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.

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

• 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

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

Download source code:

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

Build it:

mkdir build && cd build
cmake .. -DRUN_IN_PLACE=1 -DENABLE_FREETYPE=1
make -j4

Play it!

cd ..
./bin/freeminer