Minetest Classic
This game is a recreation of the classic Minetest-c55 0.3 gameplay, including:
- Original textures
- All four mobs¹
- Identical items, crafting recipes, dig times; closely matched ore distribution
Unlike the original it has (optional) support for:
- Sounds
- PvP
- Localization
- Engine features such as the modern skybox, waving or shadows
- Modern creative inventory and per-player creative mode
To enable some of the modern features check out "Modernize flags" in the settings menu.
This is a game for the Minetest engine, install at least version 5.5.0 to play it.
¹: Fireflies do not spawn naturally and are only available in creative mode.
Credits
Thanks to Perttu Ahola (celeron55) <celeron55@gmail.com> and other random contributors
for making Minetest-c55 0.3 what it is.
This game was written by sfan5 <sfan5@live.de> in exactly three weeks up to
the initial commit in this git repo.
Nostalgic
The main menu has the old textures as expected, from the get go the tone was set, created a new world, and as spawned in a desert, the sand was ocher, walked a bit and found a forest, filled with apples, walked a bit more and found a thick jungle, a cave followed soon after, and then the deep orange color of iron ore, crafted some torches, I feel like I remember them being animated. At least the ceiling lantern is still there. Didn't stumble into a lot of rats or fireflies in the wild sadly.
The sneak glitch is there, but of course not the real one, no sneak elevators that launch you to the sky, no fast climbing or cheating death when falling on a ledge.
Darkness is way darker in this engine version, so the caves don't feel exactly right.
Feels very nostalgic, while of course stuff like lighting, mobs, etc, aren't exactly the same since the engine has changed, it's still got the whole aesthetic of classic Minetest down.
Would be cool to see some classic mods added or posted to the CDB as separate packages, it feels good playing old Minetest, while I don't think it's really possible to emulate the exact feeling of 0.3 in 0.5, there's still some improvement that could be made to get a more authentic feeling.