---
name: "luanti"
section: "6"
platform: "linux"
package: "luanti"
version: "5.17.0-2"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/luanti"
---

# luanti(6)

voxel game engine

## 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/