Minetest

Minetest is a open source voxel game engine. Through it, you can play many games, mod a game to your liking, make your own game, and play on a multiplayer server.

Features

For Players

Choose from Multiple Games

There are many games to choose from. You could survive in a harsh environment, build creatively, or fight other players. Just download a game or connect to a server.

Enormous Maps

With 62,000 × 62,000 × 62,000 blocks, there’s no running out of space. You can mine 31,000 blocks down, or build 31,000 blocks up.

Multiplayer Support

Play by yourself, locally with your friends, or online with dozens of players on a server.

Texture Packs

Not happy with the look of the textures? Change them!

Beautiful Map Generators

Choose from many different fast map generators included in the engine, or install one as a mod.

For Developers

Make a Game

Create your own voxel game using our Lua API. No need to worry about tricky voxel rendering or networking; instead, write scripts to add items and control game play.

Modding API

Use the same Lua API to make mods for any Minetest-based game. Publish your mods on ContentDB, and contribute to others’ mods.

Large Collection of Existing Mods

There are over 1100 open source mods on ContentDB, which are ready to be used, adapted or learned from.

Friendly Community

You can find help with any problems from our community.

Open Source

The engine is open source and transparently developed. Submit an issue for anything you’re missing, or get the source code and dig into it yourself.

Official links

Minetest Homepage (https://www.minetest.net)
ContentDB (games, mods, & texture packs) (https://content.minetest.net)
Minetest Fourms (https://forum.minetest.net)
Minetest Wiki (https://wiki.minetest.net)
Minetest Engine Github (https://github.com)
Minetest Game Github (https://github.com)

Communication

Official Minetest Discord (https://discord.gg)
Official Minetest IRC (irc://irc.libera.chat)

Downloads

Available for Windows, macOS, GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, and Android.

Source code

Get the latest stable or development source code from GitHub.
You will probably want Minetest Game as well. Put the game in your games directory.

git stable branch (https://github.com)
git development branch (https://github.com)
Minetest Github page (https://github.com)
Minetest Game github page (https://github.com)

Windows

Works on Windows 8, 8.1 and 10. May work on older versions, but not officially supported.

Minetest 5.6.1 - portable, 64-bit (recommended) (https://github.com)
Minetest 5.6.1 - portable, 32-bit (https://github.com)

You can also get the latest development version of Minetest from builds made by community members. These builds are more recent than the officially released builds and contain new features (at the cost of stability).

builds made by community members (https://forum.minetest.net)

Android

Android 4.0 or later is recommended.

Get it on Google Play (https://play.google.com)

Alternatively, install from F-Droid or download the APK.

F-Droid package (https://f-droid.org)
download the APK (https://github.com)

Note: We advise not to use unofficial builds commonly found on the Play Store. They may contain excessive advertisements or spyware, or be distributed under proprietary terms.

Linux

Packages

These may be out of date at times. If they are too out of date, consider building from source.

• Flatpak (all distributions)

Flatpak Stable (https://flathub.org)

• Ubuntu

Stable PPA (https://launchpad.net)
Daily PPA (https://launchpad.net)

• Debian

Stable package (https://packages.debian.org)

• Arch Linux (AUR)

Stable AUR (https://archlinux.org)
Unstable (AUR) (https://aur.archlinux.org)

• Fedora

Stable package (https://src.fedoraproject.org)

• openSUSE

Stable package (https://software.opensuse.org)

• Mageia

Stable package (https://madb.mageia.org)

• Gentoo

Stable package (https://packages.gentoo.org)

• Void Linux

Stable package (https://github.com)

• Alpine Linux

Stable package (https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org)

FreeBSD

Package manager

On FreeBSD 9.1 and newer, you can use the official pre-built packages:

pkg install minetest minetest_game

Compile using ports

You can also compile Minetest and choose build options easily using the FreeBSD port dialogs.

cd /usr/ports/games/minetest
make install
cd /usr/ports/games/minetest_game
make install

macOS

macOS 10.14 or later is recommended.

Minetest 5.6.1 - App (https://github.com)

• Use Homebrew to get the stable version:

brew install minetest

Homebrew Homepage (https://brew.sh)

• MacPorts also contains a port of the stable version:

sudo port install minetest

MacPorts Homepage (https://www.macports.org)

Gallery

Image: A castle in Minetest Game, the default game (https://www.minetest.net)
Image: Soothing 32 texture pack (https://www.minetest.net)
Image: Customized inventory screen from the i3 mod (https://www.minetest.net)
Image: MineClone 2 game (https://www.minetest.net)
Image: Steampunk Blimp mod for Minetest Game (https://www.minetest.net)
Image: Animalia mod (https://www.minetest.net)
Image: RPG16 texture pack (https://www.minetest.net)
Image: An underwater jungle in Minetest Game (https://www.minetest.net)