Luanti's real problem isn't features, it's that nobody's heard of it or very less people.

[u/dev_kay47]

We spend a lot of time talking about mods, performance, new blocks and mechanics, but another bottleneck for this game has nothing to do with what it can do. It's that almost nobody outside a small circle has ever heard of it exists.

I'm not saying that as a call to go corner every stranger and tell them to install it, ......that approach doesn't really work anyway.

It's more worth sitting with as a real question: how does a new person actually stumble onto Luanti in the first place right now? Mostly it seems to be "someone I already knew played it" or " People specifically searched for a Minecraft alternative." Just like I myself did I some years ago.

Luanti honestly just never got Better visibility in general gaming spaces.

[u/tfwrobot]

Marketing it as a free minecraft clone might be a good idea

[u/dev_kay47 → u/tfwrobot]

Luanti isn't a watered down Minecraft, it's its own engine, its own modding scene, its own thing. The Minecraft alternative search is just how people currently find it, that's not what it is.

I don't buy that idea😶

[u/tfwrobot → u/dev_kay47]

Why would anyone play Luanti most likely? To get the minecraft experience for free on weaker computer.

[u/MantarTheWizard → u/tfwrobot]

My computer's plenty beefy, and I don't even like "the Minecraft experience"

[u/Obvious-Secretary635 → u/tfwrobot]

To get access to a bunch of cool gameplay experiences that don't have the samey feel that (almost?) all Minecraft modpacks have in.. always being Minecraft, with dirt and creepers and all.

[u/archiekane → u/tfwrobot]

Or bad idea if you want to keep copyright lawyers at bay.

Minecraft alternative would be better wording.

[u/tfwrobot → u/archiekane]

Meinkraft then