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I have not yet tried https://www.minetest.net/ https://www.minetest.net/ but this provides some motivation. Do others have experience with it?

pirocks 6y ago
From the POV of a long time minecraft it seems to be close to the earliest versions of minecraft, and not really the game I love. It's simply missing to many things, and has a massively smaller community.
simion314 6y ago
I tried it but the issue is that is not Minecraft, the kids will want to play the game their cousins and friends play and the game the youtubers play. But a few years back when I checked Minetest it had some nice features and cool mods so if you don't care about the Minecraft community end ecosystem then you might enjoy it.
- RealStickman_ 6y ago
  I think I'll give Minetest another go the next time I want to play Minecraft.
Kye 6y ago
Minetest is a good base for someone with the skills and will to make a Minecraft-esque game or to do something with interactive voxels. It's a long, long way from a replacement for Minecraft. And that's before considering the creative community around it.
- wowaname 6y ago
  Have they gotten rid of the 65k^3 map limit?
zarski 6y ago
My kids play Minetest daily and love the game and community. I'm looking to teach them coding and graphics with Minetest's approachable lua API so I'll be diving in to that side of things soon. The Minetest team has purposely focused on keeping bloat in the way of excessively pretty graphics/shaders out of the game engine making it playable on old machines and requiring less bandwidth for community play. Here is a great recent article https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Open_source_game_developer_Perttu_Ahola_talks_about_Minetest_with_Wikinews https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Open_source_game_developer_Pert... interviewing the Minetest creator and leader, Perttu Ahola. - I can vouch for two community kids-safe servers: (1) The Epic Server (regular survival game) and (2) Capture The Flag. - Great Youtube Minetest channel => https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdiuryhdSBUxQse2rarVqPg https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdiuryhdSBUxQse2rarVqPg

pirocks 6y ago

From the POV of a long time minecraft it seems to be close to the earliest versions of minecraft, and not really the game I love. It's simply missing to many things, and has a massively smaller community.

simion314 6y ago

I tried it but the issue is that is not Minecraft, the kids will want to play the game their cousins and friends play and the game the youtubers play. But a few years back when I checked Minetest it had some nice features and cool mods so if you don't care about the Minecraft community end ecosystem then you might enjoy it.

RealStickman_ 6y ago
I think I'll give Minetest another go the next time I want to play Minecraft.

Kye 6y ago

Minetest is a good base for someone with the skills and will to make a Minecraft-esque game or to do something with interactive voxels. It's a long, long way from a replacement for Minecraft. And that's before considering the creative community around it.

wowaname 6y ago
Have they gotten rid of the 65k^3 map limit?

zarski 6y ago

My kids play Minetest daily and love the game and community. I'm looking to teach them coding and graphics with Minetest's approachable lua API so I'll be diving in to that side of things soon. The Minetest team has purposely focused on keeping bloat in the way of excessively pretty graphics/shaders out of the game engine making it playable on old machines and requiring less bandwidth for community play. Here is a great recent article https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Open_source_game_developer_Perttu_Ahola_talks_about_Minetest_with_Wikinews https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Open_source_game_developer_Pert... interviewing the Minetest creator and leader, Perttu Ahola. - I can vouch for two community kids-safe servers: (1) The Epic Server (regular survival game) and (2) Capture The Flag. - Great Youtube Minetest channel => https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdiuryhdSBUxQse2rarVqPg https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdiuryhdSBUxQse2rarVqPg