I don't think Minetest has much of a chance, it always felt like a loose group of programmers making a game engine rather than game designers creating a game. At least when I last tried it, it was completely devoid of any features to improve the game feel, everything (movement, camera movement, animations, mining, etc) just felt like a soulless "technically correct" implementation that a programmer without artistic vision would come up with.
I don't think Minetest has much of a chance, it always felt like a loose group of programmers making a game engine rather than game designers creating a game. At least when I last tried it, it was completely devoid of any features to improve the game feel, everything (movement, camera movement, animations, mining, etc) just felt like a soulless "technically correct" implementation that a programmer without artistic vision would come up with.
It's the typical open source model. They are probably hoping someone else comes in to add the gameplay via modding.
they have, there are full minecraft clones you can download for it that work well
A full clone is not a very interesting game.
It seems like Minetest has more or less evolved from trying to be a Minecraft clone to trying to be Roblox, that's ... weird
Minetest has tons of games downloadable from a single click ingame.
So yes literally, hoping that someone else adds the gameplay via modding lol
Luanti more seems like an attempt to build a FOSS Roblox with Minecraft gameplay base
Minetest :)