Luanti (open source Minecraft)

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Luanti (open source Minecraft)

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Luanti (formerly Minetest)

An open source voxel game engine. Play one of our many games, mod a game to your liking, make your own game, or play on a multiplayer server.

Available for Windows, macOS, GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, and Android.
I feel like this crew would appreciate this since we value ownership and privacy. The community has made several games, but I think that the Minecraft clones like VoxeLibra and Mineclonia are the most popular. Look, it's not as good or polished as Minecraft, but I think it has charm and potential, and it feels awesome to play something that feels like old school Minecraft while being totally free of the Big Tech ecosystem Minecraft exists within.

https://www.luanti.org

PS - I'm not dunking on Minecraft, btw. I love that game and I think Mojang do a good job.
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Re: Luanti (open source Minecraft)

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I fixed a couple of bugs myself in Voxelibre (back when it was called mineclone2). It's a pretty good clone. Me and some friends played it for quite a while.
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Re: Luanti (open source Minecraft)

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Ha, I downloaded Minetest again just yesterday to occupy myself while at the hotel for the night. My repository offers v0·4·17·1. Unfortunately for me, my exploring was dampened by the facts that it is too dark to see anything at night, I cannot make charcoal for torches in the familiar way and /settime seems to fail for me. Would anybody know how to activate these commands in single-player survival mode?
(Just after writing this post, I answered my questions myself. In the advanced settings, any desired command should be added to ‘standard privileges’, or rather German Standardpriviligen; I do not know how it is in English. Alas, the base game does not feature charcoal, although there are mods to include it.)
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Re: Luanti (open source Minecraft)

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Yes, Luanti (formerly Minetest) is an engine before it is a game. The base game is called "Minetest game" and is basically there as a proof of concept for the core engine. It is meant to be modded or completely replaced, hence the Minecraft clones like Voxelibre.
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Re: Luanti (open source Minecraft)

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@zonk awesome, my suspision was even more right than I realized. Thanks for your contributions!

Yeah, when I tried the regular Minetest Game I couldn't stick around for that long. A friend had us try MeseCraft I think but that was also too different for me to figure it out.

Now in my second pass at trying the game I tried VoxeLibre and Mineclonia and it helps so much. Yes, they are Minecraft clones, but they don't feel exactly the same. If anything they feel closer to Minecraft 1.8 or 1.12, but it's a vibe. Really, it helps to have the quality of life features like shift clicking and knowing how to craft basic things. Makes it easier to get into. Now I am more comfortable exploring different features or game modes than I was before.
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