Comment on Selfhosting with a seven year old
abeorch@friendica.ginestes.es 3 days ago
Wow I really appreciate the feedback. After quite a bit of changes and home moves that disrupted alot of what selfhosted stuff I setup, a bit of disallusionment with doing it alone and difficulty staying connected with my nephew remotely these give me some good ideas. I need to find out more about Minecraft and hosting a server sounds like a good idea, I liked the simple coding with audio feedback as well. Its motivating me to get messgaing and chat sorted out as well. I am also going to see if I can find some shared #Spanish #languagelearning tools.
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
I’ve hosted both Minecraft and Luanti (free open source Minecraft). Either is a great idea.
That said, I found setting up a Luanti server slightly simpler (because no need for everyone to have a Microsoft account, and no Java dependencies to worry about): docs.luanti.org/for-server-hosts/setup/
Luanti has lots of options, but a good default choice is Mineclonia: content.luanti.org/packages/ryvnf/mineclonia/
abeorch@friendica.ginestes.es 3 days ago
hoppolito@mander.xyz 3 days ago
Luanti and Minecraft are two distinct, if similar-looking things.
Luanti is an open-source voxel game engine implementation which allows running a wide variety of different ‘games’ on it (including two which mimic Minecraft very closely).
Minecraft is the closed-source game owned by Mojang.
The two don’t interact and servers for the one are completely unrelated to the other as well.
So, to answer the question - yes, they still need a Minecraft license if they want to play Minecraft. But this is disconnected from having a Luanti server, for which you don’t need any licenses but which will in turn only allow you to also play Luanti stuff, not Minecraft.
abeorch@friendica.ginestes.es 3 days ago