.TH minetest 6 "2 February 2019" "" "" .SH NAME minetest, minetestserver \- Multiplayer infinite-world block sandbox .SH SYNOPSIS .B minetest [\fB--server SERVER OPTIONS\fR | \fBCLIENT OPTIONS\fR] [\fBCOMMON OPTIONS\fR] [\fBWORLD PATH\fR] .B minetestserver [\fBSERVER OPTIONS\fR] [\fBCOMMON OPTIONS\fR] [\fBWORLD PATH\fR] .SH DESCRIPTION .B Minetest is one of the first InfiniMiner/Minecraft(/whatever) inspired games (started October 2010), with a goal of taking the survival multiplayer gameplay in a slightly different direction. .PP 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. .SH COMMON OPTIONS .TP .B \-\-help Print allowed options and exit .TP .B \-\-version Print version information and exit .TP .B \-\-config <value> Load configuration from specified file .TP .B \-\-logfile <value> Set logfile path ('' for no logging) .TP .B \-\-info Print more information to console .TP .B \-\-verbose Print even more information to console .TP .B \-\-trace Print enormous amounts of information to console .TP .B \-\-quiet Print only errors to console .TP .B \-\-color <value> Colorize the logs ('always', 'never' or 'auto'), defaults to 'auto' .TP .B \-\-gameid <value> | list Set gameid or list available ones .TP .B \-\-worldname <value> Set world path by name .TP .B \-\-world <value> Set world path .TP .B \-\-worldlist path | name | both Get list of worlds ('path' lists paths, 'name' lists names, 'both' lists both) .TP .B \-\-map\-dir <value> Same as \-\-world (deprecated) .TP .B \-\-port <value> Set network port (UDP) to use .TP .B \-\-run\-unittests Run unit tests and exit .SH CLIENT OPTIONS .TP .B \-\-address <value> Address to connect to .TP .B \-\-go Disable main menu .TP .B \-\-name <value> Set player name .TP .B \-\-password <value> Set password .TP .B \-\-password\-file <value> Set password from contents of file .TP .B \-\-random\-input Enable random user input, for testing (client only) .TP .B \-\-videomodes List available video modes (client only) .TP .B \-\-speedtests Run speed tests .SH SERVER OPTIONS .TP .B \-\-migrate <value> Migrate from current map backend to another. Possible values are sqlite3, leveldb, redis, postgresql, and dummy. .TP .B \-\-migrate-auth <value> Migrate from current auth backend to another. Possible values are sqlite3, leveldb, and files. .TP .B \-\-migrate-players <value> Migrate from current players backend to another. Possible values are sqlite3, leveldb, postgresql, dummy, and files. .TP .B \-\-terminal Display an interactive terminal over ncurses during execution. .SH ENVIRONMENT .TP .B MINETEST_SUBGAME_PATH Colon delimited list of directories to search for games. .SH BUGS Please report all bugs at https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues. .SH AUTHOR .PP Perttu Ahola <celeron55@gmail.com> and contributors. .PP This man page was originally written by Juhani Numminen <juhaninumminen0@gmail.com>. .SH WWW http://www.minetest.net/