minetest(6)                                                        minetest(6)



NAME
       minetest, minetestserver - Multiplayer infinite-world block sandbox


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

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


DESCRIPTION
       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.


COMMON OPTIONS
       --help Print allowed options and exit

       --version
              Print version information and exit

       --config <value>
              Load configuration from specified file

       --logfile <value>
              Set logfile path ('' for no logging)

       --info Print more information to console

       --verbose
              Print even more information to console

       --trace
              Print enormous amounts of information to console

       --quiet
              Print only errors to console

       --color <value>
              Colorize the logs ('always', 'never' or 'auto'), defaults to
              'auto'

       --gameid <value> | list
              Set gameid or list available ones

       --worldname <value>
              Set world path by name

       --world <value>
              Set world path

       --worldlist path | name | both
              Get list of worlds ('path' lists paths, 'name' lists names,
              'both' lists both)

       --map-dir <value>
              Same as --world (deprecated)

       --port <value>
              Set network port (UDP) to use

       --run-unittests
              Run unit tests and exit


CLIENT OPTIONS
       --address <value>
              Address to connect to

       --go   Disable main menu

       --name <value>
              Set player name

       --password <value>
              Set password

       --password-file <value>
              Set password from contents of file

       --random-input
              Enable random user input, for testing (client only)

       --speedtests
              Run speed tests


SERVER OPTIONS
       --migrate <value>
              Migrate from current map backend to another. Possible values are
              sqlite3, leveldb, redis, postgresql, and dummy.

       --migrate-auth <value>
              Migrate from current auth backend to another. Possible values
              are sqlite3, leveldb, and files.

       --migrate-players <value>
              Migrate from current players backend to another. Possible values
              are sqlite3, leveldb, postgresql, dummy, and files.

       --migrate-mod-storage <value>
              Migrate from current mod storage backend to another. Possible
              values are sqlite3, dummy, and files.

       --terminal
              Display an interactive terminal over ncurses during execution.


ENVIRONMENT
       MINETEST_SUBGAME_PATH
              Colon delimited list of directories to search for games.

       MINETEST_MOD_PATH
              Colon delimited list of directories to search for mods.

       MINETEST_USER_PATH
              Path to Minetest user data directory.


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


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

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


WWW
       http://www.minetest.net/

                                2 February 2019                    minetest(6)