Unomelon, the developer of Minecraft-inspired sandbox game Allumeria, says a DMCA from Microsoft, evidently related to Minecraft, got the game removed from Steam.

“The Allumeria Steam page is currently down because Microsoft has filed a false DMCA claim on it,” Unomelon said on Bluesky on Tuesday. “They sent an email earlier today claiming that this screenshot infringes on their copyright. I am taking a moment to figure out what my path is going forward, will update soon.”

The screenshot in question (above) is a simple wide shot of a forest filled with birch trees, what look to be oak trees with green and autumnal leaves, and a few pumpkins and weeds checkering the grassy dirt. There are definitely some similarities to Minecraft; if you told me this was a screenshot of a Minecraft mod, I’d probably believe you, but that’s true of many voxel-based games, including Hytale.

Direct link to the Bluesky post (Skylib)

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        21 hours ago

        The stripped log and the wood are fine, but the regular birch log is almost impossible to use in builds. It just looks bad in almost any context.

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          Maybe I’ve just been with the game too long to worry about it. I remember when every texture was atrocious, hah.

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        The stripped log and the wood are fine, but the regular birch log is almost impossible to use in builds. It just looks bad in almost any context.

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      I am old enough to be hyped when birch trees were added. I love birch trees because that hold a core memory for me.

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        Huh. I just looked it up and apparently birch was added just about a year before I started playing. Crazy how we assume everything that was in there when we started has “been there forever.”

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          Burn them to the ground to expose the hyper-green grass blocks below! (/s… maybe)

          One of the reasons I like mushroom biomes, but also import grass into wherever I’m building in one. The grass is in fact greener where also hostile mobs don’t spawn.