I have a human child that has created a rather awesome Minecraft world.
Now there are several reasons why it would be good to start using something based on Luanti.
However, the world they have been creating is something we would really not want to miss, even though it’s not even one year old.
They are playing in creative mode, and we agreed that it’s enough if all of the terrain near the home house, the house itself, plus the tunnels dug into that terrain would be preserved. We are able to rebuild all the minetracks and doors and windows and place new animals, if needed. But at least a skeleton of their world would be important to preserve.
So, is there a way to convert our Minecraft world to something playable on Luanti? And what game running on Luanti would you people recommend for us to use for this purpose?
And secondarily, if we need to just start from scratch, which Luanti-game would be best for a young child wanting to play more or less akin to how you play Minecraft in creative mode? Being able to place objects freely while flying freely, and beig able to populate the world with animals – at least cats and/or dogs – would be very important for them, but almost anything else can be whatever it is. It does not need to be the same as Minecraft, it just needs to be able to approximately fulfill the same purpose for a human child.
I’m running this on Ubuntu and if any Windows or Mac based software should be needed, I do know people who can let me temporarily use their computer for that. But the actual playing will happen on Ubuntu.
Okay, I copypasted this question to the Luanti forums. In case someone else wants to follow that discussion, here’s where: https://forum.luanti.org/viewtopic.php?t=32372
My advise: don’t
Forcing a kid to do something makes them hate it
I’m not forcing them to do anything, don’t worry. They are interested in moving to a different game because that’s a way we can try playing multiplayer. It’s a thing we have already agreed on, and now they are basically just impatiently waiting for me to figure out how to get stuff actually rolling.
You could just let them figure it out
Too young for that, absolutely!
I’ve converted a few old Minecraft worlds. It required some Python on the command line, and some retries with edited configs, since I had Minecraft mods and wanted some unexpected objects to come over.
This seems to be a nice recipe: https://vlwiki.phinetwork.ch/index.php/Importing_from_Minecraft
To answer your other question - I recommend going into crazy modding in Luanti later, it’s great.
But for the closest experience to vanilla Minecraft, there’s VoxeLibre - which is also the import target for the above script.
VoxeLibre is a full Minecraft implementation until about a year or two ago, when it diverged and focused on its own unique new game features. So the early game is nearly identical, but my understanding is that the late game is expanded and different.
(I didn’t play through the late game in VoxeLibre, because the siren song of Minetest plus crazy mods pulled me away and I’ve been focused on playing with model trains with the Advanced Trains mod. I thought I needed a bare install MineGame to be sure Advanced Trains ran stable. Now, having run a server for awhile, I suspect Advanced Trains might have have just worked fine on VoxeLibre.)
Don’t know about conversion, you should try asking on reddit or the luanti forums :)
The closest Minecraft like game is mineclonia, creative mode is kind of built-in but I don’t think it disables damage, (I don’t know how mineclonia handles it).
I might not want to create an account on Reddit for that, but yeah, the Luanti forums might be a sensible place to try!
The only thing about MineClonia is that it’s missing a lot of features from Minecraft in its current state. But, it’s impressively pretty close.
I dislike it, because it sucks. The minetest game is mich better, you should join PURRFECT ANARCHY
Damage should be possible to disable in the main menu before jumping into a game:
What dumb games have u installed bro ;#!#!#
It’s a screenshot I found on the interwebs. 😅
I mean, I do enjoy a dumb game, but on the screenshot, I actually only recognize the dev sandbox and airgame
because the latter says in plaintext what it is.Air game is a dumb name too
I had no idea Minetest rebranded but the last time I played it had several mods that made it almost identical to Minecraft, even having the same textures.
You probably knew the game/modpack MineClone2. That itself rebranded to VoxeLibre, because the devs wanted a bit more liberty rather than miming Minecraft precisely.
Well, and as a result of that, a fork came into existence, which is called Mineclonia and which continues on the mission to replicate Minecraft.Man, I guess the world of FOSS is in constant flux.
Change is the only constant 🧘
Honestly best thing about Luanti is being able to fuck around and code.
For kids you want UltimMC Minecraft launcher and a heavily-customized modpack. Most modpacks are just giving these kids absolute fucking slop without any attempt to balance or integrate the mods & declutter REI/JEI.
I have been addicted to Modrinth on and off for years so I’d be happy to provide recs but I understand if this is some kind of ideological pure libre thing that will be of no interest.
Why am I telling you to not force your kid to play Luanti right off the bat? Well, becoming exasperated with modding is how I sought it out. I got into modding because I played some real good mods and integrated them until the integrations became their own mods.
Get that little guy Create mod! Luanti has its own unique qualities (but nothing like that) it’s fun for building like, a fusion of Minecraft and Portal 2.
