minetest Command Examples

Multiplayer infinite-world block sandbox. See also minetestserver, the server-only binary. More information: https://wiki.minetest.net/Minetest.

• Start Minetest in client mode:

minetest

• Start Minetest in server mode by hosting a specific world:

minetest --server --world {{name}}

• Write logs to a specific file:

minetest --logfile {{path/to/file}}

• Only write errors to the console:

minetest --quiet