PSA - MineTest on SteamDeck

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Submitted ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨MajorHavoc@programming.dev⁩ to ⁨steamdeck@sopuli.xyz⁩

https://blog.rubenwardy.com/2022/12/02/minetest-steam-deck/

MineTest on a SteamDeck is so fun, y’all.

I would have tried it sooner, if someone had mentioned it to me, so I’m mentioning it to you.

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helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
WTF is Minetest?

You shouldn’t really need a tutorial. Just download in the discover store. Then right click --> add to Steam.

There’s a Decky Plugin for adding art to games. Forget the name of it. But it’s just a graphical UI and just click whichever art you want from the menu.
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- Daxtron2@startrek.website ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It’s an open source minecraft-esque game engine with lots of different games people have made on it. The biggest being the one that replicates the featureset of Minecraft.
  
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- Ephera@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Minetest is a game engine & launcher for Minecraft-like games. It and its various games are developed by a lovely open-source community.
  
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Muffi@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Minetest is awesome! Feels like real OG Minecraft in all the best and glitchiest ways.

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Eggyhead@kbin.run ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Does this game have a multiplayer component? Would be great to mess around in something like Minecraft again without the need of a subscription.

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- MajorHavoc@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  Does this game have a multiplayer component?
  
  Yes, and it’s fantastic.
  
  I found it noticably more stable than Minecraft Java Edition multiplayer, and quite a lot easier to get started hosting.
  
  I just picked my game (Mineclone2 is a good starting point) and picked my mods (I looped back later to get fancy with a MineGame modest), and the I jammed the ‘host’ button.
  
  On a local network, other players just have to type in the host computer’s IP address and hit ‘Register’ once and then ‘Login’ after that. ‘Register’ is once per world - their username and password get added only to that world on the hosting computer.
  
  Thankfully, on my SteamDeck, it remembers my details between plays, so I only had to mess with the virtual keyboard on my first play.
  
  I host it from an old laptop. I let one of my kids play on that laptop, while I and my other family play on our SteamDeck or PC. My understanding is that an Android phone will work fine, as well.
  
  To play with remote friends, 8t’s the same port forwarding dance as Minecraft Java edition, except that Mineclone on port 30000.
  
  Would be great to mess around in something like Minecraft again without the need of a subscription.
  
  It’s a joy! I’ve never begrudged the $25 to Minecraft, but it’s fantastic knowing I can keep my server world and mod setup much longer since MineTest is open source. I have a feeling that MineTest is going to join Vi on my ‘bury me with it because I’m not letting go’ software list.
  
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supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Minecraft is too beautiful of an idea to entrust in Microsoft’s hands, other games need to take the torch and drive the genre forward and it is really exciting that Minetest is doing that.

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