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
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simple@piefed.social 8 months 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.world 8 months ago
hisao@ani.social 8 months ago
Its moddability/extensibility is way inferior to Minecraft, where you can change basically everything, including rendering, networking stack, main menu, sound engine, etc.
PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
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.
PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
While Luanti is much more accessible for modding, isn’t it more limitted? Maybe the documentation was just out of date or that, but I was trying to look into custom shaders as well as optimization mods (since I was getting suttering on block updates) a year ago or so, but from what I saw at the time, there wasn’t any way to modify these.
Eldritch@piefed.world 8 months ago
Yep, luanti can do *Minecraft. And much much more. Luanti has the potential to become a platform more like roblox.
AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
For the most part I would agree. Though there are absolutely some games on there that make it feel like a standout product. Those games being shorter games called “Glitch” and “Eyeballs”. They do a good enough job of showcasing how you could use Luanti as a legitimate game platform. But other than those, would agree that it falls into the clone category.