MineClone2

Survive, farm, build, explore, play with friends, and do much more. Inspired by Minecraft, pushing beyond.

MineClone 2 is a survival sandbox game that is still a work in progress. Survive, gather, hunt, mine for ores, build houses, explore, and do much more. The goal of this project is to create a free clone (or imitation) of Minecraft.

Gameplay

You start in a randomly-generated world made entirely of cubes. You can explore the world and dig and build almost every block in the world to create new structures. You can choose to play in a “survival mode” in which you have to fight monsters and hunger for survival and slowly progress through the various other aspects of the game, such as mining, farming, building machines, and so on Or you can play in “creative mode” in which you can build almost anything instantly.

Gameplay summary

Sandbox-style gameplay, no goals
Survive: Fight against hostile monsters and hunger
Mine for ores and other treasures
Magic: Gain experience and enchant your tools
Use the collected blocks to create great buildings, your imagination is the limit
Collect flowers (and other dye sources) and colorize your world
Find some seeds and start farming
Find or craft one of hundreds of items
Build a railway system and have fun with minecarts
Build complex machines with redstone circuits
In creative mode you can build almost anything for free and without limits

How to play (quick start)

Getting started

Punch a tree trunk until it breaks and collect wood
Place the wood into the 2×2 grid (your “crafting grid” in your inventory menu and craft 4 wood planks
Place the 4 wood planks in a 2×2 shape in the crafting grid to make a crafting table
Rightclick the crafting table for a 3×3 crafting grid to craft more complex things
Use the crafting guide (book icon) to learn all the possible crafting recipes
Craft a wooden pickaxe so you can dig stone
Different tools break different kinds of blocks. Try them out!
Continue playing as you wish. Have fun!

Farming

Find seeds
Craft hoe
Rightclick dirt or similar block with hoe to create farmland
Place seeds on farmland and watch them grow
Collect plant when fully grown
If near water, farmland becomes wet and speeds up growth

Furnace

Craft furnace
Furnace allows you to obtain more items
Upper slot must contain a smeltable item (example: iron ore)
Lower slot must contain a fuel item (example: coal)
See tooltips in crafting guide to learn about fuels and smeltable items

Additional help

More help about the gameplay, blocks items and much more can be found from inside the game. You can access the help from your inventory menu.

Special items

The following items are interesting for Creative Mode and for adventure map builders. They can not be obtained in-game or in the creative inventory.

Barrier: mcl_core:barrier

Use the /giveme chat command to obtain them. See the in-game help for an explanation.

Project description

The main goal of MineClone 2 is to be a clone of Minecraft and to be released as free software.

Cloning the gameplay has highest priority
MineClone 2 will use different assets, but with a similar style
Limitations found in Minetest will be documented in the course of development
The version target of 1.12 is a thing of the past. There is currently no particular mc target version.

Forks

The mcl family consists besides mcl2 of these projects:

MineClone5 https://git.minetest.land/MineClone5/MineClone5. Mcl5 aims to always deliver the newsest features. Don't expect the most stable experience but it is generally playable well enough that there is a quite popular server running it. (kay27 and others)
Mineclonia is the antithesis to mcl5: It's primary goals are stability and performance. (erlehmann, Li0n and others)

Mods

Many seperate mods exist for Mineclone2+

Mineclone based mods (contentDB)

An official modpack of Mineclone2 also exist, known as Mineclone2-Plus (mcl2+)

Mineclone2-Plus git page

Mineclone2-Plus Master zip

Completion status

This game is currently in beta stage. It is playable, but not yet feature-complete. Backwards-compability is not entirely guaranteed, updating your world might cause small bugs. If you want to use the git version of MineClone2 the master branch is generally considered stable (if less tested than the release version).

Switching worlds between MineClone2 and Mineclonia should generally work fine (except for unknown nodes if a node is not in Mineclonia yet).

Worlds from MineClone5 are reported to have problems sometimes in both MineClone2 and Mineclonia.

Main Features

Tools, weapons
Armor
Crafting system: 2×2 grid, crafting table (3×3 grid), furnace, including a crafting guide
Chests, large chests, ender chests, shulker boxes
Furnaces, hoppers
Hunger
Most monsters and animals
All ores from Minecraft
Most blocks in the overworld
Water and lava
Weather
28 biomes
The Nether, a fiery underworld in another dimension
Redstone circuits (partially)
Minecarts (partial)
Status effects (partial)
Experience
Enchanting
Brewing, potions, tipped arrow (partial)
Boats
Fire
Buidling blocks: Stairs, slabs, doors, trapdoors, fences, fence gates, walls
Clock
Compass
Sponge
Slime block
Small plants and saplings
Dyes
Banners
Deco blocks: Glass, stained glass, glass panes, iron bars, hardened clay (and colors), heads and more
Item frames
Jukeboxes
Beds
Inventory menu
Creative inventory
Farming
Writable books
Commands
Villages
The End
And more!

The following features are incomplete:

Some monsters and animals
Redstone-related things
Special minecarts
A couple of non-trivial blocks and items

Bonus features (not found in Minecraft):

Built-in crafting guide which shows you crafting and smelting recipes
In-game help system containing extensive help about gameplay basics, blocks, items and more
Temporary crafting recipes. They only exist to make some otherwise unaccessible items available when you're not in creative mode. These recipes will be removed as development goes on an more features become available
Saplings in chests in mapgen v6
Fully moddable (thanks to Minetest's powerful Lua API)
New blocks and items:
* Lookup tool, shows you the help for whatever it touches
* More slabs and stairs
* Nether Brick Fence Gate
* Red Nether Brick Fence
* Red Nether Brick Fence Gate

Technical differences from Minecraft:

Height limit of ca. 31000 blocks (much higher than in Minecraft)
Horizontal world size is ca. 62000×62000 blocks (much smaller than in Minecraft, but it is still very large)
Still very incomplete and buggy
Blocks, items, enemies and other features are missing
A few items have slightly different names to make them easier to distinguish
Different music for jukebox
Different textures (Pixel Perfection)
Different sounds (various sources)
Different engine (Minetest)
Different easter eggs

… and finally, MineClone 2 is free software (“free” as in “freedom”)!

How To Install

Mineclone2 is a game built on the minetest engine. First you must install Minetest, more information found here:

Minetest (gemini mirror)

Minetest official webpage

Note: Minetest version must be 5.5 or above

After installing and running Minetest, the in-game Content tab can be used to automatically set up and install mineclone2.

However you can also install the game manually, Follow these steps to install mineclone2 from an archive:

1. Get the archive

2. Extract (or unzip) the archive into the the games sub-directory of Minetest. The location of this directory depends on your operating system:

GNU/Linux: $HOME/.minetest/games, where “$HOME” refers to your home directory.
Mac OS: $HOME/.minetest/games, where “$HOME” refers to your home directory.
Windows: into the games directory found in the main program folder in which you have installed Minetest. It is the directory containing the directories like bin (which in turn contains minetest.exe), builtin, client, doc, fonts, games, locale, mods, textures, etc.

The game should now be installed, and will be shown up the next time the main menu gamebar refreshes.