Minetest 5.5.0, an open-source, cross-platform version of Minecraft, is released. It allows groups of players to collaborate by creating various structures from standard blocks, creating a virtual world resembling a sandbox. The game is written in C++ using the irrlicht 3D engine. Lua is used for creating extensions. Minetest's code is licensed under the LGPL, and the game assets are licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. Minetest builds are available for various distributions. Linux, Android, FreeBSD, Windows и macOS.
Improvements added include:
- The transition to using our own fork of the Irrlicht game engine has been completed, which has resolved many issues related to text input, working in full-screen mode, and platform support. macOS and graphics output.
- To compress maps, the Zstd algorithm is used, which made it possible to speed up the generation of maps by 20-30%.
- Support for the Dynamic Media API has been added to the Formspec and Lua APIs and an encoder for the PNG format has been implemented.
- Work has been done on the implementation of dynamic shadows, which will be included in the next release.
- Added performance optimizations.
- Implemented translations into Russian and Ukrainian.
Source: opennet.ru
