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Minetest
Minetest is an open source voxel game-creation platform with easy modding and game creation
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On the surface it looks like an OK game but the situation is actually dire internally, with the base engine ("minetest core") featuring immense technical debt like very poor rendering performance (the equivalent of MC's "Use VBO" option was only made available in 2016), nonexistent control over things other than just blocks and entities, no client-side prediction (the game constantly feels janky), nothing in the way of e.g. pathfinding to create mobs that don't hog the CPU, all UI/HUD is completely server-bound and laggy, heck, you can't even implement signs without creating an entity for every character to be displayed on the sign.