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A memorable name. I cant remember a single one of the other ones off the top of my head and apparently they all have similar content, play the same, have some features here or there thats better but the thing i can never do is remember the name.

sales,popularity.

Terraria was considered a minecraft clone.

But then it got so much content added to it it evolved into something much greater than that, an actually good fucking game.

>>16591672

Most Minecraft clones are either just knockoff Minecraft or they are someone remaking Minecraft Classic out of well placed nostalgia. The rest of them usually gimping themselves in some way that makes them less flexible than Minecraft.

Modding, parents know it as a good game, pure autism.

In terms of actual fun , Dragon Quest Builders is better in every way.

>>16591697

>In terms of actual fun, Dragon Quest Builders is better in every way.

It absolutely is. I have great hopes for Builders 2.

>>16591710

Yeah. DQ Builders 2 looks promising. As I was watching the trailer, it didn't captivate me in the beginning. It looked like a half-assed rpg with half-assed customization options. But as the trailer kept playing and revealing more and more, it slowly won me over towards the end. I began thinking to myself, "Oh. So it it's like Minecraft, but better."

An active community

Minetest is still incomplete despite being FOSS for years…

>>16591764

I was surprised at how many basic features or functionality were missing from it. Something basic like character heads rotating up or down if a player looks up or down. Only horizontally. Lots of things having no animations whatsoever.

Dragon Quest Builders and new animal crossing has given me an interest in picking up a 2nd hand switch, honestly. Splatoon seems fun and I would maybe play Breath of the Wild, but DQ Builder seems to be the best thing going for it.

>Or is it,as I love to argument, simply because the original handled the mechanics more naturally, intuitively and smoother for the average person

It is for this reason that minetest is still shit

>>16591777

>let's just make a barebones engine and the Minecraft Modding Community™ will make it into a game for us

It's not really surprising.

Some minecraft-inspired games are successful and regarded as better than Minecraft though. Like Terraria (originally at least), most MC mods, and DQ Builders.

There's also HyTale which people are hyping up as "the minecraft killer", and apparently where all the autistic faggot kids in 2000+ player MCMMO servers will move to.

>>16591849

>let's just make something barebones and other programmers will fix it for us

Welcome to Free/Open-Source software, anon.

Minecraft has a decade of mod support and community availability.

Primarily being a multiplayer game it has longevity beyond the one time of getting endgame in any alternative.

And the community of any other game is faggots that sour grape minecraft because Muh Childrun Muh Niche

>>16592016

The story of Hytale is that the biggest and most popular minecraft server is Hypixel which uses no mods and lots of plugins. Its been running for a while and the people behind it got tired of the limitations of Minecraft so they decided to just make their own game entirely. That is Hytale.

Im keeping my eye on it but its coming along rather slow, i think the decided to announce the game and that they had intentions of doing a beta WAY too early. Just hoping the interest for it doesnt die down before they have anything to show.

>>16592131

I assume it's because

1. Nearly every "clickless" method has been forced to capitulate

2. Newfags can't use python

>>16592131

> Why do we keep directly linking to Youtube? When did this become a thing?

newfags being too retarded to download youtube-dl i suppose

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>>16592068

My theory about Minecraft Dungeons was Microsoft getting scared enough of Hytale that they wanted to churn out "Minecraft 2" before anyone else could.

>>16594803

Honestly the explanation that minecraft as a game isn't well meshed with combat is a way more valid explanation then a mostly abandoned project by a server group.

>>16592068

>The story of Hytale is that the biggest and most popular minecraft server is Hypixel which uses no mods and lots of plugins

I understand the programming difference between mods and plugins, but when it comes down to how it changes gameplay, there really is no difference. You're altering the vanilla game.

Anyway, the reason the clones aren't as good as Minecraft is because they aren't Minecraft and can't be because they would be just copying it (and that's probably illegal, maybe, possibly). Minecraft, buggy incomplete mess that it always has been, is the perfect sandbox game. It's as "sandbox" as if you can GET without it being a literal box of sand. Tons of block variety, near-unlimited options of where you can put them, and (for all practical purposes) infinite size. The "game" element has never been the point; it's "here's an infinite world of blocks, most of which don't do anything except sit there as blocks, now go do shit with them". It's the vertical asymptote of sandboxiness by which all other games must be measured. So while other games can get close to it, or have elements of it, they cannot BE it.

As I like to think of it, for the most part it's also the least amount of handholding a game can have. There's no instructions, no plot, no direction, very little in the way of achievements or goals, and the win-state is largely pointless because you don't get anything from it (while the elytra and shulker boxes are arguably the most useful things in the game for builders, you don't technically need to fight the dragon to get to the end cities; you can just grab 1000 dirt or cobble and bridge your way out there; I did it once). None of that has ever been the point, and everyone bitching and moaning about Minecraft not having those things (or, later, having added them poorly) misses the point. Minecraft started out as nothing more than blocks that could be broken and placed. Just because that wasn't the version YOU started playing it doesn't mean a damn thing.

>>16591764

BTW, Minetest started like in 2010… more like experiment for fun, it feels simplistic, but via mods you can add a lot of stuff to it. If you want to help this project, go ahead, they are on github, they are very beaurocratic, so be patient with everything.

>>16591764

Also, in a lots of ways it has that alpha-beta minecraft feel on servers… They have some really great servers.

>Minetest is still incomplete

This project is not in rush, you can add missing chunks via mods, but I agree, they need to have more clearer goals on what they want in base game. Some say it should be simple base + mods, while I want mobs in base package.

Minetest engine itself was very stable for me for many years, I think it is one of the nicest FOSS voxel games available.

Probably just luck that a whole lot of people happened to jump on it at the same time.

>>16598898

>Minecraft, buggy incomplete mess that it always has been, is the perfect sandbox game.

fucking this. everybody was shitting on notch to implement X, but by not going in any direction minecraft worked for almost everybody. and if you wanted more there were plenty of mods.

any change would have people bitching endlessly even more than they did, especially considering how fucking autistic the minecraft playerbase is.