Luanti (formerly Minetest) joins up with Open Collective Europe for funding

By Liam Dawe - 6 Nov 2025 at 1:04 pm UTC

Hopefully making this excellent open source voxel game engine project more manageable, Luanti (formerly Minetest) has joined up with Open Collective Europe.

As announced in the blog post, they now have a dedicated page where you can directly support the project. This should make it easier for people to donate and for the developers to access the funds to put towards things like hosting servers, promoting Luanti, supporting general development, reducing their legal risk with funding and so on. It should also make it easier for them to attend events like FOSDEM. On top of that, it makes things a lot more transparent too, as you can see what funds are going in and being used for what.

Luanti has made some impressive progress over the last few years, with a lot of popular games available for it and the future is clearly looking bright for this free and open source voxel game engine.

See more about it on the official site.

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.

Tags: Native Linux, Game Engine, Open Source, Open World, Sandbox | Apps: Luanti (formerly Minetest)

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chr 3 hours ago

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My friends and I are just about to launch another Minecraft run, but this time we are using a lot of mods - so once more I will skip Luanti 😢. But I will not forget it and hope to have a longer run eventually. I am just really irked if I don't like a game's gamefeel and Minecraft has so much more mods (for now).

I'm always glad to see Luanti progressing. And I'm looking forward to a day where Microsoft messes up bad enough that a majority of players (or at least modders) flock away from it. Or they turn it open-source enough. One can hope.

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simplyseven 2 hours ago

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May I ask, does anyone around here play this game? I've thought about it, I have had Minecraft for a long time but don't want to install it with the new Microsoft garbage.

But I kind of enjoy the process of Minecraft and I would absolutely be 'down' to participate in an online experience with others - but I don't really know others. emoji

It's hard to manage servers but places like MCC and others exist. Do they in Luanti?

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Calinou 1 hour ago

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It's hard to manage servers but places like MCC and others exist. Do they in Luanti?

There's a [public server list](https://www.luanti.org/servers/) with many longstanding community servers, but there isn't really something like some of the huge Minecraft servers (e.g. Hypixel). The Minecraft community is so large that running a single server can be a company on its own with paid staff.

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