Building your own nodes and mods in Minetest

Although I have written about Minetest [1] before, a four page article hardly does the game justice. In fact, the tag "game" hardly does Minetest justice. The November 2017 issue of Linux Magazine [2] we looked at gameplay, but for the regular readers, actually playing the game should be the least of their concerns.

Minetest allows you to create much more beyond what is served up in the standard package. In a way, Minetest is a blank canvas (Figure 1), and, in the grand tradition of free software, you are not restricted to the default palette, and in fact, you are given the tools to create your own paints and brushes.

Figure 1: You can model the worlds of Minetest in more ways than one.

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