Luanti (formerly Minetest) - Build & explore world

This is our official build from the original source code. Open-source license (LGPL 2.1+), no cost to download and play, no ads.

Explore, dig, and build in a beautiful procedurally-generated world, and craft stuff from raw materials to help you along the way.

Features

Players

Choose from Multiple Games

There are many games to choose from. You could survive in a harsh environment, build creatively, or fight other players. Just download a game or connect to a server.

Enormous Maps

With 62,000 × 62,000 × 62,000 blocks, there’s no running out of space. You can mine 31,000 blocks down, or build 31,000 blocks up.

Multiplayer Support

Play by yourself, locally with your friends, or online with dozens of players on a server.

Texture Packs

Not happy with the look of the textures? Change them!

Beautiful Map Generators

Choose from many different fast map generators included in the engine, or install one as a mod.

Developers

Make a Game

Create your own voxel game using our Lua API. No need to worry about tricky voxel rendering or networking; instead, write scripts to add items and control game play.

Modding API

Use the same Lua API to make mods for any Luanti-based game. Publish your mods on ContentDB, and contribute to others’ mods.

Large Collection of Existing Mods

There are over 1100 open source mods on ContentDB, which are ready to be used, adapted or learned from.

Friendly Community

You can find help with any problems from our community.

Open Source

The engine is open source and transparently developed. Submit an issue for anything you’re missing, or get the source code and dig into it yourself.

Play in single-player or online.

Customize your game to add blocks, tools, and features.

Supports multiple languages.

Constant development to add new functionalities for end-users.

Our game is also available for Windows, Linux, OS X, and FreeBSD platforms.

Join us!