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Minetest 5.9.0 is here! (blog.minetest.net)

submitted 4 months ago by possiblylinux127 to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Well, Minetest also can hardly be compared to Minecraft as Minetest is only an engine or platform for voxel based games like Minecraft. What you rather have to critique is something like Mineclonia that is apparently a more active fork of the MineClone2/VoxeLibre project that try to perfectly replicate Minecraft (without using Minecraft assets that is) on Minetest. Allegedly it's pretty good now but I haven't tried so myself. As already mentioned, the community for Minetest as a whole is pretty small and that additionally split among so many different games building on that. But it's good that viable alternatives exist in case Microsoft ever considers shutting down the Java edition.

Edit: Typo

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

But it’s good that viable alternatives exist in case Microsoft ever considers shutting down the Java edition.

I had never even considered that as a possibility but now it seems all too possible and I'm gonna have to sit with that for a while...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

They will. The whole enda id / stream account nonsense is already the first step in that direction.

Minecraft will only produce income if modding is done via some AppStore. Since this isn't exactly what we want they have either kill java or disable modding and add their AppStore there.