You can play with your partner on a pirated copy if you connect to a server without authentication or host one yourself

If the game has you host servers yourself, you can pretty much always use a pirated copy. If they could detect the piracy on your computer anyway they would already be blocking you from playing. If you connect to a server they host then they could have extra verification, but if you're hosting it then it's not going to be anything that isn't already being checked to prevent piracy.

It's really easy. I use SKLauncher and a dedicated server. You need to disable some player verification setting on the server but that's it.

Try Luanti. If you haven't been playing MC recently you honestly may not even notice the difference

You can also play co-op with a single PC nucleus-coop.github.io/

Wait the movie actually worked?

Ouah, this really is the moronest timeline

Yeah there was at least a year where you could port it, I got it in alpha too and still play every so often

I have never played Minecraft so I would not actually know, but yeah, everyone who has played both says it's better. Now if only we could get a Distant Horizons feature on this bad boy....

Some of my favorite mods and packs are from the 1.7.10 era. I once put together a private server pack than included AE2, most of Reika's mods (Rotarycraft, Reactorcraft, Electricraft and Chromaticraft), and assortment of magic mods and some lesser known or lesser used mods. Admittedly some of the latter were really buggy (for example Essentialcraft), but were usually weird or fun enough to keep despite that.

Once upon a time I played on a Harry Potter themed modded server ran by Megachunk. I started out with a little house in a field with a fenced in yard, the usual sort of thing. People kept finding ways to steal from me or grief me. So I kept improving security. By the end of the server, no one but me and three others could enter my inner sanctum without being slaughtered, and even if they could enter they couldn't interact with anything. Everything was covered by overlapping Pneumaticraft Security Stations encased in Thaumcraft Warded Glass. The area was utterly covered in Witchery Sentinel fetishes loaded with spectres in the spirit world, and those in turn were protected by Security Stations and all of it encased in Warded Glass to keep those from getting messed with. If you entered my base, you died, GTFO. Turned out spectres could also kill players in creative mode, so that included staff.

Maybe they wanna pay online. Why should they be punished for doing the right thing and supporting the product? Unfortunately in this age, that is the world we live in, but that doesn't make it right.