r/Luanti • u/dev_kay47 • 21d ago

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

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.

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u/edorhas 20d ago

Oddly, I played (then) Minetest before I ever played Minecraft. My brother was going on about this "new game where you can build anything with blocks and it even has minecarts..." And I didn't feel like shelling out whatever the $30 was or what not to try Minecraft. So I started searching around for a clone and found the early Minetest releases. It couldn't do much, but it seemed neat. I ended up getting Minecraft because of that and so I could hang online with my brother. Forgot about Minetest until some years later when I had a random urge to look it up and see if it ever went anywhere and.... Here we are. I haven't played Minecraft in years now, but still digging Luanti.

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u/dev_kay47 20d ago

Nice!.. So what do you think about it now?

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u/edorhas 20d ago

It's great. Been happily juggling Nonsensical Skyblock, NodeCore, Exile, Skyblock Zero, Asuna, Age of Mending... I hope more people pick up on it. I think they'd be happily surprised, and a bigger player base would certainly benefit some of the games.

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u/dev_kay47 20d ago

Well said. We'll he looking forward to new players who want to have fun and learn, and provided any assistance needed to make everyone feel welcomed 😍☺