MineClone 2

An unofficial Minecraft-like game for Minetest. Forked from MineClone by daredevils. Developed by Wuzzy and contributors. Not developed or endorsed by Mojang AB.

Version: 0.29.1

Gameplay

You start in a randomly-generated world made entirely of cubes. You can explore the world and dig and build almost every block in the world to create new structures. You can choose to play in a “survival mode” in which you have to fight monsters and hunger for survival and slowly progress through the various other aspects of the game, such as mining, farming, building machines, and so on Or you can play in “creative mode” in which you can build almost anything instantly.

Gameplay summary

Sandbox-style gameplay, no goals (for now)
Survive: Fight against hostile monsters and hunger
Mine for ores and other treasures
Use the collected blocks to create great buildings, your imagination is the limit
Collect flowers (and other dye sources) and colorize your world
Find some seeds and start farming
Find or craft one of hundreds of items
Build a railway system and have fun with minecarts
Build complex machines with redstone circuits
In creative mode you can build almost anything for free and without limits

How to play (quick start)

Getting started

Punch a tree trunk until it breaks and collect wood
Place the wood into the 2×2 grid (your “crafting grid” in your inventory menu and craft 4 wood planks
Place the 4 wood planks in a 2×2 shape in the crafting grid to make a crafting table
Rightclick the crafting table for a 3×3 crafting grid to craft more complex things
Use the crafting guide (book icon) to learn all the possible crafting recipes
Craft a wooden pickaxe so you can dig stone
Different tools break different kinds of blocks. Try them out!
Continue playing as you wish. Have fun!

Farming

Find seeds
Craft hoe
Rightclick dirt or similar block with hoe to create farmland
Place seeds on farmland and watch them grow
Collect plant when fully grown
If near water, farmland becomes wet and speeds up growth

Furnace

Craft furnace
Furnace allows you to obtain more items
Upper slot must contain a smeltable item (example: iron ore)
Lower slot must contain a fuel item (example: coal)
See tooltips in crafting guide to learn about fuels and smeltable items

Additional help

More help about the gameplay, blocks items and much more can be found from inside the game. You can access the help from your inventory menu.

Special items

The following items are interesting for Creative Mode and for adventure map builders. They can not be obtained in-game or in the creative inventory.

Barrier: mcl_core:barrier
Command Block: mesecons_commandblock:commandblock_off
Monster Spawner: mcl_mobspawners:spawner
Huge mushroom blocks: See mods/ITEMS/mcl_mushrooms/README.md
Minecart with Command Block: mcl_minecarts:command_block_minecart

Use the /giveme chat command to obtain them. See the in-game help for an explanation.

Installation

This game requires Minetest 0.4.16 (or later) to run, so you need to install Minetest first. Only stable versions of Minetest are officially supported. There is no support whatsoever for running MineClone 2 in development versions of Minetest. To install MineClone 2, move this directory into the “games” directory of your Minetest data directory. Consult the help of Minetest to learn more.

Project description

The main goal of MineClone 2 is to be a clone of Minecraft and to be released as free software.

Target of development: Minecraft, PC Edition, version 1.11 (later known as “Java Edition”)
Features of later Minecraft versions might sneak in, but they have a low priority
In general, Minecraft is aimed to be cloned as good as Minetest currently permits (no hacks)
Cloning the gameplay has highest priority
MineClone 2 will use different graphics and sounds, but with a similar style
Cloning the interface has no priority. It will only be roughly imitated
Limitations found in Minetest will be written down and reported in the course of development

Completion status

This game is currently in alpha stage. It is playable, but very unfinished, many bugs are to be expected. Backwards-compability is not guaranteed, updating your world might cause small and big bugs (such as “missing node” errors or even crashes).

The following main features are available:

Tools, weapons and armor
Crafting system: 2×2 grid, crafting table (3×3 grid), furnace, including a crafting guide
Chests, large chests, ender chests, shulker boxes
Hunger
Most monsters and animals
All ores from Minecraft
Most blocks in the overworld
Water and lava
Weather
28 biomes
The Nether, a fiery underworld in another dimension
Redstone circuits (partially): Redstone ore, redstone, redstone repeater, levers, buttons, redstone blocks, redstone lamps
Minecarts (partial)
Boats
Fire
Buidling blocks: Stairs, slabs, doors, trapdoors, fences, fence gates, walls
Clock
Compass
Sponge
Slime block (does not interact with redstone)
Small plants and saplings
Dyes
Banners
Deco blocks: Glass, stained glass, glass panes, iron bars, hardened clay (and colors), heads and more
Item frames
Jukeboxes
Beds
Inventory menu
Creative inventory
Farming
Bookshelves (deco only)
Writable books
A few server commands
And more!

The following features are incomplete:

Generated structures
NPCs
Some monsters and animals
Redstone-related things
The End
Enchanting
Experience
Status effects
Brewing, potions, tipped arrows
Anvil
A couple of non-trivial blocks and items

Bonus features (not found in Minecraft 1.11):

Built-in crafting guide which shows you crafting and smelting recipes
In-game help system containing extensive help about gameplay basics, blocks, items and more
Temporary crafting recipes. They only exist to make some otherwise unaccessible items available when you're not in creative mode. These recipes will be removed as development goes on an more features become available

Technical differences from Minecraft:

Height limit of ca. 31000 blocks (much higher than in Minecraft)
Horizontal world size is ca. 62000×62000 blocks (much smaller than in Minecraft, but it is still very large)
Still very, very incomplete and buggy
Blocks, items, enemies and other features are missing
A few items have slightly different names to make them easier to distinguish
Different music for jukebox
Different textures (Pixel Perfection)
Different sounds (various sources)
Different engine (Minetest)
Free software (“free” as in freedom and free beer)

Reporting bugs

Please report all bugs and missing Minecraft features here:

https://github.com/Wuzzy2/MineClone2-Bugs

Credits

There are so many people to list (sorry). Check out the respective mod directories for details. This section is only a rough overview of the core authors of this game.

Coding

Wuzzy: Main programmer of most mods
daredevils: Creator of MineClone on which MineClone 2 is based on
ex-bart: Redstone comparators
Lots of other people: TO BE WRITTEN (see mod directories for details)

Textures

XSSheep: Main author; creator of the Pixel Perfection resource pack of Minecraft 1.11
Wuzzy: Main menu imagery and various edits and additions of texture pack
kingoscargames: Various edits and additions of existing textures
leorockway: Some edits of mob textures
xMrVizzy: Glazed terracotta (textures are subject to be replaced later)
Other authors: GUI images,

Models

22i: Creator of all models
tobyplowy: UV-mapping fixes to said models

Sounds and music

Various sources. See the respective mod directories for details.

Special thanks

daredevils for starting MineClone, the original version of this game
celeron55 for creating Minetest
Minetest's modding community for providing a huge selection of mods, some of which ended up in MineClone 2
Jordach for the jukebox music compilation from Big Freaking Dig
The workaholics who spent way too much time writing for the Minecraft Wiki. It's an invaluable resource for creating this game
Notch and Jeb for being the major forces behind Minecraft
XSSheep for creating the Pixel Perfection resource pack
22i for providing great models and support
maikerumine for kicking off mobs and biomes

Info for programmers

You find interesting and useful infos in API.md. This project is currently mostly a one-person project.

Legal information

This is a fan game, not developed or endorsed by Mojang AB.

Copying is an act of love. Please copy and share! <3 But, oh well, if you insist, here is the legalese for you:

License of source code

MineClone 2 is a clean-room implementation of Minecraft and licensed under the GNU LGPL v2.1 (Wuzzy, daredevils and countless others) (see LICENSE.txt).

MineClone 2 is a direct continuation of the discontinued MineClone project by daredevils which fell under the same license.

Mods credit: See README.txt or README.md in each mod directory for information about other authors.

License of media (textures and sounds)

No non-free licenses are used anywhere.

The textures, unless otherwise noted, are based on the Pixel Perfection resource pack for Minecraft 1.11, authored by XSSheep. Most textures are verbatim copies, while some textures have been changed or redone from scratch. Source: https://www.planetminecraft.com/texture_pack/131pixel-perfection/ License: CC BY-SA 4.0

MineClone 2 is currently in the processs of changing all the textures. The textures for the glazed terracotta come from Faithful Vanilla. (authored by Vattic, xMrVizzy and many others). Source: https://minecraft.curseforge.com/projects/faithful-vanilla

License of all main menu images: WTFPL

All other files, unless mentioned otherwise, fall under: Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 4.0) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

See README.txt in each mod directory for detailed information about other authors.

SonicTheCrafter / MineClone2

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