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Minetest breaks the chains of being a Minecraft clone with a new name — Luanti (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Real source instead of that blog spam: https://blog.minetest.net/2024/10/13/Introducing-Our-New-Name/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

... which you obtained and learned of from this "blog spam" ...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

So cite it as "via..." but linking to the original source, especially one without ads and user tracking, is obviously best practice. Nobody in their right mind would deny that, unless there is financial incentive to link to that ad-ridden site.

Edit: Also "Rule 9: Use the original source"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Seems like a decision for the better, so long as they have the name Mine attached to it there will be higher expectations and lower initial trust than with an entirely different name

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I feel like it was the "test" part...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

That certainly didn't help either

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Any recommendations on games using this engine? I've been playing Java Edition again lately but am always open something new.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's not the same engine but Vintage Story is a TerraFirmaCraft inspired standalone game, if you ever played that mod. The next big update is current in pre-release beta too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Wow that looks so involved! Will definitely look into this.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I like playing "Asuna" as a minecraft-adjacent experience, with a bunch of nice world generation mods already packed in. But I also have concocted my own modsoup on top of that, so it's also pretty far from the vanilla of that. There's other games that come up mostly ready for play, like Mesecraft or Voxelibre (that one being mostly an actual MC clone, also renamed) look around the content DB tho, there's a ton of nice stuff around.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Looks gorgeous! Thanks. You've got me exploring what there is to explore. :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

VoxeLibre seems the most familiar and complete. If you played Minecraft you can more or less just pick it up. But it does come with in game tutorials.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

It's all Infiniminer clones anyway.