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Luanti (formerly Minetest) is an open source voxel game-creation platform with easy modding and game creation

17 mentions on Hacker News by 16 people: 3 stories, 14 comments · first 2013-12-10 · latest 2026-10-18

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  1. …does not have any older video games in their testing apparatus. Some references on the issue: 1. https://github.com/luanti-org/luanti/issues/16499 2. https://support.sega.com/hc/en-us/articles/39540396560145-Ma...
    comment by dunder_cat · 2026-10-18 · in macOS 15.8.2 Breaks OpenGL
  2. The underlying voxel game engine is written in C++. https://github.com/luanti-org/luanti
  3. …https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45558137 [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45748879 [2]: https://github.com/luanti-org/luanti
  4. https://github.com/luanti-org/luanti
  5. Kind of, they forked Irrlicht and took it in their own direction. https://github.com/luanti-org/luanti/tree/master/irr
  6. …is open source, written in Lua, has an API with mediawiki docs, and has a vscode extension: https://github.com/minetest/minetest Luanti wiki > Modding intro: https://dev.minetest.net/Modding_Intro SensorCraft is open source, written in…
  7. …own (not sure which of the two they did). Minetest's loadstring function forbids bytecode entirely: https://github.com/minetest/minetest/blob/9a1501ae89ffe79c38... I wonder why factorio mods need the ability to execute raw lua bytecode. If…
  8. https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/13363#issuecomme...
  9. I looked it up, they are actually groundless in this case: https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/13363#issuecomme...
  10. …the second bug, it wasn't even a crash, it just had weird behaviour. Classical nasal demons. [1]: https://github.com/minetest/minetest/commit/57a461930ba13b0b... [2]: https://github.com/minetest/minetest/commit/1f76808e4fa5a198...
  11. …and I don't know what it represents. The comment above just says "Mesh making stuff": https://github.com/minetest/minetest/blob/0a16e53b40d347db7d... The file that seems to run everything, game.cpp, is almost 5000 lines long. -- For an…
  12. …while now called "minetest", looks like their website is down right now but here's the Github repo: https://github.com/minetest/minetest
  13. It's not C#, but here's Minecraft in C++ and Lua: https://github.com/minetest/minetest
  14. Time to plug Minetest. The core is written in C++ and a Lua API is exposed for extensions. https://github.com/minetest/minetest