Games/VoxeLibre/Differences from Minetest Game

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For players familar with Minetest Game, this is a list of differences when playing MineClone 2 :

(As observed on Mark Server - MC2-Survival, 2019-12 .. 2020-02)

Apperance

• Graphics and textures
• sight underwater is very poor
• Sounds
• HUD - the hotbar is the bottom row

Control & Inventory

• Digging - the player must use proper tool/weapon (otherwise no effect, or no drops).
  E.g. you can break stones by hand (slowly), but then you get no drops.
• Picking up stuff - nearby stuff is collected 'magnetically'.
  That also means, you have to throw away unwanted stuff.
• Inventory - size is 4x9, Stack limit is only 64 for most items.
• Crafting - player's crafting grid is only size 2×2, and doesn't work as inventory space.
  E.g. after crafting, its contents are put back into inventory, or dropped (if the inventory is full).
• Eating - put food on hotbar, eat it with rightclick.
• Torches - cannot be placed in water.
• Death - the player is moved back to spawn (or last used bed), at full health, with inventory intact.
  Note: documentation says that inventory is lost / dropped to floor !
  So, this might be a server-setting.

Mobs

Mobs can spawn on trees, and inside player-houses. Monsters prefer darkness.

• Friendly/Animals (they all drop different, edible kinds of meat):
  • Rabbit - easy to kill, drops rabbit-hide. These hides can be crafted into leather.
  • Chicken - lays eggs & drops feathers / meat must be cooked. Can be tamed with wheat-seeds.
  • Pig
  • Sheep - drops wool (white, gray, lightgray, black, brown). Can be tamed with wheat.
  • Cow - gives milk (use bucket), drops leather. Can be tamed with wheat.
    Can be milked several times each day.
  • Donkey - drops leather.
  • Mule - drops leather.
  • Horse - drops leather. Can be tamed, saddled, ridden, wear horse-armor.
  • Lama - ('Mountain-sheep') - drops leather.

• Monsters: (some are hostile only at night, or when attacked)
  • Zombie - slow, drops rotten meat (disgusting / poisonous)
  • Husk - another zombie-type. Moves faster, drops rotten meat.

Both also come baby-sized, which can be hard to see among grass, or in corners

• • Wolf - if attacked, other wolves in range also attack! Can be tamed with bones.
  • Icebear - drops fish.
  • Spider - drops strings, and spider-eyes. Strings can be crafted into wool.
  • Skeleton - shoots arrows. Drops bones, bows, arrows.
  • Skeleton-horse - harmless, drops bones.
  • Creeper - (green-blue, silent) explodes. This costs about half the players health !
    Drops gunpowder when killed in time.
  • Slimes - (bouncing green cubes) underground. Big slimecubes split into 4 smaller cubes. Drop slimeballs.
    slimeballs can be crafted into slimeblocks.
  • Enderman - (slow, black, long arms&legs) - drops ender-pearl.

• Monsters in nether-dimension:
  • Magma cube - (like darkgray slimes) nether-dimension, drop magma-cream.
  • Blazes - (Floating, rotating) Drop blaze-rods.
  • ..
  • ...
  • ..

• Monsters in end-dimension: (not yet finished)
  • Shulker - (pink box) rapid shooter. Drops shulker-shell. Best attacked with bow&arrows.

..more...

Blocks

• Plants
  • Trees: Acacia, Birch, Oak, Dark Oak, Jungle, Spruce.
    Trees grow bigger with age, and may grow vines.
  • Saplings for each type of tree
  • Leaves - need shears to collect them.
    So, for new players they are not usable as cheap fuel.
  • Vines - can be climbed - Need shears to collect them.
  • Cobwebs - slow down movement, like fluids. Need shears to collect them (otherwise drop as strings),
  • Apples - drop randomly from oak leaves and dark oak leaves.
    So, apples are not visible on a tree.
  • Flowers - Give various dyes:
    • Rose-red: Rosebush, red tulip, Poppy Also: Beetroot
    • Dandelion-yellow: Dandelion, sunflower
    • Pink: Peony, Pink tulip
    • Orange: orange tulip
    • Magenta: Allium, Lilac
    • Light blue: blue orchid
    • light-grey: white tulip, azure bluet, oxeye daisy
  • Other sources for dye:
    • white: bonemeal
    • grey : bonemeal + ink-sac
    • black: ink-sac

• • • cactus-green: cactus
    • lime: cactus-green + bonemeal
    • blue: lapis-lazuli
    • cyan: lapis-lazuli + cactus-green
    • purple: lapis-lazuli + rose-red
    • brown: cocoa-beans

• • Food-plants - grow on farmland (use hoe on dirt):
    • Wheat - drops wheat & wheat-seeds. Can be crafted to bread without furnace.
      Also: cookies, pie, haybale
    • Beetroot - drops beetroot & beetroot-seeds. Gives red dye, and beetroot-soup.
    • Carrot - drops itself, is its own seed.
    • Potato - drops itself, is its own seed. Can be baked.
      Sometimes, a poisonous potato shows up !
    • Melon - drops melon-slices
      Melon-slices can be crafted into melon-seeds, or whole melons.
    • Pumpkin - ..
      Can be crafted into pumpkin-cake or Jack-o-lantern
  • Sugar-cane - grows next to water. Can be processed into sugar, paper, books, book&quill.
    'Next to' means directly adjacent !
  • Cocoa-beans - grows on the sides of jungle-trees/wood. Gives brown dye. Also cookies.
  • golden apple - craftable from gold-nuggets & apple
  • golden carrot - craftable from gold-nuggets & carrot
  • glistening melon - craftable from gold-nuggets & melon-slice
  • Cactus - grows on sand - hurts nearby players & animals. Gives green dye.
  • Tall grass and fern - randomly drop wheat seeds
  • Dead bushes - drop sticks
  • Red & brown mushrooms - with bowl, can be made into a soup
  • Giant mushrooms - grow like trees, drop small mushrooms
  • Chorus-fruit

• Liquids - come as 'source' and 'flowing'.
  • Water
  • Lava

A source-block generates flowing blocks on empty surrounding spaces, and below. These flowing blocks have a height less then a full block.
Flowing blocks likewise generate flowing blocks, but with less height.

• Stones
  • Dirt: normal, coarse, podzol, mycelium. Also dirt with grass/gardenpath or snow.
  • Stone/Cobblestone, mossy cobblestone, Andesite, Diorite, Granite ...
    Can be crafted into blocks, slabs, stairs...
  • Bedrock - not minable, bottom of the overworld.
  • Obsidian - A lava-source is converted to obsidian when it meets water. Needed for portals, an ender-chest.
  • Clay - When mined, drops as 4 balls of clay.
    They can be made into bricks, colored/hardened clay, terracotta, glazed terracotta.
  • Concrete - can be made from concrete-powder and water.
• Unstable
  • Sand: yellow, red - falls down, can be made into sandstone, or smelted into glass.
  • Gravel - falls down, can drop flint.
  • Concrete-powder - falls down (crafted from sand, gravel, dye).

Caution: sand or other stuff that ends up at the same location as the players head, will cause suffocation (as in 'drowning') !
Also: Piston, bed & teleporter-pad without enough headroom.

• Snow - drops snowballs. (Eg. when you dig the block underneath, eg. dirt or leaves)
• Ice - cannot be collected. With light (other than sun), melts into a water-source.

• Ore
  • Coal, Iron, Gold, Diamonds, Lapis-lazuli, Redstone

• Nether-dimension (hot, mostly red - no water)
  • Netherrack, Soulsand, Netherquartz, Glowstone

• End-dimension (dark static, mostly pale yellow - beware the endless void ! )
  • Endstone

• Teleporters and Portals
  • Teleporter-pad - You can set its name, and select a destination.
  • Portals have to be built from obsidian, and activated with a firestarter.
    • Nether-portal: upright frame 4x5
    • End-portal: horizontal frame 3x3, with 12 eyes of ender on top.

• Equipment
  • Crafting table (3×3 crafting grid)
    Has no built-in storage (as in xdecor).
  • Furnace - cook meat, smelt ore - Has only 1 output slot.
    But see also hopper.
  • Anvil - to repair tools, weapons and armor & name items (eg. nametag to put on tame animals)
    For repairing, put in the damaged item and matching material, eg. leather helm + leather.
  • Cauldron - can hold water
  • Flowerpot
  • Chests
    • regular: size 9x3
      Same size as player's inventory.
    • large chest (double-size) , size 9x6 - place 2 regular chests next to each other.
    • trapped chest - 9x3. No trap inside, but gives a redstone-signal when opened. Also double-sized.
    • Shulkerbox - 9x3, purple portable 'backpack'. Can be colored.
      The contents can be accessed in protected areas !
      Caution: Only change the color of an empty shulkerbox, or contents get lost !

• • • Ender chest - private storage for each player, accessable from each enderchest.
    • Wifi storage - Caution: gets destroyed by digging !
    • Hopper - 5 inventory-slots, see below under machines.
      Can also repair items.
    • Smartshop - sell upto 4 types of item.
    • Armor-stand - can hold one set of armor.
  • Mob-Spawner - not craftable, appear in random dungeons.

• Weapons and Tools
  • Torch - doesn't stick to the ceiling, and not in/under water.
    Also, washed away by flowing water !
  • Sword (Wood, Stone, Iron, Gold, Diamond)
  • Bow and Arrows (needs wood, string, flint, feathers)

• • Bowl - make soup/stew from mushrooms, beetroot, and rabbit stew.
  • Bucket - collect liquids or milk.
    Lava is a good furnace-fuel (burns 1000s = 16m40s).
  • Bottle - can contain 1/3 block of water

• • Shears - collect vines, leaves, grass, fern, wool from sheep.
  • Lookup tool - show help for whatever you're pointing
  • Hoe - to change dirt into farmland

• • Book&Quill
  • Firestarter - make fire, and activate portals

• • Compass - points to coordinates 0,0 when used on hotbar.
  • Map - allows to activate the minimap (must be on hotbar, press F9)
  • Clock - shows the time-of-day at the overworld, as the positions of sun and moon on the dial.

• • Saddle
  • Carrot-on-a-stick
  • Horse-Armor - iron, gold, diamond

• • Bonemeal - grows grass and flowers, advances growth stages of wheat and some other plants
    Also used as dye.
  • Boneblock - 9 compressed bonemeal

• Armor: Helm (5), Breastplate (8), Leggings (7), Boots (4), from leather, iron, chain, gold, diamonds

• Wooden items:
  • Charcoal - burns longer than wood. Works like coal, from a renewable source.
  • Planks
  • Bark
  • Sticks - for tools, torches, ladders, fences, levers etc.
  • Doors & trapdoors
  • Slabs, Stairs
  • Ladder
  • Fence & Fencegate - cant be jumped over with a single jump
    So, it can keep monsters out and tamed animals in.
  • Bowl - for soup & stew.
  • Buttons, Levers, Pressure plates
  • Sign - can show 4 lines of text with 15 chars.
  • Bookshelf - has no inventory-space
  • Item-frame - can store&display one item, eg. as wall-decoration.
  • Boat

• Items from wool - can be colored with dye.
  • Carpet - mobs dont spawn on carpet ?
  • Bed - Sleeping in it skips night&thunderstorm. Also sets player's respawn-point after dying.
  • Banners - in many colors

• Glass - different colors. Caution: digging glass destroys it !
  • glass-panes - for windows
  • bottles

• Items from iron (see also tools, armor)
  • Bucket, shears
  • Door, trapdoor - iron doors can only be operated by the area-owner, or by a redstone-signal.
  • Iron bars - used for chain-armor
  • Steelblock
  • Anvil

• Rails and Minecarts
  • normal rails, powered rails, detector-rails
    Caution: water washes rails away !
  • Tip: carry a 2nd minecart, in case the 1st runs away !

• Redstone (somewhat like mese, but more common)
  • Switches:
    • Button - gives a short redstone-signal when rightclicked.
    • Pressure-plate - gives a redstone-signal while someone stands on it.
    • Lever - can turn a redstone-signal on&off.
    • Redstone-torch - inverts the redstone-signal of the block it is attached to.
    • Daylight-sensor - gives a redstone-signal depending on day/night.
    • Trapped chest - gives a redstone-signal when opened.
    • Observer - gives a redstone-signal when the observed, adjacent block changes.
    • Detector-rail - gives a redstone-signal when a minecart passes.
    • Redstone-repeater / delayer - forward an incoming redstone-signal, with delay 0.1s .. 0.4s
  • Machines that react to a redstone-signal:
    • Doors, Trapdoors - open&close.
    • Hopper - get & put items from/in chests&furnaces. 5 inventory-slots.
      A redstone-signal turns the hopper off.
    • Piston: regular, sticky - move (and pull) adjecent block
      Can cause suffocation !
    • Redstone-lamp - lights up when powered by a redstone-signal.
    • Deployer - Places/shoots/drops an item from its inventory. Exact action depends on itemtype.
    • Dropper -

Note: some of these can be used to build traps !

Hopper: At a rate of about 1 per second, it sucks in items from the block above, and feeds them to a block with an inventory below or to the side.
This output-direction must be set when placing it (can be seen at the tip of the funnel).

So, a hopper above a furnace feeds stuff into the furnace's inputslot (and gets items from a chest above),
a hopper below a furnace gets the items from the furnace's output (and puts them into a chest below),
and a hopper at the side of the furnace feeds into the fuelslot.
A redstone-signal, eg. from a lever, stops the hopper from moving items.
So, to automate cooking&smelting, we need 1 furnace, 3 hoppers and 2+ chests.

• • Signs, Billboards and banners
  • Protection API support (needs sepa itemtype.rate protection mod)
    • Protection-block - secure an area, and chests within that range

• • Useless Stuff (purely decorative / in current version - but maybe I missed some details :)
    • Rabbit's foot
    • Spider eye & fermented spider eye
    • rotten meat (poisonous)
    • Zombie-heads (gray, green)
    • Bookshelf - digging it only gives a book
    • Cauldron & waterbottles
    • Snow/snowballs (no effect)
  • Fun:
    • Jukebox - plays a music-cd (eg. from admin-shop)
    • Noteblock - plays a note when clicked - needs a redstone-signal to work

Builtin Mods

• Help and lookup tool - Shows info about blocks, tools, etc.
• Hunger - Player needs to eat
• Achievements
• (TNT turned off)

World

• Worldsize
  • clouds are at height 64
  • bedrock is at depth -64
• Mapgenerator
  • lots of sliced-up landscapes (eg. hills/islands cut in half)
  • Waterfalls, Lavafalls
  • some new biomes (eg. with giant mushrooms)
• Weather: Snow, Rain, Lightning (causes fires)
• Generated structures:
  • Mobspawners in small dungeons, often with random chests.
  • Old mines with wooden beams, rails and sometimes chests.
• Nether - below depth -28900. To reach, use an upright portal.
• the End - below depth -26900. To reach, use a horizontal portal. (The programming is not yet finished)