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Why I Prefer Minetest To Minecraft - YouTube (www.youtube.com)
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[–] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 58 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Anyone got a summary? I really wish people would stop posting links to videos without providing a synopsis.

[–] nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 53 points 2 months ago (1 children)

TLDR: The creator prefers minetest to minecraft.

Hope this was helpful.

[–] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Thanks, friend! Also, are you saying the creator of Minecraft, the creator of Minetest, or the creator of the video?

Curse you, syntactic ambiguity!!! xD

[–] nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 39 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As it clearly states it is obviously god, who is often referred to as the creator.

[–] HeartyOfGlass@lemm.ee 33 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Notes while I'm watching:

  1. The "vibe" is different - in my head I translated this to "he likes the GUI more"
  2. Minetest has zero "story" / progression (so no Ender Dragon to gear up for & fight) - it's purely a sandbox experience.
  3. better performance, apparently runs on potato laptops pretty well
  4. Mods are built-in, and don't require tools like Forge or whatever to tweak a jar file ⬅️ THIS is cool!
  5. Customization via the Settings menu

The "built-in support for mods" caught my eye. That's pretty slick, and a headache with MC.

tl;dr - it runs on just about everything, and focuses on giving the player an easy-to-mod "sandbox" to play in.

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

All the mods are written with Lua and run in a sandbox afaik so it isn't really the same as Minecraft mods