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

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.


Last edited by chr on 6 Nov 2025 at 4:25 pm UTC

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?

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.

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.


Last edited by Penguin on 6 Nov 2025 at 7:41 pm UTC

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

May I ask, does anyone around here play this game?

I've tried to get into Techage a couple of times, but the dearth of quality-of-life mods (could use a good waila, for example) still means I gravitate back to Minecraft 1.12 + GregTech Skybound.

May I ask, does anyone around here play this game?

I ended up switching to Vintage Story in the end. It's more complete than the Luanti games and mods are also excellent.

Luanti and VoxeLibre are good enough if you are not demanding (like me). If you want something backed by the insanely rich money making machine ran by Microsoft then sure, stick with Minecraft.

I did a quick try of VoxeLibre and I don't think it will be replacing minecraft any time soon. In my short try I saw two major issues:

1. New player experience is pretty bad. If you don't know what you're doing, you're going to have a hard time.

2. World generation. This can be split into how it looks and how appropriate it is. I'm not a fan of how it looks. It feels too unnatural. But I suppose this is subjective. The practical aspects are a much bigger issue. First try: I got spawned on the slope of a giant mountain sticking out of the water with a few patches of ice around. Traversing it was a pain, so I quit and generated a new one. Now I got spawned in what looked like a desert. I need wood. Trees? No trees. Started running and found a town. A partially destroyed town because the world generator decided to generate a crevice right through it. Still no trees. Run further. After a while I find a second town. Also partially destroyed. After that town I finally saw the first tree. By then it was night of course.

As long as stuff like that happens, the majority of people will not be taking it seriously.

Ehvis, that's just how procedural generation works. I suppose there could be value in a Terraforged-style world creation menu which allows you to see in what kind of biome you spawn with what kind of terrain around you; but I have, at several points, created a new world in Minecraft only to be dumped in the middle of a massive ocean where it took me over a full Minecraft day to find land (I may have just randomly chosen the wrong way to go, but point still stands). I have also spawned in stone (and there are others who had that experience. I believe one of Kikoskia's Hardcore Minecraft series had him spawn in stone so that video was made an outtake), on islands without any trees, and, if I remember correctly, in a surface lava lake.