When comparing Terasology vs PlaneShift, the Slant community recommends PlaneShift for most people. In the question“What are the best open-source games?” PlaneShift is ranked 52nd while Terasology is ranked 79th. The most important reason people chose PlaneShift is:
It is different from the indiscernible mass of industry gruel (to avoid other four-letter words) out there.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Well written in Java
Java is well documented.
Pro Nice looking
Shaders, bloom, film grain and other effects can be enabled.
Pro Free sandbox alternative
The game is inspired by other titles like Minecraft and Dwarf Fortress.
Pro Fully moddable
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.
Pro Extremely modular
The engine allows mix-and-match of features that you need.
Pro Active community
The community is very active in the development of the game, they participate regularly to Google Summer of Code and Google Code In.
Pro Can be Minecraft competitor
An open source alternative, fully customizable; easy mod support based on module pieces.
Pro Innovative to its core
It is different from the indiscernible mass of industry gruel (to avoid other four-letter words) out there.
Pro Win, Linux, Mac
Windows, Linux and Mac versions.
Pro Very detailed world
Cons
Con Buggy
Con Unstable
Con Slow
Con Lacks players
Con Lots of running around & back-tracking
Without mounts, because they have a long and advanced quest line you need to do to get them.
Con Quests are janky
Once you had to type to do/answer quests. I.E. had to get into the mind who made these quests.
Now for the most part you can still do this, but they also give you selection of answers. For the most part, you still need to type in answer for some quests.