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[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Are there any mods for it? How's performance compared to minecraft?

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 28 points 4 months ago (1 children)

My brother in Christ, the entire game is mod based. The default unmaintained Minetest Game isn't even preinstalled in new versions.

Performance wise it will blow Minecraft out of the water usually. However, keep in mind it still doesn't scale between cores very well. Before it was all single core but now it has support for multi core although performance is still limited on high core count CPUs.

[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Can it do splitscreen natively without requiring things a 5 year old couldn't do?

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 11 points 4 months ago

Not without significant modifications. The best way for now is to have a server with multiple client devices such as tablets.

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago

Performance depends on the mod. I have a server in my house that has a Minecraft and Minetest server installed so we can play locally. The Minetest server is extremely laggy. Rubberbanding all the time. But we play it more than Minecraft.