&gt; Let&#x27;s hope this becomes Minetest&#x27;s time to shine.<p>Yes!  I&#x27;ve been waiting for this <i>forever</i>.  The first time I ran Minetest on a crappy laptop years ago it was as <i>smooth as butter</i> and I couldn&#x27;t help but think, &quot;Why is no one playing <i>this</i>?!&quot;<p>I think the primary reason very few people play Minetest is because of marketing and piss poor default gameplay.  If you just run Minetest without adding any of the (nearly built-in) mods you&#x27;ll get an odd-looking Minecraft-like world stuck in &quot;creative mode&quot; (which is boring).  If, however, you take the time (lots of time) to fiddle around with it and put together a collection of decent mods it becomes a <i>good game</i>!<p>The fact that it is written in C and has a proper modding API (in Lua!) should be drawing people in like crazy but for some reason it isn&#x27;t.