irrlicht). This will clone irrlicht on the proper location (I think).

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Minetest and irrlicht you can also consider the following projects:

Mindustry - The automation tower defense RTS

minetest_game - Minetest Game - A lightweight and well-maintained base for modding [https://github.com/minetest/minetest/]

VoxelPlugin - Voxel Plugin for Unreal Engine

docker-minetest

Teeworlds - A retro multiplayer shooter

Legend of the Green Dragon - Core functionality for Legend of the Green Dragon, a text-based RPG game.

Quizmaster - A web-app for conducting a quiz over the internet

RconCli - RCON client for executing queries on game server.

A Dark Room - A Dark Room - A Minimalist Text Adventure

multiserver - [DEPRECATED: use mt-multiserver-proxy instead] Minetest reverse proxy supporting multiple servers and media multiplexing

No-Chat-Reports - Disable Player Chat Reporting and make user messages untrackable.

Cubiks-2048 - Game: Create the number 2048. Cubes with same number merge!