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[–] groet@feddit.org 18 points 4 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] zarkony@lemmy.zip 28 points 4 days ago (1 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.

[–] groet@feddit.org 14 points 4 days ago (1 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?

[–] art@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago (1 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.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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?

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 days 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.

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 16 points 4 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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.)

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 days ago

Now its a launcher, you can install many Minecraft clones from within