This is NOT Minecraft... ?!

Big thanks to CavemanFilms for co-writing and editing this video! Be sure to check out his channel in the description! Also, I will talk about Minecraft 1.19.1 on or before next Saturday!

This is proof that money and funding does NOT necessarily correlate to better code efficiency.

One thing that wasn't mentioned -- by default, a minetest world has practically no limits in height! A default world is 61000 blocks in length, width AND height. You can build as far into the sky or dig as deep as you want.

I started in Minecraft when it came out, playing exclusively as a builder, not a game player. I dropped it not long after because I wanted to write my own plugin mods and found it too time consuming. I found Minetest shortly after release, and I have written many of my own little addons (purely for my own comfort in building), and continue to use it, just for fun to this day. It is currently open right now on a different monitor and I am having as much fun now as I did when I first found it, so thanks to the Minetest devs, and I wish you all the best in continuing to do such a great job.

something I wanted to mention is that a lot of those minecraft "clones" are just older versions of minecraft pe with different textures before they introduced license checking which checks to see if the game has been legally bought on the play store

Hi, I'm one of Minetest's developers. Thanks for the video! This was amazing to see, it's clearly very well researched and captures our spirit well

I always laugh when you use that clip of you killing CaptainSparklez lmao

8:44 - this is the beauty of open source, If one dev abandons an open source project, there is absolutely nothing stopping some other developer with interest in it from picking it up and continuing to maintain and expand it.

I'm an admin on what used to be the biggest server on Minetest, and I've been a part of the community for years and years. It's amazing to see the game finally get some time in the spotlight (not just because it's awesome, but because the majority of players on the server are unsupervised children looking for free Minecraft).

You managed to at least partially trick me. Something felt off, but I couldn't quite place what was wrong because I was distracted by how bad the cloners were acting.

FINALLY SOMEONE TALKING ABOUT MINETEST! I have been playing it for a few years now (not abandoning Minecraft), and the first time I played it I thought "This is just like Minecraft, but worse". My opinion changed when I saw that the mod support for this game is insane, and that you can add what Miniecraft has, and even more with just a few mods. Still not as good as Minecraft, but if Microsoft doesn't stop pushing their ideas into Minecraft, I think it's a solid replacement.

I recently discovered this game. My friend and I setup a simple server (only requires port forwarding) and installed a ton of cool mods. Now we have a cave generation system that, as far as we can tell, is infinitely generated downward. We can also fly blimps, craft guns, explore biomes and structures never before seen in Minecraft, and so on. It also has better performance than Minecraft in my time playing it, allowing players on lower end hardware to join in. I've found a new love for block building games that kinda died for me when I was forced to play Bedrock as opposed to the old " Editions" that I preferred. Honestly, Minetest is awesome, has fantastic mods, a great philosophy, and MineClone 2 will give you an experience very close to Minecraft's, but with a breath of newness. Very cool game. Definitely recommend!

I said in my mind "How would Minecraft be line if it was made with Lua?" and then AntVenom said what language MineTest was using. So much of a coincidence. This feels like Garry's Mod, but based off of Minecraft instead of Half-Life 2.

Modders: creates a better version of the game with little to no funding. Mojang: I'm sorry but adding two pixels is beyond our capabilities

OG Minetest player here. It cannot be overstated how easy it is to add a mod to your server, you can just copy and paste 95% of what you want from somewhere else and just change it a bit, like making a custom crafting recipe or a custom block from a template. Takes 10 minutes at the very most to get a new block in your game, and that is if you DON'T know how to code.

6:30 reminds me of TMod Loader for Terraria, which is also a fan made project that HEY was turned into official content on the steam community page

Found this one day just browsing the software center on Linux. Can't believe I'm watching an antvenom video on it. I guess Open Source software is slowly gaining mainstream appeal.

Awesome to see that some people actually care about making a fun experience for others instead of just being a cash grab.

I feel like Minetest is staying true to its word on being a voxel game engine, rather than a whole game of its own. It's not meant to be a standalone game product, but rather a foundation with a tech demo inside.

I just got into Minecraft again this year after being gone for 7 years. I’m 22 and the last time I played, I was 15. I watched this video because I was curious about the title. I didn’t realize that AntVenom, who I used to RELIGIOUSLY watch when I was 13/14, made this video. When I finally realized it was you, I had a flashback to my childhood. Good to see you again man. I feel like I’m meeting up with an old friend again 🥲