MINETEST! www.minetest.net/ Thanks for your patience on the new vids! I dedicated myself to solving my pop/crackle audio issues that have persisted for years (and multiple PCs and operating systems!). Using a custom output on OBS worked, but it lead to some horrible issues where 3-4 seconds would be cut off the end of each clip... a nightmare for someone who records in 3-4 second clips 😭

So important thing to note is that Minetest is a bit more like an engine than a full game. The survival Minecraft-clone-thing is mainly a proof of concept.

Ah, I’ve actually played minetest before. One of the cooler features was the fact that signs could be placed on the floor like welcome mats, if I remember correctly.

Just wanted to point out, as someone who worked in the minetest community for years, the project focuses more on being a platform for people to make their own games (through modes or entire games made in it) and the basic subgames provided are generally very simplistic and just showcase basic code patterns. There's a lot more to check out!

Fun fact: worlds in this game actually go from 32k blocks down to 32k blocks up. Pretty insane!

It brings hope to my heart when I see that small indie developers can still come out with original game ideas like this.

So kind of mumbo to answer his own question before we even click the video 🙏

I have massive respect for everyone involved in Minetest. Given that I'm already seeing some of my favorite mod creators start developing for Minetest, I feel like a decent chunk of the community will have somewhere to pivot if Microsoft ever _truly_ kills Minecraft.

FYI the base minetest game is more of a modding engine than an actual game. For a more Minecraft-clone experience, you can use either Mineclone 2 or Mineclone 5, but there are plenty of other mods with completely different gameplay from Minecraft

It amazes me how Mumbo just figured out a completely new redstone system while I can't even do simple redstone after 7 years

Mumbo trying to go for diamonds before even thinking about putting windows in his house is the funniest thing ever

This is huge for the community, thanks for making this video. We'll be dealing with the aftermath of this video for years to come.

The game is open source so that means everyone that discovers it now through this video could theoretically contribute and make it better.

Mine test is designed to not just be a base game, but it's designed to be highly modable. Where it's strength lies is that it allows mods so much more flexibility than in Minecraft, because it's directly supported. That's pretty much the whole premise

Glad to see other people trying out minetest! For those who don't know, this "game" is more like an engine, and then you build your own game on top of it by installing different mods. There's a bunch that try to recreate normal minecraft survival, and there's loads of other kinds as well. It's really cool! And best of all, it's open source! Thanks Mumbo for introducing more people to this project :)

Fun Fact: most Minecraft clones that exists are built upon minetest, which is why they're all so similar

Clearly, the Hermits need to play together in MineTest for a humorous "season 9.5."

Watching mumbo do his usual third person talking to the camera bits, while his character just blank face stares directly forward and the camera bobs up and down is super funny

0:48 That's actually a thing on Bedrock edition. You can find fallen oak and birch trees in forest biomes, sometimes with mushrooms or vines growing on them. Same with spruce trees in taigas.

You should turn on the dynamic shadows and bloom. 😊 That, alongside waving plants, leaves and water are in the settings tab.

FYI There are Minetest modpacks that attempt to achieve a closer parity to actual Minecraft, with textures, mobs, & overall functionality. A bit like playing on Bedrock after years on Java, but maybe one version behind. Otherwise a very similar experience. Although this was back in Minecraft1.16 days, so no idea where they are at now.

Minetest was the introduction to minecraft for my son and I. Many hours were spent adding mods (incredibly easy to add) until our world was a broken mishmash of imported structures we destroyed in mechs, cars boats, planes etc... i highly recommend the 'balrog' and survival with access to all items. Great times

I actually played mine test for 3 years with my dad and we modded the heck out of the game and had so much fun and built cities and stuff. Very nostalgic seeing mesecons being used on contraptions just like my dad and I made.

6:35 return of Mumbo "Killsalot" Jumbo

I didn't expect you to go from double-piston door to 10-digit display in less than 3 minutes... Though I must say I'm not surprised from redstone genius Mumbo XD

I'm so glad you played this game. My dad actually was on the developing team! It brings so much to my heart when big youtubers play this game. Key word: WAS

thank you for answering the title straight away 🤣

i dont think "bad minecraft clone" does this game what it deserves. it's not supposed to be a clone of minecraft, it's supposed to be a platform for devs to make their own voxel games inspired by minecraft, and it does a pretty good job at that.

MINETEST!!!!! Oh my gosh I never expected you to cover this game!!! I'm really into Minetest as I really love open source software. It's really cool to see it get more exposure from a KZfaqr as big as you! The project is still pretty small without a lot of developers, but it really has so much potential and I hope more people get into it! Something to clarify: "Minetest" isn't actually a game. It's kind of confusing right now, but Minetest is actually a voxel-based engine. Minecraft-like games have been made for it, obviously- and the default game, "Minetest Game", is one of them, but an even better one is actually MineClone2, which you can find on the content database. It gets as close as possible to Minecraft. It's a lot... jankier, than Minecraft, to be fair, but it does have the Ender Dragon fight and everything iirc and is compeltely playable. Also, I really like playing Minetest games because if there's ever a problem with it I don't like, like a block that's annoying difficult to break I can literally just go into the game files and just change a few numbers around in any text editor. Anyone can mod their games and add on new things very, very easily compared to Minecraft. ALSO also also (I keep editing this with new things to say lol) shoutout to Wuzzy, a community member who made a really well-done platformer with the engine for last year's game jam. Not just Minecraft games can be made with Minetest; there's a lot one can do with it ^_^ !

There is a mod pack called techage modpack, which has a quite a big learning curve but it adds a unique technology aspect to minetest! It is quite interesting and definitely worth exploring if you are doing this again.

Hi Mumbo Jumbo. I'm one of the main community game developers. It's very cool to see you play minetest. I'm very sorry that you had to experience vanilla minetest though. I'm glad you enjoyed it regardless.

In Minetest there's a mod that adds dynamic lighting, so a torch in your hand lights up the blocks around you.

If you want more of that "I don't know what I'm doing" nostalgia, I HIGHLY recommend Better Than Adventure! It's a mod for beta 1.7.3 that essentially aims to imagine what minecraft could have been like if the adventure update never happened

Always good to see a big content creator taking a look at Minetest. When just starting out visiting servers is a really good way to get an idea of the myriad of different mods that exist that you can then use to create your own custom worlds.

Interesting how this ancient game is just now getting some attention. Grew up on this as well as Minecraft. It definitely has it's place!

You should definitely do more of this! Maybe make a series on this game seeing what’s possible with all the Minecraft related circuits, then maybe moving on to the more complicated stuff

Bring on Hermittest SMP for season 10. Even as an April fools next year this would be fun to watch you all play.

‘Can we have Minecraft?’ ‘No, we already have Minecraft at home.’ Minecraft at home:

1:29 "I'm starting to think I'm the only thing that's alive around here" All the plants surrounding him: 🙁

With the circuit gates pretty much there already, I think it can get much more compact that normal redstone

this is the game that i and my sibling would play before we could afford minecraft. thanks mumbo for shedding some light on it.

Mumbo really is playing the games we played because we could’nt afford Minecraft.💀💀💀💀💀

I love to see you test more indie/opensource games

Now I want to see him try to figure out Nodecore's mechanics 😆

Just one look at the thumbnail and I immediately knew what you were playing. Gotta lot of nostalgia for minetest, it being my first "minecraft" It is really good with the mods in it, and nice that an influential like mumbo is giving it some love. Also the "redstone" mod is called Mesacons.

open source, and with apparently pretty great modding, this really doesn't seem bad at all. Sure, it's "just" a clone at the baseline, but I mean open source alternatives often are and are still great

ahhhh I love minetest! I go play it occasionally when I need something nostalgic or just something different than today's minecraft XD This was so fun to watch!!!!

It has the same eerie feeling that Minecraft had in its early days. I kind of love it.

I fought he was playing a wierd texture pack for a sec 💀

Mumbo at 00:48 Oh fallen tree! Bedrock players: You serious?!???!

I’ve never been so excited about a video in ages! I love making mods for this game, and adding stuff I wish I could for MineCraft, but couldn’t due to the hassle of the game updating and needing to forward mods. This was like seeing videos pop up for MC in the early days, when everything was new and confusing. This was a fun video, and Mesecons is as confusing to me as redstone.

Mumbo, it's so good to see someone playing Minetest! I discovered it several years ago and played with it a little, but the community is so small that I haven't put much time into it. The strength of Minetest is how easy it is to mod. This is because they expect you to mod it. It is more of a voxel game engine than a game by itself. There is even a whole modpack out there to turn it into a pretty decent Minecraft clone! I hope to see some more of this sometimes :)

this man is an absolute wizard, while i can't even figure out how to make a simple piston door by myself in minecraft, he can make a whole combination lock and a 7 segment display in a game he just got

Minetest is pretty intresting I haven’t really played it myself but the fact it’s a open source game is fun

2:11 Fun fact you can also have caves be that dark in minecraft, it's called moody lighting

I've been dying to see big Minecraft KZfaqr such as yourself covering Minetest. Glad you enjoyed playing it! I really want to see this game going mainstream, because IMO Minecraft is getting boring and very bloated (I have to install performance mods just to play it). Also, because if more people play it then more devs/modder will join the community and the overall quality of the game/engine increases. The fact that it's free will save so many parents money and decrease the act of pirating Minecraft.

What's even cool, it runs on my old laptop (wich is 32bits system and needs to run zorin lite to still alive 😂) and does actually well, in terms of fps it's about 30-20 fps, drops a bit while loading terrain, and I'm loving this indie and open source version of Minecraft !!! I'm impressed

Mumbo, you've barely scratched the surface of Minetest. I'd love to see what you make of a game like Nodecore for instance. Or Pixture. Or mix-n-matching a bunch of mods on top of the base (and very basic) game that you tried. There's a lot to see, even a pretty credible Minecraft clone (two really). Hoping you keep exploring what the engine has to offer.

No! Way! It makes me so happy to see you playing in the open source side of things (which I may or may not contribute to in the way of mods). Also it's pronounced 'mēs' (like geese)... I think... And yes ore depths in the default game are horrid. I would love to see you play one of the other, better balanced Minetest "games" (mod-packs) like SurviveTest or even one of the MineClones.

I need this to be a series. Dad is a big fan of this game

This game takes more "inspiration" than me when I write my essays

The fact that you can mine so deep is actually super cool omg

Mumbo! One really cool thing is that Minetest's modding capabilities are extremely integrated. Essentially, all mods are run server-side with no mod installation on the client, so there's no need to send modpacks around! All you need to do is join the server, and all the necessary mods will just work. I'd heavily suggest looking into them if there will be a "Hermittest" mini series since they can add anything from mobs, to achievements, to minecraft-like gameplay, to teleporters and trains!

Can't wait for Hermittest season 1!

Me: Mom, cann we hav Minecraft? Mom: No, we have Minecraft at home Minecraft at home:

Mumbo, do more! It's especially fun when you are on a server! I could probably show you around one, as this game's strong suit is the modding potential.

I can't believe this is still a thing after over a decade but I'm glad it still exists.

Yes finally! I've been waiting years for a big redstone KZfaqr to make a video on Mesecons!

There's a great "capture the flag" server that runs on Minetest I used to play all the time. That's pretty much all I know. Oh, and it had the shooty sticks that Mojang recently TOSed.

I kind of want Mumbo to run around in Hermitcraft for a day in that skin to see if anyone says anything. LOL

I'm always excited to see open source software

Minetest is actually barebones on purpose, there are mods you can install that extend it or you could just make your own minecraft clone or your own game. there is a mod that tries to recreate minecraft 1-1 called mineclone. there is a redstone mod you can also install mobs as a mod.

I recognize this immediately. Love the game, great community. I've even talked to the devs and they're very nice

With their AND gates and things like that, this Minetest plugin actually teaches people how electric circuits work. That's fantastic. 😃

Hermitcraft Season 10: All the hermits playing minetest

Minetest is a game engine in which you can build your own games. I'm wanting to build a true 3D terraria-like game. Same side view 2D looks, but being able to move in and out of further depth dimensions. Mineclone is a minecraft clone built in Minetest. It has mobs, items, etc, farming, the lot of it. I hope you'll give that a try as well, since it'd be closer to a minetest experience. Also, don't try and find the bottom of the world. It's very very deep. 1000 depth is not even barely scratching the surface.

You should try Scrap Mechanic stuff next! It's a $20 game and I think you'd enjoy the mechanics, as they are really simple and easy to learn. There are also many mods, so you can have more parts, aerodynamics, etc.

That was fun. I'd genuinely enjoy seeing you play more of this game, even though it looks like a really close clone of MC.

6:33 is a perfect summary of the accidental termination of just about anything new when it falls into the hands of the human race 🤣

I'm so happy you covered this game! This game offers more freedom than Minecraft and I urge everyone who didn't like the new chat reporting system to consider this game/engine. The massive amounts of mods for Minetest is great.

I believe Minetest is generally considered a game engine, upon which other Minecraft-like games are built.

Minetest content, but doing redstone stuff (Mese stuff) is nice idea. I hope i can watch more stuff like this soon. :D

This is super fun! I'd actually REALLY enjoy watching you experiment and discover more..seeing what you come up with. You might get cross-pollinating ideas/inspiration too. Anyway, I think this was fascinating!

The "oh gosh" after Mumbo murdered a a poor innocent butterfly made me DIE of laughter, was hilarious

You should definitely play more minetest in future. Especially looking at more of the mods and maybe seeing how close a redstone mod is to minecraft redstone.

oh my goodness. i remember mine test because i used to have it on my computers in both elementary and high school because we had linux computers. brings me right back

I have played minetest more than minecraft, so easy to use, lots of very cool mods and very easy to make friends in the multiplayer servers.

Minetest is pretty great, at least in theory. Everything is a mod, and the mods are written in Lua instead of a made-up scripting language. And the world height is sixteen bit. You can literally dig your way to the Nether instead of using a portal.

I remember playing a mobile game called Survivalcraft which, to be fair while a Minecraft clone it had a lot of unique features. The "redstone" there was cool too as it was legitimately just actual wires, and you could make actual logic gate blocks with them.

A new Mumbo upload honestly just brings so much joy! Brightens my day and makes it better!

The darkness levels are actually super cool in this game, that was actually scary when you got to that huge dark area

Hey hey! It's good to see more people discover free and open source Minecraft 😁

Nice! Minetest!

minetest is seen more like a platform for server admins to build upon than a complete game experience, basically modders heaven

I actually played minetest before purchasing minecraft back in like 2013 or maybe earlier than that.. it was around version 1.7.2 that I started minecraft. There are a bunch of mods that add so much to minetest.. including dropping blocks when mined so you have to pick them up like in minecraft.. some mobs.. tons of new ores and quasi-dimensions, etc. It is definitely worth playing if you grab the mods that enhance the game in a way you would like to play it. Mods are relatively easy to edit, as I seem to recall it uses LUA as a programming language instead of java. It has been many years, however, so my memory may be off. In any case you will likely have times when you want to play it again, I am sure.

MineTest actually has an easy to install mod pack called MineClone2 that is really close to Minecraft! Monsters, redstone and all. Mumbo should definitely review that instead of the basic MineTest game.

I can't believe Mumbo is quitting Minecraft for Minetest perminently!

Minetest is an engine for the most part and theres a mod called Mineclone2 and Mineclone5 which try their best to imatate Minecraft is much as possible.

Excited to see Mumbo's soft launch of becoming a minetest youtuber!

When I first played minecraft I didn’t know anything. I played for about 4 months with Leather Armour and Stone Tools until I found what I described to my friend as a “mushroom coloured block”. And that, my friend. Was Iron. He had never come across it either somehow. So we found this, and I mined it and got some iron. If I ever get my family or another friend to play minecraft for the first time I want them to have that kind of experience. Where they have no clue what’s going on. So they might stay with Leather Armour and Stone Tools for months before they find iron. I’d made sure they don’t turn the recipe book on as well. I personally think that ruined the discovery part of the game.