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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.
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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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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.
Last edited by chr on 6 Nov 2025 at 4:25 pm UTC
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simplyseven 6 hours ago
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.
It's hard to manage servers but places like MCC and others exist. Do they in Luanti?
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.
It's hard to manage servers but places like MCC and others exist. Do they in Luanti?
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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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May I ask, does anyone around here play this game?I play VoxeLibre casually on single player. It's ok for me and I have fun with it, but I'm far from being experienced in Minecraft - in fact I barely played Minecraft before because it gives me motion sickness (and that isn't the case with VoxeLibre under Luanti for some reason). The only thing I can say for sure (from my experience) is that crafting is different on VoxeLibre and it seems that there are much more mobs at night when compared to Minecraft. No big deal for me, as I prefer playing VoxeLibre with the damage turned off (so it's kind of similar to Minecraft's Peaceful Mode because mobs don't attack you).
TL;DR: I think you should [give VoxeLibre a try](https://content.luanti.org/packages/wuzzy/mineclone2/). If that's not your cup of tea, there are other games that run under Luanti - you can find them [here](https://content.luanti.org/packages/?type=game). And there's also Elsewhere , which just got [released on Steam recently ](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1271150/Elsewhere/). I'm having a great time with that one too! It's different enough from VoxeLibre, so playing one doesn't invalidate the other.
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May I ask, does anyone around here play this game?
I'm currently trying out Wuzzy's new update on Hades Revisited, and I tend to like Nonsensical Skyblock and the Oneblock mod for Mineclonia.
But then, I've never played Minecraft itself aside from a few minutes toying about with Pocket Edition many years ago.
Last edited by Nezchan on 6 Nov 2025 at 8:03 pm UTC
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