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luantiserver(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 <[email protected]> and contributors.

This man page was originally written by Juhani Numminen <[email protected]>.

WWW

http://www.luanti.org/

History

--run-benchmarks since Arch Linux 2026-11-01.

--color until Debian 13 (Trixie); --speedtests until Debian 13 (Trixie).