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LEGO Launches a Minecraft Competitor On Steam
An anonymous reader writes: There's been plenty of rumors that LEGO was developing a competitor to Minecraft, and today they released it on Steam. "Lego Worlds enables you to populate your worlds with many weird and wonderful characters, creatures, models, and driveable vehicles, and then play out your own unique adventures," the game's Steam page explains. Unlike "Minecraft," LEGO's new game won't have multiplayer gameplay yet.
Surprised it took them this long - Blockland was effectively this some time ago...
"There are people who do not love their fellow human being, and I _hate_ people like that!" - Tom Lehrer
Pretty happy with minetest, a FOSS minecraft clone. Its default setup perhaps has less features than minecraft, but it can be modded much better than minecraft.
I don't know about that. My kids love Minecraft, and they've never played it online. They sometimes play pocket Minecraft on their iPods against/with each other locally, but that's only a small part of their total playing time. I agree that multiplayer has been a huge part of what made it popular, but I don't think it was necessary to the success of the game.
What I think would really kill Minecraft would be to have a game that doesn't suck resources and require a super compute to run. It's kind of sad that Minecraft Pocket runs fine on my 4 year old Android 2.3 phone, but that the full version requires a beefy desktop to run well. Especially now that the pocket version has infinite worlds, and almost all the other features of the desktop version. Also, if they could get an actual supported method for writing mods so that things wouldn't have to be fixed every time they released a new version. Those two changes would make a huge difference and make the game a lot more enjoyable for everyone.
Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.
Neither story nor the original article text include a link to the game on Steam. http://store.steampowered.com/...
(if you scroll past a bunch of ad blocks you can find it next to "source" on the original article)
Since you asked, here are some mods/modpacks for you to try out:
More Blocks
Homedecor
Pipeworks
Gloopblocks
Streets
Infrastructure (cheapie's version)
Carbone MOBs (separated out from the Carbone subgame)
A few that do change the gameplay somewhat radically:
Plantlife modpack
More Trees
Technic modpack
There are a ton more on the forums. All of the above can be used together (as is usually the case with this engine).
Disclaimer: I maintain and or contribute to several of these.
Granted, I run Minecraft with a ginormous amount of mods, but is there any reason I have to give 5GB to a game that should have ridiculously low resource requirements based on what it is actually doing?
It was written in java.
Pros:
+ Players and creatures (such as horses) don't look like blocky
+ Have sloped roofs -- 45 degree #3039, 25 degree #3298 and 73 degree #98560
+ Have "smooth" flat tiles #3068
+ Initial support for airplanes, and mining vehicles
* Misc. decorations
Cons:
- Single player only
- Windows only (MineCraft runs on OSX, Linux, Android, consoles)
- Cost $15 while MineTest, Terasology, etc. are free.
Anyone have an idea of what the world height and size is limited to?