The Free Open-Source Minetest Game 0.4.7 Released with New Features and Enhancements

Minetest is a free open-source game inspired by Minecraft, expressing an infinite-world gaming experience where the actor is to shape the environment.

Among its features, Minetest comes with modding support, good-looking and fast map generator, as well as complex worlds and multiple available actions.

Minetest has been updated to another interesting release, 0.4.7, introducing:

• new elements (snow, snow blocks, ice and dirt)
• sandstone bricks and desert stone bricks
• added coal block
• new farming mod (wheat can be used to bake bread)
• copper blocks
• new animations (while changing wielded items)
• refreshed textures for sand, desert sand and desert stone
• new textures for metals and diamond blocks
• numerous bug fixes (fixed black trees, fixed import of older maps, reduced video-memory consumption, etc)
• several modding-related enhancements

How do we install Minetest 0.4.7? Add the following official PPA for Ubuntu based distro’s (Precise, Quantal, Raring)

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:minetestdevs/stable

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install minetestc55

Downloads for other Linux distributions (Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, Arch Linux, Puppy Linux, and Foresight Linux) can be found here.