Im not aware of any. Most clones have a very different architecture (and programming language, most clones dont run on the JVM) than Minecraft, even tho some projects go for feature parity and support the original Minecraft multiplayer protocol.
So, no licencing problem Im aware of, mods are free to be shared under whatever licence and many are FOSS, but a technical problem.
I think the other response was quite accurate. Different language and architecture makes it harder. There are mods made for minetest that can work with MineClone2, so there may be some stuff you’ll enjoy, but usually they have to specify it’s available for MineClone2. Here is a page if you want to have a look: content.minetest.net/packages/Wuzzy/…/hub/
Minetest modding is actually quite nice to do from what I’ve heard.
itd be easier to port the mods if anything, since Minetest is meant to be a lot easier to mod and extend than Minecraft. In fact, many of these Minecraft-like games for Minetest are an amalgamation of dozens of individual mods
Thanks for the heads up! I appreciate it. I will check it out. Am an old school minecraft player from the beta days, a server admin and so on. Since I switched to linux and the foss world, microsofts minecraft really rubs me the wrong way. „Look what they did to my boy“ style.
Yeah, its sad. I‘m still playing from time to time but the telemetry and the regular „authentication servers down“ sh*t is really trying to tell me something I suppose.
considering most Minecraft mods directly mess with the Minecraft code as opposed to going through a well defined API (forge and fabric only provide so much) you can’t really make that work without outright stealing Minecraft code
the best you can make would be resourcepack and datapack compatibility. maybe whatever molang stuff bedrock’s up to
Thanks for explaining. This helps understanding the situation. It kind of makes me sad that microsoft is ruining minecraft bit by bit it seems. I recently got „informed“ that minecraft is now collecting telemetry without my consent. It was kind of the breaking point tbh.
I can pretty much just play the games I would normally, which fortunately doesn’t normally include any MMO or multiplayer only. I do play Star Trek Online on rare occasions, but it works just fine for me.
I’ve always been lucky in that probably 40% of my favorite PC games already have native ports or native options for play, but Proton has been pretty great out of the box for most that aren’t native. This year the only games I remember having major issues with were Uncharted Lost Legacy, and Batman Arkham Asylum. Uncharted was a glitch with water rendering crashing the game. It worked fine once I tweaked some settings and changed the Proton version, so it could have even been a game issue. Batman wouldn’t launch without a few different tweaks, but ProtonDB had some fixes.
I use Linux because I like it, games are just a bonus. I’ve been Linux only before Steam came to Linux, and I’ll be here if it ever leaves. It works well for me.
And you are a champion among men but there will forever be an obnoxious minority that will never be able to cope with the fact that other people don’t share their preferences.
Eh, just ignore those people, they’re generally quite toxic. And it’s not unique to Linux users, go to any windows-specific community/forum and you’ll see similar fanboyism, they just say it from a different high horse.
My wife uses Windows, I use Linux, and I use macOS at work. They’re all fine, I just prefer Linux. I have a Windows install as well in case I need it for any reason, though I haven’t booted into it for a year or two (last time was to try to get Minecraft Bedrock set up for my kid for crossplay, but their friend ended up flaking).
It’s a great portable device if you have a good use case for it. I could even see it as a fairly capable primary device with some peripherals. But I’m sure you’ve heard and seen all of that before! :-)
I use it to play in bed. Last year, my split was 75% Linux, 25% Steam Deck, and this year it’s 25% Linux, 75% Steam Deck. So it grew on me quite a bit, and it’s now my primary gaming device.
Yes, in bed is the perfect spot for it! I often use it on the couch or on the back porch as well. And it’s a game changer for when I’m in bed sick too. When I’m feeling half decent I can just grab it for a bit and chase away the boredom, and then put it down just as quickly.
I don’t think I’ll be using as my primary device anytime soon, but there’s always that possibility! I like high resolution monitors and high graphics settings too well on some games!
I honestly don’t care much for graphics settings, and I mostly play older AAAs and indies anyway. Gaming isn’t the primary purpose of my computer, so my GPU is just good enough to make that pleasant (6650XT), and i can usually get decent frames on my 1440p monitor.
So yeah, the Deck is perfect for my use case, especially since I usually play with a controller on PC anyway. I still use my PC for certain games (strategy games, RDR2, and certain shooters), but it’s just really hard to beat the thing sitting on my nightstand.
It does sound like it’s perfect! I enjoy seeing what all people do with their Deck, it’s sometimes pretty impressive. I’ve definitely used mine for retro gaming before, it’s great how capable they can be.
I still haven’t gotten into emulators because there are enough other games to keep me well stocked with fun stuff to play. Maybe I’ll play with it over Christmas break.
It can be very enjoyable if you like some of the older games. I’ve always liked a lot of the SNES games for some reason, and I’m too young to be nostalgic for it! I have myself one of the original consoles and a small game collection, but sometimes it’s nice to use emulation as well.
I love older games. I only played like two games for SNES (borrowed from a friend), but we had an old NES and Sega Genesis that I have a ton of nostalgia for. I actually have a RetroPie system set up in my house (on my TV in my bedroom).
I just haven’t gotten around to configuring emulators on the Deck. I’m sure it’s not hard, I’m just incredibly lazy since I have so many other games that already work OOTB on the Deck (hundreds I haven’t played).
It’s not too hard, but it sounds like you might have some overlap with your current setup at that point. I certainly understand the too many games situation though! We’re very spoiled for choice on that.
Last year I was about 75 linux / 25 deck but this years its 100% deck. In my case the deck is much better than my laptop for gaming but its also so easy to pick up and jump into a game.
My desktop is quite a bit better than the Deck, but the Deck is good enough and more convenient, so it wins. I still play strategy games and other KB+m heavy games on the Deck, hence the 25%.
Not sure if this will fix your problem but try Wayland and see if you have the issue. I don’t know why a lot of my problems with games were fixed and it might help you.
Damn, mine also has a Windows slice this year because one of the games I was playing with my wife didn’t run well enough on the Deck so we played it on her desktop. It runs on Linux, it’s just that it was a bit on the heavy side for the deck so the fps were bad and her desktop was already plugged to the TV
A few weeks ago there was an update that broke Apex on Linux for a few days, but it works now. Apex has been running well on Linux for over a year now.
Are they using vulkan natively (not dxvk through wine)? I posted about this when running the experimental vulkan support on BeamNG.drive www.beamng.com/threads/…/page-12#post-1617244. Looks to be very similar maybe?
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