Wheat and Cotton don't grow at all when the soil is dry (→ Soil, Desert Sand Soil).When mining, items directly go into the player's inventory, unless the inventory is full.Dropped item stacks must be punched to be collected, the player is not a magnet -).The top row, not the bottom row in your inventory represents the hotbar.When a player dies, Bones are created and all items are stored inside.No enchanting, experience, hunger, status effects, potions, armor or brewing.No redstone or redstone-like mechanisms (but there's Mesecons).Different blocks, items, trees, biomes, etc.If you're looking for a more faithful Minecraft clone, try MineClone 2. Remember that Minetest Game is only one of many games for Minetest. If you expect a faithful Minecraft clone, you will be very disappointed. In fact, Minetest Game has way fewer features than Minecraft, and is not even remotely as feature-rich. Minetest Game is more meant as a “modding base”. Note: Minetest Game does not want to be an exact clone of Minecraft, but it is still heavily influenced by it. Liquids in general do not protect you from fall damage if you still hit the floor.To fly, you must have the “fly” privilege and press the “fly” key (see also: Controls/Movement modes) Creative Mode and damage are two different settings, so damage must be disabled separately Creative Mode does not disable damage.Built-in minimap and radar (press F9 to view, Shift + F9 to cycle between a square and round shape).A rather small base set of server commands.Smelting time of items may differ on a per-item basis.Crafting recipes are not automatically mirrored.Supports protection systems (to protect your buildings from griefers).

Mods work server-side, you can join any random server and it will work out of the box, no matter what amount of crazy mods the server is using.

Native modding support with the Lua programming language.

Other differences of Minetest compared to Minecraft: While Minecraft is a proprietary sandbox/survival game, Minetest is a free software game engine which supports various voxel games in the likes of Minecraft, InfiniMiner, etc.

2.6 Mods which add Minecraft-like behaviour.

Crazy mods for minecraft