Minetest
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Developers | |
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Perttu "celeron55" Ahola and contributors | |
Engines | |
Irrlicht Engine | |
Release dates | |
Windows | December 6, 2012 |
macOS (OS X) | December 6, 2012 |
Linux | December 6, 2012 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | Freeware |
Key points
- Free and Open Source Software
- Cross-platform multiplayer.
- Good modding support and community.
- Great performance even on low-end devices.
- Game is pretty basic without any mods or modpacks. Additional player-made game modes which feature mods and mod packs can be downloaded though.
General information
- Official website
- Official wiki
- Source code
- Bugs can be reported in official forums in Bug and Problem sub forum.
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
---|---|---|---|---|
Developer website | ||||
Publisher website |
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\minetest.conf[Note 1] |
macOS (OS X) | |
Linux | ~/.minetest/minetest.conf |
- A custom path to a configuration file can be specified in command line using the option
--config /path/to/minetest.conf
.[1]
- This game does not follow the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\worlds[Note 1] |
macOS (OS X) | |
Linux | ~/.minetest/worlds |
- Unknown if XDG is being followed (partially, completely, not at all)
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | |||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | Can be set in minetest.conf [1] |
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Windowed | Native Fullscreen option is not available | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | |||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | |||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | Can be set in minetest.conf [1] |
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60 FPS | |||
120+ FPS | Locked to 60 FPS by default; Custom FPS can be set with fps_max in minetest.conf [1] |
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High dynamic range display (HDR) | See the glossary page for potential alternatives. |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
---|---|---|
Remapping | Can be set in minetest.conf [1] |
|
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | Can be set in minetest.conf [1] |
|
Controller | ||
Controller support |
Controller types |
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Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
---|---|---|
Separate volume controls | ||
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
English | ||||
Belarusian | ||||
Simplified Chinese | Listed as Chinese (China) | |||
Czech | ||||
Danish | ||||
Dutch | ||||
Estonian | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Hebrew | ||||
Hindi | ||||
Hungarian | ||||
Indonesian | ||||
Italian | ||||
Japanese | ||||
Korean | ||||
Lithuanian | ||||
Malay | ||||
Norwegian | ||||
Polish | ||||
Portuguese | ||||
Brazilian Portuguese | ||||
Romanian | ||||
Russian | ||||
Slovak | ||||
Slovenian | ||||
Spanish | ||||
Thai | ||||
Turkish | ||||
Ukrainian |
- Also available in Kyrgyz and Swahili. Translations for other languages exist, but may have translated less than 30% of the game interface. Translation progress can be checked at Minetest/Minetest @ Hosted Weblate page.
Network
- Cross-platform multiplayer between Windows, OS X, Linux and Android is possible, even without varying game versions. Only host (server) is required to have the mods installed.
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|
Local play | |||
LAN play | |||
Online play |
Ports
Protocol | Port(s) and/or port range(s) |
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TCP | 30000 (default) |
UDP | 30000 (default) |
- Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
---|---|---|
Direct3D | 9 | Some shaders don't work with Direct3D 9 renderer. |
OpenGL | 4.4 |
Executable | PPC | 32-bit | 64-bit | ARM | Notes |
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Windows | |||||
macOS (OS X) | ARM requires fanmade nightly builds, building from source,[2] or Homebrew.[3] | ||||
Linux | [4] |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | XP[5] | |
Processor (CPU) | ||
System memory (RAM) | 512 MB[5] | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
macOS (OS X) | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | ||
Processor (CPU) | ||
System memory (RAM) | 512 MB?[5] | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
Linux | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | ||
Processor (CPU) | ||
System memory (RAM) | 512 MB?[5] | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below
%PROGRAMFILES%
,%PROGRAMDATA%
, or%WINDIR%
might be redirected to%LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore
on Windows Vista and later (more details).
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 minetest.conf - Minetest Wiki
- ↑ \[macOS Big Sur\ Jordach's Universal Binaries + Homebrew Self Compilation Guide] - last accessed on 2021-05-30
- ↑ minetest — Homebrew Formulae - last accessed on 1 March 2022
- ↑ Debian -- Package Search Results -- minetest - last accessed on 2020-11-20
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Minimum Minetest Hardware Requirements Thread - Minetest Forums