minetest(6) minetest(6)

minetest, minetestserver - Multiplayer infinite-world block sandbox

minetest [--server SERVER OPTIONS | CLIENT OPTIONS] [COMMON OPTIONS] [WORLD PATH]

minetestserver [SERVER OPTIONS] [COMMON OPTIONS] [WORLD PATH]

Minetest is one of the first InfiniMiner/Minecraft(/whatever) inspired games (started October 2010), with a goal of taking the survival multiplayer gameplay in a slightly different direction.

The main design philosophy is to keep it technically simple, stable and portable. It will be kept lightweight enough to run on fairly old hardware.

Print allowed options and exit
Print version information and exit
Load configuration from specified file
Set logfile path ('' for no logging)
Print more information to console
Print even more information to console
Print enormous amounts of information to console
Print only errors to console
Colorize the logs ('always', 'never' or 'auto'), defaults to 'auto'
Set gameid or list available ones
Set world path by name
Set world path
Get list of worlds ('path' lists paths, 'name' lists names, 'both' lists both)
Same as --world (deprecated)
Set network port (UDP) to use
Run unit tests and exit

Address to connect to
Disable main menu
Set player name
Set password
Set password from contents of file
Enable random user input, for testing (client only)
Run speed tests

Migrate from current map backend to another. Possible values are sqlite3, leveldb, redis, postgresql, and dummy.
Migrate from current auth backend to another. Possible values are sqlite3, leveldb, and files.
Migrate from current players backend to another. Possible values are sqlite3, leveldb, postgresql, dummy, and files.
Migrate from current mod storage backend to another. Possible values are sqlite3, dummy, and files.
Display an interactive terminal over ncurses during execution.

Colon delimited list of directories to search for games.
Colon delimited list of directories to search for mods.
Path to Minetest user data directory.

Please report all bugs at https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues.

Perttu Ahola <celeron55@gmail.com> and contributors.

This man page was originally written by Juhani Numminen <juhaninumminen0@gmail.com>.

http://www.minetest.net/

2 February 2019