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If you've been following us long enough you'll have learned by now that there is an ethical alternative for almost everything. Not only that, if you also follow our page games Open source you will also have learned that there is almost always an alternative Open source (and often free) of the most famous video games. As OpenTTD And Freeciv. Today we talk to you about Minetest or the alternative Open source to Minecraft!
Unfortunately the writer is not particularly passionate about Minecraft so forgive any errors and possibly correct me with a comment on Telegram group! 🧡
Minecraft it is one of the best-selling video games in the world with over 200 million copies sold and 126 million monthly active users 1. It is therefore almost impossible not to have ever heard of it. Finally, as has become the practice in recent years, the company that produces it, the Mojang, was purchased by Big Tech: Microsoft 2. And this is one of the reasons that could push us to use it Minetest, the version Open source and free of charge Minecraft. In addition to the fact that shortly, it has been announced, a Microsoft accounts to play Minecraft 3.
Minetest is not a simple Minecraft clone
As he rightly points out Digital Ethics Minetest it's not just a banal clone of Minecraft. In fact, it allows for almost infinite customization, it is a open code, anyone can suggest changes, it's free, it works on any computer and above all anyone can run a server at home! And this is exactly what the friends of EticaDigitale did with the their server AES.
Following your suggestion received via email, we also point out two links to the mods Minetest: GitHub And ContentDB.
Not knowing the game well, we don't want to launch into inappropriate reviews. Indeed we relaunch with a request: if there is anyone who wants to write a few lines to review the functioning of Minetest and highlight the differences with Minecraft we are as always open to everyone. Write us one email, write to us on Telegram group, on ours subreddit or a little wherever you want!
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Let's add some suggestions that we received on Telegram:
- there is an Italian community on the Matrix (what is the Matrix?) called “Free video games” where we also talk about Minetest
- a couple of articles, not very recent but useful and interesting, on the use of Minetest at school: Minetest, a serious game for school And The educational potential of Minetest
Downloads
For everyone else, have fun with Minetest! You can try it on Windows, on Linux, on macOS and also on Android!
Attention: the version above F-Droid we inserted it because we hope for some updates but it has been stopped since 2020 and is currently not working. If you want to play it on Android, get the version on the Play Store which is working and updated.
• • • • • • •- Minecraft still incredibly popular as sales top 200 million and 126 million plays monthly[↩]
- Minecraft sold: Microsoft buys Mojang for $2.5bn[↩]
- JAVA Account Migration FAQ[↩]
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