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.
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
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
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.
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).
Damage should be possible to disable in the main menu before jumping into a game:
I might not want to create an account on Reddit for that, but yeah, the Luanti forums might be a sensible place to try!
