NAME¶

SYNOPSIS¶

minetestserver [SERVER OPTIONS] [COMMON OPTIONS] [WORLD PATH]

DESCRIPTION¶

The main design philosophy is to keep it technically simple, stable and portable. It will be kept lightweight enough to run on fairly old hardware.

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 (debug.txt)

--info

Print more information to console

--verbose

Print even more information to console

--trace

Print enormous amounts of information to console

--gameid <value>

Set gameid

--worldname <value>

Set world path by name

--world <value> | list

Set world path or list worlds

--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

--random-input

Enable random user input, for testing (client only)

--videomodes

List available video modes (client only)

--speedtests

Run speed tests

SERVER OPTIONS¶

--migrate <value>

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

--terminal

Display an interactive terminal over ncurses during execution.

ENVIRONMENT¶

MINETEST_SUBGAME_PATH

Colon delimited list of directories to search for subgames.

BUGS¶

AUTHOR¶

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

WWW¶