
This recipe is cool, but needlessly complicated.
As the top Hacker News comment points out, just grab Luanti and Mineclonia and start playing.
On your SteamDeck, boot to Desktop, search for Luanti in the app store. Install. “Add to Steam”. Reboot. Grab a community controller mapping. Enjoy.
Or on Windows, Mac, Android, Linux or FreeBSD: Luanti Downloads, and enjoy.
Yes, you can play cross platform between all of these. Any running copy includes an optional server for your friends.
No, the system requirements aren’t the same as Minecraft - you can get away with way cheaper hardware.
Edit: And check out Lemmy’s Luanti community at
https://lemmy.ml/c/minetest










I recall IR game controllers of that era were only particularly bad when I got excited, nervous or too focused on the game, and let them point a millimeter away from the sensor…so they only really thoroughly failed exactly when it cost me the most in the game. Haha.