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                         luanti(6)