

Minetest Modding Book by Rubenwardy with editing by Shara, available in english and italian (as of April 2021).Some mods are written in C++, like the minetest engine itself. The official Lua API documentation can be found at lua_api.txt. The most mods are written in the scripting language Lua.
Minetest multiplayer install#
To manually install content for Minetest see also Installing Mods and Installing Client-Side Mods. Starting with Mintest version 5.0.0 mods can be installed using the Content tab in the Minetest launcher.
Minetest multiplayer mod#
Minetest mod search A searchengine for mods and games, offered by the Coredeveloper Krock (SmallJoker).The official Minetest Forum at the subforum Mods.The ContentDB repository can also be viewed with a webbrowser at. Start the Minetest launcher and click on the tab Content and then on the button Browse online content to search and easily install mods, texturepacks or games. Please note API is currently not stable and can change. Client-Side mods require at least Minetest 0.4.15-dev from sources, compiled after April 1st, 2017. Client-Side Mods can be used when connected to a Minetest server because they are loaded locally. Individual mods in a modpack can still be enabled and disabled as if they were standalone mods.Ī Client-Side Mod (short: “CSM”) is a mod used to customize your Minetest client. Apart from that, there is nothing special about modpacks or mods inside a modpack. The main difference is that they will be displayed differently in the mod manager in Minetest. Those links are to the latest development version, look in your docs/ folder for one specific to your Minetest version. It is Free/Libre and Open Source Software, released under the LGPL 2.1 or later. Minetest is available natively for Windows, OS X, GNU/Linux, Android, and FreeBSD. Minetest is a minecraft-inspired game written from scratch and licensed under the LGPL (version 2.1 or later). luaapi.txt in minetest/docs/ contains an API Listing (HTML Version). Minetest is a near-infinite-world block sandbox game and a game engine, inspired by InfiniMiner, Minecraft and the like. Multiplayer infinite-world block sandbox.


Minetest Modding Book an online clear and easy guide in learning to make mods. It's purely a logical grouping and is done mostly for convenience and to group closely-related mods together. Introduction to the modding API on the wiki. Basically, a modpack is just special directory containing the actual mod directories. A modpack (short: “MP”) is a collection of mods to group them together.
