Luanti Developer Wiki #

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

Luanti 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 Luanti Wiki for players is located at wiki.minetest.net.

Contribute to Luanti! #

Develop the core engine #

• Browse the source code
• Engine overview
• Help make a release

Develop a mod or a game #

• 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 Luanti into other languages

Be an excellent community member #

• Find out how you can start contributing like a pro

Content Index #

Before you start, you should look at the terminology.