Hello,

I don’t like how many items/blocks were added to Minecraft. It removes what made Minecraft so special–its simplicity.

Are there any Luanti games that replicate that feeling? “Minetest Game” doesn’t have any mobs, and has weird controls. VoxeLibre has too many items.

You could probably fix that with mods or… you know just not using the items i don’t wanna use. :) I still wanted to ask here though maybe somebody uses exactly that. I did found an empty server that was running something, that looked a lot like Minecraft Alpha, but I couldn’t find what game they have used.

    • Vogi@piefed.socialOPEnglish
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      3 days ago

      I found it the IP is 157.173.202.134:30008 the join message in the chat tells me it is running a game called “Back to alpha” however the server list under https://servers.luanti.org/ says its “minecraft” which is probably its identifer. I can’t seem to find it on ContentDB though :(

      • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        3 days ago

        From what I understand, lots of servers run their own custom modded games, typically based on Minetest Game. Even just for providing an enjoyable multiplayer experience, you want mods that help with e.g. protecting areas from trolls, which aren’t necessary in a singleplayer experience.

        If you run /mods in the chat of the server, it should list the mods it uses. You can try to compare that with the output of /mods in a locally running Minetest Game world.

        But it’s also possible that they use custom-edited versions of mods or entirely newly-written mods, which aren’t separately published. I’m pretty sure Luanti just downloads the mod files from the server onto your PC, so you can probably find them somewhere and use them in a local game.