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Re:Minecraft (2014) by herewulf on Saturday July 27, 2024 @06:50PM (#41089901)
Minetest, which has been around nearly as long and is a FOSS game with more or less feature parity, covers all these bases. Super easy to script in Lua. Simple to set up servers.

I've gotten my kids into Minetest after they kept hearing about Minecraft and asking to play, and they absolutely love it. Runs great on lower end hardware too.

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Re:Minecraft (2014) by WarOnPrivacy on Saturday July 27, 2024 @07:51PM (#41090213)
> Runs great on lower end hardware too.

Our first server box was a late gen P4 running headless Ubuntu. The CPU had strong single thread performance and handled dozens of players.

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Re:Minecraft (2014) by dariosalvi78 on Sunday July 28, 2024 @09:30AM (#41092995)
Same here! Got a server on an old Rpi 2 and as client an old Samsung tablet. All works great and we have a lot of fun! The only thing is to setup the game as you like, with mods etc. it takes some trial and error, but it's also fun.
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