Cosmic Reach (Minecraft inspired sci-fi game)

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Cosmic Reach (Minecraft inspired sci-fi game)

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An ordinary guy on YouTube decided he wanted to try a simple experiment where he makes a version of Minecraft that runs much better and can render the landscape a lot further out.

Barely a year later, this project has become Cosmic Reach, a voxel game set in a world where, strangely enough, no humans or human buildings exist but flying robots called Interceptors will occasionally attack you. What all of this implies is currently anyone's guess, but in addition to having a world similar to Minecraft, there's an entirely new level based on the lunar surface. Back on "Earth", there are caves that can generate thousands of blocks underground, as well as basically zero height limit to anything you build, which I think means that a large group of online friends might be able to build a structure kilometers tall if given enough time.

The developer has an entire series on his channel (https://www.youtube.com/@finalforeach/videos) where he walks the viewer through the process he took of bringing his voxel game to life. A Discord for Cosmic Reach was created a few months ago and already has several hundred members. What I'm hoping is that this game will be able to succeed in most or all of the areas that Minecraft has found itself repeatedly failing in, which in recent years include not only poor optimization, but also a number of gameplay features and/or mobs that most players find pointless.
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TrueAnimationFan wrote: Sat Oct 05, 2024 7:26 pm or human buildings exist
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This could easily change though, Powers, and may only be the result of the game's current incomplete state. Time will tell, as updates seem to be coming out at least once a month
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Now this is a cool thread, i’ll take a look :p
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I'll take a look as well as I was interested in Minecraft back in the day, even though I wasn't good at it.
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