---
name: "minetestserver"
section: "6"
platform: "linux"
package: "luanti-server"
version: "5.10.0+dfsg-5+deb13u1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/luantiserver"
---

# minetestserver(6)

voxel game engine

Part of [luantiserver(6)](/luantiserver/6.md).

## NAME

luanti, luantiserver - voxel game engine

## SYNOPSIS

**luanti** \[**--server SERVER OPTIONS** \| **CLIENT OPTIONS**\] \[**COMMON OPTIONS**\] \[**WORLD PATH**\]

**luantiserver** \[**SERVER OPTIONS**\] \[**COMMON OPTIONS**\] \[**WORLD PATH**\]

## 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 \<value\>**

  Colorize the logs ('always', 'never' or 'auto'), defaults to 'auto'

- **--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

## CLIENT OPTIONS

- **--address \<value\>**

  Address to connect to

- **--go**

  Disable main menu

- **--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 (client only)

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  - **--speedtests**

  Run speed tests

## SERVER OPTIONS

- **--migrate \<value\>**

  Migrate from current map backend to another. Possible values are sqlite3, leveldb, redis, postgresql, and dummy.

- **--migrate-auth \<value\>**

  Migrate from current auth backend to another. Possible values are sqlite3, leveldb, and files.

- **--migrate-players \<value\>**

  Migrate from current players backend to another. Possible values are sqlite3, leveldb, postgresql, dummy, and files.

- **--migrate-mod-storage \<value\>**

  Migrate from current mod storage backend to another. Possible values are sqlite3, dummy, and files.

- **--terminal**

  Display an interactive terminal over ncurses during execution.

## ENVIRONMENT

- **MINETEST\_GAME\_PATH**

  Colon delimited list of directories to search for games.

- **MINETEST\_MOD\_PATH**

  Colon delimited list of directories to search for mods.

- **MINETEST\_USER\_PATH**

  Path to Luanti user data directory.

## BUGS

Please report all bugs at https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues.

## AUTHOR

Perttu Ahola \<celeron55@gmail.com\> and contributors.

This man page was originally written by Juhani Numminen \<juhaninumminen0@gmail.com\>.

## WWW

http://www.minetest.net/