• fartsparkles@lemmy.world
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    From the Source engine updates analyses, I think it’s going to be voxels (thus deformable world), a physics engine to support voxels, fluid stimulation, fire simulation, acoustics simulation, NPC AI emotional simulation and adding senses like smell to NPCs.

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      Story wise this could make sense. There was a ship stuck in ice right. Perhaps destroying, removing or deforming the snow and ice is going to be part of it?

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          Okay you know what, I think I’d be equally excited about that. Give me that non-Microsoft Minecraft in a beautiful hackable Linux supported engine

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              I’ve played a fair bit of Luanti! I’ve found myself rather obsessed with Vintage Story lately though which isn’t quite as free as Luanti but its source-readable (as in the code is available but the license restricts its usage for anything) and has a modding framework