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How to install Minecraft on Linux Mint?
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I was going to ask "how does that compare to Minetest?" But after a bit of investigation, apparently it is a renamed Mine Clone 2, which is a game for Minetest.
Yes. I just researched and found out minecraft uses its own engine based on lwjgl. It’s a little bit like whatsapp and matrix. While whatsapp uses(d?) xmpp, matrix is the protocol, not the client.
One thing that I found out was that as "most-Minecraft-like" games for Minetest, there's apparently Voxelibre (renamed Mine Clone 2) and Mineclonia (fork of Mine Clone 2). Just out of curiosity, if you looked at both, what made Voxelibre particularly appealing relative to Mineclonia?
I've played Minetest, even contributed some code IIRC, but that was some time back, haven't ever played the derived games. Kind of thinking about maybe giving it a go now that there's apparently more there.
Yeah, they renamed it a couple months ago. The core team got tired of copying MineCraft 1-to-1, as there's just no creativity involved in that and you're hardly allowed to improve on the original.