• Haven’t watched the video - just my thoughts…

    Minetest (specifically Mineclone2) is an impressive feat, and a very faithful reproduction of the original. I pretty much used the Minecraft fandom wiki to progress through the game. Hours of fun was had without handing money to M$.

    I only really stopped because the redstone functionality wasn’t fully implemented.

    Hats off to the devs on that project regardless

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    3 months ago

    I played quite a bit of solo mineclone2/voxelibre. Really good stuff with a surprisingly short wishlist on my part.

    It’s silly, but one of my favorite things is that it fires up the launcher in under a second. Reminds me of when software wasn’t bloated halfway to hell. 😁

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      3 months ago

      Notes while I’m watching:

      1. The “vibe” is different - in my head I translated this to “he likes the GUI more”
      2. Minetest has zero “story” / progression (so no Ender Dragon to gear up for & fight) - it’s purely a sandbox experience.
      3. better performance, apparently runs on potato laptops pretty well
      4. Mods are built-in, and don’t require tools like Forge or whatever to tweak a jar file ⬅️ THIS is cool!
      5. Customization via the Settings menu

      The “built-in support for mods” caught my eye. That’s pretty slick, and a headache with MC.

      tl;dr - it runs on just about everything, and focuses on giving the player an easy-to-mod “sandbox” to play in.

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        3 months ago

        All the mods are written with Lua and run in a sandbox afaik so it isn’t really the same as Minecraft mods

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    3 months ago

    I primarily prefer it because it does pretty much all the Minecraft stuff I want it to do, and it’s got other games available as well. Plus, completely Linux compatible and no Microsoft account!

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      3 months ago

      Sounds super cool :o … Am still kinda salty about M$ blocking my account and holding my copy of Minecraft (that I paid Mojang for, well before it was Microsoft’s!) hostage because they want my phone number, though. 😠

      … Also I kinda wanna know if it’s got the moddage I love about Minecraft, but am afraid to ask because I’m stuck on a laptop that can’t really run much without getting all melty 😅

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        3 months ago

        Yes, it’s certainly changed for the worse since I’ve played it. I quit fairly soon after they announced that I would need to eventually migrate to a Microsoft account. Seeing some of the things they’ve done since then doesn’t make me miss it!

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        I completely get where people are coming from with that opinion, but I’ve been playing MC for almost 15 years, and I’m having just as much if not more fun with the game now as I did at any other point in its development.

        Minetest is super cool and can be very fun. I play a bit on it as well, but exclusively advertising for it on the platform of hur dur mineshit sucks, which isn’t necessarily what you’re doing, I just see that a lot, definitely isn’t the best way to go.

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        Idk I run my own PO3 server on Java and everything but the launcher is fine. I’m sure Bedrock is completely molested though.

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            If you run your own server it’s as simple as setting

            Online-Mode: false

            And installing an account management plugin if you open it to other players (so people can’t just easily change names and impersonate someone)

            I exclusively played on and ran cracked servers for 6 years (2011-2017), shit rules

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    So I tried VoxelLibre recently and I have three main papercuts:

    • The lack of dual wielding (and perhaps crits and other Combat Update things).
    • Shift clicking items doesn’t do the same thing as Minecraft in a lot of cases. Shift clicking armour doesn’t equip it, for example.
    • I think sometimes there’s a keyboard combination for opening the inventory (shift+I?) that I keep accidentally hitting when I try to move.

    Still, it’s an interesting project and Iook forward to how it continues.

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    Does anyone know how to “fly” with double space?

    And how to fly faster?

    These were big issues I had with Mineclone2 or how it is now called

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      While in game, Escape>Change Keys> in the right corner checkbox called “Double tap ‘jump’ to toggle fly”. For flying faster, you can press J (by default?) to enable fast mode, you can change how fast it is in the settings menu, in the main menu. This is all assuming that you have the ‘fly’ and ‘fast’ privileges.

      All players should check the settings menu at least once, I changed many things in there, and you should too. One of them was enabling the crosshair in the Touchscreen menu on mobile , it enables a much smoother experience on mobile.

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    Minetest gets scary when you look at the code and see that the engine they use is basically abandoned and will never get Wayland support. Afaik?

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    My main problem with Voxelibre/Mineclonia was the resourcepacks they use. Every time I hear an eating sound I wanna quit the game and never return.