The community is very active in the development of the game, they participate regularly to Google Summer of Code and Google Code In.

Terasology is fully open source and licensed Apache 2.0 for code and CC BY 4.0 for artwork (unless indicated otherwise - see credits for minor exceptions) .

The engine allows mix-and-match of features that you need.

The game is inspired by other titles like Minecraft and Dwarf Fortress.

In the game you can create a mod and submit it as a module. You can select multiple modules when you make a new world.

Java is well documented.