devo8604/freeminer

Freeminer is an open source sandbox game inspired by Minecraft.

Freeminer

Freeminer is an open source sandbox game inspired by Minecraft.

Freeminer is based on Minetest which is developed by a number of contributors from all over the globe.

It aims to make the game fun while trading off some bits of perfectionism.

Further documentation

• Website: http://freeminer.org/
• Forums: http://forum.freeminer.org/

Default controls

• WASD: move
• Space: jump/climb
• Shift: sneak/go down
• Q: drop item
• I: inventory
• Mouse: turn/look
• Mouse left: dig/punch
• Mouse right: place/use
• Mouse wheel: select item
• Esc: pause menu
• T: chat
• Z: zoom
• Tab: player list

Compiling

Install dependencies. Here's an example for

Debian/Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install build-essential libirrlicht-dev cmake libbz2-dev \
libpng12-dev libjpeg8-dev libfreetype6-dev libxxf86vm-dev libgl1-mesa-dev \
libsqlite3-dev libvorbis-dev libopenal-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libluajit-5.1-dev \
libleveldb-dev libsnappy-dev libgettextpo0 libmsgpack-dev
# optional:
sudo apt-get install libhiredis-dev cmake-curses-gui

---

Fedora:

# the first five is the closest to Debian/Ubuntu build-essential
sudo yum install make automake gcc gcc-c++ kernel-devel cmake irrlicht-devel \
bzip2-devel libpng-devel libjpeg-turbo-devel freetype-devel libXxf86vm-devel \
mesa-libGL-devel sqlite-devel libvorbis-devel openal-soft-devel libcurl-devel \
luajit-devel leveldb-devel snappy-devel gettext-devel msgpack msgpack-devel

---

Arch Linux:

sudo pacman -S curl irrlicht leveldb libvorbis luajit openal sqlite cmake
# From AUR
yaourt -S msgpack

Gentoo/Funtoo:

emerge -av media-libs/libvorbis media-libs/openal dev-games/irrlicht dev-libs/msgpack dev-libs/leveldb

^{Recommended irrlicht version: 1.8.1}

Download source code:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/freeminer/freeminer.git
cd freeminer

^{Recommended minimum compiler version: gcc 4.8 or clang 3.3}

Build it:

mkdir _build && cd _build
cmake ..
nice make -j $(nproc || sysctl -n hw.ncpu || echo 2)

Play it!

cd ..
./bin/freeminer