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Selfhosting with a seven year old (friendica.ginestes.es)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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  • I have a seven year old nephew who I would like to find some computing activities that we could do together. Any ideas?
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[–] 2 points 11 months ago* (3 children)

I need to find out more about Minecraft and hosting a server sounds like a good idea

I've hosted both Minecraft and Luanti (free open source Minecraft). Either is a great idea!

That said, I found setting up a Luanti server slightly simpler (because no need for everyone to have a Microsoft account, and no Java dependencies to worry about): https://docs.luanti.org/for-server-hosts/setup/

Luanti has lots of options, but a good default choice is Mineclonia: https://content.luanti.org/packages/ryvnf/mineclonia/

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

    @pinball_wizard With a Luanti server does every Minecraft player still need a Minecraft licence?

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago* (1 child)

    Luanti and Minecraft are two distinct, if similar-looking things.

    Luanti is an open-source voxel game engine implementation which allows running a wide variety of different ‘games’ on it (including two which mimic Minecraft very closely, like the above-mentioned Mineclonia).

    Minecraft is the closed-source game owned by Mojang.

    The two don’t interact and servers for the one are completely unrelated to the other as well.

    So, to answer the question - yes, they still need a Minecraft license if they want to play Minecraft. But this is disconnected from having a Luanti server, for which you don’t need any licenses but which will in turn also only allow you to play Luanti stuff, not Minecraft.

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