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<h1 id="Features">Features</h1>
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    <h2 id="features">Players</h2>
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      <h4>Choose from Multiple Games</h4>
      <p>There are many games to choose from. You could survive in a harsh
        environment, build creatively, or fight other players.
        Just <a href="/customize#games">download a game</a> or connect to a server.</p>
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      <h4>Enormous Maps</h4>
      <p>With 62,000x62,000x62,000 blocks, there's no running out of space.
        You can mine 31,000 blocks down, or build 31,000 blocks up.</p>
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      <h4>Multiplayer Support</h4>
      <p>Play by yourself, locally with your friends, or online with dozens of players on a server.</p>
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      <h4>Texture Packs</h4>
      <p>Not happy with the look of the textures? <a href="/customize/#texture-packs">Change them!</a></p>
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      <h4>Beautiful Map Generators</h4>
      <p>Choose from many different fast map generators included in the engine,
         or install one as a mod.</p>
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    <h2 id="features">Developers</h2>
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      <h4>Make a Game</h4>
      <p>Create your own voxel game using our
        <a href="http://dev.minetest.net/Modding_Intro">Lua API</a>.
        No need to worry about tricky voxel rendering or networking;
        instead write scripts to add items and control game play.
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      <h4>Modding API</h4>
      <p>Use the same Lua API to make mods for any Minetest-based game.
        Publish your mods on the <a href="https://forum.minetest.net">forums</a>,
        and contribute to others' mods.
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      <h4>Large Collection of Existing Mods</h4>
      <p>There are over 1,000 open source mods on our forums which are ready to
         be used, adapted or learned from.
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      <h4>Friendly Community</h4>
      <p>You can find help with any problems on our
        <a href="https://forum.minetest.net">forums</a> or
        <a href="/irc">IRC channels</a>.
      </p>
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      <h4>Open Source</h4>
      <p>The engine is open source and transparently developed.
        <a href="https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues">Submit an issue</a>
        for anything you're missing, or get the source code and dig into it yourself.
      </p>
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<h1 id="gallery">Gallery</h1>

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      <img src="/media/gallery/1-thumb.jpg" alt="A sandy beach with grass and trees in the distance">
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    <a href="/media/gallery/2.jpg" class="thumbnail">
      <img src="/media/gallery/2-thumb.jpg" alt="A grassy field with rock and trees">
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    <a href="/media/gallery/3.jpg" class="thumbnail">
      <img src="/media/gallery/3-thumb.jpg" alt="A pond with papyrus">
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    <a href="/media/gallery/4.jpg" class="thumbnail">
      <img src="/media/gallery/4-thumb.jpg" alt="A jungle with trees and grass">
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    <a href="/media/gallery/5.jpg" class="thumbnail">
      <img src="/media/gallery/5-thumb.jpg" alt="A cave lit with torches">
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    <a href="/media/gallery/6.jpg" class="thumbnail">
      <img src="/media/gallery/6-thumb.jpg" alt="A cave filled with lava">
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