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Any people who have played open-source Minecraft alternatives? (reddthat.com)

submitted 16 hours ago by MisterFred@reddthat.com to c/minecraft@sh.itjust.works

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I've tried to do research and found games that exist, but not many opinions on them. I don't wanna rely on one singular opinion just to find out that the game is for them but not me. Classicube ie too simple. Cubys is like Minecraft's Arch, and Luanti with Mineclonia seems the most promising, but have done the least research from. Eaglercraft isn't fully open-source liscense-wize, Android java launchers like Mojo use too many resources, and PC launchers require a Minecraft install and a Microsoft account. I don't wanna just straight up pirate the game directly either. How are your experiences woth those complete alternatives?

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[–] Admetus@sopuli.xyz 7 points 15 hours ago* (1 child)

Luanti is deeply modded, has a large selection of games (including the ones mimicking Minecraft), and a strong programming community.

I'm honestly surprised you researched Luanti the least.

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[–] MisterFred@reddthat.com [S] 2 points 15 hours ago

Ok, maybe not THE least, since I know less about Classicube, but definetely did not do as much research as the others

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[–] wrinkledoo@sh.itjust.works 7 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

My experience drove me to just pirate minecraft. The alternatives are ok, but they are not very polished, or they don't scratch the same itch. Minecraft really does just have that sauce.

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[–] TachyonTele_Esq@piefed.social 1 point 6 hours ago (3 children)

I've never been able to get it to work from the high seas.

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[–] goldstein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 hours ago (1 child)

https://ultimmc.com/ FOSS Minecraft launcher. You can play singleplayer and multiplayer on cracked servers

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[–] TachyonTele_Esq@piefed.social 1 point 43 minutes ago*

Is it servers as in creating a file, or online servers?

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[–] womboflll@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 hours ago

I use a cracked polymc launcher. You have to create an offline account and download a jdk but it does what I need. Can even download mods for me.

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[–] supersquirrel@lemmy.ca 3 points 15 hours ago*

Luanti is great.

Vintage Story is paid but awesome.

Also check out Veloren and OpenVoxel.

[–] Arello@sopuli.xyz 2 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

I have tried Minetest, but that was years ago. It probably needed some plugins to feel more alive.

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[–] MisterFred@reddthat.com [S] 2 points 14 hours ago

Minetest is now what's known as Luanti which has a bunch of mods right now

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[–] Admetus@sopuli.xyz 1 point 9 hours ago*

They stopped making the community focus on modding the base game (i.e. Minetest Game), and just went 'Hey, you go make yer games; and mods just follow behind with compatibility for certain games.' For some reason the devs let rip and now we have very strong Minecraft clones, as well as lots of creative output.

There's the Backrooms game even.

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[–] khannie@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (1 child)

Voxelibre, a luanti fork, is pretty great. My young lad plays it almost exclusively. It also runs on a potato which is great

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[–] Admetus@sopuli.xyz 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

To ensure no misunderstandings here, Voxelibre is running on Luanti as a 'game'. It's not a separate fork. It will be forked from the 'Minetest Game' which is the default (basic, unmodded) engine on Luanti.

The Luanti title screen gets substituted by the title screen of whatever game was selected/played before Luanti was closed. It makes Luanti itself like a 'console'.

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[–] TachyonTele_Esq@piefed.social 1 point 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Cubic Odyssey scratches the itch for me. It's more like a 3D Starbound, but it's all blocks. It's not open source though.

Oh and it's janky as hell

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[–] Lehmuusa@nord.pub 14 points 15 hours ago

Been playing Luanti Voxelibre, and been very content with its creative mode. But it spawns far too little ores, which makes the survival mode a pain. Or maybe I'm doing something wrong, idk.

[–] benno@sh.itjust.works 11 points 12 hours ago (5 children)

yes but except you are a diehard free software fan there is no reason to not just play minecraft. it has basically no DRM, source code is no longer unobfuscated and it can be easily modded.

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[–] skunk@lemmy.zip 3 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

Microsoft is on the BDS list last I checked

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[–] benno@sh.itjust.works 7 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

then pirate it

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[–] skunk@lemmy.zip 1 point 12 hours ago (2 children)

Idk anything about it, I'd assume you can't connect to servers or smth on a pirated version

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[–] benno@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 hours ago

its a simple server config change to allow unauthenticated users and you cannot join most minecraft servers with your open source clone either

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[–] MisterFred@reddthat.com [S] 1 point 12 hours ago

I don't give a shoot about playing online on most games except for Geometry Dash. I play Minecraft serverless everytime

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[–] LongLive@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago

Exile! Luanti game.
I play it 1 life, fun.

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 hours ago

Vintage Story is a Minecraft-like that's fantastic. It's only source available but it's fully replaced Minecraft for me. It feels like "Minecraft for adults" since it's a lot more intense in terms of survival and building

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 1 point 1 hour ago

Uhh maybe Classicube and Lunati

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 1 point 5 hours ago

There is no good open source alternative in my experience, but hytale is a decent non-microsoft one

[–] Jenthura@lemmy.zip 1 point 4 hours ago

Not open source, but Vintage Story is very good.

[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 4 hours ago

Mineclonia (running on Luanti) is quite complete for a WIP, and tries to mimic Minecraft as much as possible in the engine. (Disclaimer: I have contributed to this repo)