First, the technical part: I'm running Mineclonia on my headless Dell Wyse 5070 mini homeserver with a j5005 Pentium Silver CPU running Debian, fanless... listen>>> fanless <<< and my kids and I connect via laptops and a desktop to it, and it just works, and it doesn't get hot. Read that again, we're not talking about needing an i3 or i5 cpu to run the server. It doesn't take a lot of cpu power for the server alone. So the world we play in is always on and ready to go from any computer we connect from. Installation of the headless Luanti server was possible with the help of coding AI.
As for the clients (where we actually see and play the game), my older laptops needed FPS limited to 30 instead of the default 60 so it would flow more smoothly... and they work fine.
The clients run Linux Mint and one in Batocera OS as a PORT with the gamepad mapped to the keys needed. It's amazing how it just works. I use an XBOX controller when I play in my Linux Mint desktop but I have to do it through STEAM in order to use the controller. Just add the Luanti game to your STEAM Library.
Now, the testimonial part: My kids have played Minecraft at their cousin's house and I've asked them several times: "Is Minecraft better than this?" and their answer has constantly been a resounding "NO! Luanti is better than Minecraft" (for our household, the word "Luanti" is synonymous with Mineclonia, even tho we've tried VoxeLibre and Minetest, we prefer Mineclonia, so that's Luanti for us).
First, the technical part: I'm running Mineclonia on my headless Dell Wyse 5070 mini homeserver with a j5005 Pentium Silver CPU running Debian, fanless... listen>>> fanless <<< and my kids and I connect via laptops and a desktop to it, and it just works, and it doesn't get hot. Read that again, we're not talking about needing an i3 or i5 cpu to run the server. It doesn't take a lot of cpu power for the server alone. So the world we play in is always on and ready to go from any computer we connect from. Installation of the headless Luanti server was possible with the help of coding AI. As for the clients (where we actually see and play the game), my older laptops needed FPS limited to 30 instead of the default 60 so it would flow more smoothly... and they work fine.
The clients run Linux Mint and one in Batocera OS as a PORT with the gamepad mapped to the keys needed. It's amazing how it just works. I use an XBOX controller when I play in my Linux Mint desktop but I have to do it through STEAM in order to use the controller. Just add the Luanti game to your STEAM Library.
Now, the testimonial part: My kids have played Minecraft at their cousin's house and I've asked them several times: "Is Minecraft better than this?" and their answer has constantly been a resounding "NO! Luanti is better than Minecraft" (for our household, the word "Luanti" is synonymous with Mineclonia, even tho we've tried VoxeLibre and Minetest, we prefer Mineclonia, so that's Luanti for us).
This is THE OPEN SOURCE ALTERNATIVE to Minecraft.