Is this Minecraft? 

MINETEST! www.minetest.net/ Thanks for your patience on the new vids! I dedicated myself to solving my pop/crackle audio issues that have persisted for years (and multiple PCs and operating systems!). Using a custom output on OBS worked, but it lead to some horrible issues where 3-4 seconds would be cut off the end of each clip... a nightmare for someone who records in 3-4 second clips 😭

So important thing to note is that Minetest is a bit more like an engine than a full game. The survival Minecraft-clone-thing is mainly a proof of concept.

It brings hope to my heart when I see that small indie developers can still come out with original game ideas like this.

Just wanted to point out, as someone who worked in the minetest community for years, the project focuses more on being a platform for people to make their own games (through modes or entire games made in it) and the basic subgames provided are generally very simplistic and just showcase basic code patterns. There's a lot more to check out!

Fun fact: worlds in this game actually go from 32k blocks down to 32k blocks up. Pretty insane!

Ah, I’ve actually played minetest before. One of the cooler features was the fact that signs could be placed on the floor like welcome mats, if I remember correctly.

It amazes me how Mumbo just figured out a completely new redstone system while I can't even do simple redstone after 7 years

FYI the base minetest game is more of a modding engine than an actual game. For a more Minecraft-clone experience, you can use either Mineclone 2 or Mineclone 5, but there are plenty of other mods with completely different gameplay from Minecraft

I have massive respect for everyone involved in Minetest. Given that I'm already seeing some of my favorite mod creators start developing for Minetest, I feel like a decent chunk of the community will have somewhere to pivot if Microsoft ever _truly_ kills Minecraft.

So kind of mumbo to answer his own question before we even click the video 🙏

Mine test is designed to not just be a base game, but it's designed to be highly modable. Where it's strength lies is that it allows mods so much more flexibility than in Minecraft, because it's directly supported. That's pretty much the whole premise

The game is open source so that means everyone that discovers it now through this video could theoretically contribute and make it better.

This is huge for the community, thanks for making this video. We'll be dealing with the aftermath of this video for years to come.

Mumbo trying to go for diamonds before even thinking about putting windows in his house is the funniest thing ever

Glad to see other people trying out minetest! For those who don't know, this "game" is more like an engine, and then you build your own game on top of it by installing different mods. There's a bunch that try to recreate normal minecraft survival, and there's loads of other kinds as well. It's really cool! And best of all, it's open source! Thanks Mumbo for introducing more people to this project :)

Fun Fact: most Minecraft clones that exists are built upon minetest, which is why they're all so similar

Clearly, the Hermits need to play together in MineTest for a humorous "season 9.5."

Watching mumbo do his usual third person talking to the camera bits, while his character just blank face stares directly forward and the camera bobs up and down is super funny

0:48 That's actually a thing on Bedrock edition. You can find fallen oak and birch trees in forest biomes, sometimes with mushrooms or vines growing on them. Same with spruce trees in taigas.

You should turn on the dynamic shadows and bloom. 😊 That, alongside waving plants, leaves and water are in the settings tab.

I didn't expect you to go from double-piston door to 10-digit display in less than 3 minutes... Though I must say I'm not surprised from redstone genius Mumbo XD

FYI There are Minetest modpacks that attempt to achieve a closer parity to actual Minecraft, with textures, mobs, & overall functionality. A bit like playing on Bedrock after years on Java, but maybe one version behind. Otherwise a very similar experience. Although this was back in Minecraft1.16 days, so no idea where they are at now.

i dont think "bad minecraft clone" does this game what it deserves. it's not supposed to be a clone of minecraft, it's supposed to be a platform for devs to make their own voxel games inspired by minecraft, and it does a pretty good job at that.

I actually played mine test for 3 years with my dad and we modded the heck out of the game and had so much fun and built cities and stuff. Very nostalgic seeing mesecons being used on contraptions just like my dad and I made.

Minetest was the introduction to minecraft for my son and I. Many hours were spent adding mods (incredibly easy to add) until our world was a broken mishmash of imported structures we destroyed in mechs, cars boats, planes etc... i highly recommend the 'balrog' and survival with access to all items. Great times

MINETEST!!!!! Oh my gosh I never expected you to cover this game!!! I'm really into Minetest as I really love open source software. It's really cool to see it get more exposure from a RU-vidr as big as you! The project is still pretty small without a lot of developers, but it really has so much potential and I hope more people get into it! Something to clarify: "Minetest" isn't actually a game. It's kind of confusing right now, but Minetest is actually a voxel-based engine. Minecraft-like games have been made for it, obviously- and the default game, "Minetest Game", is one of them, but an even better one is actually MineClone2, which you can find on the content database. It gets as close as possible to Minecraft. It's a lot... jankier, than Minecraft, to be fair, but it does have the Ender Dragon fight and everything iirc and is compeltely playable. Also, I really like playing Minetest games because if there's ever a problem with it I don't like, like a block that's annoying difficult to break I can literally just go into the game files and just change a few numbers around in any text editor. Anyone can mod their games and add on new things very, very easily compared to Minecraft. ALSO also also (I keep editing this with new things to say lol) shoutout to Wuzzy, a community member who made a really well-done platformer with the engine for last year's game jam. Not just Minecraft games can be made with Minetest; there's a lot one can do with it ^_^ !

You should definitely do more of this! Maybe make a series on this game seeing what’s possible with all the Minecraft related circuits, then maybe moving on to the more complicated stuff

Now I want to see him try to figure out Nodecore's mechanics 😆

I'm so glad you played this game. My dad actually was on the developing team! It brings so much to my heart when big youtubers play this game. Key word: WAS

There is a mod pack called techage modpack, which has a quite a big learning curve but it adds a unique technology aspect to minetest! It is quite interesting and definitely worth exploring if you are doing this again.

Always good to see a big content creator taking a look at Minetest. When just starting out visiting servers is a really good way to get an idea of the myriad of different mods that exist that you can then use to create your own custom worlds.

Hi Mumbo Jumbo. I'm one of the main community game developers. It's very cool to see you play minetest. I'm very sorry that you had to experience vanilla minetest though. I'm glad you enjoyed it regardless.

If you want more of that "I don't know what I'm doing" nostalgia, I HIGHLY recommend Better Than Adventure! It's a mod for beta 1.7.3 that essentially aims to imagine what minecraft could have been like if the adventure update never happened

Bring on Hermittest SMP for season 10. Even as an April fools next year this would be fun to watch you all play.

1:29 "I'm starting to think I'm the only thing that's alive around here" All the plants surrounding him: 🙁

It has the same eerie feeling that Minecraft had in its early days. I kind of love it.

In Minetest there's a mod that adds dynamic lighting, so a torch in your hand lights up the blocks around you.

‘Can we have Minecraft?’ ‘No, we already have Minecraft at home.’ Minecraft at home:

I've been dying to see big Minecraft RU-vidr such as yourself covering Minetest. Glad you enjoyed playing it! I really want to see this game going mainstream, because IMO Minecraft is getting boring and very bloated (I have to install performance mods just to play it). Also, because if more people play it then more devs/modder will join the community and the overall quality of the game/engine increases. The fact that it's free will save so many parents money and decrease the act of pirating Minecraft.

ahhhh I love minetest! I go play it occasionally when I need something nostalgic or just something different than today's minecraft XD This was so fun to watch!!!!

Just one look at the thumbnail and I immediately knew what you were playing. Gotta lot of nostalgia for minetest, it being my first "minecraft" It is really good with the mods in it, and nice that an influential like mumbo is giving it some love. Also the "redstone" mod is called Mesacons.

Mumbo really is playing the games we played because we could’nt afford Minecraft.💀💀💀💀💀

With the circuit gates pretty much there already, I think it can get much more compact that normal redstone

Interesting how this ancient game is just now getting some attention. Grew up on this as well as Minecraft. It definitely has it's place!

this is the game that i and my sibling would play before we could afford minecraft. thanks mumbo for shedding some light on it.

open source, and with apparently pretty great modding, this really doesn't seem bad at all. Sure, it's "just" a clone at the baseline, but I mean open source alternatives often are and are still great

I love to see you test more indie/opensource games

I’ve never been so excited about a video in ages! I love making mods for this game, and adding stuff I wish I could for MineCraft, but couldn’t due to the hassle of the game updating and needing to forward mods. This was like seeing videos pop up for MC in the early days, when everything was new and confusing. This was a fun video, and Mesecons is as confusing to me as redstone.

this man is an absolute wizard, while i can't even figure out how to make a simple piston door by myself in minecraft, he can make a whole combination lock and a 7 segment display in a game he just got

I fought he was playing a wierd texture pack for a sec 💀

Mumbo! One really cool thing is that Minetest's modding capabilities are extremely integrated. Essentially, all mods are run server-side with no mod installation on the client, so there's no need to send modpacks around! All you need to do is join the server, and all the necessary mods will just work. I'd heavily suggest looking into them if there will be a "Hermittest" mini series since they can add anything from mobs, to achievements, to minecraft-like gameplay, to teleporters and trains!

6:35 return of Mumbo "Killsalot" Jumbo

Mumbo at 00:48 Oh fallen tree! Bedrock players: You serious?!???!

The fact that you can mine so deep is actually super cool omg

I need this to be a series. Dad is a big fan of this game

Mumbo, it's so good to see someone playing Minetest! I discovered it several years ago and played with it a little, but the community is so small that I haven't put much time into it. The strength of Minetest is how easy it is to mod. This is because they expect you to mod it. It is more of a voxel game engine than a game by itself. There is even a whole modpack out there to turn it into a pretty decent Minecraft clone! I hope to see some more of this sometimes :)

What's even cool, it runs on my old laptop (wich is 32bits system and needs to run zorin lite to still alive 😂) and does actually well, in terms of fps it's about 30-20 fps, drops a bit while loading terrain, and I'm loving this indie and open source version of Minecraft !!! I'm impressed

Mumbo, you've barely scratched the surface of Minetest. I'd love to see what you make of a game like Nodecore for instance. Or Pixture. Or mix-n-matching a bunch of mods on top of the base (and very basic) game that you tried. There's a lot to see, even a pretty credible Minecraft clone (two really). Hoping you keep exploring what the engine has to offer.

I can't believe this is still a thing after over a decade but I'm glad it still exists.

Hermitcraft Season 10: All the hermits playing minetest

Minetest is pretty intresting I haven’t really played it myself but the fact it’s a open source game is fun

This game takes more "inspiration" than me when I write my essays

6:33 is a perfect summary of the accidental termination of just about anything new when it falls into the hands of the human race 🤣

I can't believe Mumbo is quitting Minecraft for Minetest perminently!

I kind of want Mumbo to run around in Hermitcraft for a day in that skin to see if anyone says anything. LOL

Mumbo, do more! It's especially fun when you are on a server! I could probably show you around one, as this game's strong suit is the modding potential.

No! Way! It makes me so happy to see you playing in the open source side of things (which I may or may not contribute to in the way of mods). Also it's pronounced 'mēs' (like geese)... I think... And yes ore depths in the default game are horrid. I would love to see you play one of the other, better balanced Minetest "games" (mod-packs) like SurviveTest or even one of the MineClones.

2:11 Fun fact you can also have caves be that dark in minecraft, it's called moody lighting

Me: Mom, cann we hav Minecraft? Mom: No, we have Minecraft at home Minecraft at home:

You should try Scrap Mechanic stuff next! It's a $20 game and I think you'd enjoy the mechanics, as they are really simple and easy to learn. There are also many mods, so you can have more parts, aerodynamics, etc.

Yes finally! I've been waiting years for a big redstone RU-vidr to make a video on Mesecons!

I'm so happy you covered this game! This game offers more freedom than Minecraft and I urge everyone who didn't like the new chat reporting system to consider this game/engine. The massive amounts of mods for Minetest is great.

The "oh gosh" after Mumbo murdered a a poor innocent butterfly made me DIE of laughter, was hilarious

I recognize this immediately. Love the game, great community. I've even talked to the devs and they're very nice

“Takes inspiration from Minecraft” Dawg this is literally just if someone tried to make Minecraft from scratch

Can't wait for Hermittest season 1!

With their AND gates and things like that, this Minetest plugin actually teaches people how electric circuits work. That's fantastic. 😃

That was fun. I'd genuinely enjoy seeing you play more of this game, even though it looks like a really close clone of MC.

minetest is seen more like a platform for server admins to build upon than a complete game experience, basically modders heaven

This is super fun! I'd actually REALLY enjoy watching you experiment and discover more..seeing what you come up with. You might get cross-pollinating ideas/inspiration too. Anyway, I think this was fascinating!

I believe Minetest is generally considered a game engine, upon which other Minecraft-like games are built.

Minetest is actually barebones on purpose, there are mods you can install that extend it or you could just make your own minecraft clone or your own game. there is a mod that tries to recreate minecraft 1-1 called mineclone. there is a redstone mod you can also install mobs as a mod.

A new Mumbo upload honestly just brings so much joy! Brightens my day and makes it better!

There's a great "capture the flag" server that runs on Minetest I used to play all the time. That's pretty much all I know. Oh, and it had the shooty sticks that Mojang recently TOSed.

Minetest content, but doing redstone stuff (Mese stuff) is nice idea. I hope i can watch more stuff like this soon. :D

I'm always excited to see open source software

An open source minecraft is such a cool concept

Minetest is pretty great, at least in theory. Everything is a mod, and the mods are written in Lua instead of a made-up scripting language. And the world height is sixteen bit. You can literally dig your way to the Nether instead of using a portal.

The darkness levels are actually super cool in this game, that was actually scary when you got to that huge dark area

As a certified Minetest PvP enthusiast, I must mention an absolutely crucial and interesting death mechanic: bone blocks. Upon death, your items are put into a bone block, which acts like a chest for your items that you can instantly pick up. For a set period of time, the bones are "fresh", meaning that only you can take your items. After 15 minutes or however long it's configured to be, they become "old", and anyone can take your items. This prevents items from despawning, but also introduces an infinitely interesting element to PvP, wherein you need to defend and block off your opponent's bones until they become old to actually steal the items. The deceptive simplicity of the mechanic is replaced with dozens of mindblowing shenanigans when you also take into account all the ways you may protect (claim) areas. To give just one example: The first person can, by simply placing a protection block, prevent anyone from breaking or placing blocks in a 5-block radius around it -- this is a mod used for protection on many servers. You would think that a bone block is surrounded with cobblestone and protection blocks is impossible to retrieve. But the second person can, by simply lagswitching, break through any amount of layers of fortification as long as they have the tools to, are within reach of the bone block at the beginning, are alive at the end, and haven't been timed out. But the third person (other than just not dying to the retriever) can surround the bones in layers of different hard blocks that require different tools just to break in time to not be timed out -- obsidian, cactus (which requires an axe to cut), blocks that hurt you in response to digging like beehives -- all somehow infused with bugged armor stands that make digging harder due to being entities with large hitboxes. But the fourth person pulls any ace out of their sleeve, and just ender pearl glitches into the mound from below, as you would with bedrock in Minecraft. Point is, the shenanigans spiral up and up in creativity, and never gets boring.

Nice! Minetest!

Hey hey! It's good to see more people discover free and open source Minecraft 😁

MineTest actually has an easy to install mod pack called MineClone2 that is really close to Minecraft! Monsters, redstone and all. Mumbo should definitely review that instead of the basic MineTest game.

You should definitely play more minetest in future. Especially looking at more of the mods and maybe seeing how close a redstone mod is to minecraft redstone.

Now to wait for Mumbo to get into other voxel games like Vintage Story

I actually really like Minetest, especially with how moddable it is compared to MC, If only it had the modding community it would be better than Minecraft IMHO

I have played minetest more than minecraft, so easy to use, lots of very cool mods and very easy to make friends in the multiplayer servers.

Hoping to see more minetest in the future, as it's probably the coolest voxel-based engine/game out there. I've played it occasionally with the MineClone2 mod.

I love minetest as a learning tool for modding, and I'm so happy its getting more attention, please play more I am very invested!!

When I first played minecraft I didn’t know anything. I played for about 4 months with Leather Armour and Stone Tools until I found what I described to my friend as a “mushroom coloured block”. And that, my friend. Was Iron. He had never come across it either somehow. So we found this, and I mined it and got some iron. If I ever get my family or another friend to play minecraft for the first time I want them to have that kind of experience. Where they have no clue what’s going on. So they might stay with Leather Armour and Stone Tools for months before they find iron. I’d made sure they don’t turn the recipe book on as well. I personally think that ruined the discovery part of the game.