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, 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 meat):
- Rabbit - easy to kill, drops rabbit-hide.
- 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.
- 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.

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Blocks

Plants
- Trees: Acacia, Birch, Oak, Dark Oak, Jungle, Spruce.
  Trees grow bigger with age.
- Saplings for each type of tree
- Leaves - need shears to collect them.
  So, for new players not usable as cheap fuel.
- Vines - can be climbed - Need shears to collect them.
- 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
  - light-grey: white tulip, azure bluet, oxeye daisy
  - Magenta: Allium, Lilac
  - Light blue: blue orchid
- Other sources for dye:
  - white: bonemeal
  - cactus-green: cactus
  - lime: cactus-green + bonemeal
  - blue: lapis-lazuli
  - grey: bonemeal + ink-sac
  - cyan: lapis-lazuli + cactus-green
  - purple: lapis-lazuli + rose-red
  - brown: cocoa-beans
  - black: ink-sac

- 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 !
- Cacoa-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

Stones
- Dirt: normal, coarse, podzol, mycelium. Also 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 - is created when water meets a lava-source. Needed for portals, an ender-chest.
- Clay - can be made into bricks, colored/hardened clay, terracotta, glazed terracotta
- Concrete - can be made from concrete-powder and water.
- Sand: yellow, red - falls down, can be made into sandstone
- 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: Bed, teleporter without enough headroom.

Snow - drops snowballs. (Eg. when you dig the block underneath, eg. dirt or leaves)
Ice - cannot be collected

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

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)
- 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.
  - Shulkerbox - 9x3, purple portable 'backpack'. Can be colored.
    The contents can be accessed in protected areas !
  - 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.
  - Smartshop - sell upto 4 types of item
- 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.
- 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.

- 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, gold, diamonds

Wooden items:
- Charcoal - burns longer than wood.
- Planks
- 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
- Buttons, Levers, Pressure plates
- Sign - can have 3 short lines of text
- Bookshelf - has no inventory-space
- Boat

Items from wool - can be any color
- 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 for windows - different colors. Caution: digging glass destroys it !

Items from iron (see also tools, armor)
- bucket, shears
- door, trapdoor - can only be operated by the area-owner, or by a redstone-signal.
- steelblock

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 - repeat 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 when powered by a redstone-signal
  - Deployer - Place/shoot/drop an item from its inventory. Exact action depends on
  - 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 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, a hopper below a furnace gets the items from the furnace's output, and a hopper to the side of a 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

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. (programming not yet finished)