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luanti(6) luanti(6)

NAME

luanti, luantiserver - voxel game engine

SYNOPSIS

luanti [--server SERVER OPTIONS | CLIENT OPTIONS] [COMMON OPTIONS]

luantiserver [SERVER OPTIONS] [COMMON OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION

Luanti (formerly Minetest) is a voxel game engine with easy modding and game creation.

COMMON OPTIONS

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
Coloured logs, default: 'auto'
Timestamped logs, default: 'wall'
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
Run benchmarks and exit

CLIENT OPTIONS

Address to connect to ('' = local game)
Skip main menu, go directly in-game
Set player name
Set password
Set password from contents of file
Enable random user input (for testing)

SERVER OPTIONS

Migrate from current map backend to another. See supported backends with --help.
Migrate from current auth backend to another. See supported backends with --help.
Migrate from current players backend to another. See supported backends with --help.
Migrate from current mod storage backend to another. See supported backends with --help.
Display an interactive terminal over ncurses during execution.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

Colon delimited list of directories to search for games
Colon delimited list of directories to search for mods
Path to Luanti user data directory (only on RUN_IN_PLACE=0 build)
Equivalent to --log-timestamp

BUGS

Please report all bugs at https://github.com/luanti-org/luanti/issues.

AUTHORS

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

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

WWW

http://www.luanti.org/

2025-10-16