So, i have a conundrum. I want to play minecraft, but I am absolutely seething at having to log in to my Microsoft account. I’ve owned Minecraft for over 10 years, but I’ve grown to despise Microsoft. I want an offline DRM-free Minecraft experience, and I’ve found versions of Prism launcher that support cracked game data, but I have no idea where to download cracked Minecraft. It’s like it doesn’t even exist. I’m tech savvy enough to download whatever game I want from the internet… except Minecraft??? Where is Minecraft?!
I’m also willing to simply download legitimate versions through my account one last time and then use a tool to crack them, but I can’t find a way of doing that either. I beseech you, Lemmy users, how can I play Minecraft with my girlfriend without Michaelsoft being involved.
Minetest sadly doesn’t have the robust modding scene that Java minecraft has.
Minetest is cool to play around with, but its more like a resource for testing stuff than an actual game.
It may not have all the mods Minecraft does, but it supports various games like VoxelLibre and Minecraft which also supports mods and both provide actual gameplay not just testing.
Exile is also available in luanti and its brutal survival.
The main problem with Minetest for me, sadly, was incompatibility of the APIs and the general disarray of the modding scene. Most mods seem to be made for Minetest’s APIs, but games like Voxelibre use new ones and if I remember right their response to being incompatible with 99% of mods because of that was “it’s not our fault they’re all using outdated stuff” despite the fact that Minetest is simply being maintained and not updated, so they aren’t going to change their APIs.
The concept of simply copying minecraft is problematic on its own, too. Voxelibre is almost as illegal as a pirated version of Minecraft, it’s just not popular enough to get put in a court for it. It simply copies way too much, and that’s the same for all of the minecraft clones on the platform. So much development time across multiple projects is being put into just ripping off Minecraft to the point of being legally so, and at that point why not just pirate Minecraft? It’s compatible with all the mods from my childhood and wouldn’t be connected to a server that could be struck down at any time for hosting MC ripoffs.
So then I thought Minetest and a bunch of mods for it would be a better option, but I just can’t figure out a modlist that can compete with one from MC Java. They’re all so incoherent and don’t work together well. There’s a gun mod on one that, while it might’ve been okay for Minecraft, on an entirely new fully open-source platform it’s underwhelming. Whacking with the gun to shoot while something like MrCrayFish’s gun mod existed for MC just made me sigh.
I’ve decided I want to develop mods for Luanti and explore how the engine works to get a good handle on voxel game programming, and maybe fork the engine for my own game someday, because I admire how incredibly performant it is, but I’m not gonna play it much until I’ve learned add what I want and not just play around with other people’s stuff anymore.
Seconding VoxeLibre on Luanti, it’s great!