1 .TH minetest 6 "2 February 2019" "" ""
4 minetest, minetestserver \- Multiplayer infinite-world block sandbox
8 [\fB--server SERVER OPTIONS\fR | \fBCLIENT OPTIONS\fR]
13 [\fBSERVER OPTIONS\fR]
14 [\fBCOMMON OPTIONS\fR]
18 .B Minetest is one of the first InfiniMiner/Minecraft(/whatever) inspired games
19 (started October 2010), with a goal of taking the survival multiplayer gameplay
20 in a slightly different direction.
22 The main design philosophy is to keep it technically simple, stable and
23 portable. It will be kept lightweight enough to run on fairly old hardware.
28 Print allowed options and exit
31 Print version information and exit
34 Load configuration from specified file
36 .B \-\-logfile <value>
37 Set logfile path ('' for no logging)
40 Print more information to console
43 Print even more information to console
46 Print enormous amounts of information to console
49 Print only errors to console
52 Colorize the logs ('always', 'never' or 'auto'), defaults to 'auto'
54 .B \-\-gameid <value> | list
55 Set gameid or list available ones
57 .B \-\-worldname <value>
58 Set world path by name
63 .B \-\-worldlist path | name | both
64 Get list of worlds ('path' lists paths, 'name' lists names, 'both' lists both)
66 .B \-\-map\-dir <value>
67 Same as \-\-world (deprecated)
70 Set network port (UDP) to use
73 Run unit tests and exit
77 .B \-\-address <value>
86 .B \-\-password <value>
89 .B \-\-password\-file <value>
90 Set password from contents of file
93 Enable random user input, for testing (client only)
101 .B \-\-migrate <value>
102 Migrate from current map backend to another. Possible values are sqlite3,
103 leveldb, redis, postgresql, and dummy.
105 .B \-\-migrate-auth <value>
106 Migrate from current auth backend to another. Possible values are sqlite3,
109 .B \-\-migrate-players <value>
110 Migrate from current players backend to another. Possible values are sqlite3,
111 leveldb, postgresql, dummy, and files.
113 .B \-\-migrate-mod-storage <value>
114 Migrate from current mod storage backend to another. Possible values are
115 sqlite3, dummy, and files.
118 Display an interactive terminal over ncurses during execution.
122 .B MINETEST_SUBGAME_PATH
123 Colon delimited list of directories to search for games.
126 Colon delimited list of directories to search for mods.
129 Please report all bugs at https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues.
133 Perttu Ahola <celeron55@gmail.com> and contributors.
135 This man page was originally written by
136 Juhani Numminen <juhaninumminen0@gmail.com>.
139 http://www.minetest.net/