So i used to play standard minecraft many years ago when i was a kid but then i got very burnt out and havent played it sense. Minecraft has a bigger community/mods than minetest, but minetest is a neat little lua project. How do i decide? what would you suggest?

  • simple@piefed.socialEnglish
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    16 days ago

    Minecraft is better and has a massive community with a huge selection of mods. Luanti is free & open source but that’s about it, it’s neat but is ultimately just another Minecraft clone.

    • TimeNaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      16 days ago

      Luanti also has much better and more complex mods all installable in a few clicks.

      It’s an engine that can run completely different games other than minecraft. Check out Glitch for example

      • hisao@ani.socialEnglish
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        16 days ago

        Its moddability/extensibility is way inferior to Minecraft, where you can change basically everything, including rendering, networking, main menu, sound engine, etc. Check my previous comment on my profile page.

        • PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          16 days ago

          The comment, for convenience:

          In my opinion Luanti is a living proof that top-down extensibility aka “we make monolithic engine in C++ and then provide some APIs for scripting via bindings for some scripting language on the side” doesn’t work well. You can’t change main menu, you can’t fix player controller (and the default one sucks), you can’t write your own renderer, etc. Because developers didn’t imagine someone would want that (actually they probably did, but they simply don’t have capacity to provide this). Good extensibility/modability should be automatic, on binary level. Like what you get by developing in bytecode/JIT-compiled languages like Java/C# or in old Unreal Engines where everything was done in bytecode-(de)compilable special language called Unreal Script.