I think it is mostly that people have a very scewed idea what a mod means when we are not talking about a closed source single game like Minecraft.

It is probably better to compare Luanti to something like Roblox.

That is why Luanti is a game engine where you can have many different games to cover all these different ideas. It even has a built in “store” where you can easily download and install these games and play them together.

The whole point is to work together on the game instead of reinventing the wheel with millions of often incompatible mods.

No trolling of Wallonia please.

You don’t need a mod for that, you can just fork the game.

It is a joke to compare Minecraft to Luanti because Lunati has significantly more features and game-types than you could ever get with mods in Minecraft. It is just a different development model where “mods” don’t make much sense.

This is not how open-source development works. All the various mod authors can just include their additions in the game if it is open-source. And most Luanti games already include vastly more features than vanilla Minecraft because of that.

That wasn’t my point. Mods get developed because the game itself can’t be modified otherwise. The Luanti games that are like Minecraft include already a lot of functionality that is only available with mods in Minecraft and it doesn’t make much sense to ask for mods in this context.

You can just edit the game? Why would you want mods for an open-source game?

It has equivalents for most Minecraft mods (and more), but no, it is not directly compatible with Minecraft.

I think you should rather ask if Minecraft mods come even close to what Luanti games can do 😅

The “Minetest” you tried was likely just the barebones example game that used to ship with the engine. Since so many people got confused by that, they stopped distributing that example game with the engine and now you get asked what fully featured games you want on first start. Voxelibre is the one that is like Minecraft but better.

https://www.luanti.org/ has long surpassed anything Minecraft had going for it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Minsky

I think they meant Minsky.

https://video.hardlimit.com/c/opensource_gaming/videos

Wouldn’t they especially want a working communication channel in case there is an extended power outage?

As a start it might be better to rent a VPS or so with a service that does backups etc for you. It will be hard to convince people to use it, and issues like dataloss or longer downtimes will kill it for sure.

Also, a large rack server is total overkill for what you want with a few hundred members at most.

ASrock has a few similar mini-itx boards with passive cooled CPUs soldered on, but they are not nearly as fully featured as what some of the Chinese brands sell.

Alibaba and the like, although I think there are also resellers on Amazon etc.

There are some nice NAS focussed mimi-itx boards with integrated CPU and cooling (usually Intel N150 or similar) that fit well into small media PC cases.

That is a bit bigger than a NUC, but you can fit hard drives easily and these mainboards usually have a lot of extension ports and multiple on board m2 slots for NVMe discs.