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NAME
     luanti, luantiserver - voxel game engine

SYNOPSIS
     luanti [--server SERVER OPTIONS | CLIENT OPTIONS] [COMMON OPTIONS]

     luantiserver [SERVER OPTIONS] [COMMON OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION
     Luanti  (formerly	Minetest)  is  a voxel game engine with easy modding and
     game creation.

COMMON OPTIONS
     --help
	    Print allowed options and exit

     --version
	    Print version information and exit

     --config <value>
	    Load configuration from specified file

     --logfile <value>
	    Set logfile path ('' for no logging)

     --info
	    Print more information to console

     --verbose
	    Print even more information to console

     --trace
	    Print enormous amounts of information to console

     --quiet
	    Print only errors to console

     --color always | never | auto
	    Coloured logs, default: 'auto'

     --log-timestamp wall | relative | none
	    Timestamped logs, default: 'wall'

     --gameid <value> | list
	    Set gameid or list available ones

     --worldname <value>
	    Set world path by name

     --world <value>
	    Set world path

     --worldlist path | name | both
	    Get list of worlds ('path' lists paths, 'name' lists  names,  'both'
	    lists both)

     --map-dir <value>
	    Same as --world (deprecated)

     --port <value>
	    Set network port (UDP) to use

     --run-unittests
	    Run unit tests and exit

     --run-benchmarks
	    Run benchmarks and exit

CLIENT OPTIONS
     --address <value>
	    Address to connect to ('' = local game)

     --go   Skip main menu, go directly in-game

     --name <value>
	    Set player name

     --password <value>
	    Set password

     --password-file <value>
	    Set password from contents of file

     --random-input
	    Enable random user input (for testing)

SERVER OPTIONS
     --migrate <value>
	    Migrate  from current map backend to another. See supported backends
	    with --help.

     --migrate-auth <value>
	    Migrate from current auth backend to another. See supported backends
	    with --help.

     --migrate-players <value>
	    Migrate from current players backend to another. See supported back-
	    ends with --help.

     --migrate-mod-storage <value>
	    Migrate from current mod storage backend to another.  See  supported
	    backends with --help.

     --terminal
	    Display an interactive terminal over ncurses during execution.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
     LUANTI_GAME_PATH
	    Colon delimited list of directories to search for games. This should
	    be used instead of MINETEST_GAME_PATH, which is deprecated.

     LUANTI_MOD_PATH
	    Colon  delimited list of directories to search for mods. This should
	    be used instead of MINETEST_MOD_PATH, which is deprecated.

     LUANTI_USER_PATH
	    Path to Luanti user data directory (only on RUN_IN_PLACE=0 build)

     LOG_TIMESTAMP
	    Equivalent to --log-timestamp

BUGS
     Please report all bugs at https://github.com/luanti-org/luanti/issues.

AUTHORS
     Perttu Ahola <celeron55@gmail.com> and contributors.

     This man page was	originally  written  by  Juhani  Numminen  <juhaninummi-
     nen0@gmail.com>.

WWW
     http://www.luanti.org/

				   2025-10-16			       luanti(6)
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