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.
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.
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.)
Autistic and atavistic. Ash is the best letter.
Find me on Jabber! <mæmæ@xmpp.social> in basic Latin.
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.
@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.
In my opinion, Minetest v4 suffices already. It resembles Minecraft Classic, which I am old enough to remember. There is no need for mobs (I always played in Peaceful mode) or whatever has accreted onto Minecraft in the years since 2010. This is a sandbox. The player has blocks and can play as he wishes, but he must think of ideas for himself.
Autistic and atavistic. Ash is the best letter.
Find me on Jabber! <mæmæ@xmpp.social> in basic Latin.
I totally vibe with that, but I also like all of the neat things people have done with Minecraft. I love the latest versions of Minecraft, I love the older versions, I dig Hypixel and Wynncraft and the modded servers too. I was looking forward to Hytale as well before the unfortunate news of its cancellation (let's see if it comes back.)
What I appreciate about Luanti is that it made me realize that Minecraft is part of a game genre, which is to say that the core ideas it brings aren't owned by Microsoft. For as much as I like Mojang, I like knowing that the type of video game I love is not owned in its entirety by a big tech company.
