Minetest-c55

celeron55 · Post by **celeron55** » Mon Nov 08, 2010 10:19 am

Well, the project name is still just random but...

Let me represent "Project Minetest-c55":

It basically copycats Minecraft and InfiniMiner like hell, but I like to say it is /inspired/ from them. I am hoping it will evolve into it's own type of a game.

- The basic minecraft stuff: digging, placing blocks, crafting items and tools and other stuff and using them.
- Multiplayer over network
- Has a neat map generator and almost infinite height limit (same as the horizontal limits)
- A decently performing minecraft-like lighting engine.
- Thanks to Irrlicht, runs natively on Windows and Linux.

You can read more and get it here:
http://minetest.net/

EDIT 2010-12-31: Fixed link and changed image to a more recent one. Also, please see the site for an up-to-date feature list, as I won't be updating this message for that part.
EDIT 2010-04-06: Updated image

Virion · Post by **Virion** » Mon Nov 08, 2010 10:30 am

looks good so far. hehe beat the real minecraft?

xDan · Post by **xDan** » Mon Nov 08, 2010 11:21 am

Awesome!

It runs roughly a million times faster than the actual Minecraft.

vinjn · Post by **vinjn** » Mon Nov 08, 2010 1:07 pm

cool, man
I like the style~

serengeor · Post by **serengeor** » Mon Nov 08, 2010 2:33 pm

YOMYGOSH

How is it possible to render so much cubes ?

I went very high and when I was looking down(sooooo many cubes down there

), i've got 30fps,actually it was allways 30.

Murloc992 · Post by **Murloc992** » Mon Nov 08, 2010 3:17 pm

Minetest-c55 is an InfiniMiner/Minecraft inspired game intended for me to show my friends how funking superior I am at programming compared to them!

Made me rofl.

Nice. Actually, it looks like.. you know.. a real game!

serengeor · Post by **serengeor** » Mon Nov 08, 2010 3:26 pm

I went to go to your server and it was kind of cool, tough what exactly is the point in this game? or is it just something like LEGO ?

grumpymonkey · Post by **grumpymonkey** » Mon Nov 08, 2010 8:16 pm

serengeor wrote:I went to go to your server and it was kind of cool, tough what exactly is the point in this game? or is it just something like LEGO ?

I can tell you haven't played minecraft

just creating for the sake of creating. its fun.

btw, I played it and HOLYY CRAPP HOW DID YOU MANAGE TO RENDER SO MANY CUBES AT ONCE WITHOUT DROPPING BELOW 30FPS??? Minecraft uses a fog to prevent so many cubes from being drawn at once, this is just crazy. gfj bro this definitely has potential

Now start thinking about innovations and how you would move away from minecraft/infiniminer

EDIT:
nice lighting btw it looks awesome. Also, I built a small castle on your server on the water

slavik262 · Post by **slavik262** » Mon Nov 08, 2010 8:34 pm

grumpymonkey wrote:btw, I played it and HOLYY CRAPP HOW DID YOU MANAGE TO RENDER SO MANY CUBES AT ONCE WITHOUT DROPPING BELOW 30FPS??? Minecraft uses a fog to prevent so many cubes from being drawn at once, this is just crazy. gfj bro this definitely has potential

Now start thinking about innovations and how you would move away from minecraft/infiniminer

My guesses:

Without starting a language flame war, C++ is generally twice as fast as Java, which Minecraft is written in. The advantage of Java is that it's multiplatform and can run in a browser.
I don't know if Minecraft uses hardware rendering. Utilizing your graphics card gives a crazy increase in performance (compare the software renderers to the DX and OGL ones).

grumpymonkey · Post by **grumpymonkey** » Mon Nov 08, 2010 8:46 pm

I finally found out what the inside of a block looks like:
http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/8748/screenshotpv.png

you should probably fix that

celeron55 · Post by **celeron55** » Mon Nov 08, 2010 9:04 pm

Oh, thanks guys! Somebody just managed to crash my server. Seems like a tricky bug. It'll be up again at some point when I get this fixed.

And thanks for trying it out and for the replies - I like it that you like it!

EDIT: Actually, I will just put it up again as is, as I can't figure out a quick fix.

stefbuet · Post by **stefbuet** » Mon Nov 08, 2010 10:23 pm

I played on a dedicated server and it's awesome

My house contains stairs also :p

macron12388 · Post by **macron12388** » Mon Nov 08, 2010 11:40 pm

You should really try to outdo Notch. WHATHUH WHOSAIDTHAT!

DarkDepths · Post by **DarkDepths** » Tue Nov 09, 2010 7:38 am

Hey, this is a lot of fun, very much like minecraft! I spent some time (a couple of hours

) playing with it, and thought I'd show you what I came up with!

The tower is as tall as is possible and it has an observation deck

The coiling around the tower is the stairs!

Good work!

celeron55 · Post by **celeron55** » Tue Nov 09, 2010 8:43 am

I guess you're experiencing some bugs in the game. It should be possible to build a 31000 blocks tall tower. Restarting the game probably helps (the map is saved on disk).