Post #2616536

2026-05-16 18:50 UTC

Do you want to run your own Minecraft server but hate Microsoft? You might want to try the free open source alternative Luanti (formerly known as Minetest): 🌱 https://www.luanti.org It has many different game modes, thousands of mods, online multiplayer support, a scripting language to create your own game modes and mods, and a FOSS community supporting the software. You can follow the official account at: 🌱 @Luanti@floss.social #SelfHosting #Luanti #FOSS #Minecraft #Alternatives

Replies (3)

@tuxilio@toot.teckids.org 2026-05-16 18:56

@homegrown@social.growyourown.services @Luanti@floss.social yeah but #Luanti is not really an "alternative", it's better than Minecraft. For example, you aren't legally allowed to use Mods in Minecraft. Luanti's main goal is to be a good basis for modding and custom games :)

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@alexchapman@vee.seedy.cc 2026-05-16 18:59

@homegrown@social.growyourown.services @Luanti@floss.social I don't know if Luanti has any accessibility support, like for instance how with Minecraft you could set up an accessibility mod called Minecraft Access and it would read out everything using NVDA.

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@milagemayvary@mstdn.social 2026-05-16 20:00

@homegrown@social.growyourown.services @Luanti@floss.social I used Luanti to learn how to squeeze all the juice from the Raspberrypi4. If you run the game directly on the Rpi4, youll get fairly poor performance. However running it as a dedicated server on an SSD is better but still not an ideal experience even with a single person logged in remotely. It's once you start over clocking & throwing the Luanti (In my case VoxelLibre) SQLite database onto a tmpfs ramdisk to live there makes it a snappy experience for at least 5 players.

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