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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¶
- --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 always | never | auto
- Coloured logs, default: 'auto'
- --log-timestamp wall | relative | none
- Timestamped logs, default: 'wall'
- --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
- --run-benchmarks
- Run benchmarks and exit
CLIENT OPTIONS¶
- --address <value>
- Address to connect to ('' = local game)
- --go
- Skip main menu, go directly in-game
- --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)
SERVER OPTIONS¶
- --migrate <value>
- Migrate from current map backend to another. See supported backends with --help.
- --migrate-auth <value>
- Migrate from current auth backend to another. See supported backends with --help.
- --migrate-players <value>
- Migrate from current players backend to another. See supported backends with --help.
- --migrate-mod-storage <value>
- Migrate from current mod storage backend to another. See supported backends with --help.
- --terminal
- Display an interactive terminal over ncurses during execution.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES¶
- MINETEST_GAME_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 Luanti user data directory (only on RUN_IN_PLACE=0 build)
- LOG_TIMESTAMP
- 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¶
| 2025-10-16 |