This is NOT Minecraft… ?!

What if a group of hobby coders could make a better version of minecraft than mojang can i mean it’s been over 13 years now and even with the controversy surrounding mojing’s more recent decisions minecraft’s player base is still continuing to grow as of the time of this video over 170 million people

Have played minecraft in just the past 30 days with 2022 being on track for one of the most active years yet even comparing those numbers to 2019 where only 60 million people were playing you can see that minecraft’s continued growth is plain as day it’s probably not

A shock to hear then that tons of trend followers have tried to cash in on minecraft’s continued success minecraft clones like pocketcraft fortresscraft or worldcraft they really aren’t trying to hide it might look like minecraft at a superficial level but as soon as you actually start playing these

Games the lack of content and polish becomes really obvious i mean let’s take a look at the google play store the fifth most popular free game right now is one of the most blatant minecraft ripoffs i’ve ever seen i’m pretty sure they’re just using actual minecraft screenshots and

Wait that’s taco bell did they take illegal renders from the minecraft wiki and badly photoshop them onto a picture of taco bell minecraft clones like this only have one purpose to smother you with as many in-game ads as humanly possible so what would the opposite of one of these cash

Grabs be well i’m glad you asked because that’s the topic of today’s video and it’s called mind test what makes mind test different from those knock-offs is that it’s actually an entirely free open-source platform that fosters a dedicated community of coding hobbyists instead of just trying to be yet another

Minecraft but filled with ads and what they’ve managed to achieve is nothing short of impressive yo you know how i launched a youtubes at the beginning of this month yeah i’m kind of a month late here but it’s cool because they’re due to ship in november

So we’re good i worked closely with the youtube’s design team to come up with the perfect figure and the perfect box art this dungeon design is actually the same dungeon where i completed hunt for the golden apple in am i dating myself by saying that anyways if you’ve enjoyed my content

Throughout the years consider checking out my youtubes by heading on over to the link in the description down below i didn’t drop it does anything seem off about some of the footage that we’ve used so far if so great eye all of the minecraft footage you’ve seen so far has actually been

Mind test with a texture pack we manually ripped from minecraft did we trick any of you let me know in the comments so what is mind test i mean it’s got mine in the name is it trying to be a one-to-one minecraft clone in sort of a rip-off grey area not really no

Here let me give you some context vanilla minecraft is a game i’ve spent literally thousands of hours playing but if you asked me why minecraft has stood the test of time i would say this community made content i mean when you’ve got everything from using

Redstone to open up a door up to command block wizards making playable game boys with pokemon red on them it really seems like you can create literally anything with mojang’s block game but just because minecraft feels limitless doesn’t mean it actually is java edition for example doesn’t allow for you to

View or modify the source code directly in order to make more drastic modifications you’re forced to rely on third party decompilers to literally rip up the game stuff extra code inside mash it all back together and hope that the game actually launches third-party apis such as forge fabric and quilt make this

Process bearable for modders but it’s messy breaks with major updates and most importantly is not officially supported by mojang but with the introduction of minecraft bedrock edition mojang made the process of downloading new content a lot easier with the minecraft marketplace for the three of you who actually prefer it unfortunately the

Creation of bedrock edition also split up the player base which caused creators to have to make a choice which version of minecraft to create for java or bedrock these two versions run off completely different languages that being java and c plus respectively these two handle code in completely different

Ways making it nearly impossible or extremely time consuming to convert content between different versions that’s why mojang has two separate teams to handle that exact problem by now you might be thinking okay but what does any of this have to do with mind test that’s just another block game right well no

Over on the official website mindtest categorizes itself as an open source voxel game engine that anyone can make content for basically where minecraft is trying to be a fully fledged game mind test is just trying to be a platform that’s as easy to expand and develop for

As possible so why does minetest exist in october of 2010 minetest was made as a challenge for their lead developer celeron 55 to see if he could rebuild minecraft from scratch and learn a bit more about how minecraft works but over time that morphed into a as he

Put it weird quest of trying to figure out what could be done that mojang wouldn’t do seeking to make mindtest as effortless as possible to create new content with mindtest uses a scripting language called lua to modify the code which is much easier than say learning java from

Scratch so let’s find out if minetest has gone beyond what a multi-billion dollar company is actually capable of when you first open mindtest the only game installed is fittingly titled mind test game it’s sort of like minecraft classic with modern world generation a bare-bones sandbox with nothing around

But blocks called nodes no mobs no achievements or anything of substance really mindtest game isn’t a game so much as a baseline for the community to modify in any way that they see fit and that’s where minetest really shines without leaving the game you’re able to install mods and resource packs and even

Entire separate game types from minetest dedicated content database just by clicking a button what’s also really cool about this is that minetest applies mods on a world to world basis letting you pick and choose the mods that you’ve already installed as you go how awesome would it be to not

Have to restart minecraft just to join a server with different mod requirements well with mindtest not only is that entirely possible but it’s a feature can you imagine just how much time people would save if mojing had some sort of deal with curseforge or modern that allowed for you to install mods directly

Within the game itself without even having to restart it sadly that probably won’t ever happen i mean in bedrock edition you have to restart your world just to change out your resource pack that’s actually a step backwards mindtest has even managed to find its way into the classrooms not unlike

Minecraft’s education edition besides being used in colleges in france and brazil to teach skills like mathematics and coding one group of creators were invited to cern yes that cern to tour the cern complex and to create craft the web a game that uses mine test to let

Its players reenact the invention of the world wide web mine’s this game engine and this game they are all going to be open source so you can just download it from from the internet and play it yourself and these different teams competed against each other to develop the technologies that were

Necessary to create the internet and yeah the one that’s fastest wins just think about that mind test has been endorsed by the world wide web’s literal inventors that’s just crazy but it’s not like mind test isn’t without some negatives however the fact that mind test is open source is a pretty serious double-edged

Sword unfortunately according to celeron about half of the minecraft clones that have plagued app stores in recent years have used mind test source code to make them seeing as i’ve shown how bare bones mind test by itself really is it makes sense that a bunch of rip-offs lack the

Content to make those rip-offs good mind test just isn’t meant to be a game all on its own not only that but mind test is supported by a community of creators who really aren’t in it for the money this is just a hobby for them and hobby

Projects have a tendency to have their support dropped once their creator loses interest minecraft’s mod community might have the same problems but minecraft’s core game will always be supported by microsoft and mojang unless they say otherwise which i wouldn’t bet on anytime soon so i think you’ve got the gist of what

Makes mind tests so interesting so now let’s check out some of the awesome stuff that’s been made using mindtast this game looks nothing like minecraft but rest assured it runs on minetest all the same this is little lady an exploration puzzle game that turns you into a

Ladybug and tasks you with gathering all the stars within a level it’s definitely a bit rough around the edges but the fact that this looks so drastically different than minecraft really showcases just how open mind test as a platform really is do you like games like city skylines or

Simcity then check out the aptly named build a city this game was made for a game jam over the course of one day so it’s pretty basic from a gameplay perspective but it goes to show that games that you can make can be so vastly different with minecast nodecraft takes a pretty interesting

Spin on the minecraft gameplay loop you have no inventory based crafting and have to figure out how to progress through trial and error using the overworld to craft your materials nodecraft seems to be pretty popular and it even has mods specifically for it so if you’re interested in a thought-provoking survival experience

Maybe check this one out so yeah minetest has just as much possibility as minecraft if not more so and that includes getting pretty darn close to being feature complete with the real deal so let’s get to what you’re actually interested in how close can mindtest get to replicating the

Minecraft experience if you ask me pretty darn close mineclone2 is exactly what it says in the name its job is to have one-to-one feature parody with minecraft specifically java edition version 1.12.2 and yeah it does by far the best job out of any minecraft clone that i’ve ever

Played it has the nether villages the end alongside endermen creepers and even more obscure recent additions such as abandoned nether portals all with complete multiplayer support with how similar this is to minecraft you’re gonna have to force yourself to remember that all of this was built from the

Ground up without using any of minecraft’s original code seriously i can’t imagine how much work it’s taken to get this far so how do i feel about mind test well mind test is a very interesting concept to me the fact that for over a decade there’s been an active community of

Hobbyists banning together to go beyond minecraft’s already extremely open design philosophy is amazing to see but let’s be real here mind test is not going to be replacing minecraft anytime soon but when you get down to it mindtest and minecraft both have the same goal to create an environment where

Our creativity can be let out and maybe even teach us a few things along the way and i think we can all agree that’s something that’s worth supporting so i hope you all enjoyed this video my name is ant venom thanks to caveman films for writing this video and thanks so much

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