Luanti
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Luanti (formerly Minetest) is a community-driven, free and open-source voxel game engine, available on various platforms. Originally, Luanti was a voxel game created in October 2010 by Perttu Ahola to explore the mechanics of Minecraft. Over time, Luanti evolved from the original Minetest game into a general game engine as developers integrated new features.
Key facts
- Software.name
- Luanti
- Software.logo
- Minetest logo.svg
- Software.logo alt
- Luanti Logo
- Software.screenshot
- 256px
- Software.caption
- A screenshot of scenery from the VoxeLibre game made with Luanti
- Software.released
- 0.0.1 /
- Software.author
- Perttu Ahola
- Software.developer
- The Luanti Team
- Software.engine
- Irrlicht (Irrlicht-MT fork)
- Software.programming language
- C++, Lua
- Software.platform
- Microsoft Windows, MacOS, Linux, FreeBSD, Android
- Software.genre
- Sandbox
- Software.license
- 2013: LGPL-2.1-or-later2010: GPL-2.0-or-laterOriginal: Proprietary
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Official website
Luanti | Open source voxel game engine - Luanti
Play one of our many games solo or together. Mod a game as you see fit, or make your own.
minetest.net →Link to the official site · 4,608 chars · not written by Vinony
Source code
Luanti is a free open-source voxel game engine with easy modding and game creation. Configuration file Default location: user/minetest.conf This file is created by closing Luanti for the first time. A specific file can be specified on the command line: --config A run-in-place build will look for the configuration file in location of exe/../minetest.conf and also location of exe/../../minetest.conf We use major.minor.patch since 5.0.0-dev. Prior to that we used 0.major.minor . Major is incremented when the release contains breaking changes, all other numbers are set to 0. Minor is incremented when the release contains new non-breaking features, patch is set to 0. Patch is incremented when the release only contains bugfixes and very minor/trivial features considered necessary. Since 5.0.0-dev and 0.4.17-dev, the dev notation refers to the next release, i.e.: 5.0.0-dev is the development version leading to 5.0.0. Prior to that we used previous version-dev .
Excerpt from the source-code README · 7,394 chars · not written by Vinony
Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.luanti.org
- Image
- Minetest Game Main Menu.png
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- Commons category
- Minetest
- source code repository URL
- github.com/luanti-org/luanti
- official wiki URL
- wiki.luanti.org
- issue tracker URL
- github.com/minetest/minetest/issues
- user manual URL
- www.luanti.org/get-involved
- software version identifier
- 5.15.2
- inception
- 2010-10-10
- translation contribution URL
- hosted.weblate.org/projects/minetest
- social media followers
- 5234
- publication date
- 2010-10-00
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7 sectionsContents
- Overview
- Game development and customization
- Development
- Usage in education
- Reception
- See also
- References
Luanti (formerly Minetest) is a community-driven, free and open-source voxel game engine, available on various platforms. Originally, Luanti was a voxel game created in October 2010 by Perttu Ahola to explore the mechanics of Minecraft. Over time, Luanti evolved from the original Minetest game into a general game engine as developers integrated new features.
Luanti allows for the creation, development, and customization of games and modules (shortened to mods) using its Lua scripting system. Games are collections of mods that together establish a complete gameplay experience (by defining major content and behavior), while individual mods serve to modify or complement specific features within games, and may be added, replaced, or removed by players to customize them. To download games and mods, Luanti provides a built-in browser to access ContentDB, through which they can be installed.