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, some only 16 (eg.snowballs).
• 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 (and cannot make a breathing room), and don't stick on ceilings.
• There is no screwdriver, so tiles cannot be rotated after placing.
  Also, slabs cannot be placed vertically as walls.
• 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 beware - this might be a server-setting !

Mobs

Mobs can spawn on trees, and inside player-houses. Monsters prefer darkness.
Mobs can also move thru teleporters and portals.
Some animals can be tamed and breed, with food.

Friendly/Animals

(they 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 - dies with a loud squeak.
• 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.
• Llama - ('Mountain-sheep') - drops leather, no meat.
• Donkey - gray, long ears - drops leather.
• Horse - colored, short ears - drops leather. Can be tamed, saddled, ridden, wear horse-armor.
  Can jump up to 5 blocks.
• Mule - colored, long ears - drops leather. Appears when breeding a horse with a donkey.

Monsters/neutral

(neutral: hostile only when attacked)

• Wolf - if attacked, other wolves in range also attack! Can be tamed with bones.
  Tame wolves fight against mobs the player has attacked.
• Icebear - drops fish.
• Skeleton-horse - harmless, drops bones.
• Enderman - (slow, black, long arms&legs) - drops ender-pearl.

Monsters

(some are hostile only at night, or when attacked)

• Zombie - slow, drops rotten meat (disgusting / poisonous) and rarely other stuff (carrot, potato...).
• 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.
Those babies can also enter houses thru 1x1 openings !

• Spider - drops strings, and spider-eyes. Strings can be crafted into wool.
• Skeleton - shoots arrows. Drops bones, bows, arrows.
• 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.

Nether

Monsters in nether-dimension: (iron armor or better is recommanded here)

• Magma cube - (like darkgray slimes) - drop magma-cream.
• Blazes - (Floating, rotating) shoots fireballs, drop blaze-rods.
• Skeleton - with sword
• Zombie-Pigman - (neutral?) fights with golden sword - drops rotten meat and sometimes gold nuggets.
• Iron Golem - (neutral?) drops poppies and iron ingots.
• Ghast - (big 4x4x4, white, flying) shoots exploding bullets. Drops ghast-tears.
• ..

End

Monsters in end-dimension: (not yet finished - eg. no ender-dragon)

• Shulker - (pink box) rapid shooter. Drops shulker-shell. Best attacked with bow&arrows.
• lots of endermen

..more...

Blocks

Plants

• 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

• 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 (8).
Flowing blocks likewise generate flowing blocks, but each with one less height.

Stones

• • Dirt: normal, coarse, podzol, mycelium. Also dirt with grass/gardenpath or snow.
  • Stone/Cobblestone, mossy cobblestone.
    Can be crafted into blocks, slabs, stairs...
  • Andesite, Diorite, Granite
    Can be crafted into polished, and slab variants.
  • Bedrock - not minable, bottom of the overworld.
  • Obsidian - A lava-source is converted to obsidian when it meets water. Needed for portals, and ender-chests.
  • 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 crafted into sandstone, cut sandstone or smelted into glass.
  • Gravel - falls down, can drop flint. Can be mixed with dirt to make coarse dirt.
  • Concrete-powder - falls down (crafted from 4 sand, 4 gravel, 1 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.
• Packed ice - dito

Ore

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

• Nether-dimension (hot, mostly red - no water)
  • Netherrack - red, like stone, but easier to dig. Can be smelted & crafted into nether-bricks.
  • Soulsand - brown - slows movement. Needed to grow netherwarts.
  • Netherquartz - like iron ore. Can be crafted into quartz-blocks.
  • Glowstone - glows brightly, drops as glowstone-powder (like clay).
  • Magma - hot as lava, but not a liquid.

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

• 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.

Items & 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.
      Contents can be accessed in protected areas !
      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 --> 66 items a 15s).
  • Bottle - can contain 1/3 block of water.

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

• • Book&Quill - player can make notes by entering some text.
  • Firestarter - make fire, and activate portals

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

• • Saddle - cannot be crafted
  • Horse-Armor - iron, gold, diamond. Can only be used on horses.
  • Carrot-on-a-stick -

• • Bonemeal - grows grass and flowers, advances growth stages of wheat and some other plants
    Also useful 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, but is a renewable resource.
  • Planks - Craft: 1 wood --> 4 planks
  • Bark
  • Sticks - for tools, torches, ladders, fences, levers etc. 2 planks --> 4 sticks.
  • 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 of 15 chars.
  • Bookshelf - has no inventory-space.
  • Item-frame - can store&display one item, eg. as wall-decoration.
  • Boat - move over water faster then swimming

• 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 and 'fences'.
  • bottles

• Items from iron (see also tools, armor)
  • Bucket, shears
  • Door, trapdoor - iron doors can only be operated by a redstone-signal, eg. button or lever.
  • Iron bars - used for chain-armor, windows and 'fences'
  • Steelblock - needed for anvil
  • 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 much 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 is on it.
    • Redstone-repeater / delayer - forward an incoming redstone-signal, with delay 0.1s .. 0.4s

As opposed to minecraft, redstone-signals here dont have a strength, and no range-limit. There is also no redstone-comparator (yet?).

• • 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 - can also output an item ...

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

• • Fun:
    • Jukebox - plays a music-cd (eg. found in a treasure-chest, or from an admin-shop)
    • Noteblock - plays a note when clicked - needs a redstone-signal to work, and air above it.

Sound-effect depends on the block under the noteblock:

• glass - Sticks
• wood - Bass guitar
• stone - Bass drum
• sand, gravel - snare drum
• other - piano

Rightclick to change the note (24 halftones available = 2 octaves),
Leftclick to play.

• • 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/no damage)

Traps

Most traps rely on area-protection, otherwise it would be easy to disable them, or dig them out.

• Simple deathfall

• Iron doors

• Pistons

• Teleporter-pad

...

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, 'Mesa'-clay ...)
• Weather: Snow, Rain, Lightning (causes fires)
• Generated structures:
  • Mobspawners in small dungeons (rooms of mossy cobblestone), often with random treasure-chests.
  • Old/abandoned mines with wooden beams&torches, rails and sometimes treasure-chests.
• Nether - below depth -28900. To reach, use an upright portal.
  The nether also has bedrock at the bottom, at -28945.
• the End - below depth -26900. To reach, use a horizontal portal. (The programming for this part is not yet finished).

Spoiler

Inspired by minecraft, there is supposed to be a 'story', were players have to reach&defeat 'the end'.

To find/make/repair a portal to go to the end-dimension, they need eyes-of-ender.

To make those, they need ender-pearls and blaze-powder.

Ender-pearls come from endermen, blaze-powder comes from blazes in the nether.

To make portals to the nether, they need steel&flint and obsidian.

To mine obsidian, they need diamonds, to make a diamond-pickaxe.

Everything else is a bonus...