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 IrrlichtMt version 1.9
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-The Irrlicht Engine is an open source realtime 3D engine written in C++.
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-This is a fork by the [Minetest](https://github.com/minetest) developers that was stripped-down and customized specifically for use in Minetest.
+IrrlichtMt is the 3D engine of [Minetest](https://github.com/minetest).
+It is based on the [Irrlicht Engine](https://irrlicht.sourceforge.io/) but is now developed independently.
 It is intentionally not compatible to upstream and is planned to be eventually absorbed into Minetest.
 
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