It was done by a poll on Discord, Matrix, and our issue tracker. I think over 120 votes were cast. It was a polling majority…

Pretty much. Yes.

The game has always had differences and sometimes the contributors can get a little firm on folk for differing because it’s called MineClone2. Well now it isn’t. The term inspired by rather than clone has been used for a while now.

He’s the first member… Of the DK crew!

I’ve said goodbye to the MineCraft I once knew, if we want something better, we make it, improve it and share it! :)

I think the other response was quite accurate. Different language and architecture makes it harder. There are mods made for minetest that can work with MineClone2, so there may be some stuff you’ll enjoy, but usually they have to specify it’s available for MineClone2. Here is a page if you want to have a look: https://content.minetest.net/packages/Wuzzy/mineclone2/hub/

Minetest modding is actually quite nice to do from what I’ve heard.

Only downloaded over 300k times: https://content.minetest.net/packages/Wuzzy/mineclone2/

Multiplayer servers have between 20-40 on it most days. So usually can find people to play with. Quite a number enjoy the game. Obviously not on the level of MC. They’re a lot bigger with far more resources, but it’s a pretty solid game. It’s always special when people give up their free time to make the world better rather than tear things down ;).

I’m not trying to convince folk at all. I’m stating a fact that many prefer it because of it being FOSS. I don’t think anyone could ever persuade you of anything. Btw, Karma doesn’t exist here. That and your toxic attitude are better found on reddit.

You’re on Lemmy here. There is many people who actually care about privacy and telemetry doesn’t sit well with them. Many have been put off by the recent direction.

Not necessarily, there is MineClone2… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aHym2jUB1M

Cool idea.

On the topic of FOSS, and promoting it, could we possibly get a MineClone2 server hosted, please?

We set up a community here and favour it over reddit: !mineclone2@lemmy.world (edited in proper URL)

If anyone is curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aHym2jUB1M

AncientMariner, MineClone2 Maintainer