notactuallythebareminimum
A blank slate for making new minetest games. You may re-license this however you like, build off it, do whatever. It was created explicitly with the intent of having people use it as a starting point, and as such you may claim ownership of any code within this project and you may remove the existing LICENSE and add your own LICENSE file or otherwise forego attribution. All rights to stop you doing stuff with this code are waived except the no warrantee and liability clauses of the LICENSE attached.
What is it for?
It is a base, nearly bare minimum game, just enough to be able to walk around on terrain. It also is structured in a sane way, with mod folders and files being called instead of everything being in init.lua. It also has some biomes and decorations and an example of crafting, and a hand override so you can dig.
Is it a playable game
No.
Why not use X or Y or Z instead
There are other projects that you could build off, but they all have licenses that, technically speaking, restrict your use of them and aren't a good way legally speaking to start a completely new, from scratch project. For example if a game is MIT licensed, even if you keep one line of the original code in your game, you're still bound by the license (depending on the interpretation of "substantial portions" as prescribed by [insert judge here]. It is advised to still look at how other games and mods do things so you can learn how to use the minetest API of course, since this really only has about 0.1% of the features available in minetest.
Good Foundations
Mind using this instead of Void (as a game template to start from Zero), allows you to have a more spread view of the possibilities of Minetest.
Also I'd name it better, somethingtostartwith. Lots of LÜV
Thank you!!
I love this
I wanted to start making a game from scratch, not neccessarily for release though it would be nice to get that far, but mostly to force myself to understand how everything works and to ensure my mods are game indepependent.
I've barely started and already learned a lot by expanding on this. First thing I did was replace the tree schematics, and after adding a few new nodes it gave me the push I need to experiment with the wordgen and biomes.
Sadly I did end up copying the screwdriver, stairs, and ladders from minetest game so it defeats the original intention of the release when it comes to licensing, although after seeing how it works I would be comfortable writing my own ladders in now. I still don't quite understand what the stairs are doing, particularly when it comes to rotation but this has been a great help. Thank you :)
Why not X, Y or Z?
Nobody actually cares about license if it's MIT, including original game developers.
I think, in this case, your license should be unlicense or something like that.