MeseCraft
Copyright (C) 2019-2023 MeseCraft, www.mesecraft.com
Description
The best game for Minetest. A survival game with new depth, mechanics, biomes, mobs and many essential additions. Has a focus on being fun, user-friendly, stable, and minimalist but featured. Join our cause: https://www.mesecraft.com
Currently, this game is stable and has been debugged on an online server environment with many players. There is active development so new bugs may come and go.
Minetest Engine Compatability
Minetest engine version 5.2.0 or greater is currently recommended to run this game. Minetest engine version 5.1.1 is compatabile but not all mods and function completely.
Credits and Acknowledgements
This game has been primary designed and developed by Komodo (Jeremy Weston). A special thanks goes out to everyone who has contributed to this project, mods, and the awesome MeseCraft community. Also, to the Minetest community, core developers, and modders. This game was built using the Minetest game engine, minetest_game, and the mods of many others.
License
GNU AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE V3
the best freely available Mtg-based experience
This game is what those who play minetest game with disappointment actually want. it has a focus on exploring tons of unique areas throughout the world, most of which come with unique challenges in the form of mobs, hostile environments, and some unique dangers thrown in. It has a nice balance between stat watching for survival and leaving time to explore. if someone wants a good minetestgame-based game to host on a server, this should be their go-to.
I agree with the description!
It is the best game! The mobs are meaningfully challenging and the progression is rewarding. There are interesting settings to find and explore.
However, I don't see a tutorial or a user manual or documentation, so there are some things you should know before you start:
Thirst. You will become thirsty in this game. You can refill your hydration by standing still in water. Craft a canteen as soon as possible!
Pine trees. You can't make charcoal with pine trees, so if you start in a pine forest, look for another biome ASAP.
Torches burn out. You can re-light them by using flint and steel on them. This incentivizes making jack-o-lanterns early, but it's a big change to not be able to use torches to make permanent markers or make a cave permanently safe. Be aware!
When I figure out why my crops aren't growing, I'll update this review with that helpful hint as well. I'm sure it's something simple I'm doing wrong, but the soil is watered and there is sufficient light... EDIT: The crops aren't growing because the Mesecons conf file sets the farming stage time to 1 hr 40 min (6000 seconds) for some reason. The forum says that this works well on a server, but I'm playing single player so the crops just never grow. Recommendation: If you are playing single player, decrease the farming_stage_length variable in games/mesecraft/minetest.conf.
This may be a spoiler if there's an in-game explanation, but I haven't found one yet: Nether portals are ignited with Mese crystals, not flint and steel.
It is good, but suffers from "mod soup"
It is like most games based on default, but higher quality than most. You get the usual, default, Mesecons, mobs_redo. And it works. I imagine it is far better for servers because that is what it is tuned for. You can absolutely play this and have fun. And, I have to say, it is better than Mineclone2 at taking advantage of the sheer power of the Minetest engine. Why does my review sound lackluster then? Because I'd rather have my own soup if I am having soup. I'd just mod MTG to include everything I like from here, and remove the rest. But, if you don't know what you want yet, just try this first. It has most of the really good mods.
Not the best, but not the worst
It's very difficult in ways that aren't fun. (Torches leave smoke that must be vented, they also burn out after a random amount of ticks. Yes i'm aware of alternative light sources, no, noone played for long enough to get them bc torches were too hard to be fun)
It's very laggy (hundreds of ABM warnings per second for the whole month I ran it on a multiplayer server). This especially showed up when lava, water or even just a lot of torches or walked-on blocks are loaded server-side. Underground waterfalls crashed the server at least two times (that I was aware of).
However, it's mobs are really good, and the general selection of other mods isn't bad. There's a good variety of things to do.
Any other concerns I had about it (TONS of them, btw) are attributable to major breaking changes made - which were excusible because it was "alpha" at the time. If my server requests this game again (and they likely won't, they described it as "overhyped"), I may be more critical in the future of breaking changes (like end chests dissapearing and portals breaking)
Side note1: (removed - it seems to have been inaccurate)
Side note2: "minimalist but featured." This is the 2nd largest (in terms of number of mods) minetest Game. Not sure it qualifies as minimalist.
From a years-long dedicated Minecrafter, up until the last few years
So much of what a Minecrafter would hope on to be added/improved on in their game, is here on MeseCraft. MeseCraft has surpassed Minecraft in ALL the important parts of a blocky-survival game. With many details having a purpose.
Good, but needs work.
Overall I recommend it, it's my go-to game built on the MineTest Engine but there's still many problems as of 2023-10-07.
Authentic, built with passion, and shows the power of dedicated developers.
If I want to recommend a voxel survival-sandbox game to somebody and some of minecraft's mechanics and recent feature updates aren't quite their style, I often turn to this, and It's no puzzle as to why. Both Mesecraft and Minetest feel like they are crafted with love, the work put into them is very clean and optimized, and everything just complements each other.
On top of that, the developers behind this and minetest are seriously talented. The terrain generation system is nothing short of impressive, all of the various postfx effects you can enable work great with only a moderate performance impact at most, and rendering is so lightning quick that i don't even notice it most of the time - and all this has been my experience on a rather cheap HP 15 Notebook laptop from 2015!
There is nothing i can criticize in Minetest and Mesecraft. The most I have ever found is some bugs to submit in a bug report, and I will gladly take the time to contribute in any way i can for this lovingly, masterfully made software. I wish the best life to these developers, they've earned it.
p.s: To be brutally honest, i'd remove "mesecraft is the best" in the description. It speaks that for itself in ways beyond words, let it do so ^_^
The most fun I've had with a Minetest game
I am rather new to Minetest, and this is the game that I enjoy most for now. I found many interesting things at the early game:
Some say that these increase the difficulty curve, but I'd say that these add some interest and variety. Standard Minetest games just start as "dig as down as possible as fast as you can". For the late game, there is space (where you cannot breath), cloudlands, nether...
Of course it suffers from the "mod soup": Some things are inconsistent and unbalanced. However, the community is really friendly and the developers (which is only one developer) is attentive and tries to iron things out.
And again, for a Minetest beginner that does not have a favourite combination of mods, this game is very good.
Not easy, but I like it that way!
This is the best game in Minetest, hands down. It's true, the mobs are out to kill you. Hello friendly kangaroo, ooh, not so friendly are you? There is no teleportation. Get used to hiking everywhere and exploring the vast world. Find a volcano or a giant tree or a city in the floating mountains. Offline this game is great, but the online community makes this game the best. The markets allows player to player trading. The admin is active and the forum has a lot of useful info also. 5/5 stars!
Very Good Game but Still Needs Work
I've been playing Mesecraft since before it even was Mesecraft, so I've witnessed a lot changes, both good and bad. I've talked with the creator many times, he's a nice guy and is really passionate about making Mesecraft the best it can be. I also like that he doesn't like to stuff the game full of mods that don't enhance the survivial nature of the game. In this stage of development it stills lacks a lot but it makes up for it with a fun experience.
Good
Best game? Yeah, probably. The weather seems bugged (doesn't seem to work at all and clouds randomly disappear and reappear, or suddenly change patterns) and some balancing issues but generally engaging and complete. I've played a few dozen hours so far, and what I mainly like, is lack of documentation.
It forces me to figure out most things by trial/error, which has been quite rewarding and engaging. No longer can I just search the web to discover the mechanics. Over-documentation is Minecraft & clones' fatal flaw.
The game has a very covert & satisfying way of uncovering itself as I go, making for a nice slow-paced progression, and truly unique first experience.
Maybe not the best game but definitely the best mod soup!
It is based on MTG and uses many 3rd party mods and hence inherits their code quality and bloat issues. However playing the game it performs good and all the different parts work together in good way and there are many things to explore and find out from player perspective.
It may be a mod soup but it is well seasoned!
Amazing game!
It's well featured and feels great to play. It's not complete, but without doubt is great as it is today
good mod <3
i'm new to minetest and some of the things i say may be not fair cus of it. and I only played on single player. these are from someone who played minecraft 1.12.2 for many years.
you guys need a discord place for players to vote about features they want and the features they don't. i couldn't find any discord place. for start, it's really annoying for torches to have smokes (in my experience), you can not see anything in small caves and even in your own house cus of smoke. make a place for voting for it's removal or enhancement (add a crafting recepi for torches that makes it smokeless and more durable, MAYBE)
liquids are behave wierdly and you can not see through when you are under water in caves, they moving around, up and down and they are not like a solid blocks, (i really like the solidness of water in minecraft)
the game is pitch black when there is no light source and lighting system in general is broken and laggy (when you have miner's helmet the light goes off when you moving) it's sad that you have so many mind blowing underground biomes in the game, but you are not able to see them clearly.
i prefer the game to be NOT realistic, it's a cubic game, instead of computation powers that's going to waste on making the game more realistic you can focus it on automation stuff
sorry i only mentioned the down points :). i really enjoing the variety of mobs and they system
btw i'am new in the community and i think most of the points i made wasn't this mod's faults, minetest engine need's a big rework. but ovelall it's a good mod/game, keep it up <3
Very good, despite some clear oddities.
This is a very good modpack-like experience overall, and has features for most players. There are, however, a few oddities with stuff that seems in-progress or deprecated. For example, the "moon" area is completely missing, and the "mars" area is just a normal desert (I think there was a unique skybox once, but it does not show up). Along with this, the Villager/Settler behavior seems broken, with the game telling you that "This mob is not tamed". Although I personally disable these settlers when playing, this is rather odd nontheless.
Really best game
I have nothing to say, it's really has good gameplay. But I found one issue: there because unknown items because technic is not included. My recommendations: there is no background music, so it's should be added, and some portable chest
A good game and machine - perhaps?
After playing this game for a while, I'd say that it's one of the good ones out there. It's recommended if you're into survival and adventure genre. It offers not-so-complicated, yet not-so-simple ways to make things. Unfortunately, it's lacking natural method of creating. Capacity of some tools are infinite, such as candle. It's probably based on the minetest_game. I guess that it contains a set of extending features, though i must admit that it's better to have a set of minimal features. The complete specification of the game wasn't published.
At the time of this writting, the performance's good when it's running on a medium computer (say, 4GB RAM and CPU 1.5 GHz). Crash of the minetest engine has never occured, though the software didn't reponse for a while.
Texture's the best one (compared to others), though i don't like cube graphics. (the animation is weird because of the machine, as most games' are. It's a little disapointed).
In-game documentation is sound and good, but i advise you to explore in the game for yourself. You should know some information of minetest in the minetest wiki. (when you know something, it isn't interesting any more :))
For now, number of mods are increasing. Wonders if you can make game for minetest engine without mods? There're many limitations of the minetest engine. Despite the limitations and flaws in the design, you can play with this engine and game.
The Best Game
MeseCraft is the BEST Minetest game. It have lots of content for every type of player. There is a MeseCraft page: mesecraft.com. Everyone that reads this comment, please, suscribe to this page and you can help to the MeseCraft development. And for MeseCraft developing team, Keep the good work!
It'd be great if interacting with traders didn't add permanent HUD elements
Basically the title. the game is great, but once you interact with a trader, enjoy having "TRADER LENNY" or "TRADER TOM" on your screen permanently from that moment onwards.
MTG again
another default mod based game