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RIP Minecraft, I'll miss you (europe.pub)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/memes@lemmy.world
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[–] 21 points 9 months ago (7 children)

What actually is this? The Website is rather unhelpful. Its just a Minecraft clone?

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  • [–] 31 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    It started as minetest, an open source minecraft clone. It has since developed into a full voxel engine, supporting community made game modes and modpacks.

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  • [–] 15 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    It has since developed into a full voxel engine, supporting community made game modes and modpacks

    Thanks, that's exactly what I was talking about. What does that mean? Its a Minecraft clone?

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  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    It is a Minecraft clone, but it does a lot more. People are building new games with the same engine. It's called a voxel engine, because that the type of 3D that was popularized by minecraft.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I don't play Minecraft or Roblox, but this sounds like what I heard of the latter, not the former. You make games and they are available for people to play, or is there a difference I'm missing?

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    You make games and they are available for people to play, or is there a difference I'm missing?

    That's pretty good summary of Luanti.

    The interesting nuance is that Luanti was originally built as the engine for making a faithful Minecraft clone, so the two popular Minecraft clones are extremely faithful to Minecraft, in ways that a clone built in another engine could not be.

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  • [–] 17 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    What actually is this?

    Luanti is the engine that MineClonia runs on, and Mineclonia is a full featured, finished, Minecraft clone.

    The Website is rather unhelpful.

    Seriously. It's a little sad.

    Its just a Minecraft clone?

    For practical purposes, it absolutely is.

    Grab Luanti for free off of F-Droid or any Linux app store, or out of the SteamDeck Desktop "Software Center". Launch "Luanti", choose "Mineclonia". (Edit: or Windows or Mac, too. - Luanti - Getting Started.

    Pick a username to "Register" (local play is identical to server play) and start playing free open, wonderful, easily modded, multiplayer Minecraft clone.

    If a friend wants to join, just give them your IP address - even on SteamDeck or Android phone (edit: and Windows and Mac - sorry, no iPhone, I think.)

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