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  Development Test
  Luanti

  Testing environment for engine or mod development.

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  Minetest Game
  Luanti

  The classic "Minetest". A lightweight and well-maintained base for modding

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  LMD 2025-06-24 11:02 UTC

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  Redundant, misleading name

  There already is a feature to limit the number of live item entities in the engine: item_entity_ttl - time in seconds for dropped items to live. The default is 900 - 15 minutes. Hence there is no need for a mod to implement this. This mod allows a bit more control, but honestly I don't think that control and complexity is necessary here. I am also not fond of the interval approach of this mod: It will annoy players when they have to scramble to collect items before they are cleared, and when their items are deleted if they missed the announcement in chat. A TTL avoids this; it simply works much better as a game mechanic.

  The name ("clear lag") and description ("lag reduction") of this mod are also promising too much. I was quite curious to see which general solutions to reducing lag a mod might attempt, and was a bit disappointed when I found out it just reimplements a very particular engine feature. Lag arises for a variety of reasons, and this mod at most addresses a singular one, which is already dealt with via item_entity_ttl. I think a more specific name, say clear_dropped_items, would have been more suitable (unless of course you intend to add further measures later).

  p.s. Your description feels as if it has been edited and bloated by AI. The purpose of this mod could be conveyed in essentially a single sentence: "Periodically clear dropped items to reduce lag."

  Clear Lag by Themostrandom01 2 comments

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  LMD 2025-04-23 22:59 UTC

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  Would not recommend

  This mod hacks syntactic sugar for "lambda functions" into Lua by simply loading and caching strings containing Lua code via the (global!) l function.

  Unfortunately, the way this is done has too many drawbacks to be viable:

  • You lose anything static that operates on the code - syntax highlighting, static analysis, formatting, etc.
  • You lose syntax checking at load time - you can now get syntax errors at run time.
  • You lose upvalues, which often play a very important role when lambdas are involved.
  • You may lose some performance.
  • You may lose programmers - who will have to look up where l comes from (and why it should be used).

  Just bite the bullet and instead of l"(...) ...", write function(...) return ... end.

  If you can't take Lua not having enough syntactic sugar for you anymore, find an established Lua preprocessor that works for you and roll with that.

  Lambda by benrob0329 0 comments

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  LMD 2024-12-27 20:25 UTC

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  A hardcoded mod which should probably be kept private instead

  Take a look at https://github.com/Bapt-Tech/privs/blob/main/init.lua. There are some problems with this.

  1. It uses core.set_player_privs. This means it erases all other privileges if a player on one of the lists joins. (Technically this is just a bug, but it is a critical one.)
  2. Everything is hardcoded, as the description implies:
     • Player names are hardcoded (and to valid names, which is a problem waiting to happen; someone installs this mod and suddenly players named Name1 and Name2 have excessive privs)

  • A few "rank" tables are hardcoded (owners, admins, builders, players)
  • The highly server-specific set of privileges assigned to members of each rank is hardcoded

  1. It suffers from unnecessary code duplication

  I think this mod is probably not general purpose enough to be very useful for others. So far it seems pretty much strictly inferior to /grant to me (note that privileges should be persisted if there isn't a mod like this one breaking them).

  Privs by Bapt-tech 2 comments

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  LMD 2024-11-24 21:15 UTC

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  Eye See You! 👁

  A fun twist on the "stealth" genre: Not only are there evil eyes which must not see you; most of the time the challenge is to stay within the field of view of at least one good eye: "The Unseen are lost!"

  The game further gains a bit of a puzzle game note by having buttons you have to press to make new paths accessible. These can be hard to find at times, but it is never wrong to press them. Hence the winning strategy essentially is to scour the levels for buttons, pressing all of them (and memorizing their positions and a sensible order to press them in for future attempts in case you fail), though this is in practice much harder to do than it sounds. Some buttons are definitely deviously placed :)

  The graphics, music, and overall atmosphere are all consistent and nicely done.

  Overall, a good two to three hours of fun.

  Eyeballs by Wuzzy 1 comments

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  LMD 2023-12-28 11:26 UTC

  Chess, but less boring and more frustrating (in a good way)

  I can only agree with the other reviewer(s): This is by far the best chess implementation in Minetest to date. It's nicely usable; you get a 3d view of the board. The engine works and actually picks decent moves.

  Now, that's where the unexpected part comes in: Random "events" can completely change the course of the game. Strategies that work against the engine in "normal" chess don't work anymore. Beating the engine at "normal" chess is doable, but the "unexpected" version will give you a much harder time. It can be pretty frustrating if you worked hard on getting your pawns into good positions and suddenly they all just evaporate :P

  Suggestions: Highlight the last move / action somehow (maybe using particle effects?). Otherwise it is at times hard to see what just happened. Also, please give the player a moment to review a checkmate.

  Overall, a very good game!

  The Unexpected Gambit by NO11 1 comments

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  LMD 2023-12-22 18:11 UTC

  Cool tech demo, but not exactly anything to play

  I like this demonstration of just how much Minetest can be abused, but there isn't really anything to do; all the "games" become pretty boring pretty fast.

  mineos by jordan4ibanez 0 comments

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  LMD 2023-12-22 17:44 UTC

  Enjoyable!

  I like the graphics as well as the gameplay. The trick is to not fight too much, but to make a run for it ;P

  Shadow Forest by Wuzzy 0 comments

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  LMD 2023-12-22 14:20 UTC

  Good game

  Took me ~20 minutes to play this through, I like the mechanics. The "health powder" feels like a bit of a cheat - I had plenty of it when I went into the boss fight.

  The Velvet Crystal by regulus 0 comments

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  LMD 2023-01-25 12:46 UTC

  Not really useful; Name is misleading: No Glob Patterns, but rather Lua Patterns

  This does not implement *nix Glob Patterns, but rather simply uses Lua patterns. Nobody in their right mind would do rm -rf .* in their terminal - that will not remove all files, but rather only hidden files (files starting with a dot in their name)!

  The only function provided is not exactly useful; how often do you need to kick multiple players based on a pattern? I could imagine this being useful only in very rare cases where an attacker is dumb enough to make his names follow a pattern. What makes this even more useless is that the Minetest chat features tab completion for playernames.

  What I could see being useful: Actual globs, e.g. for file traversal purposes, but as an API rather than user-facing chatcommands.

  Glob Patterns by 1F616EMO 2 comments

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  LMD 2023-01-09 11:53 UTC

  Good engine and mod testbed; not for players

  Usually the best testbed for engine development or if you want to quickly play around with an engine feature.

  Also very useful in mod development due to its minimalism, which allows for a very fast loading time and also helps ensure that your mod works even in a minimalist environment without bloaty mods such as default.

  Devtest also provides a few introspective facilities (e.g. node editing tools etc.) and example content (nodes, entities etc.) that aid in engine and mod testing.

  That said, when you're developing a new game for players, you should under no circumstances base it on devtest (except if your game is intended to serve as a replacement testbed or perhaps a more specific mod testbed).

  Development Test by Luanti 0 comments

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  LMD 2022-11-22 10:30 UTC

  Way too easy

  You can simply pillar up using your own feces. On a roof, you won't be disturbed while packing your feces.

  Massive robocop overpopulation also causes insufferable lag.

  Screenshot

  Shitting Simulator by kacperks 2 comments

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  LMD 2022-11-18 21:33 UTC

  stuff_mods++

  Quoting my review of the last stuff mod:

  We have plenty of "stuff" in addition to the stone, wood, iron, bronze, mese & diamond "stuff" tiers usually provided by MTG already:

  • Emerald Stuff for Mineclone
  • Overpowered Stuff
  • Rainbow Stuff
  • Obsidian Stuff, its redo, and Obsidian Swords
  • Lava Stuff

  (plus even more stuff mods which do not live on CDB or have died with MT 0.4.x, such as galvorn & mithril in LOTT; besides, has anyone ever considered a more specific name like "equipment" rather than the insanely generic "stuff"?)

  This is boring. It already was boring in Minetest Game - the tools don't differ except in their stats. Generally, the better the tier, the better the stats. "Stuff" mods just add yet another boring & redundant tier. The only notable exception here is LandarVargan's Lava Stuff, which has special effects (e.g. the lava pickaxe already "cooks" everything you dig with it like the MTG furnace).

  Goo by Juninhoror 9 comments

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  LMD 2022-11-12 18:50 UTC

  A must-have for writing performance-critical code

  Minetest's profiler provides insufficient granularity for doing any serious profiling. Sure, in larger games it may point you towards the culprit, but that often still is a large globalstep or mapgen function.

  More often, you already know the culprit - mapgen, in our case - and want to optimize it. To do so, you need a maximum of granularity, down to every function call, every vector operation, to be able to micro-optimize the hottest spots where it matters. The LuaJIT profiler provides this granularity and this mod makes it accessible (without having to go through the hassle of reinventing this mod).

  Back to mapgen: After algorithmic optimizations were exhausted, this mod allowed me to gain a 2x speedup, bringing mapgen to an acceptable performance, by confirming that certain vector operations were better off localized and helping me uncover a nasty bug in my memoization (which wasn't working).

  You only have 100ms between two globalsteps; Minetest is mostly single-threaded. Taking any more time will create noticeable lag. Thus practically all mapgen, ABMs, pathfinding, mob steps, and some expensive globalsteps are performance-critical.

  Adoption of this mod will hopefully cause the widespread performance issues observed across the mod landscape to slowly cease existence.

  LuaJIT Profiler by jwmhjwmh 0 comments

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  LMD 2022-10-26 18:23 UTC

  Much needed feature, but a poor implementation

  • The globalsteps runs only once per second (!); this is way too poor granularity. It could be a lot smoother if it ran as often as possible since it is a rather cheap globalstep.
  • Insufficient approach: This subtracts one from the player pos on the vertical axis. Player pos is a feet pos however. Thus this will fail horribly when standing on slabs and is always on the verge of failing (due to precision errors) when standing on full / almost full nodes. A more accurate approach would only subtract a small epsilon from the feet pos and take node boxes into account (e.g. when standing on smaller nodes (slabs) or larger nodes (doors)).
  • Misc. other (minor-ish) code quality issues:
    • Use of deprecated methods: player:getpos() (should trigger a warning?) and {x=...,y=...,z=...} vector (rather than vector.offset).
    • Unnecessary loc ~= nil check.
    • Poor formatting: Inconsistent use of indentation & semicolons.
    • Custom fields should use underscore prefixes. This mod does not abide by that convention for on_walk_over.

  In conclusion, I would strongly advise against depending on this library in its current state. Modders should rather roll their own.

  Walkover by lordfingle 0 comments

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  LMD 2022-08-12 17:55 UTC

  Low effort

  The inventory images for Skis is a boat. Skis float significantly above snow in some cases; the physics are pretty much boat physics. Skis are apparently just modified boats that work well on land. The surface you're skiing on doesn't seem to matter - snow works as good as grass or stone. Also missing a release for sfence's updates it seems.

  Ski by qawsedrftgzh 0 comments

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  LMD 2022-05-04 07:57 UTC

  Very good mod

  The concept reminds me of Wondrous Lands - or to put it in Monkeybiter's words:

  this mod works very well and it is exactly what I had been hoping for to add to my server

  Native Villages by Liil 0 comments

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  LMD 2022-01-28 12:57 UTC

  Remains unsatisfying

  This game boils down to coconut digger. The tool textures are sloppily made. The main objective is the highly repetitive task of walking around and digging coconuts, which gets very boring very quickly. Even after the end of the game jam, this has not been updated to improve either visuals or gameplay mechanics.

  Coconut Collection by Migdyn 0 comments

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  LMD 2022-01-26 22:01 UTC

  Simple yet elegant

  This texture pack is very simplistic, consequently sticking to a rather small and lucid palette. Yet everything is well-recognizable. Minetest Game support is very good, which allows this texture pack to completely change the look & feel of many MTG-based games. If you haven't yet, you must try this out!

  Soothing 32 by Zughy 0 comments

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  LMD 2022-01-23 21:22 UTC

  Consistent style, good mod support

  The style of RPG16 is completely unique. Nothing looks the same as with the plain old MTG textures; worlds get an entirely different feeling to them. RPG16 manages to work with, not against the engine, unlike certain high-res texture packs. It also provides great visuals for mod screenshots.

  RPG16 by Hugues Ross 0 comments

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  LMD 2021-12-26 14:50 UTC

  Simple fun

  The game is quite simple: You are running on a railway. Using left-right controls, you can switch the lane, slide using sneak and jump using space. Specific obstacles require exactly one way too dodge. The theming is for the most part well done: A proper screenshot was rendered, an icon created, the game uses models made during the jam, formspecs were styled neatly.

  There are some minor frustrations though: Jumping feels quite odd (like velocity is being made positive up to a point, then suddenly flipped to the negatives instead of a simple upward acceleration + gravity). The waiting period of roughly 5s gets frustrating when you want to have anotehr go right now. Collision could have been implemented a bit better by using the new moveresult feature; the way it's currently implemented serverside, it triggers only after the collision happened; in third person view, you are already out of the obstacle, yet the game is over (I could've sworn I didn't collide with that obstacle!).

  Conclusion: Even though this is relatively simple and has minor issues, it is still fun to play. Through it's simplicity, it managed to reach the state of completeness the jam was aiming at rather well, other than some competitors.

  Subway Miner by AFCM 0 comments

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  LMD 2021-12-26 13:03 UTC

  Finally a good puzzle game

  Alter features simple yet challenging puzzle game mechanics. There are only some minor issues, relating to incomplete theming (such as the default player skin or the buttons without background). There is however one game-breaking bug: When you hit ESC while in the tutorial formspec, you don't get the potion and are stuck. Once you have that figured out (and you may consider that part of the challenge ;-)) it gets fun!

  Alter by yaman 0 comments

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  LMD 2021-12-23 23:30 UTC

  The best the engine can do is "Solar Plains: Invector"

  Jordach is one of a select few modders who like to work against the engine. This game is a piece of art (including textures with meme references and sounds created by Jordach during the jam, which is probably unique) which gets the most out of the engine. Initially it appeared "laggy" to me too, while in reality it isn't - the issue stems from Jordach using the only way the engine provides to set the camera direction, which isn't smooth by default. In order to keep this camera stutter to a minimum, I suggest you enable cinematic camera smoothing and - most importantly - keep your hands off the mouse!

  Apart from this, the AIs are a rather amazing demo considering the short timeframe, and a couple effects have been implemented as well. All that is lacking are a couple more maps, which is why in it's current state this is more of an - impressive - tech demo than a fully enjoyable game.

  And granted, there are some minor bugs, including a crash. Quality assurance is a time-consuming process finding little place in a game jam; only the most glaring issues can be fixed before release.

  Solar Plains: Invector by Jordach 0 comments

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  LMD 2021-12-23 07:52 UTC

  Presumably useful for roleplaying servers

  Consider expanding upon this mod in the future. Support for something like player entity nametags might be interesting too.

  Realistic Player Names by Extex 0 comments

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  LMD 2021-12-22 18:09 UTC

  Overrated cookie clicker

  Through the positive reviews amassed through game jam reviewers, this game has surpassed LOTT, the infinite IKEA and a couple other genuinely well done game, being a mere "cookie clicker" type of game: You spend all your time doing the highly repetitive task of mining resources and spending them. The first five minutes you unlock new types of resources - which merely differ in color/tool - and a "shop", which will convert resources. But afterwards, it gets "meh".

  Stella by 1248 1 comments

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  LMD 2021-01-07 21:55 UTC

  Updoot because this seems to be a genuinely well-done mod.

  I gotta admit though that I haven't even bothered to download it.

  I have even bothered to download it.

  Draconis by ElCeejo 0 comments

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  LMD 2020-10-25 11:11 UTC

  Beautiful

  Awesome use of formspecs

  Crafting Guide by jp 0 comments

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  LMD 2020-07-22 13:11 UTC

  Very polished game

  Probably the best free MineCraft clone available for Minetest (only notable contestant is Crafter).

  VoxeLibre (formerly MineClone2) by Wuzzy 1 comments

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  LMD 2020-07-14 20:18 UTC

  Great modding base

  Minetest Game provides a solid yet playable modding base.

  Minetest Game by Luanti 0 comments

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  LMD 2020-07-10 21:50 UTC

  One of the best electronics mods

  Widely supported by mods, this is one of the best Minetest alternatives to Minecraft Redstone.

  Mesecons by Jeija 0 comments

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  LMD 2020-07-10 12:25 UTC

  Great textures

  All assets are full 10/10

  Air Sword by PilzAdam 0 comments

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