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, 2019-12 .. 2020-02)

Apperance

Graphics and textures
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 !

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.
- Lama ('Mountain-sheep').
- Cow - gives milk (use bucket), drops leather. Can be tamed with wheat.
- Donkey - drops leather
- Mule
- Horse

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Monsters: (some are hostile only at night, or when attacked)
- Zombie - slow, drops rotten meat (it's disgusting!)
- xxx - another zombie-type

They also come baby-sized, which can be hard to see among grass

- 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
- Creeper - explodes. This costs about half the players health !
- Slimes - underground. Big slimecubes split into 4 smaller cubes.
- Magma cube
- Enderman (black, long arms&legs) - drops ender-pearl.
- Shulker - rapid shooter. Drops shulker-shell. Best attacked with bow&arrows.

..lots more...

Blocks

Plants
- Trees: Acacia, Birch, Oak, Dark Oak, Jungle, Spruce.
  Trees grow bigger with age.
- 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: red: yellow: white: blue: sunflower ... Give various dyes.
- Food-plants - grow on farmland (use hoe on dirt):
  - Wheat - drops wheat & wheat-seeds. Can be crafted to bread without furnace.
  - 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.
  - Pumpkin
  - Melon
- Sugar-cane - grows near water. Can be processed into sugar, paper, books.
- Cacoa-beans - grows on sides of jungle-trees. Gives brown dye. Also cookies.
- Cactus - grows on sand - hurts nearby players & animals. Gives green dye.
- Tall grass and fern - drops 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

Stones
- Dirt: normal, coarse, podzol, ...
- 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
- Clay - can be made into bricks, colored/hardened clay, terracotta, glazed terracotta
- Concrete
- Sand: yellow, red - falls down, can be made into sandstone
- Gravel - falls down, can drop flint

Caution: sand or other stuff that ends up at the same location as the players head, will cause suffocation (as in 'drowning') !

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
- Portal has to be built from obsidian, and activated with a firestarter

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 püt on tame animals)
- Chests
  - regular: size 9x3
    So, the players inventory doesn't fit into one chest
  - 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 - portable 'backpack'. Can be colored.
  - Ender chest - private storage for each player, accessable from each enderchest
  - Wifi storage - Caution: gets destroyed by digging !
  - Smartshop - sell upto 4 types of item

Weapons and Tools
- Torch - doesn't stick to the ceiling, and not in water
- Sword (Wood, Stone, Iron, Gold, Diamond)
- Bow and Arrows (needs Wood, String, Flint, Feathers)
- Bowl - make soup from mushrooms or beetroot
- Bucket - collect liquids or milk
- Shears - collect wool from sheep, vines, leaves, grass, fern
- Lookup tool - show help for whatever you're pointing
- Hoe - to change dirt into farmland
- Firestarter
- Saddle
- Carrot-on-a-stick
- Horse-Armor - iron, gold, diamond
- Bonemeal - grows grass and flowers, advances growth stages of wheat and some other plants
Armor: Helm (5), Breastplate (8), Leggings (7), Boots (4)
Wooden items:
- Planks
- Sticks - for tools, torches, levers etc.
- Doors & trapdoors
- Slabs, Stairs
- Fence & Fencegate
- Buttons, Levers, Pressure plates
Glass for windows - different colors. Caution: digging glass destroys it !

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 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
  - Dropper -
  - Deployer -
- Fun:
  - Jukebox - plays a music-cd (eg. from admin-shop)
  - Noteblock - plays a note when clicked - needs a redstone-signal

- Signs, Billboards and banners
- Protection API support (needs separate protection mod)
  - Protection-block - secure an area, and chests within that range

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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
Nether - below depth -28900. To reach, use an upright portal.
the End - below depth -26900. To reach, use an horizontal portal
Weather: Snow, Rain, Lightning (causes fires)

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