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| | |name=Minetest Game | | |name=Minetest Game |
| | |image=Minetest logo.png | | |image=Minetest logo.png |
| | |type=Sandbox | | |type=Sandbox |
| − | |author=Minetest developers | + | |author=Luanti developers |
| − | |version={{Version}} | + | |version=(see [https://content.minetest.net/packages/Minetest/minetest_game/ ContentDB]) |
| | |forum=[https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?t=9724 9724] | | |forum=[https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?t=9724 9724] |
| | |source=[https://github.com/minetest/minetest_game GitHub] | | |source=[https://github.com/minetest/minetest_game GitHub] |
| | }} | | }} |
| | + | <span style="font-size:24pt">Please see the page for [https://content.minetest.net/packages/Minetest/minetest_game/ Minetest Game on ContentDB] instead.</span> |
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| | + | '''Minetest Game''' (previously called “<code>minetest_game</code>” and originally “<code>mesetint</code>”) is a [[Games|game]] for [[Luanti]]. It is mostly a big sandbox. [[How to build your first house|Click here for a quick-start guide.]] |
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| − | '''Minetest Game''' (previously called “<code>minetest_game</code>” and originally “<code>mesetint</code>”) is a [[Games|game]] for [[Minetest]] which is usually distributed along with Minetest by default. It is mostly a big sandbox. [[Help:How to build your first house|Click here for a quick-start guide.]]
| + | It used to be bundled with Luanti by default, but since version 5.8.0, this is no longer the case. |
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| | == Gameplay overview == | | == Gameplay overview == |
| | Minetest Game is a simple and peaceful “sandbox game”, this means there are no goals and no built-in [[mobs|computer enemies]]. The [[player]] is thrown into a world made of [[Blocks|cubes]] and can attempt to explore the surface and hitchhike through [[Biomes|grasslands, forests, deserts, jungles, snowy and arctic regions]], explore the seas with a [[boat]] or swim and dive, and collect various materials and [[crafting|craft]] [[tool]]s from them. Using a [[pickaxe]], the player can [[Mining|dig]] into the depths and collect precious [[Ores|minerals]], but a careless player can also be cooked by [[lava]]. Or the player could become a [[Farming|farmer]] or forester and plant [[Sapling|trees]] and [[Wheat (plant)|crops]]. Almost every block can be removed with the correct tool and with the collected blocks almost every building can be erected—only the imagination is the limit. Minetest Game has a focus on creativity, [[building]] and exploring worlds, rather than being a challenge, so the gameplay naturally is sandbox-style. | | Minetest Game is a simple and peaceful “sandbox game”, this means there are no goals and no built-in [[mobs|computer enemies]]. The [[player]] is thrown into a world made of [[Blocks|cubes]] and can attempt to explore the surface and hitchhike through [[Biomes|grasslands, forests, deserts, jungles, snowy and arctic regions]], explore the seas with a [[boat]] or swim and dive, and collect various materials and [[crafting|craft]] [[tool]]s from them. Using a [[pickaxe]], the player can [[Mining|dig]] into the depths and collect precious [[Ores|minerals]], but a careless player can also be cooked by [[lava]]. Or the player could become a [[Farming|farmer]] or forester and plant [[Sapling|trees]] and [[Wheat (plant)|crops]]. Almost every block can be removed with the correct tool and with the collected blocks almost every building can be erected—only the imagination is the limit. Minetest Game has a focus on creativity, [[building]] and exploring worlds, rather than being a challenge, so the gameplay naturally is sandbox-style. |
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| − | == Content ==
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| − | * [[Games/Minetest_Game/Nodes|Blocks]]
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| − | * [[Games/Minetest_Game/Items|Items]]
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| − | * [[Games/Minetest_Game/Smelting|Smelting]]
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| − | * [[Objects]]
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| − | == Screenshots ==
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| − | <gallery widths="400px" heights="256px">
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| − | Desert_at_sunset_0.4.7.png|Desert
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| − | Savannah.jpg|Savannah
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| − | Jungle_0.4.7.jpg|Jungle
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| − | Minetest_Game_forest.jpg|Decidious forest
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| − | Mapgen_valleys.jpg|Coniferous forest in a valley
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| − | Glacier.jpg|Glacier
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| − | Minetest Game underground.jpg|Underground
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| − | Lava_lake_0.4.7.jpg|Lava lake
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| − | Dungeon_0.4.7.jpg|Dungeon
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| − | Riding a boat.jpg|Riding a [[boat]] on a river
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| − | Farming.jpg|Farm built by a player
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| − | Minetest Game tower.jpg|Tower built by a player
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| − | </gallery>
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| − | == Features ==
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| − | === Overview ===
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| − | * Over 200 block types to mine and built (See [[Games/Minetest Game/Nodes]] for an overview)
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| − | * Deep underground with 7 different [[ores|minerals]] and [[lava]]
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| − | * 6 [[tool]] strengths from [[wood]] to [[diamond]]
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| − | * [[Creative mode]] in which (almost) all items are instantly available
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| − | === The world ===
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| − | * Several [[biomes]] to discover: Grasslands, desert, jungle, ocean, savannah, decidious forests, coniferous forests, snow, cold desert, glacier
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| − | * Underground dungeons
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| − | * Small and large underground caves
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| − | * Underground [[lava]] pockets
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| − | * 6 [[ores|minerals]]: [[Coal Ore|coal]], [[Iron Ore|iron]], [[Copper Ore|copper]], [[Gold Ore|gold]], [[Mese Ore|mese]], [[Diamond Ore|diamond]], used to craft tools and stuff
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| − | * Rare [[Mese Block|mese block]] at below Y=-1024 (equals 9 [[Mese Crystal|mese crystals]])
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| − | * 6 [[trees|tree]] types: “normal” tree, apple tree, jungle tree, acacia tree, aspen tree, pine tree. Includes saplings to grow new trees
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| − | * 6 [[flowers]] (used to create colors), [[waterlily]], mushrooms and some other small plants
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| − | === Craftable tools ===
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| − | * Tools to destroy blocks: [[Pickaxe]] (for stones), [[shovel]] (for dirt and sand), [[axe]] (for wood and trees), [[sword]] (for leaves and small plants)
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| − | * Most tools can also be used as melee weapons
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| − | * [[Screwdriver]] (used to rotate stuff)
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| − | * [[Bucket]] for collecting liquids like [[water]]
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| − | * See [[Games/Minetest Game/Items]] for more
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| − | === Other gameplay aspects ===
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| − | * Go over the sea with [[boat]]s
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| − | * Build [[rail]]s and ride in a [[Cart|cart]] to transport yourself and items
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| − | * Use the [[furnace]] to [[Smelting|smelt]] ores to ingots, use ingots to craft new stuff
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| − | * Basic [[farming]]: Till [[soil]] with a [[hoe]], plant [[Wheat Seed|wheat]] and [[Cotton Seed|cotton seed]], put [[water]] nearby and watch them grow
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| − | * When a player dies, the player might lose the items in the inventory which can be retrieved from a [[bones]] block
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| − | * [[Fire]]!
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| − | * [[TNT]] and [[gunpowder]]
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| − | == Function ==
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| − | === As default game ===
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| − | Minetest Game is included by default to give some initial [[Help:Getting Started#Playing|single player]] content when Minetest is downloaded in the single archive file from the [http://minetest.net/download.php download section] of the homepage. It includes some basic mods that add enough game content to offer a simple playable game. [[Controls|Control keys]] and [[Help:How to build your first house|basic gameplay]] activities are set to function similar to other [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voxel#Uses games of the genre] to make immediate playing possible.
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| − | Minetest Game is not needed to play on other servers as all game content is controlled and "served" by the hosting server. Only when running an own Minetest server is some playable content needed that is normally a collection of mod scripts in a “game” folder. “Single-player” may be viewed as a special case when the local Minetest program acts as local game-server, hosting a local game and then connects to its own self as client.
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| − | === As basis for new games ===
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| − | The gameplay can be modified considerably by Lua scripts organized in mods. As a lot of mods, offered by the community, name “default” as dependency, Minetest Game is thought as the basic content on which game designers may build their own games. Thus if compatibility with most mods is the aim of a new game, it is advisable to start building the new game by adding content to a copy of Minetest Game.
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| − | === As collection of modding examples ===
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| − | Although this may seem trivial this function of the Minetest game should not be forgotten as it often offers the first example of how to code things for modders.
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| − | == Mods ==
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| − | '''Note: This section it outdated.'''
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| − | Minetest Game contains the following [[mods]]:
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| − | * Gameplay-related mods
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| − | ** default: This is the most important and biggest mod in Minetest Game. It adds most [[blocks]] which occour naturally and most artificial blocks, [[ores]], many basic [[Crafting|crafts]], [[Smelting|furnace fuels]], [[tool]]s, [[items]] and all the stuff which is not covered by the other mods in this game
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| − | ** beds: adds [[bed]]s of several sorts.
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| − | ** boats: adds [[boat]]
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| − | ** bones: adds [[bones]]
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| − | ** bucket: adds [[bucket]]s
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| − | ** carts: adds [[cart]]
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| − | ** doors: adds [[door]]s, trapdoors (like the [[Trapdoor|wooden trapdoor]]) and [[Fence Gate|fence gates]]
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| − | ** dye: adds [[dye]]s
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| − | ** farming: farming-related stuff: [[Cotton (plant)]], [[wheat]], [[Cotton Seed|cotton seed]], [[Wheat Seed|wheat seed]], [[string]]s, [[flour]], [[bread]], [[hoe]]s and [[soil]]
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| − | ** fire: adds [[fire]], [[Permanent Fire|permanent fire]] and [[Flint and Steel|flint and steel]]
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| − | ** flowers: adds [[flowers]], mushrooms and [[waterlily]]
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| − | ** screwdriver: adds [[screwdriver]]
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| − | ** stairs: adds [[Stair|stairs]] and [[Slab|slabs]]
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| − | ** tnt: adds [[TNT]] and [[Gun Powder|gun powder]]
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| − | ** vessels: adds [[drinking glass]], [[steel bottle]], [[glass bottle]], [[glass fragments]] and [[Vessels Shelf|vessels shelf]]
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| − | ** walls: adds [[wall]]s
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| − | ** wool: adds [[wool]] in 15 colors
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| − | ** xpanes: adds [[Glass Pane|glass panes]] and [[Iron bar|iron bars]]
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| − | * Setting-related mods
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| − | ** creative: when in [[creative mode]], this mod enables, besides some other things, the [[Creative Inventory|creative inventory]]
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| − | ** give_initial_stuff: If the setting <code>give_initial_stuff</code> is true, then this mod gives new players a steel [[pickaxe]], a steel [[axe]], a steel [[shovel]], 99 [[torch]]es and 99 [[cobblestone]]s
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| − | * Server commands
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| − | ** sethome: adds the server commands “sethome” and “home”. (See [[Server commands#Command reference of built-in commands|here]])
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| − | == Notable things not included ==
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| − | As Minetest Game was included in the download archive it was supposed to be lightweight and as gameplay-neutral as possible. It therefore often irritated new players that particular things known from similar games were not included by default:
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| − | * No [[Mobs|monsters, animals or NPCs]] <ref name="rats">Though rats might just be able to sneak in if you are not careful ;-).</ref> are included and no API for these is offered.
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| − | == History and plans ==
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| − | ===0.4.9 branch===
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| − | Since early 2014, Minetest Game (then called “minetest_game”) was semi-officially under [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeze_%28software_engineering%29 feature freeze]. It was not dropped and was kept available in maintenance-mode as basis for all [[mods]] that depended on "default".
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| − | The consensus of the Minetest developers seemed to be that Minetest Game should be changed as little as possible<ref name="consens">[https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?pid=137837 "Minetest Game will no longer be developed"] thread on the Minetest forum.</ref> (feature-freeze) and rather no new content added. Thus offering the most compatibility to old mods and leaving the bulk of game content for game designers to develop.
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| − | ===0.4.10 branch===
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| − | With the release of 0.4.10, Minetest Game [https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=9066 Minetest-NeXt] was merged<ref name="nextmerge">[https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=9683 "(0.4.10) NeXt merged / Updated minetest_game"] thread on the Minetest forum.</ref> with Minetest Game.
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| − | === Future development ===
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| − | To give more examples of the possibilities of the Minetest engine it had been discussed to include more example games in the download archive. The only other “game” that was included in the 0.4.9 versions of Minetest was “Minimal development test” (now [[Games/Development Test|Development Test]]), which is only recommended for testing purposes. Games suggested as example games<ref name="gamessuggestedonirc1">as discussed on IRC at [http://irc.minetest.ru/minetest-dev/2013-10-17#i_3378469 2013-10-17]</ref> have been [https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?id=3003 Dwarves], [https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?id=3119 PilzTest], [https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?id=6977 Nostalgia], [https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?id=7573 Realtest], [https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?id=7027 Eden] or a game based on the [https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?id=7656 Ethereal mod]. More recently [https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?id=9036 BFD], [https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?id=9066 Minetest NeXt] and [https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?id=9033 Carbone] have been considered among others. The idea is to showcase a variety of different gameplay, environment and atmosphere concepts.
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| − | == Trivia ==
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| − | === Calinou's Law ===
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| − | '''Calinou's Law''' is a supposition about the density of ores in [[Games/Minetest Game|Minetest Game]].
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| − | It states, approximately:
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| − | ::The more mods you install which add ores, the more likely you will be to find nothing BUT ores by the time you dig down to -31 km.
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| − | In theory, one could reach a state in the game where there are indeed nothing but minerals and no plain stone at some depth by adding enough ore-bearing mods, however this particular idea refers more to the issue some people have of going on a mining expedition and coming back so loaded down with ores that one has no room in their inventory for anything else, such as cobblestone. Calinou's Law is this phenomenon taken to its logical extreme.
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| − | Compare "rainbow caves" phenomenon, wherein there are so many minerals in a given area that cave walls take on a multicolor or "rainbow" appearance.
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| − | == Legal ==
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| − | Minetest Game is [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software free software], without advertisements and free of charge. It is licensed under the [https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.en.html LGPL v2.1] (or later) for the source code and [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ CC BY-SA 3.0] for the media files.
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| − | == Notes and References ==
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