Minetest 5.7.0 has been released, a free cross-platform sandbox game engine that allows you to create various voxel buildings, survive, dig for minerals, grow crops, etc. The game is written in C++ using the IrrlichtMt 3D library (a fork of Irrlicht 1.9-dev). The main feature of the engine is that the gameplay is completely dependent on a set of mods created in the Lua language and installed by the user through the built-in ContentDB installer or through the forum. The Minetest code is licensed under the LGPL, and the game resources are licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. Ready builds are created for various distributions of Linux, Android, FreeBSD, Windows and macOS.
The update is dedicated to the developer Jude Melton-Hought, who died in February, who made a significant contribution to the development of the project. Main changes in the new version:
- Added post-processing framework with several visual effects such as bloom and dynamic exposure. These effects, like the shadows, are also controlled by the server (can be enabled / disabled, configured by the mod). Post-processing will help make it easier to create new effects in the future, such as rays, lens effects, reflections, etc.
- Significantly increased map rendering performance, allowing map blocks to be rendered up to 1000 nodes away.
- Improved quality of shadows, tone map. Added setting to adjust saturation.
- Added support for spinning hitboxes for entities.
- Removed the default binding of pitchmove to the P key.
- Added an API to get information about the game screen size.
- Worlds with unresolved dependencies are no longer loaded.
- The Development Test game is no longer distributed by default, as it is intended for developers. This game can now only be installed via ContentDB.
- Minetest has been temporarily removed from Google Play due to the fact that Mineclone was added to the Android version build, after which the developers received a notification from Google about the content of illegal content that violates DCMA. The developers are currently working on this issue. The developers accidentally added the Mineclone game to the Minetest build for android and received a notification from Google that it contains illegal content that violates the DCMA. That's why Minetest was removed from Google Play. That's all I know.
Source: opennet.ru