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Welcome to the Minetest Developer Wiki, here you learn how Minetest and games and mods for Minetest are developed.

Minetest is a game engine inspired by Minecraft, Infiniminer and others. It's licensed under the GNU LGPL 2.1, with artwork generally covered by CC BY-SA 3.0. There are two major parts to the system, the first being a core engine written in C++, the second being a modding API that exposes useful functions to a Lua environment.

The Minetest Wiki for players is located at wiki.minetest.net.

Contribute to Minetest!

Develop the core engine Browse the source code Engine overview Help make a release

Develop a mod Get introduced to the mod API Check out the Lua API Documentation

Document, translate, and create Help with the engine documentation Help complete this wiki by checking out the contributors page Help translate Minetest into other languages

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Content Index

Before you start, you should look at the terminology.

Modding API Intro Lua API Documentation Tips and tricks: Modding Tips Lua Optimization Tips Mapgen memory optimisations Misc articles…

Core Index Basic data structures Core Architecture Classes/functions Network Protocol Instructions Code style guidelines Compiling Minetest Development troubleshooting

Development All rules regarding to development Git Guidelines Meetings Organisation List of hardcoded features Minetest Game development Design and planning TODO For users Public Changelog

Contribute to this wiki Style guide TODO Incomplete articles Articles to be written

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