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  to  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 (debug.txt)

       --info Print more information to console

       --verbose
              Print even more information to console

       --trace
              Print enormous amounts of information to console

       --gameid <value>
              Set gameid

       --worldname <value>
              Set world path by name

       --world <value> | list
              Set world path or list worlds

       --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

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

       --videomodes
              List available video modes (client only)

       --speedtests
              Run speed tests

SERVER OPTIONS

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

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

ENVIRONMENT

       MINETEST_SUBGAME_PATH
              Colon delimited list of directories to search for subgames.

BUGS

       Please report all bugs to Perttu Ahola <celeron55@gmail.com>.

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/

                                        10 September 2013                             minetest(6)