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What a fantastic awareness campaign for Luanti!
Bedrock Minecraft has always been the micro transaction version of Minecraft.
If you’re playing Bedrock and are now worried about Microtransactions, that’s on you.
Minecraft Java edition feels like the “community” version of the game while bedrock seems like the awful micro transaction playground for Microsoft.
Bedrock has been doing shitty monetisation for ages. Play Java, enjoy.
Dont feel like mining? $.99 will get you a stack of whatever block you need to build a base home!
Don’t feel like crafting? Buy blueprints to the most extravagent of builds! Only $19.99
NEW: Minecraft CREATIVE DLC. now you can build whatever you’d like with UNLIMITED materials, flying powers and NEVER DYING. for only 19,99$. WHAT A STEAL
The second one will definitely happen. People already paying builders for nice buildings, and I bet Micro$oft wants in on this market
They just removed obfuscation from Java Edition. If they even try to do a single stupid move - like with chat reporting a few years ago - it will be simply modded out of the game.
The only thing that they might be able to do is increase the price for buying the game, mess with the accounts or illegally change their EULA - without notifying anyone - again.
Bugrock Edition on the other hand is already a dumpster fire for years, so nobody really cares about that one in the first place…
What actually is this? The Website is rather unhelpful. Its just a Minecraft clone?
It started as minetest, an open source minecraft clone. It has since developed into a full voxel engine, supporting community made game modes and modpacks.
It has since developed into a full voxel engine, supporting community made game modes and modpacks
Thanks, that’s exactly what I was talking about. What does that mean? Its a Minecraft clone?
It is a Minecraft clone, but it does a lot more. People are building new games with the same engine. It’s called a voxel engine, because that the type of 3D that was popularized by minecraft.
I don’t play Minecraft or Roblox, but this sounds like what I heard of the latter, not the former. You make games and they are available for people to play, or is there a difference I’m missing?
You make games and they are available for people to play, or is there a difference I’m missing?
That’s pretty good summary of Luanti.
The interesting nuance is that Luanti was originally built as the engine for making a faithful Minecraft clone, so the two popular Minecraft clones are extremely faithful to Minecraft, in ways that a clone built in another engine could not be.
What actually is this?
Luanti is the engine that MineClonia runs on, and Mineclonia is a full featured, finished, Minecraft clone.
The Website is rather unhelpful.
Seriously. It’s a little sad.
Its just a Minecraft clone?
For practical purposes, it absolutely is.
Grab Luanti for free off of F-Droid or any Linux app store, or out of the SteamDeck Desktop “Software Center”. Launch “Luanti”, choose “Mineclonia”. (Edit: or Windows or Mac, too. - Luanti - Getting Started.
Pick a username to “Register” (local play is identical to server play) and start playing free open, wonderful, easily modded, multiplayer Minecraft clone.
If a friend wants to join, just give them your IP address - even on SteamDeck or Android phone (edit: and Windows and Mac - sorry, no iPhone, I think.)
Now its a launcher, you can install many Minecraft clones from within
Join meow anarchy modded!!!
Another little reminder:
- if you play games, do not buy microtransaction items or, if possible, games that try to sell them.
- If you are a parent, do not let your kids buy microtransaction items or games that try to sell them.
- If you know a parent who is not a gamer, share these concepts with them. They won’t have these sorts of things piped into their bubble under any normal circumstances.
My kids, 10 and 14, are very anti corporate greed and I couldn’t be more proud. They also complain when they aren’t on the local WiFi if they are playing mobile games because the ads don’t get blocked. A couple years ago my youngest asked me to turn ads on so he could hatch monsters or something faster, I bypassed his device and a couple months later he was complaining that the game is a time sink full of ads and he doesn’t want to play it anymore and wants ad blocking re-enabled.
They aren’t perfect and I have never tried to preach to them too much. Not really sure where I was going with this but your post reminded me how much I appreciate that my boys actively avoid and protest against playing games with ads and micro transactions at such a young age and I felt like sharing with someone.
FWIW, simply living with an adblocker for a while will inoculate you to a lot of the most predatory BS. My wife had a similar experience. At first she was annoyed by the dual pi-holes I set up, because they broke her sponsored Google search links. Then she learned to skip those first few links and got used to having ads blocked. We recently moved, and I hadn’t had time to set them back up. I have simply been using the new ISP’s modem/router.
Last week, she basically begged me to find some time to set the network stuff back up, because she hated seeing ads now. She got used to the pi-holes, and then they were suddenly gone. She was like “yeah a lot of my favorite sites are basically unusable now. I don’t know how the hell I ever functioned before you set those things up…” What sent her over the edge was when she noticed an ad on our TV’s sleep screen. Not even in the show we were watching. Just on the sleep screen, because the show had been paused for like 15-20 minutes. That one ad was the straw that broke the camel’s back, because even when the device was idle it was still trying to show her ads.
Highly recommend Vintage Story to those who love the survival aspect of Minecraft. In my opinion, it also offers a lot more creative freedom but you really have to work for it.
Vintage Story is a very different, much more hardcore beast compared to Minecraft.
Yeah, it’s awesome. Survival as it should have been.
Been playing VS since before it had seasons or food decay. It’s incredible to see how far it’s come.
I just started back in November. It’s easily become one of if not my all-time favorite game to play. It’s absolutely solid and I forget it’s still in early access.
Kinda love how they are not on steam and they provide a better refund policy without it.
They’re never gonna put that stuff into Java, that’s the fully Mojang version of the game. And even then it’ll be as easy as ever to mod anything they try adding out.
What an amazing time to have started playing Vintage Story
Why do we live in a world where incompetent people are constantly rewarded
they are competent at being leeches, parasites, ghouls and bastards.
Corporate mantra:
Profits Rule Everything Around Me
Microtransactions may make a game an unplayable pile of shit most of the time, but they’re a great way to turn children’s allowances into corporate profit if you’re a gigantic corporation that doesn’t care at all about amount of fun that can be had in a game.
Theres always Luanti. Its a lot easier to mange for computer lab installs than trying to juggle Minecraft education licenses.
You can just download any of the older iterations of Minecraft and host your own server.
You don’t need to be on the latest release.
Doesn’t the server need to talk to Microsoft to work? I thought they built some phone home thing.
They can only release new versions with crippled features rather than taking away what older versions have.
You can disable online mode (weird name but i think still called this) and anyone with minecraft jar can join, no matter if microsoft account or not.
But can also choose username, so can bypass blacklist.
This what happen if play through launcher that allow piracy like prism or fjord.
But can also choose username, so can bypass blacklist.
I think I recall getting around this by hard-configuring the allowed players list?
I never felt the need to work hard to disconnect from Minecraft’s auth servers - but I think I remember doing some command line foo once when the Minecraft auth servers were down for a day, in order to let current players keep playing.
Anyway, all that to say, I think are ways to work around that. It’s not ideal, but probably manageable.
Disclaimer: I host Luanti now, instead, so I don’t remember all of my Minecraft-foo.
As I understand it, older versions of the app have hacked that call/response so it either doesn’t happen or dummies out. Also, lots of minecraft community servers will advertise what version they’re using, because certain updates are considered undesirable.
