luanti(6)

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

LUANTI_GAME_PATH
Colon delimited list of directories to search for games. This should be used instead of MINETEST_GAME_PATH, which is deprecated.

LUANTI_MOD_PATH
Colon delimited list of directories to search for mods. This should be used instead of MINETEST_MOD_PATH, which is deprecated.

LUANTI_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

http://www.luanti.org/

2025-10-16