Minetest 550 is Out Forked their own Rendering Engine using IrrlichtMT

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Minetest 5.5.0 is out, with a switch over from Irrlicht to their own fork of the rendering engine IrrlichtMt designed to have special improvements specifically for Minetest. Art talk What is Minetest? It's an open source game engine that can be modded into many different games - like Minecraft. Art talk



There's quite a number of changes , aside from the rendering technology changing. Here are some highlights:



Improved support for TTF fonts Touch UI support for desktop builds - Joystick sensitivity to player movement - Links that can be clicked in chat, disabled by default Normal texture support (for minimap shading) - Pause animations while game is paused - Modpacks that contain modpacks are properly handled in the content downloader A variety of new features for modders - Performance enhancements and bug fixes - Add a key to toggle display boundaries for map blocks (F8 by default)



Find out more information on the official website. It is easy to install on Flathub.