• Minetest Mods
• Minetest.net
• Minetest.com
• Minetest Skins

• More information at http://www.minetest.net/
• Developer Wiki: http://dev.minetest.net/
• (Unofficial) Minetest Modding Book by rubenwardy: https://rubenwardy.com/minetest_modding_book/

Minetest is a free game similar to Minecraft. Its community developed and maintained open source software, and runs on Windows, Linux and Mac.Learn more and/. Content and functionality can be added to Minetest using Lua scripting in run-time loaded mods. A mod is a self-contained bunch of scripts, textures and other related things, which is loaded by and interfaces with Minetest. This is the official forum for Minetest Bootstrap is a front-end framework of Twitter, Inc. Code licensed under Apache License v2.0. Font Awesome font licensed under SIL OFL 1.1.

Introduction¶

Content and functionality can be added to Minetest using Lua scriptingin run-time loaded mods.

A mod is a self-contained bunch of scripts, textures and other relatedthings, which is loaded by and interfaces with Minetest.

Mods are contained and ran solely on the server side. Definitions and mediafiles are automatically transferred to the client.

If you see a deficiency in the API, feel free to attempt to add thefunctionality in the engine and API, and to document it here.

Programming in Lua¶

Minetest Mods

If you have any difficulty in understanding this, please readProgramming in Lua.

Minetest.net

Startup¶

Minetest.com

Mods are loaded during server startup from the mod load paths by runningthe init.lua scripts in a shared environment.

Minetest Skins

Paths¶

• RUN_IN_PLACE=1 (Windows release, local build)
  • $path_user: <build directory>
  • $path_share: <build directory>
• RUN_IN_PLACE=0: (Linux release)
  • $path_share:
    • Linux: /usr/share/minetest
    • Windows: <install directory>/minetest-0.4.x
  • $path_user:
    • Linux: $HOME/.minetest
    • Windows: C:/users/<user>/AppData/minetest (maybe)