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Selfhosting with a seven year old (friendica.ginestes.es)

submitted 6 months ago by abeorch@friendica.ginestes.es to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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- I have a seven year old nephew who I would like to find some computing activities that we could do together. Any ideas?

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[–] abeorch@friendica.ginestes.es 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Wow I really appreciate the feedback. After quite a bit of changes and home moves that disrupted alot of what selfhosted stuff I setup, a bit of disallusionment with doing it alone and difficulty staying connected with my nephew remotely these give me some good ideas. I need to find out more about Minecraft and hosting a server sounds like a good idea, I liked the simple coding with audio feedback as well. Its motivating me to get messgaing and chat sorted out as well. I am also going to see if I can find some shared #Spanish #languagelearning tools.

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I need to find out more about Minecraft and hosting a server sounds like a good idea

I've hosted both Minecraft and Luanti (free open source Minecraft). Either is a great idea!

That said, I found setting up a Luanti server slightly simpler (because no need for everyone to have a Microsoft account, and no Java dependencies to worry about): https://docs.luanti.org/for-server-hosts/setup/

Luanti has lots of options, but a good default choice is Mineclonia: https://content.luanti.org/packages/ryvnf/mineclonia/

[–] abeorch@friendica.ginestes.es 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

@pinball_wizard With a Luanti server does every Minecraft player still need a Minecraft licence?

[–] hoppolito@mander.xyz 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Luanti and Minecraft are two distinct, if similar-looking things.

Luanti is an open-source voxel game engine implementation which allows running a wide variety of different ‘games’ on it (including two which mimic Minecraft very closely, like the above-mentioned Mineclonia).

Minecraft is the closed-source game owned by Mojang.

The two don’t interact and servers for the one are completely unrelated to the other as well.

So, to answer the question - yes, they still need a Minecraft license if they want to play Minecraft. But this is disconnected from having a Luanti server, for which you don’t need any licenses but which will in turn also only allow you to play Luanti stuff, not Minecraft.

[–] abeorch@friendica.ginestes.es 1 points 6 months ago

@hoppolito Oh cool. Ok. I have plenty to learn there