Minetest
Minetest is a open source voxel game engine. Through it, you can play many games, mod a game to your liking, make your own game, and play on a multiplayer server.
Features
For 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.
For 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 Minetest-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.
Official links
ContentDB (games, mods, & texture packs)
Communication
Downloads
Available for Windows, macOS, GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, and Android.
Source code
Get the latest stable or development source code from GitHub.
You will probably want Minetest Game as well. Put the game in your games directory.
Windows
Works on Windows 8, 8.1 and 10. May work on older versions, but not officially supported.
Minetest 5.6.1 - portable, 64-bit (recommended)
Minetest 5.6.1 - portable, 32-bit
You can also get the latest development version of Minetest from builds made by community members. These builds are more recent than the officially released builds and contain new features (at the cost of stability).
builds made by community members
Android
Android 4.0 or later is recommended.
Alternatively, install from F-Droid or download the APK.
Note: We advise not to use unofficial builds commonly found on the Play Store. They may contain excessive advertisements or spyware, or be distributed under proprietary terms.
Linux
Packages
These may be out of date at times. If they are too out of date, consider building from source.
- Flatpak (all distributions)
- Ubuntu
- Debian
- Arch Linux (AUR)
- Fedora
- openSUSE
- Mageia
- Gentoo
- Void Linux
- Alpine Linux
FreeBSD
Package manager
On FreeBSD 9.1 and newer, you can use the official pre-built packages:
Compile using ports
You can also compile Minetest and choose build options easily using the FreeBSD port dialogs.
macOS
macOS 10.14 or later is recommended.
- Use Homebrew to get the stable version:
- MacPorts also contains a port of the stable version:
Gallery
Image: A castle in Minetest Game, the default game
Image: Soothing 32 texture pack
Image: Customized inventory screen from the i3 mod
