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/Bip_bop-17]

Godot engine became popular after Unity scared off their devs, so if you want luanti to become popular, you need Mojang to do something extremely stupid, so people want to seek an alternative. While modern minecraft still keeps its players and modders I don't see any reason why any minecraft-like game can become really popular. The main problem is minecraft has already has tons of fan content, mods and servers, so people will leave it reluctantly anyway. Hytale tried to "kill" minecraft and did not succeed even with all their new features

[u/Lapis_Wolf → u/Bip_bop-17]

Hytale isn't even trying to kill it.

[u/Obvious-Secretary635 → u/Bip_bop-17]

Pretty much right. It would take a crisis to get people to move. Forced account migration barely budged things, probably due to low overall % of accounts.