luanti - Man Page

• Start Luanti in client mode: luanti
• List downloaded gamemodes: luanti --gameid list
• Start Luanti in server mode by hosting a specific gamemode: luanti --server --gameid game_id
• Start a server with the default world once it has been created: luanti --server
• Start a server with a specific world: luanti --server --world world_name
• Start a server on a specific port: luanti --server --port port
• Write logs to a specific file: luanti --logfile path/to/file
• Only write errors to the console: luanti --quiet

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luanti [--server Server Options | Client Options] [Common Options]

luantiserver [Server Options] [Common Options]

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

--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

--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)

--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.

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

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

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

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

http://www.luanti.org/

The man page luantiserver(6) is an alias of luanti(6).