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 An unofficial Minecraft-like game for Minetest. Forked from MineClone by davedevils.
 Developed by many people. Not developed or endorsed by Mojang AB.
 
-Version: 0.80
+Version: 0.81 (in development)
 
 ### Gameplay
 You start in a randomly-generated world made entirely of cubes. You can explore