Minetest VS multiserver

Minetest - Minecraft-inspired voxel game engine. C++

Been there, done that.

Nothing beats industrial Minecraft (in it's prime, which it isn't in atm as far as I konw) IMO.

Not even close, when considering the ability to add magic/farming/computer stuff.

Though Minetest[0] has some pretry cool packs.

[0]https://www.minetest.net/

https://www.minetest.net/ This is a pretty good opensource minecraft clone essentially, with some of it's own features.

Minetest (version 5.8.0): Near infinite world block sandbox game

It is now available on the official GitHub repository: https://github.com/minetest/minetest/releases/tag/5.8.0

Minetest

If you're interested, I'd recommend checking out MineTest. It's more of an engine than a game but a very good example of what this could be like.

Microsoft showing it's totalitarian real character again. So happy that Minetest[1] exists and gives that warm Open Source glow, just knowing that your using Microsoft free software and it works fine on Linux too.

[1] https://www.minetest.net/

https://github.com/HimbeerserverDE/multiserver Just remembered that this exists. This may help you greatly since someone has already done the protocol work.

There's been several attempts to implement software like this in Minetest, the most prominent I know of is https://github.com/HimbeerserverDE/multiserver

Do you know how Minecraft servers solved the problem that MC is mostly single-threaded? They made server networks instead of single servers. There is a lobby from which players can pick on which sub-server they want to play on, and then are automatically redirected without having to reconnect. Will this be possible in Minetest at some point? Yes, and the point is now. There is a fully functional proxy named multiserver that allows for exactly that. The proxy still has quite a few bug and features yet to be implemented, but there are new commits almost every day. I am currently working on the Lua-side software for a server using this technology, it will go online soon (I'm not gonna say the name of this server since I don't want to advertise it, but rather just inform everyone of the latest developments.)