Introducing Our New Name | Minetest rebrands to Luanti

this is ok. minetest was an awful name.

for those of you without the patience to read a blogpost, the new name's actually a bit of wordplay.

“Luanti” is a wordplay on the Finnish word luonti (“creation”) and the programming language Minetest Luanti employs for games and mods, Lua. The goal was to avoid yet another plain English word (good luck finding something unique…) and highlight the core principles of the project. The fusion of celeron55’s Finnish nationality and the platform’s focus on content creation resulted in the birth of “Luanti”.

Oh thank god. Minetest was the worst name, and the game is actually pretty cool. It definitely deserves a cool name, and Luanti sounds cool.

I don't really like the new name yet, but it's a lot better than Minetest so I really can't complain.

I actually like the new name. It seems like when a community project renames it always is something even worse than the original name. This is a great name that doesn't sound silly to say out loud.

Literally just yesterday my wife learned of Minetest's existence and said it was a terrible name

This is good news! Anyone here played it recently? How far has the game come in terms of content compared to Minecraft or Vintage Story?

Is this an out-of-season April Fools' joke?

never thought i'd see minetest rebranding itself (if rebrand is the correct word at all anyway)

Man, I saw them initiating discussions around the name like a year ago. I did not expect anything to actually come from that after all this time. But yeah, glad that it did.

Now we just need a better default font. 🙃

I like the meme.

I just wish they would merge the "truly infinite worlds" branch. The horizontal limits are to tight for this kind of game.

Gonna miss the old one but I definitely had to go. I kinda like Luanti too

How are you guys pronouncing this?

Personally, I’ve found it sounds kind of nice when said like “Loon tea”.

What a terrible name.

Did they ever fix the game having a maximum map size of like 10.000 by 10.000? That limitation always seemed to put it at a disadvantage compared to Minecraft, for larger communities

hope they improve upon it, the old (when the banning was implemented) version of minetest was horrible. I'll be trying it soon :)

Oh man, I remember this from years ago when the only 1-up on Minecraft it had, was that I could run it at 60 FPS, infinite chunks in all directions, no extreme lag spikes while generating the map, and further view distance.

Zero mods back then, so I'm happy to see the mod support!

Too bad that luanti.org is note available...

Minetest doesn't have to turn into Roblox, we already have OpenBlox for that purpose

Edit: person below is now accusing me of promoting crypto

Why is this news??

I hope this is a joke cause Luanti sucks, stick with the already well known Minetest.

It's nice to see open-source things copying what dot-coms do when they're bored.

Wait. No it's not. It's actually worrying.

I worked for a company named essentially "The Portland Office", and it had that name for 30 years; because, honestly, who cares about a name? The product should stand out.