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?

  • TachyonTele_Esq@piefed.socialEnglish
    1·
    15 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

  • wrinkledoo@sh.itjust.works
    8·
    1 day ago

    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.

  • Admetus@sopuli.xyz
    9·
    1 day ago

    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.

    • MisterFred@reddthat.comOP
      2·
      1 day ago

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

  • khannie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    18 hours ago

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

    • Admetus@sopuli.xyz
      4·
      18 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’.

  • Arello@sopuli.xyz
    2·
    24 hours ago

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

    • Admetus@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      18 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.